Sad news for French sport. Aged only 33, Amandine Chazot, bearer of the Olympic flame for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, has just lost her life. Six times French Stand Up Paddle champion and vice-world champion twice, in 2017 in Denmark and in 2019 in El Salvador, the athlete lost his life to cancer.
It made several years that the athlete fought against the disease and leaves behind her husband and a little boy. In June 2024, when our colleagues from West France were able to meet her, she already spoke about her illness and the good that her sport brought her in her fight.
Sport, Amandine Chazot's best therapy to fight against illness
“My best therapy remains sport. Alone on the water, I feel a sort of fusion with the ocean, it's like meditation. I try to take full advantage of each moment. I take what the present moment gives me given”confided to our colleagues the one who works as a radiologist when she is not surfing the waters.
Following this disappearance, there were numerous tributes. Starting with the Brittany Surf League which wanted to send him tender words via its Facebook page: “Amandine was not only a great champion, she embodied the deep values of our sport: perseverance, passion and immense humility“.
For its part, the town of Pont-l'Abbé and the Pagaies-club also wanted to thank the woman who carried the flame for the Paris Olympic Games: “It was you who instilled the dynamics of Stand Up Paddle on the Pont-l'Abbé river. You motivated us to create our club, you inspired the young people of the Pays Bigouden… For all that and much more… THANKS !”.
Tributes are pouring in for the athlete who carried the flame for the Paris Olympic Games
Originally from Finistère, our colleagues from 20 Minutes recall that Amandine Chazot worked as a radiologist at the Cornouaille hospital in Quimper when she was not on the water.
“She had decided since the beginning of the year to put her radiologist coat on in the locker room and also returned to competition. With success, moreover, since she had brilliantly won the Green Paddle Race in May in Loire-Atlantique”wrote the French Surfing Federation in a press release.
