The Paris Olympic Games, Marion Borras is now sure to go! Thanks to two podiums achieved in the Nations Cup in Milton, Canada in mid-April, qualification is officially acquired for the Iséroise. A journey less strewn with pitfalls than four years ago before the Tokyo Games: “We had to fight until the end to qualify, now we were more serene!“A more favorable situation which takes nothing away, neither from the performance nor from the joy of qualifying for the French pursuit champion”it’s just great.“
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As for all other French athletes, these Games in France will have a particular taste for Marion Borras: “OI’ve heard about it for so long, the Games are already something exceptional, but at home it adds something even more, that little extra.” The native of Pontcharra will take part in the events on the track of the national velodrome of Saint Quentin en Yvelines, a track that she knows well, since it is the training location of the French team.
Intense preparation to get to the top in Paris
On a daily basis, Marion Borras is part of the Saint Michel-Mavic-Auber 93 cycling team, a team with which she continues to run during her Olympic preparation. Races which are added to a busy preparation calendar with the French team which organizes courses on the Saint Quentin en Yvelines track twice a month.
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Another important element of preparation: team cohesion, because among the events that await Marion Borras, some are team-based. “We are lucky to have a group that gets along very well, we were together at the pole in Bourges (Editor’s note – The national youth training center for track cycling), and we are friends even outside of cycling“. A group that moves forward together with excitement and determination.
A status to assume and ambitions displayed
In Tokyo in 2021, Marion Borras only participated in the team pursuit, which she finished in 7th place with her teammates from the French team. This time in Paris, the Iséroise will be competing in three events. The team pursuit again, it involves covering 4 kilometers as quickly as possible, but also the Omnium, an individual discipline made up of 4 short races, and the American. The American, Marion Borras masters since she was crowned European champion earlier this year in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands with his partner Valentine Fortin. A spectacular discipline, a duo relay race over 120 laps during which the two partners pass the relay by hand at full speed.
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Alexis Arades
Since Tokyo, Marion Borras and the French team have made enormous progress, delivering very good performances. Result, ambitions are high : “There are three races, we want three podiums“. A completely realistic objective underlines the Iséroise. “Oshowed that we were there, we are regular, there is everything you need to make it work“. The track cycling events at the Paris Olympics will take place from August 5.
