While the monstrous and insatiable Johannes Klaebo offered a new gold medal, this Thursday with Norway at the Trondheim Worlds on the men’s relay, the French team, 4th as it had already been the case two years ago, still has no medal after a week of competition.
If the French cross -country ski team was aimed before flying to Trondheim (Norway) and these Worlds to make a zero pointed to that of its Alpine ski counterpart a few weeks ago on the side of Saalbach, it seems to be a good part. After a week of competition, the Blues are indeed still waiting for their first podium. A new opportunity on Norwegian snow presented itself Thursday during the male relay, which had seen two years ago in Planica (Slovenia) The tricolors failed just at the foot of the box. An opportunity that our quartet of the day, made up of Rémi Bourdin, Hugo Lapalus, Jules Lapierre and Mathis Desloges, has once again let go while the relay is nevertheless part of the specialties (Editor’s note: six podiums in eight races from the Olympic Games of Sochi) of these French people always at downtime when there are only three days before the end of these Worlds.
If there was nothing to do for the Blues as for their rivals against an untouchable Norway team and led by the extra-terrestrial Johannes Klaebo, winner there of his fifth gold medal of these Worlds (his 14th in career in the appointment, new record) which he disputes at home in five races, Switzerland, 2nd, and Sweden, 3rd, seemed to be, in the same way.
Lapierre: “Like all our championships”
Unfortunately for France, DESLOGES, the last relay, could not keep the pace in the ultimate bump. Like two years earlier, the Blues must therefore be satisfied with the “chocolate medal”, but still not this real medal which continues to be desired. And could even never come, as for alpine skiing in Saalbach last month. “It’s a big disappointment, a big frustration. There was something to do, but it doesn’t happen. This is like all our championships: we are here, we play in front, but this little spark is missing to go get a medal, ”pested Lapierre after the fact (at the microphone of L’Equipe chain), while Alexander Rousselet, for his part, wanted to be optimistic. “We are missing a little something, but we will get there. Hope makes you live, fortunately.
