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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