Clarisse Agbégnénou, judoka: “I want to be essential for the 2028 Olympic Games”

“The Paris Olympic Games will be, for sure, my last”announced Clarisse Agbégnénou, in January 2024, during a chat with the readers of Monde. However, judoka has its eyes riveted on Los Angeles 2028. Individual bronze medalist and adorned with gold at the end of the mixed team test on the tatamis of the Arena Champ-de-Mars, it covets a sixth European title, Thursday, April 24, in Podgorica (Montenegro). This is the only objective of a shortened season, the 32 -year -old athlete who has decided to take a break, with the desire to have a second child.

You were crowned Olympic champion of-63 kg, in Tokyo, in 2021, in an empty enclosure due to the pandemic of Cavid-19. In Paris, in front of your audience, you must have been satisfied with the 3^e Place and a lesser highlight, despite this third individual podium at the games (she had won the money in Rio, in 2016). How did you experience it?

The games have been behind me for a long time. When you have a child, the priorities are no longer the same. This allows you to put things into perspective and move forward. I do not care about whether I was highlighted or not. At the Olympic Games, it is only when you win that you remember you. However, I did not win. It is the harshness of French judo: elsewhere, a bronze medal is a feat, but I am so filled in my personal life that I do not seek external recognition. I know what I’m worth.

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