Budapest (AFP)

"I started again where it stopped, actually," said swordsman Daniel Jerent, back from suspension for three "no shows", and crowned team world champion with Yannick Borel, Ronan Gustin and Alexandre Bardenet, Monday in Budapest.

Q: How did you experience this difficult start to the final?

A: "On my first two stints, there are plenty of things, I'm not really in the fight as I've been all day, there's a drop in energy, concentration. the envy, but there is a lot of things that take over all this, there's something between Yannick (Borel) and me, we cover up, and all the way through the meeting he showed me the way. I was a little worse, he only asked me one thing, it was to tie him on the last stint, I had to leave the match, I pulled him out. I love it, I do it for that, I keep saying it, I'm in my place. "

Q: Have you thought of leaving your place to Alexandre Bardenet for the last stint?

A: "At some point, I'm coming out of my second stint, I'm not good, this is the first time that it happened to me in the day, I'm asked the question and I say no, I'll shoot my last relay, I knew I was able to do it. "

Q: Was this downgrade due to your lack of competition?

A: "Obviously, since yesterday, I showed some ease in what I was doing, in my relays there was nothing but positive, but everything required an extra effort." After a year without a benchmark of competitions, I had to be two or three times more concentrated than the others, it took me a lot, and I think I paid for it on the final The break (six hours between the semifinal and the final) did me a little harm, when she should have done me good, I relayed that it was at the right moment, Yannick finished the job, and we are world champions. where it had stopped in fact. "

Q: Does this title have a flavor of revenge?

A: "He does not have any flavor of revenge, I do not blame anyone except myself, today the only answer I had to give was to show that I was capable to be more important to my team at an international level, I showed it, I'm going home on holiday to prepare for the next year with confidence. "

Q: Preparing the Tokyo Games, since with this victory, the qualification is almost assured.

A: "I'm not a big math guy, but I think we're really on board, that's the goal, we did the job, we still have four team competitions, and I often say that winning brings If we want to win at the Games, we must continue to win.Today, the other teams have seen, we dominated our competition, in attitude, behavior, gnac, rabies. think we've got the message, and they know it! "

Interview collected in mixed zone.

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