"I cried in my glasses".

Laure Manaudou is delighted with her ​​return to competition in Athens in the United States. After hard workouts that have marked the former Olympic champion is ready to "work harder to be there for the selections of the Games", to be held in Dunkirk in March 2012.


Laure Manaudou started to appreciate the work done. Although she was Olympic champion and triple world champion, the French 24 years has struggled to put in the bath. After nine months of intensive training in Auburn under the direction of Australian Brett Hawke, she completed an attractive return to competition at a meeting in Athens, also in the United States, from Thursday to Sunday, almost two years after announcing the end of his career, in September 2009, and assured that she would not ...

Finally, a new personal record in the 50m free (25 "84) and two victories in the 200m free (1'59" 30) and the 200m back (2'10 "20). Satisfactory results that allow for hope 2012, Olympic year. "I am ready to work even harder to be there for the selections of the Games" , she said on Infosport. "I am thoroughly because I see only nine months of training, I am able to make enough time drinking, quotes. We will return (in France) and work even harder for the Championship of France of 18 to 25 March 2012 in Dunkirk. "
"Both the first three months were very difficult. I was crying in my glasses for all drives. I went out and told myself 'if the next is like that, I quit' , she said. And then there had the whole team was behind me, encouraging me, and that's something I had not known before, it's really another way of looking at sport and that is why I remains in the United States to train. " The choice not to race again in France, but the United States, was therefore a deliberate choice and also liberating . "I knew I would have a lot of waiting and a lot of pressure. Even if I had ever had before, I think I found the master and I'm happy with my results." The best may still be yet to come.