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"The world of politics does not attract me, these are not my codes": the secrets of young retiree Martin Fourcade

2020-10-28T17:15:21.751Z


MAJOR INTERVIEW - For “Le Figaro”, the French biathlon legend talks about his end of his career and his reconversion projects on the occasion of the release of his second book.


Three years after the release of his first book *, Martin Fourcade has taken up the pen again to tell the twilight of his career, completed last spring.

Written like a private diary, A last lap (Éditions Marabout) describes the daily life, the doubts, the joys and the frustrations of the former biathlete.

A living legend of his sport on the verge of recovering a 6th Olympic gold medal on the green carpet after the doping conviction of Russian Evgeny Ustyugov, who had beaten him to the Vancouver Olympics in 2010.

LE FIGARO.

- Why release a sort of volume II of your first book?


Martin FOURCADE.

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I do not see it at all as a volume II, which I did not want.

My first book was an exhaustive autobiography whereas in this one, I reveal more my intimacy during a season, my feelings from day to day.

It is this somewhat “therapy” format that I liked.

I was driven by a more personal approach.

Those who vibrated during my last

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Source: lefigaro

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