The first book released in 2021 “had rather pleased people. And there were several changes (both sporting with my arrival within my new team, Arkéa-B&B Hotels, and personal like the arrival of my little Margaux and my fatherhood) that I wanted to tell about”.
And then, “I thought I would have a very good season, bring down the house and be able to share my victories”Arnaud Démare tells us when discussing the release of his book A year in my wheel 2 :
“Now, to be honest, I was going to write a travelogue… But the events that happened in my life meant that I revealed myself through the pages, by doing something intimate. It’s not because I’m a top athlete that I don’t have a life like everyone else with difficulties and problems to deal with. Besides, even if I am apprehensive and afraid of the reactions, I think that this book will speak to a lot of people, and the idea is that it can serve as support but also as hope for everyone. . »
Thus, throughout the 236 pages, the 33-year-old cyclist does not avoid any subject, however difficult it may be, such as the postpartum depression of his partner, Morgane, which further strengthened the bonds of the little family. : “I thought about stopping the book, but Morgane wanted to tell what she was going through and I think it helped her to put into words what she felt. »
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“I also wanted to make Margaux proud”
Or the separations and reunions with his daughter, Margaux, between each race (“it’s a balance and organization to find between moments of concentration on my job and then others where I unplug and take full advantage of mine”), and without forgetting this 2024 season “far from my expectations and which I do not hope to experience again, even if it will be difficult to do worse” with two victories and a period of forced stoppage between the end of March and mid-May:
“I wanted to do well and I thought I would do well. I worked, telling myself that it would pay off, that I would do a hell of a leap when I accumulated this workload, but that never happened. Perhaps also that I negotiated badly the fact of changing teams, of being this expected leader of the Bretons, of being expected on the roads of the Tour… Of being expected at all! »
A situation which “contrasted with the brutality of the month of June 2023 that I had just experienced, says the Beauvaisian sprinter. I felt myself growing wings, not out of pride or lack of humility, but because I had this desire to give and return this budding confidence. I also wanted to make Margaux proud, once she became aware of things. »
There is no doubt that she will be when she is old enough to read these writings and discover that, behind the champion, whom everyone knows, lies above all an equally exceptional man.
Arnaud Démare will be at a signing session on Friday November 15 at Cultura Beauvais, in the ZAC de Ther
Note that the sprinter will be present at the signing session on Friday, November 15 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Cultura, in the ZAC de Ther, near the De Neuville chocolatier and the But store.
