“For now, I live the life of a star and I smile,” says fencer Manon Apithy-Brunet, gold medalist at the Paris Olympics.

At the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, the fencer won the gold medal in women's saber, facing her compatriot Sara Balzer. She is participating on Thursday November 28 in the third edition of “Demain le sport”.

“For now, I live a little star life and I smile“, testified, Thursday November 28, 2024, on franceinfo, Manon Apithy-Brunet, who at the third edition of “Demain le sport”, organized by franceinfo, The Team and France Télévisions at the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique. The fencer is still on cloud nine after her supreme title, won this summer. “I admit that I have a little trouble fitting training into my schedule because it is quite busy! Everyone tells me 'enjoy' because it's quite new and it won't last very long“, she explains.

All day Thursday, debates are organized at the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique in Paris to take stock of the Paris Games and think about the sport of tomorrow. Several freshly medal-winning athletes are taking part in the “Demain le sport” event, including Nicolas Gestin, Olympic champion in canoeing, Alex Portal, four-time medalist at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games in swimming, and Andy Timo, Olympic rugby sevens champion.

Not all Olympic medalists are bathed in euphoria a few months after the Games. The fencer confided that “most are more or less depressed“Some people feel like a big void.”This enormous wave of happiness was so strong that now we have to leave again. You have to know where you want to go. For some, it's very difficult because these Paris Olympic Games have enlivened us so much for more than three years, there are a lot of people who say to themselves: what do I do now?“, she explains.

For now, Manon Apithy-Brunet has clearly defined her new sporting project with Los Angeles 2028 in focus:

“Here we go! In any case, I will do everything to be there. I want to be individual Olympic champion again and this time also in the team.”

Manon Apithy-Brunet

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The budgetary context of France and the absence of funds dedicated to sports do not worry him too much: “We are high-level athletes, we adapt. We obviously hope that there will be budgets and that people will continue to help us. We dream big and we want to do lots of things and it costs a little money. But we are high-level athletes and I believe that the first rule is to adapt“, finally explains the Olympic champion.