Winner of the Champions League by mixed teams on Saturday with PSG, Teddy Riner announced that he was putting his career in parentheses, the time to have an operation.
He had no longer appeared on a tatami since the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Winner of a third individual gold medal and the mixed team test during the Olympic Games, Teddy Riner had then left to rest and
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He won the Mixed team champions League on Saturday with PSG. He took the opportunity to make an announcement on his health.
In remarks relayed in the Sunday edition of
The teamThe tricolor champion confirmed that he would not take part in the Grand Chelem in Paris scheduled for February 2. “I announce it to you: Paris, I don’t do it. Here it is, it is official, because I am not ready, because it is not the objective of the season and because at the start of the year, direction the operating room for the sores that I should have settled before (…) ”
Recalled to order by doctors
Teddy Riner has also said a little more about the nature of the operation which concerns his right elbow, and on his duration of unavailability. “He has been operated for seven years. The medical staff reminded me of order. You have to stop shooting the rope if I want to go to Los Angeles (2028). »» For tricolor judoka, and according to his doctors, it will be necessary “Between two and three months”
So that he can return to business after being operated on.
As for the rest of his program to prepare for the next Olympic Games, it remains to be defined, both in the competitions to be played and on the team he will set up around him in order to put the maximum assets on his side.
