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“
It has been an extremely difficult time.
I never thought I would be this low, in my life, in my career.
I almost wanted to stop everything, I was there.
So you can't imagine how much this victory makes me feel good
”.
On her return from Budapest last June, where she had just won her 5th world title, Clarisse Agbegnenou did not hide her relief.
Of having won, of course.
But not only.
Already, a few months before, the judokate had confided to have been "
wiped out
" on March 30, 2020, when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had formalized the postponement of the Tokyo Games for one year.
Clarisse Agbegnenou SERGIO PEREZ / REUTERS
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I was really not well.
I cried a lot about it, I didn't want to talk.
Because I had only one goal in mind, that I trained for four years, that I made sacrifices, that it was hard, long, that there were only a few months left, that it was happening almost at the end, and no, they would take it off and tell me to keep training.
It was very complicated to tell me that I had to start over for another year
Clarisse Agbegnenou
In an interview with
AFP
, she recounted what she had been through: “
I was really not well.
I cried a lot about it, I didn't want to talk.
Because I had only one goal in mind, that I trained for four years, that I made sacrifices, that it was hard, long, that there were only a few months left, that
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