How do you stay on top when you’ve won (almost) everything? No question of getting up at 10 a.m. or eating pasta. “I’ll get up between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m., take a cold shower and shave,” Kevin Mayer tells us. A not so trivial action, the Frenchman is the new face of Gillette razors. His role as ambassador? “Embody an open and evolving vision of masculinity. » we can read in a press release.
And on his plate, Kevin Mayer doesn’t leave room for too much madness. “It’s meat and vegetables…I’ve cut out refined sugar and gluten from my diet. When I want to let myself go, I’ll eat a good pizza.” The athlete will tell us that these moments are rare, “there were two weeks of break during the year…”
France its lucky charm?
But this healthy lifestyle is bearing fruit. “Kéké la braise” is THE figure of French athletics. At 31, his track record is impressive: a gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in 2017, a silver medal at the Rio Olympic Games in 2016. And in 2018, Kevin Mayer set a new world record of the decathlon by accumulating a total of 9,126 points. A title won in Talence near Bordeaux and which remains the most beautiful memory of his career “it was really an incredible moment to share with lots of people. » he tells us. Competing in his country therefore brings him luck… fingers crossed for Paris 2024.