Again victorious in a relay this season, the French, alone at the top of the classification of the discipline, were logically very happy with their performance after their great victory this Friday at Ruhpolding.
In the women’s relay, the bosses are the French women for the moment! Indeed, after three races this season, the tricolor relay won two races, in Östersund and this Friday in Ruhpolding, and finished the last on the 3rd step of the podium. Before the one scheduled in Beijing during the 2022 Olympic Games, Les Bleues will be entitled to a final rehearsal on January 22 in Antholz-Anterselva (Italy). “Before the race, Paulo (Jean-Paul Giachino, shooting coach) told us “the podium is good, but victory has a special flavor” and he’s right “, recognized Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet, at the end of the race. “The relays are special, because you don’t run just for yourself. The stakes are higher, for her part confided Justine Braisaz. There was a little tension in my heart this morning, but I’m happy with the result. “Last to set off in the Bavarian Alps, Julia Simon was pleased with the very beautiful face displayed by the France team.
“We have a very good French team”
“The girls did a great job. The five girls of group A, we know that if we can turn, there is no weak link, and even the sixth we will see later what it can give. But we have a very good French team “, explained the latter, in remarks collected by L’Equipe. “Contract completed! Looking at the starting list, we saw that there were quite a few favorite girls who weren’t there. After that it’s still biathlon, everything is allowed, everyone is allowed to do great races. We knew that there were maybe a little less than usual on the starting list, but there were some good teams, so it was going through some good races. All along, it was still relatively tight, there were no direct gaps, it proves that in front of us there were strong teams and that we had to do the job, said Chloé Chevalier for her part. , which opened its charts on Friday. (…) We all did the job and the end result pleases the whole team. Now, we want more!
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