He is one of the faces of the new season of Secret Story. Bruno Naprix, 36, joined the cast of the TF1 show relaunched this Tuesday evening, with the secret: “I am an athlete at the next Games”. The sprinter is in fact the guide of the blind para-athlete, Timothée Adolphe.
Together, they were silver medalists at the Tokyo 2021 Paralympic Games in the 100m (in the T11 category, that of athletes suffering from almost total visual impairment). “Hello gang… 7 years later, the show Secret Story is making a comeback and I have the honor to announce my participation,” the athlete said on his Instagram account. You’re starting to know me and I like taking on challenges, well this is one of them and it’s a big one!! “.
Bruno Naprix had several selections for the French team in the junior and hopeful categories, before becoming a guide for Timothée Adolphe in August 2019. “I was still practicing among the able-bodied, and one of Timothée’s guides came to see me to help me. ask if I might be interested, the champion told us after his medal won in Japan. I said to myself why not. We met a month later, and it worked straight away. From the start, we hit it off well. »
Seriously injured after scooter accident in 2022
Today, they train together at INSEP under the instructions of Dimitri Demonière, also responsible for the athletics department within the establishment. In total Timothée Adolphe has three guides, including Bruno Naprix. Charles Renard and Jeffrey Lami complete the quartet, which allows the Paralympic vice-champion to be able to prepare for all scenarios.
“We all prepare in the same way and it is the one who will do the best times with Timothée, and also depending on his feelings who will run at the Games”, explained Charles Renard to us in Tignes (Savoie) on the sidelines of the Étoiles du Sport last November. “It will also take into account the vision of the coach and depending on the physical problems of each person,” added Timothée Adolphe. We work so that there is no synchronization to be implemented at the last moment. »
Seriously injured after a scooter accident in October 2022 – “fracture of 4 ribs and pelvis… Hospitalized for 1 week in intensive care… On discharge, -20 kg and everything to be rebuilt”, he described on social networks -, Bruno Naprix was unable to take part in the World Para-Athletics Championships organized at the Stade Charléty (13th arrondissement) in Paris last summer. Timothée Adolphe, in the 100 m with Charles Renard, then in the 400 m with Jeffrey Lami, won two bronze medals.