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The debut in Soelden, but with the sights on the first slalom in mid-December in Val d''Isère. The French phenomenon talks about his season: "I will do the parallel in Lech, then training in Sweden and for the specialty cup ...".
Sunday 31 October 2021 3 minutes reading time
Three consecutive second places in the final standings of the Slalom World Cup, the desire to conquer that throne that everyone has been predicting for a couple of years now, he who has already won eight specialty races and has just touched the Olympic medal 20 years old, fourth (4 cents from the bronze) in PyeongChang 2018, and with the aim of achieving this goal at the next Beijing Games.
Many dreams for Clément Noel, who opened his season in Soelden last Sunday, making his debut on the Rettenbach in a discipline not his own: 44th in his seventh giant in CdM, with the awareness that we still need to go a long way to be competitive even among wide doors. During the week, the phenomenal 24-year-old from Transalpine spoke at a Dynastar event in Grenoble; speaking to his colleagues at Ski Chrono, he said he was “satisfied for the first in Soelden in terms of progression in this specialty, but it is a long-term project because I would like to run regularly in two disciplines.
There will be other opportunities to be seized as well as a giant ".
Noel will have to wait until the weekend of 11-12 December for his first "real" weekend, with the technical races on his home snow in Val d''Isère, but the parallel of Lech will also be at the start next November 14th. "Yes, now I will train in Tignes (from this weekend, ed) and, after the Austrian race, we will go to Sweden to work on slalom and giant in Kabdalis - added the native of Remiremont - I want to complete the preparation and have the ideal confidence right from the first slalom.
The goal is to win races or get on the podium, but at the same time I have to gain consistency, being more solid and making fewer mistakes ”. Only in this way will he be able to fulfill the dream of the specialty cup, then in Beijing it will be necessary to shoot ... everything.
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