Olympic champion in Rio, Charline Picon this time won silver in windsurfing.
She gave everything, won the final race, but that was not enough to come back on the Chinese competitor Lu.
You came very close to a new Olympic title ...
It's a huge performance that I achieve in the medal race, I was behind the Chinese (Editor's note: for Charline to be Olympic champion, the Chinese, 3rd, would have had to finish 4th), I believed in it.
It's really happy money, to be sure to get a medal before this last race, it was already a pretty strong feeling, to improve the color (Editor's note: she was 3rd in the standings before the start) by winning the medal race, there was nothing better that I could do.
It's magic, it's beautiful.
What does a second Olympic medal represent?
People don't particularly realize what it's like to be preparing for the Olympics in sports like mine, where you're only in the spotlight every four years.
Yes, some athletes have underperformed, but it's so hard.
All my daily life is around this.
The family suffers, the little one did not ask that mom play high level sport.
It's a huge life project, around which you need a lot of people.
Obviously, this is the medal for my week's performance, but it rewards a whole team.
I can't wait to call the young partners who have helped me in training, my family.
My coaches put me in crazy conditions.
It's nice to reward a whole team with a nice medal.
Is the emotion as strong as in 2016 in Rio?
Rio was the first, it was gold.
Two days ago, when I secured the podium, I let go of a lot of emotion.
There, it's a little weird, I come out of the water, there is no family.
In Rio, the emotion also came from there.
It also comes from the pressure I put on myself this morning, I had cotton legs, but that's how I work.
In RS: X, no girl has made a double, I am the only one to be a double Olympic medalist, and I will remain the only one since this is the end of this discipline at the Games (laughs).
How did you go through this Olympiad?
Lou arrived, I lost my two grandparents, my best friend.
I lost my friend Lise Vidal a little before coming.
I was told that she would blow in my sails, I necessarily have a thought for her.
It's a medal that feels good.
What I love about sport, what makes me vibrate, is emotion.
I can't wait to see how my loved ones experienced this in France!
I hope I made them vibrate.
My daughter is 4 years old today,
happy birthday my Lou.
Are you now ready to gain ten kilos of muscle to continue with foiling in 2024?
No ! I will wait for proposals from mixed media or women. I am ready to study all the proposals, if one interests me I leave. I am at a point in my career where I want to be in the sharing. I shared my training with young people, to also pass on my experience to them. Doing double could interest me. And then if it's the end, it's the end, I haven't decided anything yet. I'm going to sit down for a bit and eat a croissant. I have seen them every morning at the hotel for three weeks without touching them.