Amandine Buchard, the judoka who wanted to convert the try

If happiness can be recognized by the sound it makes when it goes away, then one day we will have to listen to what the Buchard years tell us. An XXL imprint in size 38, dug over twelve good seasons by a concentration of lives and tattoos of 1.60 m for 52 kilos. An aura sheltered from the tutelary shadows of a Teddy Riner or a Clarisse Agbegnenou . Senior French champion at 17, European medalist at eighteen, world medalist at 19, Amandine Buchard will blow out her 30 candles on July 12 with as many scars on her body as desires in her heart, and vice versa.

Its trajectory is a succession of extreme emotions, ranging from seventh heaven to thirty-sixth below. In strict accounting terms, the diamond discovered in Noisy-le-Sec (Seine-Saint-Denis) then polished at the poles of Brétigny (Essonne) and Orléans is of the type r