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Athletics: Renaud Lavillenie, "not yet with a view to fighting against others"

2022-06-25T18:19:13.389Z


The French pole vaulter will take off in the sky of Caen this weekend for the French Elite Championships. The penultimate chance to be reassured with the Eugene Worlds (July 15 to 24).


5 m 90, here is the assumed objective.

Injured in the right foot during the last Tokyo Olympics, Renaud Lavillenie has been fighting against his old demons for almost a year.

The bruised body, the tricolor champion does not despair and becomes friends over time.

“I have lost a lot in terms of my foot quality since the injury

,” he admitted just after his second place last weekend at the Paris Meeting (best jump at 5.80m).

But the 35-year-old veteran has seen others and is taking advantage of his experience at the highest level to gradually return to dancing.

“What was my quality was to attack on my support.

Something that I had lost and that I am taking back little by little.

The error that

(D'Encausse, his trainer)

, it was to rush and win too much to finally lose again and yo-yo with my form, my level.

When we proceed like that, it does not work, ”

says Lavillenie

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Source: lefigaro

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