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"There are a lot of emotions" - UCI boss David Lappartient almost in tears after Pauline Ferrand-Prevot's Olympic victory
Mountain BikeSunday, 28 July 2024 at 23:30
Pauline Ferrand-Prevot finally completed her palmares on Sunday afternoon, getting her hands on the Olympic gold medal after a dominant performance in the women's mountain bike.
UCI boss David Lappartient was keeping a very close eye on the action and as a proud Frenchman aside from his UCI duties, Lappartient admits the sight of Ferrand-Prevot finally getting that elusive Olympic gold medal almost brought him to tears.
"She's a champion who really deserves it. For so many years, she's been chasing this Olympic title. Pauline has won everything, world champion on the road, in mountain biking multiple times, in cyclo-cross, but she had this Olympic dream and that she wins here in Paris, I think it's fabulous," Lappartient says in quotes collected by Cyclism'Actu. "After some failures at the Olympics, to have the strength to get back up... It was her day, she had been focused for 3-4 years, we could see that she had dominated her subject recently and there, there's no comparison, she was a leg above."
"It was perhaps the day when she was under the most pressure, but she learned from her previous failures," the UCI chief continues. "She mastered this enthusiasm, this pressure, and it's not easy, but in the end, today is nothing but happiness. She's a unique athlete. I was at her first French championship in the junior cadet category, which she won in Pont du Fossé at 13 years old, and I remember the president of the regional committee telling me 'you'll see, she'll go far', she's a crack, and he wasn't wrong."
Having known the new Olympic champion for so long, the win really touched Lappartient. "Yes, there are a lot of emotions because we have been following certain athletes for a very long time, since Pauline was 13, so it's been a few years. She has had some tough times, with the federation, we have always been there. And then, there are athletes who move you a little more, she is one of them," he concludes. "When you know that the train only comes back every 4 years... With a failure, you have to get back into an Olympic cycle, so you have to have real strength of character and to follow her for all these years, it's a lot of emotions."
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