How France Built Two Badminton World Champions: Inside the System Behind a Historic Day in New Delhi
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Another French revolution: How France produced badminton world champions
Alex Lanier, Thom Gicquel, Delphine Delrue and the Popov brothers embody France’s badminton revolution, built over 46 years through clubs, coaching, science and investment. It culminated in two historic BWF World Championships golds in Delhi on Sunday.
Alex Lanier, Thom Gicquel and Delphine Delrue, the Povov brothers... France has many excellent badists, and they start hatching.
These two titles are "the culmination and achievement of work" at the Federation for over 25 years, its president, Franck Laurent, told AFP on Monday. "We are reaping the rewards of a structure that has been gradually put in place," National Technical Director Cyrille Gombrowicz had already observed before the World Championships, referring to the excellent French results over the past several months. Victories on the international circuit, Eur…
ANALYSIS – The world titles won by Alex Lanier in single and the Thom Gicquel-Delphine Delrue pair in mixed doubles confirm the tremendous rise of the discipline.
How France built two badminton world champions: Inside the system behind a historic day in New Delhi
France arrived in New Delhi looking for medals and left with two world titles. Behind the breakthrough is a decade-long effort to build a system capable of producing elite badminton talent.
The Badminton World Championships ended with a historic tricolored double sacre on Sunday, August 23rd in New Delhi. France won its very first world titles with the victories of the duo Delphine Delrue-Thom Gicquel in mixed doubles, followed by Alex Lanier in singles.
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