“It was unexpected to relaunch a project like that,” says Clarisse Crémer, relieved to be able to start with a new sponsor.

“It’s a lot of joy. I have a little trouble believing it because it was unexpected to relaunch a project like this in a few weeks”, rejoices Clarisse Crémer. It was not a foregone conclusion. When the Breton sailor learns that she has disembarked in February 2023, she has to take the shock and her ambition to redo a new Vendée Globe takes a big hit. The affair is growing in proportions that she had not imagined: even the sports ministerAmélie Oudéa-Castéra, takes up the subject.

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The storm passed, Clarisse Cremer goes in search of a boat. In a wink of fate, she is going to embark on the monohull that her former partner had reserved for her: it was bought by a Welshman, Alex Thomson, who put it at the disposal of the young mother. She deserves it, he says. In the aftermath, the Breton found a sponsor, the cosmetics group L’Occitane en Provence. “Everything went well”slips Clarisse Crémer, relieved.

A “huge challenge” for the 33-year-old sailor

“I can’t wait to get back on the water!”, launches Clarisse Crémer. His boat, an Imoca, “is still under construction, she indicates. We can put it in the water, a priori, in June.” But the race against time is not yet won. The one who finished 12th in the last solo round the world must now qualify to be at the start of the Vendée Globe in November 2024. For that, she must participate in races.

“I have never hidden that it was not necessarily easy to come back after a pregnancy. But now I have the tools to come back to sailing.”

Clarisse Cremer

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The program promises to be very busy as she has not sailed for more than a year with her pregnancy and the birth of her daughter. “It’s an extremely busy sports program, a very good calendar, adds Clarisse Crémer. I have never hidden that it is a huge challenge to come back after a break, and in particular a break related to a pregnancy. IThere is an impact on my body, I have been in rehabilitation for some time now, in sports preparation, in mental preparation.

At 33, Clarisse Crémer has won a double victory for her career with an extremely high-performance boat while advancing the debate on sports mothers.