2023-12-26 21:16:00
His dream was to participate in the Olympic Games. “But my body forbids me,” explained Tuesday, December 26, Pierre-Ambroise Bosse, who announced that he was ending his career due to physical problems. The French athlete, world champion in the 800m in 2017, announced his decision to the newspaper The Teamseven months before the high mass of French sport.
The 31-year-old French 800m record holder (1:42.53), operated on a year ago for a tendon in his right thigh, experienced a recurrence and had to stop last April. “After the operation, my hamstrings should have gotten better, it had given me a boost of energy, hope, desire, but this recurrence broke this dynamic,” declared the athlete to the sports daily.
“I have tried hard to get back on track these last few months. I went to Arcos de Valdevez in Portugal twice for three weeks, where my parents have a house. I started swimming every day, I made a lot of progress. And I tried to go for a run, but I quickly felt pain when I accelerated a little,” he continued. “I no longer enjoy athletics. There’s something unhealthy in this tendon, it’s no longer in the game. The days go by, the Games are coming and at this rate, I will never be there,” regrets the Frenchman.
“It’s hard to admit”
World champion in London in 2017, Pierre-Ambroise Bosse has also been five times French champion and twice bronze medalist at the European Championships (2012 in Helsinki and 2018 in Berlin). He placed third at the French Championships in 2022, after finishing sixth at the European Indoor Championships in 2021 in Torun (Poland). His last competition dates back to July 2022 at the Nancy meeting where he finished in eighth position.
In reality, since his world title, Pierre-Ambroise Bosse has never regained the state of grace of that magical night in August 2017 in London. From injuries to changes of coaches added to the fight in Gironde (for which he was fined 1,000 euros during which he was injured in the face), his image had been seriously tarnished and his morale greatly affected. At the end of 2020, it even lost its equipment supplier (Puma).
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With death in his soul, “PAB” will never realize his Olympic dream. When he understood that his body would not allow him to line up in Paris, the athlete admitted to having “spent days in [son] bed “. “I no longer went out, I no longer did sports, I must not have been good looking,” he continues. I internalized a lot. At first, I didn’t dare tell my loved ones so as not to hurt them.” Including his mother, who shared the athlete’s dream. “The end of one’s career is still hard to admit.”
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