Cycling: Biathlete Emilien Jacquelin Torn Between "Nerve Stress" and "Excitement" for His Professional Debut
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Intern in the Decathlon CMA CGM team for several months, biathlon world champion Émilien Jacquelin transferred to the team during the PolyNormande on Sunday.
The 31-year-old, gold medallist at the Olympic Games in biathlon, will compete on 16 August in his first professional bike race, the Polynormande. 169 kilometers between Avranches and Saint-Martin-de-Landelles in the English Channel.
“Yes, of course,” Jacquelin replied frankly at a press conference when asked if he was nervous. “If I wasn’t nervous, it would mean I wasn’t interested at all.” But “today, on the eve of the race, it’s more excitement” that drives him. “I can’t wait to discover this world I’ve been preparing for for several months,” he explained. At 31, the athlete decided in March to attempt a career change to cycling, a sport he practiced in his youth. A brok…
Six months after his team Olympic champion title in biathlon, Emilien Jacquelin will take part this Sunday in his first professional circuit cycling race with the team Decathlon CMA CGM
French biathlete, multiple world and Olympic relay champion at this year's Games in Milan and Cortina, Emilien Jacquelin impressed in his cycling debut at the La Polynormande race, where he excelled in the role of assistant, even to the point that the sports directors of the Decathlon CMA CGM team had to rein him in. "At one point we told him to wait and stop cycling," said his teammate Paul Lapeira, pleased with the 31-year-old Grenoble native'…
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