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Track Worlds: a halftone opening for the French

2020-02-26T21:54:25.096Z


The French speed team took fourth place on Wednesday at the world track cycling championships in Berlin, where the chasers improved their French record in qualifying before collapsing in the next round.


The world speed title was won by the Netherlands, which occasionally broke the world record. They beat him twice and made it go to 41.225 seconds, an increase of more than six tenths compared to the previous mark established in 2013 at altitude. On the French side, the disappointment of fourth place dominated, despite the record for France also beaten twice during the day, and brought to 42.730 seconds by the trio Grégory Baugé, Sébastien Vigier and Melveen Landerneau to reach the match for third place in this Olympic event.

"Breaking the record twice is positive but it is not enough," regretted Vigier, while France had always been on the podium in the World Cups in speed since 2012, except once in 2016. " Race strategy was not good, insisted the French runner, we hoped to do better than that again, frankly, we are a little disappointed but (these French records) bodes well for the future. "

Unhappy lafargue

In the bronze match, Landerneau gave way to Quentin Lafargue credited with a better time in qualifying. Las, the world champion of the kilometer, unhappy, failed to keep the wheel of Vigier and thus lost any chance of medal for the trio of Blues. In team pursuit, another Olympic event, the French have perfectly succeeded in getting started, with a French record in qualification.

Benjamin Thomas, Thomas Denis, Corentin Ermenault and Valentin Tabellion carried the brand to 3 min 49.558 sec, suggesting their potential. Almost two seconds of gain compared to their previous record dating from November 2019. However, they failed to chain two races of this level and completely disunited in the next round against New Zealand, to finish in 3 min 54.124 seconds, very far from their best time. The pursuit finals will be played on Thursday, but the Danish quartet already broke the world record twice on Wednesday to bring it to 3 minutes 46.203 seconds. The good news of the day came from the chasers, who qualified for the Tokyo Olympics (July 24 / August 9).

Olympic ticket validated for French women

The French (Clara Copponi, Valentine Fortin, Coralie Demay and Marie Le Net) had to finish in front of the Belgians to validate their Olympic ticket, which they did for 83 thousandths, taking 9th place. With this 9th place, they are however not qualified for the final table of the Worlds, which will gather Thursday only the 8 best teams.

“We are disappointed with our time because we are capable of much better, said Marie Le Net after the race, but we have just gone to get what we have been looking for since the start of winter (Olympic qualification) , and it's a relief. " "Our qualification comes to erase everything," added her teammate Clara Copponi, also admitting that with a time of 4 min 21.417 sec, more than ten seconds behind the best in qualifications (United States, Great Britain), the team of France was very far from its potential.

In the ladies, the titles of team speed (for the benefit of the German pair Grabosch / Hinze) and the scratch were also awarded. In the non-Olympic scratch, the 37-year-old Dutchwoman Kirsten Wild won the peloton sprint after 10 kilometers. The French Victoire Berteau took 9th place.

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Source: lefigaro

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