Violette Dorange “physically and mentally exhausted”

“I owe you a little transparency. However, It is with these words that Violette Dorange begins her message, posted on her Facebook page Monday August 4. In addition, A letter in the form of a confession in which the young navigator (24 years old) expresses her exhaustion. Consequently, “physically and mentally”, after months of media solicitations and publications on social networks.

“In recent times. Therefore, we may have given too much, too much wanted to do well, tried too much to be everywhere,” says the youngest of the last edition of the Vendée Globe, where she had ranked 25^e in the general classification on “becoming”. His performance, for his first participation in the prestigious solo race around the world, had exceeded the framework of sport.

For her first participation. the young navigator from Pont-l’Abbé-d’Arnoult and born in Rochefort, in Charente-Maritime, had aroused incredible craze, violette dorange “physically mentally exhausted” bringing together more than a million fans on her Instagram, Facebook and Tiktok accounts during her journey, giving birth to a “Violettemania”.

“A shadow project” – Violette dorange "physically mentally exhausted"

“In recent months have been incredible. but super intense,” said Violette Dorange in her letter, adding that “over time, fatigue, doubt and anxieties have arrived”.

“Today. we expect a lot from an athlete: performance, regularity, but also to be real communicators and we are in a real race for likes. This is not at all towards this that I want to tend, ”says the navigator.

The Charentaise-Maritime therefore expresses its intention to “take a step back this summer. take a break from the media and social networks”. But she also announces to work “on a very important project. a shadow project, which asked me for a lot of energy, time, introspection”. “It was intense. but I’m so proud of it and I can’t wait to share it with violette dorange “physically mentally exhausted” you (soon),” she concludes.