Doha (AFP)

"I went to the end of my physique," said world record holder Kevin Mayer, sobs in his voice, after being dropped from injury at the Doha World Cup Decathlon on Thursday.

Q: What happened?

A: "You have to know how to accept being a decathlete, every decathlete lives it, there are zero or wounds, you have to accept that in 10 events, things happen, and in general, it does not happen. I felt it a month ago, I stopped the athlete for three weeks, I did a lot of work with Jerome Simian (his physical trainer, editor's note), I did not felt sad, it's the game, I gave it all, that's why I'm so disappointed but I have no regrets, the pain came after the 100m and became unbearable before the 400th I had not been in pain so far and I'm proud to have gone where I went, I could have stopped before the 400m. "

Q: You said before the Worlds that everything was fine. Was it bluffing?

A: "How do you want me to talk to you about that?" At one point we were hiding things like that, I did not feel pain anymore, and I was not going to tell you that an injury was going to hurt me. I was there, I was there, I wanted to blow everything up on the track, this scenario was not in my head at all, I was thinking that I was going to get there, and even at the pole I thought that I was going to finish until the end, I tried everything, I have no regrets, I saw that my staff was proud of me, even though I did not finish a decathlon, I know there is a lot of expectation from everyone in my career and I know that I'm going to bounce back because I was prepared for that kind of thing as I was prepared for my zero in Berlin (in length at the European Championships in 2018, ed.). "

Q: Is this abandonment hard to digest?

A: "I do not feel like I stopped, I feel like I've gone all the way, I tried everything, I cried with rage at the pole vault to transcend me and to no longer feel this pain I went to the end of my physique I know that I felt pains in April that I had never felt.We will everything + check +, my metabolism, we will do MRIs on my knee, because now there is the Games (2020 in Tokyo, ed) and it's no longer a joke because if I can come out of the disc in mind having pain since 5 events, imagine what I can do it at the Olympics if I'm not injured, I'm going to the Olympics, I do not even want to go on vacation and party, I want to go back on the track and re-educate myself. "

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