While the biathlon competition is still on vacation and recovers from last season, a nation dares to start early.
Lou JeanMonnot and Co. obviously do not want to leave anything to chance in the new season. After the 26-year-old bitter finale of the past biathlon season, preparation for the coming winter has started again.
51 days after the epic overall World Cup victory by Franziska Preuß via JeanMonnot in the mass start at Osloer Holmenkollen, the winter break for the French team is over. The starting signal for the 2025/26 Olympic season was given on Monday.
Lou JeanMonnot only failed in the overall World Cup to Franziska Preuss
A very premature start, the coach of France’s men’s selection is also aware of it. “It rarely happens that we do it that way,” said Simon Fourcade and spoke of a “fairly early” time.
Biathlon: “The program is very dense and very full”
It starts with a three -day training camp in Prémanon, in which the foundation stone for the exhausting season is to be laid. “The program is very dense and very full,” said Fourcade.
However, biathlon-specific training is hardly on the program. JeanMonnot coach Cyril Burdet stated that “the athletes to adapt the athletes to the training pollution, which we expect during the preparation”.
France wants to minimize risk of injury
The program stipulates “the body (the athletes, editor’s note) to prepare for the burden that comes later. The plan is to carry out a kind of check-up to see whether everyone is in good shape before the start”.
Ski and rifle will almost not be necessary at all. This should only exist isolated units.
In order to minimize the risk of injury, the focus is on hard work in the weight room. Also present are the A-squads of men and women as well as the B squads of women.