Friday evening in the camp of the France team, Marie-Divine Kouamé admits "having cried when she saw Mathilde (Gros) gaining speed then singing
the Marseillaise
".
“Personally, I dreamed of doing the same thing,” she smiles.
The dream has come true for the 20-year-old Essonnienne, licensed at US Créteil.
The day after the coronation of Mathilde Gros, the student at Sciences-po, in turn, set the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome ablaze and offered herself a great emotion.
Kouamé indeed created a divine surprise by winning the 500m (non-Olympic event), a new French record (32″835).
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