She had planned everything before finally hanging up the high level. European Championships, Olympic and World Games at the end of the year to end his career in style, at the dawn of his thirties. Anne-Laure Florentin finally decided to stop everything a little more than six months before. Not for lack of ambition, no, the three-time European champion (2016-2017-2018) had plenty to spare. The member of the France team just could not predict that the Covid-19 would cause myocarditis, of which she still has sequelae several months later.
Fortunately, the 29-year-old Martinique is a fighter. “I thought for days and days before making this very difficult decision,” says the licensee of the Amicale Sportif d’Évry. We talked a lot about it with my coaches, the DTN, and my entourage. The doctors did not influence me. Maybe I could have done it differently if I had been younger and had allowed myself a little more time. “