French swimmer Charlotte Bonnet announced that she was ending her career this Thursday, November 24.
A page is turning for French swimming. This Thursday, October 24, swimmer Charlotte Bonnet announced that she was ending her career at the age of 29, just a few months after the end of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. “When I was little, I had ambitious dreams and today I realize that many of them have come true,” she explains in a long message on Instagram. “It allowed me to experience intense emotions, to take on incredible challenges, and to fulfill myself as an athlete and as a person. I had the immense privilege of representing my country on the greatest sporting scenes around the world. At the Olympic Games, at the World Championships, at the European Championships, I won medals that will remain forever engraved in my memory. But beyond the victories and the podiums, it is the shared moments. , the encounters and experiences that truly marked my life.”
In her long message, she also gives information on the rest of her life as a woman who will always be focused on the pools according to the words she used. “I am keen to pass on my experience, my journey and the emotions I have experienced throughout my career, to young people, clubs and businesses. Whatever happens, I will never be far away ponds, and I am sure that our paths will cross again very soon.”