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Retraining as an entrepreneur, the great challenge for former champions

2022-12-06T20:45:15.757Z


DECRYPTION - Endurance, resilience, resistance to pressure… Thanks to the aptitudes and skills they develop during their career, athletes have many of the qualities necessary to be business leaders.


In the early 1990s, Séverine Desbouys had just started her career as a professional cyclist.

She will wear the jersey of best female Tour de France climber in 2000. Already, in full ascent, she asked herself the question:

"What to do after, when my sporting career is over?"

His answer?

She now runs two companies: the economic intelligence firm DSC and the robotics company Bot'n Code.

She took care to put in her game other assets than just her qualities as an athlete.

Alongside training and competitions, a stay of several months in the United States and a course in business school supported her vocation as an entrepreneur.

“I started at a time when banks were less inclined to support former athletes

, she says.

Things have changed.

It's good, because we are used to pressure, we go fast and we know how to set goals.

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Source: lefigaro

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