Pauline Ferrand-Prévot has a strong character, that of a champion who knows both how to bounce back from a failure and respond to her detractors. Thus, on Sunday, on her Instagram account, the quadruple individual mountain bike world champion published this message, following her European title won a couple of hours earlier. “
ALWAYS believe it! ALWAYS get up! ALWAYS prove to some journalists who write / speak without knowing that they are big C ***!
», She wrote in response to the many criticisms of which she was the target after her 10th place at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
After an hour and a half of racing, Ferrand-Prévot beat the Dutch Anne Terpstra (5th in the Olympic Games in Tokyo) in silver on Sunday and Anne Tauber (11th in Tokyo), bronze medalist for these European Championships. A clear victory, more than a minute ahead (1'19 '' to be precise) over her runner-up, which she built thanks to an irresistible acceleration at the halfway point. At 29, “
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” won his second European title after that won in 2020 in Monteceneri in Switzerland. She will go in defense of her world title in two weeks in Val di Sole in Italy, she who already has three rainbow jerseys in mountain biking. "
It was a great day for me and I wanted this title more than anything else. I had a tough Olympic race and just wanted to do my best. It was quite tactical at the start, then I attacked and tried to keep my speed,
”commented the Frenchwoman after the race. Of the three Swiss women rewarded with a historic treble in Tokyo - in the order of Jolanda Neff, Sina Frei and Linda Indergand - only Indergand was present in Serbia on Sunday, taking 5th place.
