France unveils for the Olympic Games: 8 women and 10 men, Worley and Pinturault the "captains"

With an additional quota arrived for the men's sector, here is the official status of the transalpine team for Beijing 2022: Muzaton summoned in extremis in the speed team that will count on veteran Clarey.

Tuesday 25 January 2022 3 minutes reading time

The Equipe de France for alpine skiing is presented at the Beijing Olympic Games, with 18 athletes competing on the Chinese snow and the goal of taking home at least one title with top-level peaks. Like Tessa Worley, who after two world giant titles, could crown an extraordinary career with Olympic gold: the specialist from Le Grand Bornand will lead a women's team with eight elements and Coralie Frasse Sombet and Clara Direz at her side in giant, as potentially in the team event. If Nastasia Noens will be the only pure slalomist, in the renewed speed sector, who did very well this season, here is Laura Gauche, Romane Miradoli, Tiffany Gauthier and Camille Cerutti. Ten men instead called up, with Maxence Muzaton called up to the last thanks to the extra altitude obtained: the sprinter will play it in the downhill tests with his colleagues Nils Allegre, Matthieu Bailet, Blaise Giezendanner and the only real certainty, the neo 41 year old Johan Clarey fabulous 2nd and 5th in the two Kitz runs. In the technical disciplines and also in a combined key, here is Alexis Pinturault who aims very strongly for his first Olympic gold, he who was second by a whisker from Marcel Hirscher in the combined PyeongChang 2018, with Mathieu Faivre, Cyprien Sarrazin and Thibaut Favrot for the giant . In slalom, in addition to the absolute crystal ball holder, there will be only Clément Noel, at his second Olympics (he was fourth at a very young age in PyeongChang) and clearly among the big favorites for the title.

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