To get off his machine, supported by two charitable souls, or to get up there on the podium, his face was still distorted by pain. It then took several minutes before he was able to walk normally again, just walk again. “I don’t remember ever being in such a state,” smiled Étienne Oliviero, always a little stunned in the interview area.
By the incredibly violent effort he had just made, and by the XXL performance that resulted from it. Above the rest on this same velodrome, at the end of October, during the France de l’Avenir championships where he won four blue-white-red jerseys (including the one for the kilometer, of course) in a row against young people of his age , the sprinter from Bignan (Morbihan) “hit” the big guys in front of his family in the torture test of the kilometer.
“World-class performance”
“I wasn’t really expecting it. When I see my time (1’00”883 against 1’01”575 his previous record), in addition… Before the start, I was just thinking about the podium”, whispered the licensee of OC Locminé, student at Pole France de Bourges and which inaugurated its new yellow-fluo colors, those of Créteil Kronos.
The feat of the first day was (almost) expected: European junior champion in the specialty last year, the very muscular Étienne Oliviero. A gifted man, a track cracker. “I had heard of him before. His performance, frankly, is world-class! At my age, I was not capable of that,” underlined Florian Rousseau, Olympic champion in the specialty in 1996.
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