Always as bitten of athletics, Patrick Montel was present this weekend at the 15km of Puy-en-Velay where he found his former friend with comments on France Télévisions.
At 72, Patrick Montel does not raise his foot. If he announced his retirement in November 2020 after 33 years of career on public service, the old voice of athletics on France Télévisions continues to be passionate about running.
The former teacher thus links the appearances on the races, most often playing the role of the speaker. After being on the 20 kilometers of Maroilles, Thursday 1is May, where his former colleague Marion Rousse was also present, Patrick Montel was thus this Sunday at 15 kilometers from Puy-en-Velay.
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The committed runners had a lot to do in the town of Haute-Loire. The fault of apocalyptic conditions since a hail thunderstorm fell on the participants.
“Dantesques weather conditions for the 15 km of Puy en Velay, rain, thunderstorm and hail!” »»also wrote the former journalist of France 2 on social networks to pay tribute to the runners present.
Reunion, more than ten years after
But this passage through Puy-en-Velay was also the occasion of large reunions with Bernard Faure, who accompanied him for years in the Commentators Cabinet of France TV.
“The last time we commented together was over ten years ago in Moscow”, remembered, moved, the former French marathon champion.
Bernard Faure left France Télévisions in 2014 after commenting on the Moscow World Championships in 2013. This reunion was an opportunity for the former marathonist to give his opinion on the evolution of running in France and in particular on the rise of the trail. “The word is escaped. Trail surprised everyone. It was a return to nature. Everyone goes. Afterwards, one can wonder if you need a bib to run in the wild. Not necessarily. There is no need for a bib to go running in the woods ”,
he said to start.
“Social confrontation is another dimension. Ranking is a socio-cultural conditioning that we have everywhere and I don’t see why the race would escape it,
he continued. From there, it’s the escalation. When you can’t on a given competition to flourish, you say to yourself I will do more because there are fewer people who do it. But it is a total drift because when you see that people pay others to run in their place to appear, it is the extreme aspect of this dimension in what it can have perverts. »»
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