Duarig has flair. The sports equipment company hired Christopher and Steeve Guénot as members of their ‘Young Power’ team months before the Beijing Olympics. “It’s the first time that we get the interest of a sponsor and it’s really cool. Our sport needs more public recognition in France. In other countries, wrestlers are professionals,” Christopher explained at the time. And Steeve added: “To make a living with wrestling, we’d have to win a medal every day.”

With the all media attention they got in Beijing, the brothers certainly beat Duarig’s expectations by a wide margin, hence the well-deserved ‘thank you’ ad in Sport Mag. The magazine editors also congratulate the French wrestlers, with a piece about their new life, and how the Parisian metro company had to adjust their job descriptions. “We won’t be in contact with the public anymore. We’ll train the other security officers instead. People know about us, and it would have spelled trouble,” Christopher told Sport Mag.

Trouble? Like legions of hysterical fans ready to do anything for a kiss? Pretty unlikely, since the brothers don’t work in Le Marais, but in the rougher suburbs north of Paris, but eh.

Sport Mag (in French)
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