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The 400m Olympic champion in 2004 spoke about the difficult ordeal of putting photos in the public arena in which she appears naked.
Today we call it “revenge porn.” But at the time, this practice – devastating for the victims – was much less known and shocked public opinion.
In 2007, swimming superstar Laure Manaudou was the victim of a very malicious gesture on the part of one of her former companions. The woman whose notoriety had exploded three years earlier in Athens, when she won the 400m gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games, had seen intimate photos published on the Internet.
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“He gives me directions, asks for poses, more and more daring, from every angle. And like a fool, I do what he tells me,” she wrote in her autobiography Between the linespublished in 2014. “In a tank top, in mini-shorts, then in briefs, in a thong, and finally nothing. I tear myself apart for the beautiful eyes of a boy I no longer love. I reveal my breasts, my buttocks, my penis.”
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Laure Manaudou was then 20 years old. A shock for such a young woman. This Friday, January 10, as part of a cross-interview with his little brother Florent for Le Parisien-Today in Francealso Olympic swimming champion (50m, London 2012), the Rhodanian agreed to talk about this trauma.
“When the photos came out, I was competing in a competition with my coach. I didn’t talk about it with him, nor with Florent, nor with our parents, because I thought I was embarrassing them. I took refuge at home, alone, and I closed myself off from the world.”
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And Florent Manaudou continues: “We never talked about it together, perhaps so as not to rub salt in the wound… In fact, I don’t really remember it. At the time, I was 17 years ago, I was in high school, and I must have been quite protected by my friends, because I don’t think I would have suffered from it. If this had happened to me, I would have gone to find the ex in question, and that. Wouldn’t have been the right reaction. the celebrity press runs after my sister more than after me, because I don’t have the same notoriety, Laure is a star who goes beyond swimming.”
