Vanessa Daribo, rink hockey star, puts the skates away to train: "It does not surprise me, she is passionate"

In the center of the cramped local CS Noisy-le-Grand, which serves as a trophy room, she scans the dozens of aligned cups.

Vanessa Daribo hesitates, then ends up grabbing one.

"My first was this one, I believe, in 2002." After twelve years of exile in Spain, in the best championship in the world, the memories are less vivid, even if "nothing has really changed" at the Yvris gymnasium, training and match room for the club's 220 rink hockey licensees.

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