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While the “Parade of Champions” marked the end of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, many athletes had difficulty digesting the end of this adventure, including a member of the French track Cycling delegation.
The JO blues is not a myth. If it exists for fans around the world, it also hits athletes after months of preparation and weeks of competition. Thomas Denis, member of the Frande track cycling team, is one example among many others. In the columns of Le Télégramme, the French athlete confided that he had experienced very difficult weeks after the end of the Games.
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“I was in the Olympic tunnel, there was only performance that counted and when I came home, pfff, the big void” explains the Morbihannais, currently at the French track championships. “After the Olympics, I wasn't in a depressed state but… I didn't want to train anymore, I couldn't even see my bike. It worried me, yes, it worried me” assures the one who finished 6th in team pursuit.
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“It was a real shock. I told myself that in fact, I didn’t like cycling. I felt guilty about the people who follow me, my loved ones…” adds Thomas Denis. Having fallen into a “vicious circle” and at “level zero”, the Frenchman then spent a month and a half away from his bike, before resuming training with the French time trial championship in his sights. Even today, he assures us, the Olympic athlete is “very, very far from our best level”.
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