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French biathlon facing a resounding divorce

2023-04-24T16:42:09.010Z


INQUIRY – The ousting of the two coaches concluded the lackluster season of a French men's team which must find the men this spring, then the keys to restore its image and its record.


The off-season has never been so good.

To the fatigue dragged by months of exhausting competition was added a rare psychodrama in an environment which is used to washing its dirty linen with the family.

In Bressan, in Savoie, the tricolor biathlon concluded a mixed season on April 2 during the French championships.

Brilliant for the women in the wake of Julia Simon (World Cup overall winner and world pursuit champion) and disappointing for the men, who did not win a World Cup, a first since 1996 -1997 and collected only five individual podiums.

The title of world team champion cannot make us forget the cacophony born of a surprise divorce in mid-March, in Oslo, when Vincent Vittoz and Patrick Favre,

the coaches of the French men's team have announced their departure.

Pushed out by their athletes.

“We had a lot of ideas

(to continue, editor’s note),

but they don’t stick

(with theirs)

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Source: lefigaro

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