A golden guest in A Sunday in the countryside. This January 5, Frédéric Lopez received Olympic athlete Manon Apithy-Brunet alongside Michel Fugain – who spoke about the death of his daughter suffering from leukemia – and Major Mouvement – who confided in this big accident car which left her father disabled – on France 2. At the start of the program, the fencer recounted her childhood and the sporting journey of her youth, from her discovery of the practice to Insep, a center international Olympic and Paralympic training. “We sleep there, we train there, we eat there. If we want, we’ll watch other sports because it’s a sports campus. The girls and boys train at the same time, I can see them too, I tell myself that I can potentially train with them“, she remembers in the barn. Frédéric Lopez follows up with a question: “And find the man of your life? You could have fallen in love with a swimmer, a judoka… No, it has to be a fencer“.
“We got married in the Maldives“: Manon Apithy-Brunet recounts her marriage to Boladé Apithy to Frédéric Lopez in A Sunday in the countryside
A reflection that makes Manon Apithy-Brunet laugh. “Frankly, I overdid it. I have remained ‘fencing’ all my life. I got there, I had a boy in my sights. In the end, very quickly, I met my husband at the French championships at the age of 20, a little before“, she reports, smiling. Later in the show, during the brunch sequence, Manon Apithy-Brunet returned to her relationship with this lover, whom she herself proposed to marry. “We always said we would get married on a beautiful beach. We are organizing a vacation in the Maldives, I ended up getting on my knees and telling him that I would like him to be my husband in front of all his friendsall his loved ones. And we got married in the Maldives, as lovers, both of us“, she remembers.
“I am very proud of the woman you are“: Boladé Apithy sends a message filled with love to Manon Apithy-Brunet in A Sunday in the countryside
A few seconds later, Frédéric Lopez shows the sportswoman a video message from her husband Boladé Apithy. “I hope you have a good weekend, that you have fun and that your experience goes as you hoped. In any case, I send you big kisses, I think of you very much. I am very, very proud of what you have achieved, very proud of the woman that you are, of the values that you transmit so continue to be as you are, smiling, sunny and take life on the positive side. I send you lots of big kisses and see you soon“, he testifies. Words that warm the heart of the fencer. “When he tells me that, I tell myself that I have succeeded in the most important thing, trying to be a beautiful person.“, she concludes. A real couple of winners since Boladé Apithy won the bronze medal in the team saber at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
