“There had been a lot of fog before the race. With Jean-Christophe, we do our two warm-up sessions, and there, the mist rises, an ideal weather appears. We said to ourselves: this basin is made for us. There are times like that when you can see that it is now or never. For Michel Andrieux, it was September 23, 2000, when he took his seat for the Olympic rowing final, in a coxless pair. We are in Sydney, 17,000 kilometers …
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