Every week, Théo Curin takes champions linked to the Paris 2024 Games into his taxi. Travel here in the company of the shooting champion, Camille Jedrzejewski.
Published on 03/24/2024 10:24 Updated on 03/24/2024 17:46
Reading time: 5 min It was shooting champion Camille Jedrzejewski who was Théo Curin’s guest this week. (ANNE BAYARD)
Tomorrow the Games is an event in partnership with France 3, as part of the show To the Games, citizens! The para-swimming world vice-champion, Théo Curin, becomes Théo the Taxi, and takes a personality or a champion into his car, linked to the Paris 2024 Games. He is today in the company of the shooting champion, Camille Jedrzejewski. An experience that Théo Curin tells to Fabrice Rigobert.
franceinfo: Do you have the shooting champion, Camille Jedrzejewski, in your sights this week?
Théo Curin : Yes indeed. Camille is European vice-champion in 10-meter shooting, and French champion. Originally from Compiègne, in the Oise, she will celebrate her 22nd birthday next month. She discovered shooting thanks to her older sister, after having practiced modern pentathlon, and she is now fighting to introduce people to her discipline, which is a real sport, even if it may seem easy to shoot at a target. She explained to me that this is not really the case:
“You have to place the pellet in the center of the target, but only once. To train I do it 60 times, which represents 1 hour 15 minutes without moving, controlling your stress, your movements, your feelings. That’s a lot of time. things to manage at the same time. I love my sport because it makes me travel, and it made me grow. It’s really a sport that can be accessible to all young girls.”
Camille is lucky enough to devote herself only to her discipline in this Olympic year, even if she does not lose sight of her training as a physiotherapist?
It’s true. Like all the athletes I met in the taxi, who put their lives on hold to devote themselves 100% to their Olympic dream. And then they are lucky, for many, to have partners. For Camille, it’s the police: “There is something that has changed since I joined the Olympic objective: it is that now I am professional thanks to the national police, I am really a police officer.”
Obviously, it’s more comfortable when we know that many athletes try to make a living from their sport without succeeding. Not everyone is Teddy Riner. It’s always very complicated, as a major deadline approaches, to make a living from your sport, to succeed in financing your season. But we see that things are moving, and that there are more and more companies or brands partnering with athletes.
For the moment, Camille Jedrzejewski is only thinking about the Games?
Yes, the Paris 2024 Games are, for her, an important deadline, Camille is waiting for it with great impatience: “I can’t wait to be there to discover the Olympic atmosphere as an athlete, to know what the stress of the Games really is. We will be in Châteauroux, in Indre, where the competition takes place shooting. I will have two events: 10 meters and 25 meters.”
Throughout our interview, I felt Camille a little tense at the beginning, and by the end, we were almost friends. She introduced me to this sport that I knew nothing about, and I thank her very much. I hope that many of us will follow his performances in Châteauroux. Let’s just point out that, for the Games, not everything will take place in Paris: sailing in Marseille, for example, surfing in Polynesia, and therefore shooting in Châteauroux.
