This time Olivier Dacourt deals with the end of a career that athletes call “little death.” How to conceive of continuation, how to manage when injury forces you to stop? Laura Flessel, Mathieu Bastareaud, Florent Manaudou, Gilles Simon, Sandra Laoura, and Djibril Cissé answer these questions that occasionally arise for top athletes with as much sincerity as emotion. Often sports careers are quite short and athletes should plan to transition to a more traditional life: a crucial step for many…
Jibril Cisse, 41 years old
Fashion designer, DJ, consultant, former Auxerre, Liverpool and OM striker did not mourn his past: “My body decided to stop. Not my head. I’ve been wanting to play again for two years. I’m only four goals away from my hundred goals in Ligue 1. If a club asks me to come free, here I am.” I go!”
Florent Manaudou, 32 years old
The swimmer, who will push until Paris 2024, is afraid of something: ““Thank you for the feelings you gave me,” my baker said to me after the Tokyo Olympics. It means I’ve added something to his life. I fear a day when I can no longer achieve this happiness.”
Sandra Laoura, 42 years old
The Mongolian ski champion suffered a serious accident in 2007 that left him paralyzed. He thought the worst:It’s not just an athlete’s life that gets ruined day by day… It’s hard to build yourself up as a woman afterward. It was painful: to question, to want to go… to let go of all this…“.
Twilight of Champions: Sunday, January 22 at 21:10 on Canal+
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Source: Programme Television
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