Martin Fourcade Announces One-Man Show “Hors piste” Retracing His Career as Olympic Biathlon Champion.

The five-time Olympic biathlon champion will take his first steps on stage at the MC2 in Grenoble in a one-man show entitled “Hors piste” in October. Martin Fourcade will tell the backstage of his ten seasons spent at the top of world biathlon.

Martin Fourcade had already told part of his career and his daily life in the biathlon world cup in two books: My dream of gold and snowpublished in 2017 and One last lapas a diary in its final season, released in 2020.

Three years after retiring from sport, the five-time Olympic biathlon champion has decided to move from writing to live performance. He will go solo on the boards for a show in which he “retraces his career as a very high level athlete through intimate stories and confessions behind the scenes of the competition” from next fall, he announced on Wednesday.

In this one man show entitled “Hors piste”, Martin Fourcade “recounts his career with his joys and his sorrows, from his native Pyrenees, and his first steps on skis with his big brother Simon, to the Olympic consecration”describes the press release, promising “an intimate and intense moment”.

The biathlon legend, who has won 83 World Cups, also lived for more than fifteen years in the Vercors, in Villard-de-Lans. And it is also in Isère that he will take his first steps on stage on October 18 and 19 in Grenoble, at the Maison de la Culture (MC2), which produces his show.

Fifteen dates across France are scheduled until March 2024, including two in Paris, on November 9 and 10, at the Théâtre du Rond-Point.

The seven-time winner of the big crystal globe co-wrote the text of this show with Sébastien Deurdilly and also works in collaboration with Parelle Gervasoni for the dramaturgy and Matthieu Cruciani for the staging, specifies the press release.

Eleven times crowned individual world champion, Martin Fourcade has notably become a member of the Athletes’ Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and President of the Paris-2024 Athletes’ Commission since the end of his sports career in 2020.

With AFP.