There is something to be frustrated with.
Already for having failed to get on the box within a few hundredths, but also for having finished behind an athlete who was suspended four years for doping, just before the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Friday morning, the tricolor céiste Adrien Bart came forward disappointed at the microphone of France Televisions: “It's fourth.
I would have been told that five years ago, I would have said "yeah, I'm signing direct".
Today, I'm disgusted, it's hard, it's a shovel to nothing at all.
That's how it is, it's sport.
"
🛶🗣️ "I gave everything I had (...) But I'm disgusted, it's hard"
🇫🇷 Adrien Bart, fourth in the C1 1000m final, looks back on his race #Olympic Games # Tokyo2020
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While he seemed to be holding his bronze medal, the Frenchman indeed suffered a canny comeback from Serghei Tarnovschi in the last 500 meters. Tested positive four years ago, the Moldovan céiste has certainly served his sentence, but doubts remain in Adrien Bart's mind, despite his caution in his words: "I am not a leader, I am not a scientist, conceded the French. The third is the Moldovan, he returns from four years of suspension for a positive anti-doping control. Today he is there, he is running with us. Does he still benefit today from those moments when he was positive? I don't know. "
Bronze medalist at the 2019 Worlds, Adrien Bart is now looking to the future and remains confident about his chances of taking revenge on his Moldovan executioner. “Once again, we saw that he was beatable, the Chinese and the Brazilian beat him so that means it's possible,” said Bart. And I should be able to do it, only today I didn't. In any case, today I have to run against him, fight and it's possible, I will beat him. »See you in three years, at the nautical stadium of Vaires-sur-Marne.