Cross-country skiing: Les Bleus head for Tignes from 8 June
For several years now, the French cross-country skiing team has been holding its first major summer training camp in Tignes (Savoie), on the Grande Motte glacier. This 2025/2026 season, which will culminate in the Milan/Cortina 2026 Olympic Games, is no exception to the rule.
From 8 to 22 June, over a period of three weeks, Les Bleus will be together for the first time this summer in their entirety.
“This big block, with a week more than usual, will kick-start our preparation, Olivier Michaud, director of the French cross-country ski teams, explained to Nordic Magazine. It’s working well over there, so we’re building on that, especially as it allows us to set everything up for the rest of the season.”
Scandinavia this summer
As well as cross-country skiing sessions on the slopes at an altitude of almost 3,000 metres, the gathering in the resort of Tignarde provides an opportunity to plan sessions of running, ski-touring in the surrounding passes, weight training or track and field athletics.
It should be noted that the CNOSF’s pre-Olympic gathering on the Giens peninsula (Var), scheduled for 25-30 May, will open the preparation programme, followed by the Scandinavian summer competitions.
“Blink and Toppidrettsveka are on the programme for the men’s A group. However, it will be more à la carte for the women,” says Olivier Michaud.
The official composition of the French cross-country ski teams for the 2025/2026 season
French women’s A and B teams
- Delphine Claudel – ARMÉE DE CHAMPIONS / La Bressaude Ski Section (Massif des Vosges) 🇫🇷
- Flora Dolci – ARMÉE DE CHAMPIONS / Association Sportive Edelweiss (Alpes Provence) 🇫🇷
- Léna Quintin – ARMÉE DE CHAMPIONS / Ski Club Grand Bornand (Mont Blanc) 🇫🇷
- Mélina Berthet – Vercors Ski de Fond (Dauphiné) 🇫🇷
- Heidi Convard – Club des Sports Courchevel (Savoie) 🇫🇷
- Liv Coupat – Bessat Sport d’Hiver (Forez) 🇫🇷
- Juliette Ducordeau – Club Ski Nordique Villard de Lans (Dauphiné) 🇫🇷
- Justine Gaillard – Ski Amical Méaudrais (Dauphiné) 🇫🇷
- Mélissa Gal – Ski Club Nordique Pays Rochois (Mont Blanc) 🇫🇷
- Cloé Pagnier – Risoux Club Chaux Neuve (Massif Jurassien) 🇫🇷
- Léonie Perry – La Bressaude Ski Section (Massif des Vosges) 🇫🇷
- Julie Pierrel – Ski Club Grand Bornand (Mont Blanc) 🇫🇷
- France Pignot – Ski Club d’Agy St-Sigismond (Mont Blanc) 🇫🇷
- Margot Tirloy – Club des Sports La Clusaz (Mont Blanc) 🇫🇷
France A men’s team
- Rémi Bourdin – POLICE NATIONALE / Ski Club Frasne Drugeon (Massif Jurassien) 🇫🇷
- Lucas Chanavat – ARMÉE DE CHAMPIONS / Ski Club Grand Bornand (Mont Blanc) 🇫🇷
- Jules Chappaz – ARMY OF CHAMPIONS / Club des Sports La Clusaz (Mont Blanc) 🇫🇷
- Mathis Desloges – POLICE NATIONALE / Club Ski Nordique Villard de Lans (Dauphiné) 🇫🇷
- Richard Jouve – ARMÉE DE CHAMPIONS / Club des Sports de Méribel (Savoie) 🇫🇷
- Hugo Lapalus – ARMÉE DE CHAMPIONS / Club des Sports La Clusaz (Mont Blanc) 🇫🇷
- Jules Lapierre – ARMY OF CHAMPIONS / Chartreuse Nordic Skiing (Dauphiné) 🇫🇷
- Victor Lovera – Ski Nordique Chartreuse (Dauphiné) 🇫🇷
- Clément Parisse – DOUANE / Club des Sports Megève (Mont Blanc) 🇫🇷
- Théo Schely – Club des Sports La Clusaz (Mont Blanc) 🇫🇷
France men’s B team
- Mathieu Blanc – Club des Sports de Méribel (Savoie) 🇫🇷
- Victor Cullet Calderini – Club des Sports Les Ménuires (Savoie) 🇫🇷
- Charly Deuffic – Union Sportive Autranaise (Dauphiné) 🇫🇷
- Ivan Essonnier – Club des Sports La Féclaz (Savoie) 🇫🇷
- Milhan Laissus – Club des Sports Les Menuires (Savoie) 🇫🇷
- Romain Vaxelaire – La Bressaude Ski Section (Massif des Vosges) 🇫🇷
- Quentin Viguier – Club des Sports La Clusaz (Mont Blanc) 🇫🇷
Excellence 2030 Group
Ladies
- Gaëtane Breniaux – Prémanon Ski Club (Massif Jurassien) 🇫🇷
- Annette Coupat – Bessat Sports d’Hiver (Forez) 🇫🇷
- Lucile Coutaz – Ski Club de Bozel (Savoie) 🇫🇷
- Agathe Margreither – Haut Jura Ski (Massif Jurassien) 🇫🇷
- Romane Nappey – Ski Club Val de Morteau (Massif Jurassien) 🇫🇷
- Anouchka Neuville – SC Nordique Pays Rochois (Mont Blanc) 🇫🇷
Men
- Jules Bobillier-Chaumont – Club des Skieurs Randonneurs (Massif Jurassien) 🇫🇷
- Johan Calandry – The Dragons of Annecy (Mont Blanc) 🇫🇷
- Gaspard Cottaz – Nordic skiing Oisans (Dauphiné) 🇫🇷
- Victor Lafrasse – Ski Club Grand Bornand (Mont Blanc) 🇫🇷
- Quentin Lespine – Ski Club Grand Bornand (Mont Blanc) 🇫🇷
- The composition of the French national teams for the 2025/2026 season
- Olivier Michaud explains why the decision was made to create a joint French women’s A and B team of fourteen female cross-country skiers: “To create a great sense of competition between the girls”.
- 2025/2026 season: the complete selection of the French men’s A team
- 2025/2026 season: the complete selection of the French women’s A and B teams
- 2025/2026 season: the complete selection of the French men’s B team
- 2025/2026 season: the full selection of the men’s Excellence 2030 group
- Season 2025/2026: the full selection of the women’s Excellence 2030 group
