Château-Thierry, "Cyso cutting", SNCF ... Sarah Léonie-Cysique, itinerary of a spoiled judokate

Special envoy to Tokyo

To discover

• The full Olympic program

• The Olympic medal table

At 4, she started judo thanks to her mother

Sarah-Léonie Cysique put on her first kimono at a very young age. At only 4 years old. At the instigation of her mother, Véronique, but a bit by default all the same as the latter explains to us: “

At that age, it is not the child who chooses, it is the parents who take the decision. At the time, I wanted her to practice a combat sport to know how to defend herself in case of need. I was more focused on karate or taekwondo, but we lived in the countryside

(near Château-Thierry, in the Hauts-de-France)

and the sports offer was not as diverse as in the Paris region. . So, here, there was only judo and football. I enrolled her in the dojo with her brother and she liked it right away

. ”

To read also: JO, Judo (F): Sarah-Léonie Cysique judges her defeat "a little unfair"

At 13, she hesitates to stop everything

For the judokate, everything could have stopped long before this first Olympic podium.

Around the age of 13, in fact, she pricks her adolescent crisis, in a way, by wanting to give up everything.

A period that she remembers when she confided,

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