2023-06-30 15:56:00
– At 90, “Gigi” rows more than 1,500 kilometers a year
Elisabeth Bideau started rowing in 1965 in a women’s club. She can no longer stop. “We are recommended to move, so I move,” she smiles.
Posted today at 5:56 p.m.
Elisabeth Bideau, nicknamed “Gigi”: “I’m not one to twiddle my thumbs.”
Marie-Lou Dumauthioz
In Europe, there are few bodies of water that have not seen her tug hard. Aged 90, Elisabeth Bideau, nicknamed “Gigi”, still rows more than 1,500 kilometers a year on Lake Geneva. “I inherited good health potential,” confirms the nonagenarian, member of La Rame de La Tour-de-Peilz, the only exclusively female rowing club in Switzerland, along with that of Zurich. The “family” atmosphere is wonderful there, it seems. The proof? The former president, Antoinette Pasche, has been a member for seventy-two years.
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