“It’s going to be something incredible”
Seeing Florian Rousseau at the top of the Domancy coast, isn’t that common?
It is a myth this coast, I knew it of course, because we remember the performance of Bernard Hinault in 1980 when he was world champion. And then I had the opportunity to do it without electric assistance, it’s very very hard, at least for a pistar.
When did you do it?
It was in 2016, for the Tour stage. To resume his terms, it’s a junk, it’s hard. But it’s going to be extraordinary, it’s a beautiful course and then in a great setting.
Even if it is in two years, is it the big meeting for France of cycling?
Yes, it’s all cycling in fact, so with its 20 disciplines, its 20 world championships, it’s going to be incredible to live this in France, in Haute-Savoie, Mont-Blanc. For the Federation too, it will be something incredible, for athletes and then for fans, for all cycling supporters, of all cyclisms.
“The stake, it is multiple”
And you, with the DTN cap now …
Yes, freshly named DTN of the French Cycling Federation with a lot of enthusiasm and then many things to glimpse, at least for this Olympic cycle.
When you are at the French Cycling Federation and organize super world championships in France, what do you feel, what should you do, what is the issue?
The stake, it is multiple, whether it is already a party and then of course, it is competition, world championships, sporting performance, champions where there will be stories to tell, beautiful stories. It is sport in fact and then sport, it is a source of inspiration, we saw it with the Paris 2024 games, it arouses desires among young people or the not so young and then we see in any case that sport can bring together. We have issues that are mobility, the bicycle is not only the competition. This event may arouse desires to everyone.
The role of DTN is to federate all this cycling?
Yes, cycling with different practices, competitive practices, leisure practices, different forms of cycling and it is the promotion and development of all cycling.
