Forever the first. Even if he is not from Marseille, but from Mont-Saint-Martin, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Steven Da Costa will be able to adopt the maxim of the supporters of the Marseille football club evoking the first and only victory of a French representative in the Champions League. At 24, he became quite simply the first Olympic champion in the history of his sport, karate, which included the program of the Games in the Japanese capital. For a very brief interlude since Paris has decided not to keep it for the next Olympiad. A sensitive subject that it is better to avoid discussing with the one who has just cleared the charts, but remains touched by this lack of recognition: "
It was a great disappointment
, he confided to us before taking off. for Japan.
It is an injustice and there is no valid reason to justify this withdrawal for Paris.
Besides, nobody tried to give us one.
Now I have moved on and what
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