Although he is out of the Paris Games due to injury, Souleymane Cissokho – boxer, captain of the French team and bronze medalist at the Rio Olympics in 2016 – carried the Olympic flame in Paris on July 15. He looks back on this ” honor » which brought him a lot of emotions, about his injury or even the financial fragility in which athletes sometimes have to train. Interview with an athlete who has « can’t wait for this competition to start “.
![Souleymane Diop Cissokho of France displays his bronze medal in the men's welterweight 69kg boxing final at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016.](https://earthpressnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Souleymane-Cissokho-boxer-and-Olympic-medalist-These-games-will-be.jpg)