France drops the aces for the Olympic season: here are the teams led by Pinturault, Faivre, Noel and Worley

The SBB has also announced the national selections for alpine skiing, with Simone Del Dio confirmed at the helm of the slalomists who lost the veterans Grange and Lizeroux.

Wednesday 19 May 2021 5 minutes reading time

It was practically the last of the major federations to announce the teams for the 2021/2022 season, and now here is France that will go to the onslaught of the cups, after having brought home the absolute crystal ball with Alexis Pinturault (it hadn't happened since 1997 with the triumph of Luc Alphand), and of the Olympic medals in Beijing. Not only with the 30-year-old from Courchevel, but also with the two world champion Mathieu Faivre, another two-time champion like Tessa Worley and slalom ace Clément Noel, and who knows who else ... Few changes in the staff made official yesterday by the SBB, even if the retreats of Jean-Baptiste Grange and Julien Lizeroux have led Clément Noel and Theo Letitre, the only pure slalomists, to be part of the group of technical disciplines led by Frederic Perrin, even if it will be always Simone Del Dio to guide the specialists of narrow poles. Team A women with Tessa Worley, Clara Direz (expected to return after the thrombosis that made her lose the entire last season), Coralie Frasse Sombet, Laura Gauche, Tiffany Gauthier, Nastasia Noens and Romane Miradoli, who will return after the breakup of the crusader and will be the reference of the speed team. At the men's level, team A includes 12 athletes: with Alexis Pinturault and Clément Noel, here are Mathieu Faivre, Victor Muffat-Jeandet, Thibaut Favrot and the sprinters block with Adrien Theaux, Brice Roger, Nils Allegre, Matthieu Bailet, Maxence Muzaton, Blaise Giezendanner and the eternal Johan Clarey. In team B here are 13 girls: Doriane Escane (who will train with team A), Marion Chevrier, Camille Cerutti, Clarisse Breche, Alizée Dahon, Anouck Errard, Kenza Lacheb, Tea Lamboray, Tifany Roux, Marie Lamure, Caitlin McFarlane, Julia Socquet Dagoreau and Karen Smadja Clement. 21 men, with the slalomist Theo Letitre and a polyvalent element like Cyprien Sarrazin who will be able to train with team A, and then Leo Anguenot, Nils and Sam Alphand, Steven Amiez, Ken Caillot, Augustin Bianchini, Hugo Desgrippes, Guerlain Favre, Adrien Fresquet, Evan Klufts, Florian Loriot, Valentin Giraud Moine, Loevan Parand, Roy Piccard, Diego Orecchioni, Victor Schuller (winner of the European Downhill Cup and with a permanent seat for the specialty CdM), Nicolas Raffort, Paco Rassat and Louis Tuaire . Finally, the youth / junior group, with 10 girls and 8 boys on the staff.

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