Paris, it is over for Renaud Lavillenie – Libération

2024-06-30 12:36:14

The French athletics championships in Angers symbolize the final probability to win your Olympic ticket for the gold medal in London in 2012.

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Don’t worry, we’ll see him fly once more, particularly on the Charléty assembly, Sunday July 7. However he is not going to be on the Paris Olympics this summer time. This Sunday, Could 30, on the French championships in Angers – the place Thibaut Collet received with a leap of 5.82m – Renaud Lavillenie failed in his final try and qualify, having failed 3 times at 5.72m, after a leap of he’s very assured at 5.60m. The youngest Olympian, set at 5.82 m, has the best decision for the 37-year-old, who had a wound surgical procedure in September and continues to be very weak.

His dream of a fourth Olympics in a row got here to an finish within the Angevin capital with some disappointment (“It’s tough to complete near the purpose, the day is powerful, there are numerous at stake, we’re all preventing with the wind, it’s unhappy if you find yourself condemned to the feat to play every thing on the competitors the place we clearly. can not categorical ourselves fully, by flying with small poles to manage the wind”), however achieve this with out remorse (“After my work, I am unable to be on the monitor immediately”). “I’ve nothing left to show, my profession is behind me, principally no less than, it has already been advised Libe throughout his preparation through the coaching session with the French workforce. Paris, for me, is only a bonus. If I handle to qualify, and I’ll give it every thing, I’ll have this superb alternative to expertise my fourth Olympics, and at dwelling too. If I hadn’t succeeded, the very fact stays that I’d have already got three within the backpack, together with two tokens.

And in contrast to Christophe Lemaitre, Teddy Tamgho, Eloyse Lesueur or Benjamin Compaoré, who bid farewell to the competitors on Saturday to the frustration of the general public of Angers, who got here collectively to encourage the athletes who’ve shone within the the European Championship in Rome at the start. July and nonetheless looking for Olympic qualification, Lavillenie has not but spoken his closing phrase. In case you determined to have surgical procedure final 12 months, you already know full nicely that you’re in jeopardy of your probabilities to qualify for the Olympics. As a result of the one who demolished Bubka with 6.16 m in 2014 assures us: “We’ve got to go away the Video games by telling ourselves that it isn’t essential, the essential factor is to be ready to fly for so long as doable.” No less than each morning, on the carpet in your backyard, as you wish to remind us.