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At 17, Laure Manaudou became an icon of French swimming. Twenty years later, she confides bluntly in a poignant documentary where she returns to some of her choices that deeply affected her family, to the point of diving her mother into depression.
Laure Manaudou: This love choice affected those she loves, to the point of weighing heavily on her mother
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A few weeks after the world swimming championships in Singapore, where Léon Marchand won two new gold medals, Canal+ offers his subscribers to dive back into the basins by looking at a documentary devoted to another prodigy of this discipline, Laure Manaudou. In Laure, Laure, Laure!broadcast for the first time on January 19 but still online on the MyCanal streaming platform, this 90 -minute film returns to the incredible career of the athlete. At only seventeen, she was crowned Olympic champion in Athens and became a real media sensation. Twenty years later, Manon’s mother, Lou and Sacha confides like never before and returns to the discomfort she felt at the time.
Sincere, the former partner of Jérémy Frérot also returned to his love stories, especially his first. In 2007, she fell madly in love with Luca Marin, a star of Italian swimming. For him, she will not hesitate to make many sacrifices. At the height of her career, she separated from her coach Philippe Lucas to go and live with her boyfriend in Turin, Italy. Before that, she had made disproportionate gestures to prove her feelings to her: “Once or twice a month, I give up a private jet to spend the weekend in Verona, where my love trains. I slam 7000 euros for a few hours with Luca, I am so crazy about him that it seems obvious to me“She wrote in her autobiography Between the linespublished in 2014. But their idyll stops when the swimmer discovers that he cheated on her with her rival of the time, Federica Pellegrini. Faced with directors Laurie Delhostal and Guillaume Priou, Laure Manaudou admits that her attitude has had a heavy impact on her relatives although they dare to blame him. “”Me, the memory that I have is that of my father, who managed the image society of my sister a little bit. He said to me: ‘But what is she doing?“, testifies Florent Manaudou, in an extract published on Tiktok this Monday, August 11.
Laure Manaudou: “Today, when I hear Italian … “
And the mother to understand, with hindsight, their concern: “As a parent, you see your child is self -destructing like that for a love story …“What she did not understand at the time:”Moi, I thought it was going to be the man of my lifelike when we are that age.“But that she gradually achieved:”I said to myself, my parents, the poor, what they undergo because of me, it is difficult because they did not ask anything. My mother, without telling me, I understood that it was a bit because of that, following this decision, made a little depressionhas gained weight. SO I was carrying all that on my shoulders.“Then to explain his state of mind:”It was complicated to see that my choices could have these consequences there. Today, when I hear Italian, I can’t. Even if I hear on TV talk Italian, for me, It disgusts me. However, it is a pretty language. But I have memories that are too much, not alive because it was twenty years ago, but my loved ones suffered anyway“She concluded.