Biathlon: Savoyard Océane Michelon looks back on her first hours of cross-country skiing this season
For a week now, the French women’s biathlon team has been in altitude training in Ramsau (Austria). While there, in Styria, the French women took the opportunity to put their cross-country skis back on on the snow of the Dachstein glacier. Océane Michelon from Savoie was looking forward to her return with some impatience.
I wanted to get back on the skis,” she explained to Ski Chrono. The preparation is getting long [so] I wanted to get back on the snow during this period when we’re fine-tuning our preparation. Skiing on a glacier requires you to manage the altitude [and] to take this constraint into account when organising the course. It’s something we don’t do very often, [so] it’s a change.
In this column, Océane Michelon also reveals how the on-snow sessions work.
There’s quite a lot of video, particularly during the specific work, and we watch it when we have a moment with Cyril [Burdet],” she says. The transition from ski-wheels to skis is better for me than last year, and I’ve been able to regain my feeling underfoot more quickly, which is great! Shooting is going really well. We’re having quite busy sessions.
Present at the Loop One Festival in Munich on Sunday
So it’s more likely to be in the afternoon that Les Bleues will be firing up their rifles. At the end of the week, the Tricolores will head for Munich (Germany), just two hours away, to take part in the first Loop One Festival.
“It’s always nice to put the number back on, whatever the context, [but also] to meet up with the girls we work with in the winter. We’re still in a period of work, and I’m going to get some reference points so I know where I stand in my preparation. It’s good to know where I stand,” concludes Océane Michelon.
- The men gather at Font-Romeu, the women head to Ramsau to get back in the snow: the French team kicks off its penultimate training camp of the preparation period
- “A really interesting variety of training”: Cyril Burdet outlines the objectives of the French women’s training camp in Ramsau, where they are getting back on skis.
- “She chose to stay with her family for the month of October”: no training camp in Ramsau for Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, currently in Bessans
- One year to the day since her physical problems began, Anaëlle Bondoux tells Nordic Magazine: “It’s been a long time coming and it’s a daily battle to get back to health”.
- The first photos of the French women in training in Ramsau
- The French women’s team put their cross-country skis back on in Ramsau: the photo album of the French stars on the snow of the Dachstein glacier
- Photos from the Ramsau training camp: images of the second morning of training for Les Bleues on the Dachstein glacier, in brilliant sunshine.
- “A further step in my career”: Océane Michelon becomes a gendarme and joins the Army of Champions
