Paris 2024: who is Bruno Naprix, the athlete from The Secret History who will take part in the Games?

He is one of the faces of the new season of The Secret History. Bruno Naprix, 36, joined the cast of the TF1 show, which resumed on Tuesday night, with a secret: “I will be an athlete at the next Games.” The sprinter is actually the guide for blind para-athlete Timothy Adolphus.

Together they became silver medalists at the Tokyo 2021 Paralympic Games at a distance of 100 meters (in the T11 category, among athletes suffering from almost complete visual impairment). “Hey gang… 7 years later, Secret History is back and I’m honored to announce my participation,” the athlete posted on his Instagram account. You’re starting to get to know me and I love taking on challenges, well this is one of them and it’s a big one!! “.

Bruno Naprix made the French national team several times in the junior and prospect categories before becoming Timothée Adolphe’s guide in August 2019. “I was still training among the able-bodied and one of the guides, Timothy, came to me to help me. “Ask me, maybe I’m interested,” the champion told us after winning a medal in Japan. I told myself why not. We met a month later, and everything immediately went well. From the very beginning we got along well. »

Seriously injured in a scooter accident in 2022.

Today they train together at INSEP under the guidance of Dimitri Demonier, also in charge of the athletics department at the institution. Timothy Adolphe has three guides in total, including Bruno Naprix. The quartet is completed by Charles Renard and Geoffrey Lamy, which allows the vice-champion of the Paralympic Games to prepare for all scenarios.

“We all prepare in the same way, and only the one who shows the best time with Timothée, and also, depending on his feelings, will participate in the Games,” Charles Renard explained to us in Tignes (Savoie) on the sidelines of the Etoile du Sport in November last year. “It will also take into account the coach’s vision and the physical challenges of each individual,” added Timothy Adolph. We work in such a way that we do not have to synchronize 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… Upon discharge – 20 kg and still recovering,” he described on social networks – Bruno Naprix could not to take part in the World Para-Athletics Championships, organized at the Charlety Stadium (13th arrondissement) in Paris last summer. Timothy Adolphe won two bronze medals in the 100 m with Charles Renard, then in the 400 m with Geoffrey Lamy.