2024-01-16 11:30:19
Retired from the rings for twelve years, Jérôme Thomas, double Olympic boxing medalist, revealed his alcohol-related problems in the newspaper The team Tuesday, January 16. He is the only French boxer to have won two medals at the Olympic Games: bronze in Sydney in 2000 and silver in Athens in 2004 (both in the flyweight category).
“If I drink again, I die, testifies Picard. I’ve been sober for two and a half months now. (…) It will be a fight every day. (…) I am unhappy, lost. »
Member of a brotherhood of boxers, Jérôme Thomas explains that he became an alcoholic in 2012, after a career in professional boxing, undertaken after being excluded, in 2008, from the preparation for the following Games, and ended four years later.
“I could have been European champion”
“If I had been serious, I could have been European champion, he said, but I was invited to a lot of parties. » He admits to having had difficulty facing the ” real life “after the “cocoon” from the National Institute of Sport, Expertise and Performance (Insep).
Among other excesses caused by his addiction, Jérôme Thomas, who lives in Saint-Quentin, his hometown, remembers waking up one morning on a beach. “I told myself that I had to be at Tréport or Fort-Mahon. No, I was near Bordeaux! I was like “What the fuck did you jerk off.” »
The former boxer also highlights the role played by his partner, with whom he has lived for three years: “The four people who saved my life were her and my three brothers. She is my pillar”confesses the one who “I would really like to be happy”.
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