By Le Figaro with AFP
Posted 10 minutes ago
Marie Bochet.
GEPA pictures/ Mathias Mandl / Gepa / Panoramic
The French skier has definitively ended her career.
French skier Marie Bochet, crowned Paralympic champion eight times, definitively ended her sporting career at the end of the Alpine Para Ski World Cup season on Monday in Italy.
At 30, Marie Bochet is hanging up her skis with one of the finest records in French para sport, including 8 Paralympic titles – acquired in 2014 in Sochi and 2018 in Pyeongchang – 22 world champions and more than 100 World Cup victories. world.
The Savoyard, who competed in her very first Games at the age of 16 in Vancouver (2010) and managed to win at least one gold medal in each of the Para events (Downhill, Super-G, Giant, Slalom and Super-Combined ), had announced last summer that he wanted to take part in his last high-level season before stopping.
In Sella Nevea, in the North-East of Italy, she won her last four World Cup podiums (3 third places, one second).
The last race of his career, a Super-G which was to take place Monday morning, was however canceled for safety reasons according to the International Ski Federation.
“Fin du prom” said the French skier on Instagram, celebrated in a video by members of the French team.
