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INTERVIEW – The French cyclist won the Olympic gold in mountain biking on July 28. The fruit of long preparation, particularly mental. Depressed after the 2016 Rio Olympics, the athlete now wants to break the silence about athletes’ welfare.
A few days ago, he turned the heads of spectators stationed along Elancourt Hill in Yvelin. Cyclist Pauline Ferrand-Prevo, already a champion of almost everything, won Olympic gold there. cross country. The day after his victory, he confided in us his feelings during a drive to the Trocadero, where 13,000 wild supporters awaited him.
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“I cried again, especially since they sang for me ‘Que je t’aime’ by Johnny Hallyday,” confided the new champion a few days later, when: Madame Figaro finds him at the headquarters of Danone, his sponsor. Since her win, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot has decided to speak out about the urgency of breaking the taboo around athletes’ mental health. He faced it after his failure at the Rio Games in 2016 and decided to turn it into a strength.
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Source: Le Figaro
