Basketball: Valériane Ayayi Vukosavljević played the Games pregnant

She had kept the news a secret.

Keeping only a handful of relatives in the know.

For Valériane Ayayi Vukosavljevic the good news has followed one another for several months.

Champion of France with Basket Landes in May, silver medalist at the Euro in June and bronze medalist at the Tokyo Games last week with the Blue, the interior announced on Wednesday on his social networks that his " most beautiful medal has been kept warm all this time.

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An enigmatic message that the 27-year-old was quick to explain a few seconds later in another tweet.

“Today is the time for me to rest, to enjoy this pregnancy with my husband and my family!

I stay there, present around the fields.

I will meet you very soon in 2022, back on the floor and, as always, with big goals.

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🙏🏾 Today is the time for me to rest, to enjoy this pregnancy with my husband and my family!

I stay there, present around the fields.

I'll give you an appointment very soon in 2022, back on the floor and as always with big goals 🔥🙌🏾

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- Valériane A. Vukosavljevic (@valeriane_ayayi) August 11, 2021

A nice surprise for his partners in the France team who, for the most part, were not aware of the situation. The player had decided to inform a minimum of people to be able to experience the Games serenely. She had announced it, before the Euro, to Valérie Garnier, the coach of the Blue, to the doctor of the France team and to three players.

"I wanted to be quiet and do my two competitions without taking my head, without having to deal with the reactions of other players, the media or others, explains the person concerned, this Wednesday morning, during an interview with the France Info site. .

It is true that it simplified the thing.

I had the agreement of the doctor of the federation, the medical agreement of my gynecologist, and that was the main thing.

The coach told me that she was very happy for me, that this pregnancy did not call into question my selection for the Euro and the Olympics, if everything was medically good.

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Despite "cramps, enormous tightness" and "big blows of fatigue" after the matches and a pubalgie before the Euro, the big sister of Joël Ayayi (who has just signed a contract with the team with the team Los Angeles Lakers Reserve) experienced no physical or health alerts. “It was a crazy adventure,” she says.

"Pregnancy is not an illness," concludes the player at the microphone of France Info. It does not prevent you from practicing your sport. I played three big competitions (…). And I'm fine. After that, it's a choice. I knew I wanted to have a child during my career. There, I will take some rest because it is necessary and I play a sport where at six months [of pregnancy] I can no longer be on the field. I'm going to go to Los Angeles to see my little brother, who I haven't seen for two years. I will be enjoying with my husband, my parents, and my two other siblings. I am happy and fulfilled. I look forward to resting and enjoying this pregnancy to the fullest. "