A multiple facets champion

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She has been in the hearts of the French for some time. But since Sunday, August 3, she has been sits at the top of female cycling. Pauline Ferrand-Prévot or the tour de force of a solo victory. The champion is the type in a hurry. She had given herself three years to win. The first time was the right one.

In ambush throughout the event, she won the last two stages, she knew how to avoid falls and contain the attacks of her opponents, to win radiant after almost 1,200 km of racing. “I put the bar really high this year to prepare this Tour de France and it was a lot of sacrifices but I tell myself that I did not do all that for nothing so it is a great victory and it is a great lesson in life too. It will perhaps only happen in my life and I really want to enjoy and savor”Share Pauline Ferrand-Prévot.

Just a year ago in France, but on a much more damaged track, she won Olympic gold in cross-country, after three failures at the Olympic Games. It set itself another objective. “I wanted to change my air. I couldn't see myself going back to a mountain bike cycle. Suddenly, I decided to come back to the road, mainly to go around France”, explains the champion. And the public followed it back on asphalt.

Thirty-six years after Jeannie Longo, a Frenchman finally in yellow. At 10, the Rémoise dreamed of being a boy to go around France. At 33, after this triumph, she should continue, she has more than one tour in her bag.