Judoka Amandine Buchard spoke six months before the Olympics and looks back on a difficult period. The 28-year-old Frenchwoman “needed to take a break from the world of judo” “I can be physically weakened, but if in my head I am armored, it can do it and I can beat anyone,” she says.

“The Olympics at all costs”: Buchard did not want to “relive” her 2016 experience.