Olympics 2022: Margot Boch writes the history of the bobsleigh in France

What to do when you are a teenager, when you dream of experiencing the Olympic Games in a discipline but no one has ever done it in your country?

Or in other words, how to grow in the absence of a model?

At 22, Margot Boch is the very example that anything is always possible in sport.

Including writing the story yourself by becoming the first woman to take part in it in France.

In monobob first, for the introduction of the event in the Olympic program.

Then in the two-man bob alongside Carla Sénéchal.

To discover

• The Olympic medal table: Norway already in the lead, France unlocks its counter

• Full results of the 2022 Winter Olympics

• The complete program of the Beijing Olympics 2022

Now, if the Savoyard woman could not follow the example of a glorious predecessor - except to draw inspiration from the excellence of our German neighbors in the matter -, her love of the bobsleigh is not the result by chance.

But rather a family tradition, as she told us at the end of November.

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