Paris 2024 Olympic Games: “In my head, it’s the last chance” for qualification, explains Kevin Mayer

For Mayer, the Olympics are now or never. MAXPPP – ERIC LALMAND

The Montpellier native, double Olympic decathlon vice-champion, approaches the European Athletics Championships with qualifying for the Olympics in mind.

Kevin Mayer, double Olympic decathlon vice-champion, approaches the European Athletics Championships in Rome as "the last chance&quot ; to qualify for the Paris Olympic Games in less than two months, he explained on Friday.

"In my head, this is the last chance" to qualify for the Paris Games, he described. "I no longer want to be in the mood to say to myself: There are still decathlons afterwards…, d  rsquo;having to struggle, having to travel, etc." Mayer, not yet qualified for the 2024 Olympics since he hasn't come anymore at the end of a decathlon since July 2022, has repeatedly delayed his attempt at Olympic qualification.

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He first gave up on starting in mid-December 2023 in Brisbane (Australia), then he said stop during the high jump, fourth of ten decathlon events, end March in San Diego, California.

Deadline June 30

"I'm not a pro at qualifying (Olympic), I have always struggled to qualify. But it’s a box that I have to go through", added the double world champion (2017 and 2022). "I I always feel when it's going to happen and there, I have the impression of feeling it", he estimated. The deadline to achieve the Olympic minimums, set at 8 460 points, is June 30 

"These are the European Championships, I only want one thing, it’s one. blowing up the track to be completely honest, Mayer smiled. But every five seconds, I repeat to myself minimum, minimum, minimum. Even if I have never been European champion, that is not the goal this year." "The goal is going to be to slow me down throughout this decathlon, he continued. I am capable of doing a decathlon at 200 % (in one season), but not two decathlons at 200  %."