He was to find his colleagues and his patients in the middle of last week, but his department heads at the Le Kem geriatric hospital in Thionville gave him a bit of a discount. It is therefore this Monday that Yann Schrub, bronze medalist in the 10,000 meters at the European Athletics Championships in Munich (last August 21), puts on his blouseintern in eighth year of medicine. “A few more days to breathe, to savor, to rest” says the athlete licensed in Sarreguemines, “It happens very rarely, and in a lifetime, I think it’s pretty unique so so that’s nice of them.”
Busy schedule
The new darling of tricolor athletics must juggling between his training sessions, his competitions and his job as a caregiver, which is necessarily very demanding. “I try to be as present as possible with my coaches. And then, depending on the training, I put it in the morning, in the evening. I also adapt according to fatigue. There are days that are more tiring than others, so I adapt the paces or I adapt the distances so as not to fall into overtraining and fatigue and find the right balance so as not to injure myself. Without losing sight of his other passion: his future profession as a doctor, in a general context of shortage of personnel in the field of health. “In the eighth year, we start to have a really good foundation. It becomes interesting to really be with the patients, to see that it is valued, that we are still doing work for them, for the sick. C It’s a balance that I have found, that I would like to preserve.”
I love this job (Yann Schrub, on his medical internship)
A busy schedule for Yann Schrub who already has his eyes and legs turned towards the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. “It’s a big deadline. I have the potential, I think, to pass the course of Africans, Kenyans etc. I hope to be able to gradually increase my load.”