Guest of Clique to discuss the documentary that Canal + devoted to her, Laure Manaudou returned to her sudden media coverage when she was twenty years old.
Rather discreet in the media since she stopped competing, Laure Manaudou nevertheless chose to confide in a documentary dedicated to her. Canal+ broadcasts on Sunday January 19, Laura, Laura, Laura! which includes archive images, but also numerous testimonies. A few days before this program, the Olympic champion agreed to answer Mouloud Achour's questions in Clique. She notably returned to the way in which she experienced her hyper media coverage, which was as sudden as it was violent.
Laure Manaudou had developed strategies to escape the lenses of photographers
Laure Manaudou believes that this painful experience can serve as an example to active high-level athletes today and that the fact of having been a young woman served her badly. “I think that being a woman didn’t necessarily work in my favor. I think that Florent Manaudou, twenty years ago, we would have bothered him a little less”, she observed. “We endure a bit when we are twenty years old. We don't have a choice anyway. We must give, even if we do not agree. I had a very, very bad experience with that. I talk a lot to my children about the notion of consent for everyday life because it's important. she added. To try to protect herself from the targets, the swimmer had even developed strategies. “When they tried to take my picture and the journalists and photographers were on the left, I only breathed on the right. Because I hadn't decided and they took it from me at that moment and I didn't I didn't want to give it away“, she recalled.
Laure Manaudou spoke about the publication of her intimate photos
At the podcast microphone The waves, Laure Manaudou returned to the trauma of the non-consensual publication of her intimate photos. “I remember thinking, once again it's like I've been raped. I was not asked for my consent. I find myself naked in front of everyone and I still have to cope, because I have people in front of me, I have a competition, I have journalists. It didn't happen at a time when I was at home and where I could lock myself away and not make eye contact with people. (…) It was once again subject to the gaze of people”, she insisted.
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