Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and Loana Lecomte just missed the cross-country medal.
How do you react to this new disappointment on the blue side?
CLAUDE ONESTA.
When hot, it's complicated to do analyzes.
Every competition is different, every sport has its own share of truth.
Failures are not the same.
Of course, when you have two rational medal chances that elude you, you are disappointed.
But even more athletes.
We must try to understand why.
Sport is a constant questioning.
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There is cause for concern about the French results.
How do you analyze the start of the Tokyo Olympics?
For the moment, we do not have all the information to analyze these results.
Yes, it must be said.
We had disappointments, concerning expected athletes.
But on the other side, we had some nice surprises.
This is the magic of the Games.
What explains an exploit?
Nothing, except maybe the right time.
I'm not here to be happy or not.
I try to find fine analyzes, without concession and make decisions so that we progress.
You just have to find the best solutions to progress.
The important thing is to be able to analyze and understand why some worked and others did not.
Especially for the Paris Games in 3 years.
Is the 40-medal goal announced for Tokyo 2021 still achievable?
The nails are yours, not mine.
We are not magicians.
We made a balanced estimate compared to previous Games.
There are a lot of difficulties to foresee compared to the situation of this year.
If we stay on forty medals?
We stay on nothing.
Forty is a target.
This is not a reality.
If there are forty, so much the better, if we have 35, we are not going to stop working.
On the contrary, we will better analyze to understand why some have gone wrong and others improved.
