French hero who took her baby daughter to training before Paris 2024 says: ‘I want women athletes to feel free’
She is one of France’s best-loved women sports stars, a martial arts hero hailed for breaking taboos over motherhood in elite sport by bringing her baby to training.
So when the French judo star, Clarisse Agbégnénou, took the bronze medal in the under-63kg category on Tuesday and held aloft her baby daughter, Athéna, the adoring crowd went wild.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jul/30/clarisse-agbegnenou-judo-bronze-france-paris-olympics
Author : Angelique Chrisafis at the Arena Champ-de-Mars
Publish date : 2024-07-30 18:23:01
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