Members of the Arc club of Nîmes, Victoria Sebastian, Baptiste Addis and Jean-Charles Valladont are fine-tuning their preparation for the Paris Olympic Games in South Korea with the French team.
For nine days now, and for another week, Victoria Sebastian, Baptiste Addis and Jean-Charles Valladont, graduates of the Arc club in Nîmes, have been participating with five other partners from the French team in an internship in South Korea, nation which has dominated world archery for around thirty years.
“The goal of this course is to vary the situations, the environment and the training partners,” explains Olivier Grillat, sports director of the Nîmes club.
Break the routine
The French archers, who have been working at Insep since last September, under the direction of Oh Seon-Tek, South Korean coach, need “to break the routine to keep their enthusiasm and freshness,” continues Olivier Grillat. The ambition of the French team at the Paris Olympics will be to win medals. It should therefore have no complexes. Hence this commando preparation and the interest in working with the best.”
Deadlock on the French championships
The three Nîmes, “in great shape, happy and 100% motivated”, will skip the French Elite and adult championships which will take place at the end of the week (from March 1 to 3) in Mouilleron-le-Captif ( Vendée).
In this national competition, the Nîmes club will be represented by three archers: Anaëlle Florent, Manon Royer and Quentin Soule. The first will compete in Elite, the other two in the over-21 categories.
Victoria Sebastian, Baptiste Addis and Jean-Charles Valladont will return to competition at the end of March by participating in Compiègne, at the regional archery center, in the Grand Prix de l’Arc – Wiawis.
At the French Youth Championship this weekend of February 24 and 25, Nîmoise Estelle Luzet Choteau, who was one of the favorites in the U15 category, was eliminated in the quarter-final by Milhaudoise Kelyne Jaffuel. Victorious 6-2, the latter then fell in the semi-final, beaten 6-2 by Mulhouse’s Lara Gryson who won the title.
2024-02-25 14:30:00
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