There are some illnesses that are more incomprehensible than others, and about which medicine struggles to put words. It is a medical wandering that Émilien suffersthe undefeated champion of 12 shots of noon, who, since the end of last September, has been making a series of masterstrokes. This Sunday, February 11, 2024, the 21-year-old young man achieved a 52nd masterstroke, allowing him to increase his prize pool to nearly €631,000 in winnings and gifts, amassed in 139 participations. In terms of participations, he is to date the sixth greatest champion of the game, and is getting closer to Paul and Stéphane tied (153 participations), but remains far behind Christian Quesada
(193 participations), Éric (199 participations) and Bruno Hourcade (252 participations). In terms of cumulative winnings and gifts, he is actually fifth and ahead of Stéphane.
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The 12 strokes of noon
This Sunday, Émilien spoke about an illness that he had until now kept quiet and kept to himself, and which has been eating away at him from the inside for many years. An illness that he is unable to explain, since the medical profession itself cannot make a diagnosis on it. And the miracle cure he found goes beyond any medical framework, and can only leave Cartesian doctors speechless: in fact, Emilien, who suffers from violent chronic abdominal painmanages to bandage these only when taking general knowledge quizzes. In fact, the filming of 12 shots of noon do not cause him any intestinal damage, since general knowledge questions allow him to think about something else!
A primarily psychosomatic illness?
“I had constant stomach pains during the day. and the only times in my week when I had nothing for several hours, it was when I took quizzes. I never understood why. It’s something totally inexplicable. It was a bit of a miracle cure during those few months when I wasn’t necessarily doing very well. When I was playing, everything was fine. I never understood why” explained the one who has just celebrated his 21st birthday. The show was therefore a saving grace for him, because for almost five months, his stomach aches have disappeared, or at least drastically reduced. Stomach aches that are probably reactionary and psychological, and which are softened when the brain does not reflect on them, and thinks of something else…