After receiving Anaïs Pelier for her first novel Caravanin September 2024, the Café Mauve reading workshop invited Claire Supiot to come and present her book Olympic Mermaidin the session of this Saturday, January 11, 2025. The Olympic and Paralympic athlete, originally from Juigné-sur-Loire, describes, in this work, his sporting, disabled, family, professional and personal life, as an outlet. She answered questions from readers, her neighbors and simple residents of the town with complete frankness.
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“The book was written over a period of two years based on 50 hours of recordings made in interviews with journalist Christelle Bourdeau, she declares. I was on vacation in the mountains the day it came out. I bought it by mail from my publisher, surprised, I was so eager to read it. »
A book “more personal than sporting”
Beyond the anecdote, the author commented on the content of her book, more personal than sporty
. If at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, able-bodied, she misses her race, she writes: Today, I can say it loud and clear: in 1988, I was already suffering from Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, my unwanted roommate, except that I didn't know it.
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The disease would be discovered many years later. The book perfectly conveys the champion's striking style. She writes: This disease is neurological. She reacts to every punch you take in the face.
And Claire Supiot took some blows. Her mind, combined with her family spirit, made her a fulfilled woman.
The readers of the Café lecture appreciated his two-hour intervention. And I can announce to you that I will soon be the representative of the association Les Dauphins du coeur for Anjou”,
she launches, in conclusion, as a new challenge.
