Laurie Delhostal reveals the event that shocked the champion the most

Formerly of Canal+, now on France Info and in “Télématin”, the guest of “Buzz TV” this Friday January 17 was Laurie Delhostal . This Sunday at 9:10 p.m. on Canal+, the sports journalist is releasing a documentary, “Laure! Laura! Laure!”, about the French swimmer Laure Manaudou. She talks about the behind the scenes and the preparation of the latter: “It was quite a long discussion.”

Unsurprisingly, since Laure Manaudou is known for her discretion in the media. The sports journalist continues: “I found the words, because I had been preparing this for a very long time, we had wanted to do it for a very long time. I had already spoken to him about it, lots of people had already spoken to him about it… I told him very soberly that we were the best people with Guillaume Priou (the co-director of the documentary, Editor’s note.) to tell the story of her career and she had to do it with us!”

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And Laura Manaudou never confided as she does in the documentary, she was still forcibly exposed to the media by others. In 2007, the 21-year-old young woman she was saw her intimate photographs distributed on the internet. In “Laure! Laura! Laure!”, she returns to this heavy ordeal for the first time.

“We talked a lot about her but we didn’t listen to her much. It’s a huge trauma,” souligne Laurie Delhostal. “It was something (the distribution of the photos, Editor’s note.) that she really wanted to talk about. It remains something painful, but she wanted to come back to it now because her daughter is 14 years old and she realizes the fragility of adolescents today in relation to all these questions. »

It would have been weird, since at one point I only had half my hair, to say nothing.

Laurie Delhostal on her cancer.

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During the “Buzz TV” interview, Laurie Delhostal also spoke about the breast cancer with which she was diagnosed in October 2022. “It was special to talk about it publicly,” admits the journalist. “But I received and I still receive so many messages from women who ask me for advice or tell me that it did them good to continue to see me with a smile, to see me on the air… I really don’t regret doing it.”

The one who is now in remission evokes the importance of this speaking out. “I left the air, and it would have been weird, since at one point I only had half my hair, to say nothing,” remembers Laure Delhostal. “I like to say things frankly. And I didn’t realize how terrible this secret side was for the sick. (…) So I’m really happy to have done it.”

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Laurie Delhostal on female sports journalists

Today on the air in “Télématin” and at the helm of the sports show “Le Club Info” on France Info alongside Julien Langlet, Laurie Delhostal also marks her return to Canal+ with “Laure! Laura! Laura!” Indeed, the sports journalist was part of the team dedicated to Formula 1 of the private channel.

“It’s great because having a space to talk about sport on the second largest radio station in France is a gift, what luck,” assure Laurie Delhostal. “Same for “Télématin”, they told me to talk about what I wanted, and I said “I want to talk about women who play sports.” And then through this documentary on Laure and another on the French women’s football team scheduled for February on France Télévisions, I talk a lot about women in sport, that remains my priority.

The one who is also the co-founder of the Women Journalists of Sports association analyzes her environment after the #MeToo movement. “I’m not sure that sports journalists are treated better,” she declares. “What has evolved is that the problem has been posed, we are talking about it. Does that solve everything? No. Are women more present in sports editorial offices? Not much. Or in a very visible way, on the air, but not from the editors-in-chief. We are not very optimistic, but we continue to fight and say that the world of sport must be told by more different people.