2023-11-09 07:31:49
Nothing predestined him to one day become Olympic champion and world record holder in the pole vault. No genetic heritage, champion parents, extraordinary size or athletic skills, no early results that put you on the radar very early. In his case, apart from his passion for pole vaulting, none of that, on the contrary, is perhaps what makes the story more beautiful.
Without evading anything, in fact, in his own way: behind the scenes of his sport, under the gaze of his masters Jean Galfione and Sergei Bubka and his spiritual son, Mondo Duplantis, his family, his doubts, some regrets, the money, the twisted blows from a not always tender environment…
Renaud Lavillenie is an Olympic pole vault champion (London, 2012) and was a world record holder with 6.16 m, beating Bubka’s mark in 2014.
Nicolas Herbelot is a journalist at L’Équipe, specialist in athletics.
Prefaces: Mondo Duplantis, Cédric Klapisch, Jean Galfione
320 pages – 20.90 euros – Publication on November 9, 2023
1699843336
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