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A ruined time, Ladji Doucouré is rebuilding himself hedge by hedge with young people

2022-01-12T05:22:53.409Z


Since he retired in 2017, the former world champion in the 110m hurdles has had to face the throes of retraining. Which he seems to have overcome today, alongside the young prodigy Sasha Zhoya.


On February 19, 2017, Ladji Doucouré drew a line on his fantastic career of hurdling. At 34, he decided to put the pointe shoes in place after a very high course, symbolized by this title of world champion in the 110m hurdles in 2005 in Helsinki, and low, with many injuries that did not allow him to harness the essence of its potential. And to win an Olympic medal, he who failed at the foot of the podium in Beijing in 2008. One of his two great regrets, as he confided to us on the occasion of the XXth edition of the Sports Stars in which he participated in Tignes. "

I tried four times, lived three (2004, 2008 and 2012) and failed every time.

Afterwards, the other regret that I harbor today, but which was not a goal during my career, is to have never tried to go as quickly as possible, not to have chased the record .

All I cared about was winning and beating others.

But looking back, I wonder what ...

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Source: lefigaro

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