Time to say stop in the face of a body that no longer follows. The 800 meter world champion in 2017, Pierre-Ambroise Bosse, announces his retirement in an interview with the Team despite his desire to participate in the next Olympic Games in Paris 2024. The French athlete gives up facing a body that can no longer keep up with the pace of the high level, after a relapse of his injury to the tendon of the insertion of the right hamstring in May, some time after having surgery for the same injury.
After long months of rehabilitation, and this relapse that he has been trying to treat for more than seven months, Pierre-Ambroise Bosse simply can’t take it anymore. Or at least his body. “I want to go to the Games but I know my body won’t let me, it’s actually over! », he confides in this interview. Although it took him many months to accept this reality, the 2017 800 meter world champion is retiring without regrets. He now wants to get involved in the association he is creating with ex-international Bryan Cantero in the field of waste sorting, recycling and the second life of objects. And take a pétanque license, “even if I also have the impression that my belly will appear if I mess around too much,” he warns.