Tokyo Olympics: Charline Picon will aim for gold on Saturday in windsurfing

Charline Picon has succeeded in part of her objective.

Unless abandoned on Saturday, the windsurfer is guaranteed to win a medal.

It is the ultimate regatta, the “medal race”, contested on Saturday (7:30 am French time) in the waters of Enoshima, which will decide the metal.

“It's a guaranteed medal: it's huge!

We're going to have different conditions on Saturday but I'm hot!

“La Rochelaise, reigning Olympic champion, is already announcing.

In 2016, after gold in Rio, she put her career on hold to give birth to a little Lou.

Charline then left, her daughter sometimes in the luggage, with the ambition to keep her title, which no windsurfer has yet managed to do.

“I fought as best I could,” explains the one who took 3rd, 2nd and 6th places in the races contested on Thursday.

The girls are very fast too, the level is intense.

Now we have to go for the gold on Saturday.

It's going to be tough, but I want to finish in a good medal race.

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Thomas Goyard also well placed

The Frenchwoman is currently four points behind her British competitor and six behind her Chinese opponent.

In the medal race, points count double.

Ten athletes will be at the start.

To keep her Olympic title, the European RSX champion will have to finish three places ahead of Chinese La Yunxiu Lu, two ahead of Briton Emma Wilson.

“Everything is playable, believes Cédric Leroy, one of his coaches.

Mentally, she is very strong!

We will have to manage the recovery well tonight.

No girl has ever done the Olympic double in RSX.

It is the objective.

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At men's,

Thomas Goyard, 2nd in the provisional classification, can hope to win a silver or bronze medal, gold being promised to the Dutchman Kiran Badloe, who can no longer be reached unless he is abandoned during the medal race, also on Saturday (8:30 am French time ).