“
A school of life
”.
This is how Larbi Benboudaoud, the high performance director at the French Federation, likes to define judo.
And like all schooling, this one can be gentle or more delicate.
For Amandine Buchard, she was probably both.
Soft at the start, with an extraordinarily rapid rise in 2014, symbolized by a world bronze medal and a title of vice-champion of Europe won at the age of 18.
Then particularly painful at the turn of 2016, when she missed the Rio Olympics due to her change of category.
Her body then no longer supported the drastic diets imposed on her by being under 48 kg, resulting in a wave of depression that almost overwhelmed her completely, as she told us in 2017: "
I came back from afar because I no longer counted do judo.
I had gone abroad, far from everything.
I didn't want to hear about competitions, Insep, everything...
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