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The covid has created a lot of frustration among people, among us athletes too, everywhere.
People have suffered, lost loved ones…
”Saturday evening, just after recovering the third Olympic gold medal of his fantastic career, handball player Luc Abalo found the right words to sum up what these Tokyo Games will have been.
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Those of the pandemic
As some had nicknamed them.
Those, above all, of emotion, of sharp nerves, of resilience, of this formidable capacity that a champion has to always get up.
Those, also, of the liberation of a certain word, under the impetus of Simone Biles, who will have marked this edition by his… absence, of course, but also and especially by his testimony on the psychological difficulties which are confronted the champions of 'today.
And even more, alas, those of tomorrow.
To discover
The full Olympic program
The Olympic medal table
In the era of social networks kings, the athlete is celebrated as much as mocked.
As before you will say.
Except that it happened at the counter of a
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