Special envoy to Courchevel
"Home Sweet Home."
The expression has never seemed more appropriate than to evoke the feeling experienced by Alexis Pinturault since the start of these world championships.
In Courchevel.
On a track, the Eclipse, only a few hundred meters from Les Peupliers, the hotel he owns with his sister Sandra and his father, Claude.
Not to mention the majestic Annapurna, a magnificent 5-star palace founded in the 1970s by the grandparents of little Alexis, who spent a large part of his childhood there and put on his first skis when he was barely 2 years old.
"At the bottom of the hole"
The whole story of champion Alexis Pinturault began in this very popular resort in the Tarentaise valley.
It therefore seems normal that it is the theater of the rebirth.
A resurrection, even, on the sporting level.
Arrived on land won over to his cause on the tip of his skis, with the measured objective of trying to grab a small medal, the Frenchman became the tube...
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