World Athletics Championships: the big meeting of Jimmy Gressier, the man for whom “now everything is possible”

2023-08-27 13:59:10

Twenty-two years that France has been waiting for one of its representatives to qualify for the 5000m world final. This is to say the feat already achieved by Jimmy Gressier, in the running this Sunday August 27 (8:10 p.m.). The Boulonnais dream big, very big. In the name of his people. Without athletics, without Arnaud Dinielle, a sports educator from the Entente Maritime Athlétique 62 as we rarely do, Gressier could have gone wrong. He saw himself as a footballer, like Ribéry, the hero of the Chemin Vert district, in Boulogne-sur-Mer, where Gressier grew up, in a modest family where we did not always have enough to eat.