Four races, four podiums: the French team could hardly imagine a better start to the big resumption of the World Cup this weekend in Östersund. After the victory in the women’s relay and second place in the men’s relay on Saturday, Camille Bened and Fabien Claude first took third place in the single relay on Sunday.
And in the process, Eric Perrot, Emilien Jacquelin, Justine Braisaz-Bouchet and Lou Jeanmonnot made a new Marseillaise sound by winning the mixed relay. Enough to allow France to get off to the best start in the World Cup. The turmoil linked to the various affairs which have polluted the French team in recent weeks already seems far away.
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Lou Jeanmonnot, eight months after the terrible epilogue to last season with this fall in the last corner of the last race which cost him the big globe, already seems particularly at ease. This is evidenced by his faultless shooting, despite a radical change in his position in the shooting position.
“She must have trained for hours”
“She makes an Uldal, explained Alexis Boeuf on the set of the Chaîne L’Equipe. It was he (Martin Uldal) who invented this way of removing the rifle from the back. She holds her rifle in her left hand and she goes to grab it with her right hand. And as a result she has to handle her charger with her left hand. When you are not ambidextrous, it forces you to use your left hand which is normally used when you are right-handed to support the rifle. »
“When you are used to putting the charger with your right hand from a very young age, having to do it with your left hand is extremely complicated,” he continued, adding: “She had to practice for hours to succeed. »
