hello to all I hope you go
good
for my part I am really very
happy to be among you this
afternoon so to start I have
decided to introduce it a little bit my
playground with two numbers so
I would have preferred 20 and 24
for paris 2024 it was a little echo
to the news but unfortunately
I had to start by putting you
then 22
it’s just the number
years since I practice
athleticism
this is my sport it’s my passion
and 24.6 simply the number of
medals I won at
the international Paralympic Games
world championship and championship
of time so that’s so thank you I have a
timing to hold so we’ll avoid too much
applause one of course no I
laughs of course thank you very much that that
it touches me so here are two
figures that summarize a course
so a course both long and that
for my part seems to me successful but for
to be honest with you at the base what
playground 7 this frozen fun
discovered by accident
literally and figuratively because
as nicolas said nicely
just now bah me my dream when
I was little idea become
professional firefighter
that was the playground on
which I wanted to have fun was my
ambition my passion and the job
that I wanted busy unfortunately
in 2004 at the age of 15 I was
overturned by a car is amputated
one leg
so necessarily with one leg less
we can make lasergame we have
understood just now but be
firefighter it’s not possible
So here we are not saying it’s a drama
life stops everything stops
but no it’s not with a
accident of life it’s not because we
has one leg less than everything stops
and his share the presence of my loved ones
from my entourage of many others
things in life I very quickly
understood and what I understood actually
it was that change
this difficulty this
this course error that I
encounter and if I’m going to send as
something positive if I arrived
to seize the opportunities and basel
charged to me to make life more
beautiful
so I did not know what my life would be like
I knew it would be different and
I knew I had to go on
a new playground and this terrain
of play bah they were already written
since a few years it was
athletics and this year by finally
in the next few years I had
just do it now
in handisport so at first to the
recovery of this accident I made it in
hobbies and little by little I decided
to build an athlete career
high level so that’s the frame
a bit of my playground wanting
to do high level sport wanting
to be at the top level
to rest his ambition and success in
life around high level sport is
something complicated because the
high level sport this is a field of
game that is still evolving where
the level that is required to be the
best in the world the best games
is always increasing and you
can you put a load of work
extra she much more
performing in your preparation you
do not even know if this will serve to
keep you at your level
so it’s necessarily a risk and
a lot of difficulties who are who
are facing you so far this is
as exhilarating because thanks to the sport
high level by this continual need
to be better each year you
go develop news
skills and you will learn to
to know you and that is
exceptional and over the course of three
Olympiads that I have the opportunity to do
of the three Paralympians I did
a lot of learning and I’m going I have
decided today to you in
present 3 and connect them to the game
that I could do
the first learning that is related
rather unfortunately a failure and that
participating in the Paralympic games
we live the experience of the games
Paralympics his greatness his magic his
decadence and unfortunately this
magic of games if you are not
focused on your goal
if you do not know why you are
present this magic to vavoua peace and
you totally go out of your field
I came to the games
Paralympics of 2008 I had barely
20 years back then it was my
first games
I wanted and I could be
gold medalist except that I arrive in
this village arrived in china first
big displacement like that in in
a country far from home
and here I am called by snapped up by the
magic I move a lot in the
village I go shopping
I’m going a little bit to visit life
things like that and I forget about it
totally my goal is
unfortunately it cost me the title
Paralympic in 2008
but luckily I was still
medalists so this is strong this
experience of telling me ok you have to be
on your playground you have to
to immerse myself in this magic of the tone
playground but you do not have to
forget your goal that I left
on on london in 2012
so i went back on on london in
2012 by improving myself by improving myself
so on my attentional focus of
the goal but also by improving
all the work I could do
that is to say I decided in 2009 to
become a real high athletes
level and implement everything in
my life to succeed in sport
so all the sacrifices of life that are
necessary all food hygiene
which is necessary and all the burden
necessary training and this
workout all those hours that
forced my schedule my life the one
of my entourage and my spouse I
did not see it as a burden
because in fact when I’m going to arrive
at high level competitions when
I arrived in France team
I had such happiness such
emotions I understood why
I had worked too much and I
realized that the more I
was working to earn more was
difficult to win and more victory
she was beautiful and in fact it was
really in the moments when there was
the most adversity where I earned from
the weakest steps I had
a lot of emotion and that’s what
makes the Paralympic title I could
win in 2012 as beautiful is that in
do I run I take the start I
I’m well ahead and the more
race ahead and over my opponents
come back then I do not see them
but I feel them I feel them in my
back I feel them doubling me and the line
crossed i fall
and here I’m sitting here is the
fault to convoys I sit by
earth i’m looking at the panel
and I say to myself oh here we worked
for years for nothing because
that second it was not my goal
so go we worked for all
these years for nothing so have to
leave and play it in 5 seconds
I’m already starting to redo everything
training plan of the four
coming years to come
this emotion and this interest
certainty of victory the fact of not
know during those thirty seconds that
I had won and finally Ben
that’s my name on the
billboard and that I know that
I am finally Paralympic Champion and
beat the emotion she is huge
she is extraordinary and she is
proportional to all the years of
sacrifices we could make before is
so excited about this victory
inevitably I say to myself we go we go we go
in which we go for the games of 2016 we
leave immediately for the singers
good that the world in 2013
so I’m leaving on the championships of
world with the will necessarily
to be world champion and
succeed the Paralympic Games of 2016
and the big mistake big mistake I’m
lose totally I lose myself totally
because I’m focused on I want
to be Paralympic Champion
I want to be world champion and not
why I want to be it is actually in
being focused just on this
that I want to do by being on the
how should i do it eh ben i have
lost all the pleasure of my sport I
lost the pleasure of work and
finally prepare the championships of the
world in 2013 had become really a
charge something that I was undergoing and
I took more pleasure except that the
said just before in the game concept and
I’m walking the Paralympic Games on
high level sport remains a game I do not
was taking more pleasure is there I was
in dissonance
So I decide in 2014 to move away
stadiums and regain the pleasure of
work the pleasure of training
and again it’s really really
strong of these of his learnings
that I continued my preparation for
the rio games in 2016
alas these games of rio they were
extraordinary
beautiful because thanks to my
mental trainer I’d like you
say that this learning the facts
all alone but there has been a long way
to understand through my
mental trainer I was in
capacity
to have fun even if I had
a monster pressure because when
you are a Paralympic champion in
2012 we are necessarily waiting for you
you are as strong four years older
late or even stronger etc
despite this pressure a preparation
which was very complicated with
many injuries on the end that I
I arrived in Rio and took
a lot of pleasure
two very simple solutions for
take the time of pleasure the first
do not try to gain a little
I’m going to be
Paralympic champion
however, when I start
of the contest of length and the 400 m he
it necessary that is focused on
to win
I do not have to focus on the
pleasure of the gesture on the passion of my
sport the passion of my game and it’s
very simple things ie
when I run when I run on my
run of momentum
I do not think about the results I do not think
the fact that I have to do
almost six meters to win
no I think of the feet that is strong at
soil to the pleasure that it gives me to
the impulse and being in the air
here I want to seek to be
really sure this pleasure of achievement
who has been animating me for over twenty years
now if I’m doing the key it’s
because I find pleasure and so
I’m really focused on that and
not wanting to make the jump
perfect day it was really
my problem was actually for
win I felt like the day
I had to make the perfect gesture
whereas no it’s not at all
wonder what is asked of me
to be gold medalists it’s
to apply what I had learned
for years of training and
especially not to look for the day to
do better here and by not seeking
not to do better by simply doing
what I know how to do and what I have
worked for years and ben
finally I reached levels of
quite exceptional performance and a
something else that had been detected and which
finally break totally my pleasure
of the game at a very high level is that
when I focus for to do
a great competition when I
concentrated to leave in the final of
I was hermetic hermetic
to hermetic partitions to people who
around me and this bubble of
concentration finally where I was
all by myself where I was focused on
the action to be done on the result to
get done
I did not interact with
coaches with my family with the
audience with my opponents and I think
that this bubble of concentration
completely hermetic was that
I had trouble managing the pressure and
so for the last two years
from my job to prepare the games
of Rio 2016 with my mental coach on
has worked to make
little holes in this bubble of
concentration little by little we
breakthrough we let the coaches come in
in this bubble of concentration we have
let the family get into this
bubble of concentration the audience then
adversary is actually the fact
to interact the fact when to rio jus
go back to the stadium and I smile
to the public that the audience smiles at me in
answer I ask the clape at
public and that the public a clap all at
along the momentum run the fact that I
laughs with grandma coach my family on
I laugh with my opponents
did not have any pressure
during the length contest
because in fact my attention they
were focused on something else
focused on the pleasure of
shares the pleasure of interaction and
not on the will absolutely to
succeed so I was in extreme
succeeds in rio and I have taken ten times
more fun than during the games of
London
so here it is that’s really the
secret of my game is to arrive in
to relocate the result to
consider the environment
shared with him because I you
ensures that in a game like games
Paralympic Games like the Olympics
like high level sport all
energies that is around you and
good to take and that of the public
as much to tell you that at rio she was
very strong she was very fervent
we had to know how to feed ourselves and therefore
it must have been one
ac experience would be extraordinary
for me so here is through everything
this little talk through the different
learnings that I could do as
I told you that being in
ability is open enough to grab
opportunities for change on the
do not forget that you have a
goal around the magic of your game
around all this cadences on the
to be really focused on the
pleasure in relocating the will
to succeed and being really in
sharing in human relations
finally
these keys I think they are
transposable to all of our
playgrounds and that they can all
enable us to perform well at
daily in our work and in the
Here’s thanks to everyone
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