If there is a moment to choose to score points and spirits, it is this last weekend of May for the French triathlon team. This Saturday, the Blues will take part in the WTCS (World Triathlon Championships Series) stage in Cagliari in Italy, the last major Olympic distance event before the Games event.
Above all, this is the last race before the closing of the Olympic ranking and before the announcement of the official selection (3 men and 3 women) for Paris 2024. This will take place on June 5 at 2 p.m., announced this week the French Triathlon Federation.
A stage in which Dorian Coninx, 2023 world champion in the discipline, will not be able to take part. Victim of a bad fall in Yokohama (Japan) two weeks ago during the first race of his season, the Grenoblois suffered a double fracture in his right arm (wrist and elbow) and had to be operated on. He was able to resume training, notably on a home trainer for cycling, but is logically not fit to start the race.
Beaugrand and Le Corre can validate their selection for the Olympics in the event of a top 6
Other tricolors will try to play the leading roles including Léo Bergère, 4th in Japan despite also having a fall on his bike. The 2022 world champion, who confided on social networks that he did not have an ideal preparation due to pain following his fall and an intestinal virus, will meet two of the leaders of the circuit. The British Alex Yee, Olympic runner-up in Tokyo, and the New Zealander Hayden Wilde, third at the last Games, are returning to the circuit. Vincent Luis, 9th in Yokohama after a complicated 2023, will have to score a big blow to show that he has his place in the selection.
Pierre Le Corre, already preselected for the Games thanks to his performances in 2023, can ensure his qualification this Saturday if he finishes in the top 6. The Montpellier native is returning to Sardinia after recovering from a neck injury. arch appeared during winter.
Same challenge among the women for Cassandre Beaugrand, 2nd in the Test Event in Paris last summer, and already preselected. “I trained well so I can’t wait to see what this season will bring,” she indicated in a video shared by one of her sponsors and broadcast this Friday on social networks.
She will be well surrounded among the Blues since Léonie Périault and Emma Lombardi will be present on the starting line. Her teammates launched their season perfectly by finishing 1st and 3rd respectively in the WTCS in Yokohama, a historic result for the French team. A priori, barring a major physical problem, these three should be there at the Olympic Games. We will find them at the start from 11 a.m. this Saturday, the men will leave at 3:15 p.m.
