He raises his arms, all smiles on the podium alongside his partner Matthieu Androdias.
Hugo Boucheron and his partner have just been crowned double sculls world champions in Racice in the Czech Republic, a year after their gold at the Tokyo Olympics.
But, between these two joys, the Lyon rower sank, plunging into a depression and a personal descent into hell.
The day after his second world title, the Olympic champion took the time to tell our newspaper about this period and how he recovered.
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