Author this Tuesday at Wimbledon of a very noticed exit, on a so-called epidemic of Covid-19 among players at Roland-Garros remained secret after a “tacit agreement”, the Frenchwoman Alizé Cornet clarified her remarks in the evening. By believing that we must now live, and therefore play, with the virus.
Here are some noted words. Asked this Tuesday about the packages of Marin Cilic and Matteo Berrettini, both forced to give up Wimbledon after positive tests for Covid-19, Alizé Cornet made a surprising exit at a press conference.
The French No. 1 notably revealed a “Covid-19 epidemic at Roland-Garros”, voluntarily passed over in silence by the players after a “tacit agreement”. “The Covid, now, it’s back in mores, she launched. There are vaccines. There have always been injuries and illnesses. At Roland-Garros, there was an epidemic of Covid-19 and nobody talked about it. In the locker room, everyone got it and we didn’t say anything. (…) There must have been a few cases and it must have been a tacit agreement between us. We’re not going to test ourselves to get ourselves into trouble.”
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“It was above all to emphasize that the virus was now part of our lives and that we had to deal with it”
Seeing his words relayed everywhere, Cornet, however, wanted to make a clarification in the evening, on social networks. “I said that I ‘suspected’ a few cases of Covid during Roland-Garros, without having any proof, she added secondly. It was above all to emphasize that the virus was now part of our life and what you had to do with it. Full stop.”
Living with viruses, and therefore playing with them without “panicking”, is also Benjamin Bonzi’s wish. “It happens to all of us to catch a cold in the year, to have a runny nose in the morning and where it goes super fast, for his part declared number 47 to the ATP. It’s the Covid? I don’t know, but if as soon as there’s the slightest little thing where we feel less well, we say to ourselves that it’s the Covid and that it’s going to go wrong, that’s it will become a psychosis and it won’t be good… Especially since here we are in the middle of summer, we know that there will be big variations in temperature depending on the country, in transport. ‘we have three drops coming out of the nose, it’s going to be very complicated…”
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