Sunday, when the untouchables Kenyans or Ethiopians finish with the 42.195 km of the Paris Marathon after just over two hours, Alexandre Allain will continue his effort in the middle of the crowd.
Like the 60,000 other participants of the 45th edition, the young man of 25 will fight anonymously to obtain the medal promised to each athlete completing the course.
Except that Alexandre Allain is not a runner quite like the others.
Sunday morning, he will tread the Parisian asphalt thanks to the lungs of another, after having undergone a double transplant of this organ in 2017 due to cystic fibrosis (a rare genetic disease that mainly affects the respiratory tract and the digestive system) detected when he was a child.
The Atlantic crossing saved him 20% of his breathing capacity
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I am torn between the excitement at the approach of the big departure with nine months of preparation and inevitably a little apprehension but I am aware of what I came to seek here
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the Vendéen who is not one. at his first
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