Every Saturday until the Games, we invite you to meet one of our favorites for Paris 2024. The idea is to introduce you to athletes, to follow them as closely as possible in their preparation and to support them as long as possible in their Olympic dream.
In South Korea, it is estimated that one in six inhabitants practices taekwondo, or nearly 8 million people (for a population of 51 million). For comparison, the most unifying sport in France, football, has only 2.3 million members (compared to 70 million). It was in the streets of Seoul, between 1950 and 1960, that this martial art inspired by karate was codified and became king. So what could be more natural for Cyrian Ravet and the French than to experience a two-week internship there?
The 20-year-old Lyonnais, one of our favorites for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, loves this moment of the season. Even if he remembers, before flying to Seoul on February 29, the 2023 edition of his Korean internship: “I had to play 30 test matches in two weeks! It was excessive
(laughs)
. I had three or four fights a day. I was washed out, I no longer had any legs. » But he can't wait to go back. An appointment is then made on his return to France for the debrief.
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