The tricolor camp digests this chocolate medal badly.
4th in the mogul ski final on Saturday, Frenchman Benjamin Cavet therefore failed in his quest for an Olympic medal.
An unfair outcome according to the coach of the Blues, Ludovic Didier, who points the finger for the Team at the performance of the Japanese Ikuma Horishima, bronze medalist despite several errors during the final run.
“With all the respect and gratitude I have for Horishima, because he is a magnificent skier, he does not deserve this bronze medal.
On Saturday there was frustration from the race, so I didn't watch the runs right away, but this morning.
And that confirms the feeling: we experienced an injustice on Saturday evening, we cannot go back on it unfortunately.
This is what makes the sadness of the French clan today.
We clearly had an Olympic medal stolen,
The tricolor camp speaks of "incompetence"
In this final, the Japanese was slightly superior in speed and jumping but seemed to lose track on his skis after his first jump.
Horishima will however obtain a better final mark than the Frenchman while the ski technique accounts for 60% of the mark.
“I may turn the problem around in every way, I don't understand,” declares Fabien Bertrand, director of freestyle skiing at the French Ski Federation, stunned.
“Our Olympic medal was stolen by incompetence”, plague the French camp.
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For Ludovic Didier, the investment and the sacrifices made by Ben Cavet so far make the sentence even more bitter.
“Obviously he didn't arrive in the best of moods, his heel bothered him, but he was extremely brave, he did the job.
It makes for an amazing evening.
All the investment all these years that we put in for an Olympic medal which is so rare... It's frustrating to fail in this 4th place when it was worth much better, "he concludes, still for the Team. .
Whatever happens, France will not be able to challenge the judges' decision.