Always under the influence of the Olympic title of Clarisse Agbégnénou which he commented on RMC, David Douillet, 52 years old, former flag bearer of the French delegation and double Olympic champion of judo, gave us his look on this historic day.
What did you think of Clarisse Agbégnénou's day management?
DAVID DOUILLET.
She managed the day with a masterful hand since there is no worse situation when you are favorite and standard bearer.
Because there is always someone well-intentioned who comes to tell you:
oh yes, but there is the curse of the flag bearers, even if Pérec and Douillet had won, there are many who have lost
… J ' So imagine that like me she was decked out in this kind of thing.
But since this morning she has been able to ward off the immense pressure to keep only the essentials, that is to say: to be concentrated, to approach each fight without thinking of the next, to be very humble in the approach.
In the final, you very quickly underlined the false attacks of the Slovenian…
Technically we saw immediately that the Slovenian (Tina Trstenjak) had no solution.
Clarisse has an extremely strong and powerful guard.
The Slovenian was constantly on her knees.
So for me from the start it was just false attacks to break Clarisse's strong guard.
As soon as Clarisse, at the end of the fight and in golden score, was able to put her hands down and start moving the Slovenian as she wanted, there was a huge danger and it ended because we saw to the end.
The match was extremely simple.
But you shouldn't fall into the trap of annoyance, right?
That's it: you had to keep your cool.
And from what Gévrise Emane told me, who was commenting with me and who fought against the Slovenian, the mistake Clarisse had made in Rio was precisely to get angry, to have fallen into the trap of one who undermined the fight without really endangering her before being trapped on the ground afterwards.
There she waited.
She took her penalty because the referee did not understand that she was making false attacks but then she refereed very well, penalizing the Slovenian twice.
That put her to your attention since with one more penalty she was losing.
She therefore stopped doing her little cinema and logically the fight could start.
What place will this give him in world judo?
When you are 5 times world champion and Olympic champion you are in the category of those who have won everything so you are at the top.
You become one of the icons of your sport, one of the monuments of your discipline.
And as far as France is concerned, that's what I told her on the radio: you are our standard bearer, you win, you managed to manage this enormous pressure, today you are our Marianne.
Here it is, it's true, it is the Marianne of France.
She did not please only her friends and relatives.
She made an entire country happy!
It's amazing to be able to do that.
How much did you vibrate?
But she knocked me down!
And almost in the literal sense of the word.
And God knows if I don't like to fall!
(laughs) She put me on my ass.
Truly.
Being so serene, so relentless, focused, efficient, precise, with absolute coolness… I am very impressed by that.
She is a very, very great champion.
Point.
ENFIIIIIIIIN !!!
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I did it!
We did it!!!
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Thank you France 🇫🇷, thank you the world 🌍 for all these positive waves and your unfailing support!
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The title officially comes home!
💪🏽 💙🤍❤️ # Tokyo2020 pic.twitter.com/NeFILUqPqa
- AGBÉGNÉNOU Clarisse (@ Gnougnou25) July 27, 2021
What do we do after that?
Usually we don't sleep (laughs). We think about it all night. And precisely she will inevitably ask herself this question: what am I doing now? And that takes time. It is necessary that the soufflé subsides, that life returns to normal. But when you are an Olympic champion, your life changes course. And that, you have to know how to manage it. I have no doubts about it, but it will have to make choices: will it be there in 2024? Will she want to confirm this result? Will she have the courage? Only she can answer it. I want to say purely selfishly: as long as she is there in Paris. I would like to see her again, to defend her title and to experience the joy of having a second gold medal. I whisper this in her ear, but only she will make this decision.