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Paris 2024 Olympic Games: water polo, the Games and their magic

2024-02-18T07:41:08.113Z

Highlights: The French water polo team rose to 4th place in the World Championships. They had been swimming in complete anonymity for decades. Pushed by a man, Florian Bruzzo, their coach, who awakened them to a certain reality. Inflicting the daily life of a high-level athlete, its demands, does not weigh without ambition. To exist, you have to win. To believe in it. To want it. Necessary, but not sufficient conditions for performance.


The French water polo team, which had been swimming in complete anonymity for decades, rose to 4th place in the World Championships this week.


You probably didn't know them before these last few days.

And it's possible that their Homeric campaign at the Worlds hasn't entered your radar.

Normal, as they have always sailed in the shadows and anonymity, deprived of echo by the heroes of more popular disciplines and their lack of results in international waters.

They had become accustomed to swimming among the rank and file of French sport.

But the French polo players decided to break away from this fate.

Pushed by a man, Florian Bruzzo, their coach, who awakened them to a certain reality.

Inflicting the daily life of a high-level athlete, its demands, does not weigh without ambition.

To exist, you have to win.

To win, you have to believe in it.

To believe it, you have to want it.

Necessary, but not sufficient conditions for performance.

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Source: leparis

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