What did you remember from your last 50 km?
Yohann Diniz:
I am annoyed by this end, but it is like my career: ups and downs, and never good at the Olympics. Unfortunately, I did not end on a high note, but I remember all that walking and athletics have given me during these fifteen years. It ends today, it started in 2005 with a disqualification (at the Helsinki Worlds, editor's note), between the two there will have been two, three cool things, but it is not up to what I was hoping. In 2017, I should have said that I was going out the front door, on a world champion title, and not struggling all the time against physical glitches. Finally, I may have put too much strain on the machine. And even if we did everything we needed to try to give a little bit of facelift, the physique does notwas no longer there. It was not the envy that was no longer there, but the maximum of the evil, I believe that I crossed it in Rio, and I believe that I could not go so far in the suffering. I was no longer able to go beyond a certain suffering. Maybe I should have realized this before. I couldn't say stop in time, it's a shame but it's part of my character, it's part of me.It's a shame but it's part of my character, it's part of me.It's a shame but it's part of my character, it's part of me.
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How did you experience this race?
I did not leave very quickly, I had a stomach ache, I stopped, after I had to catch up, I quietly returned to the leading group, but I quickly felt that I was not I had no feelings, no legs at all, that I was tired. I had pain in the adductor, I had pain in my back, I had difficulty with my breathing. Basically, it was one too many competition, one too many Olympics. In any case, today, I am not at all where I hoped to be, I was not even able to finish the race. Physically, I was really suffering it, on the level of the lower back, the adductors ... Was it linked to the heat and humidity? I got ready, in any case I didn't feel them more than that during the race, we were cooling off well,everything was working fine, but my body just wasn't responding physically. I was not there physically.
How do you feel about your lack of success at the Olympics?
It leaves a lot of frustration. I'm disappointed with this ending, but frankly, I didn't have the weapons. And then it was the one too many. I approached it with envy, but not with this niac of a big fighter. I was more in the spirit of trying to take as much pleasure as possible, but it really did not respond muscularly, at the level of the back, the adductors ... I am starting to be old ... I worked hard, all that that's a shame, i took a lot of people behind me, i'm especially disappointed for them. I will manage to get over this, but it is sure to be complicated to think that I will end on this.