Thomas Siniecki, Media365: published on Sunday October 6, 2024 at 8:37 p.m.
The cross-country season ended on Sunday in Quebec, an outcome that smiled on the Frenchwoman.
Loana Lecomte, who had hurt the French so much during Paris 2024 with her serious fall and abandonment – while Pauline Ferrand-Prévot flew towards the title – is doing what is necessary to move forward. In Canada, in Mont-Sainte-Anne, the national champion won for the final round of the season, by deposing the Austrian Laura Stigger in the last lap. It is his second victory of the year after Crans-Montana in June, the eleventh of his career in the World Cup in total. She finished fourth overall with 1,205 points, exactly 353 points behind the Swiss Alessandra Keller who won the ranking.
“I was a little scared on the last lap”
“I’m very happy, it was a very long week and I really wanted to finish like this. What a race!” Lecomte had to surprise her opponent, which was not so easy (on Eurosport): “We have been running together since juniors, we know each other by heart and it is always a real pleasure to face her. She was always ahead in juniors, I’m trying to reverse the trend (smile). She was very fast downhill and I was a little scared in the last lap, I wanted to attack in the places where I am best. a little more tired than me at the end and I made the difference.”
At the end of her contract with her Canyon team and a priori on the departure, the 25-year-old Annecy, 2023 world vice-champion and second in this World Cup last year after winning in 2021, definitely has everything to be the worthy heir of Pauline Ferrand-Prévot. “I have even more motivation for 2025, I’m going to rest and write a new story”, this tends to confirm the information from our colleagues regarding a change of team… “I love this job, I absolutely want to continue.” “She was much too strong for me,” concludes Laura Stigger.
