Published on November 2, 2024 at 11:00. / Modified on November 2, 2024 at 11:49.
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The Geneva Sea Fishing Club represented Switzerland at the last World Sea Fishing Sport Championship, organized last October in Ireland.
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Seventy-six athletes from 13 countries competed in fishing, a discipline which is practiced from a stationary boat.
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The Swiss team finished this year in tenth place. But for its members, the important thing is rather the pleasure of fishing.
Suspense. Since mid-October, Manuel Dos Santos has been waiting for the result of his anti-doping test without knowing if it will come back positive. Not that the Genevan is taking drugs, no, the affair is more comical. “I told them we had a problem,” says the imposing man. I am an athlete like any other, but from the age of 50, you have to take into account medications for diabetes, hypertension and seasickness!” The table bursts into laughter. Manuel Dos Santos is neither a football player nor an F1 driver: he is a concierge by profession. And a fisherman by passion.
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