Lisa Barbelin puts her voice, forged from the same calm that tames her breathing when unchecking her arrows. She weighs each word, as if, more than a year after her bronze medal at the Paris Olympic Games – the 1re In the history of French female archery, the time of introspection had not entirely struck its death knell.
On the scale, even before his words, it is the weight of the metal and expectations that had to be measured. “It was a strong year in emotions and quite difficult to manage for me, in the sense that I had trouble approaching the competitions that followed by leaving this medal on the cupboard, accepting that it was heavier than the others,” rewinds the 25 -year -old Moselle.
“A behavior objective”
In post-Jo limbo, no medal athlete has gone through her new notoriety in the same way. So you have to think, cut, “reinvent yourself” as Barbelin explains. “I got off without really realizing it, I am almost no longer on social networks so it proves this need to come back to me. The Archère designed with media solicitations, sponsors who approach it or leave it – despite the medal – and completed its chemistry license in May. In this profusion, which she combines with a status of marshal of the houses within the national gendarmerie, she readily admits having lost the thread.
But she assures him, these world championships in South Korea mark the first steps of a new Lisa Barbelin. “I am ambitious but I leave with a goal of behavior and not a goal of medal or score. It is by my way of doing things that I will arrive at the highest. My desire for results is to apply what I learned this year, to approach things with more lightness. »»
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Technical work
So she thinks she is. She does not want to forget her disappointments on the outdoor World Cup sleeves in the spring -no individual or team podium -she wants to use it as a weapon on the promised land of the discipline. Competition has been tough: since the start of the 21ste A century, South Korea gleaned 38 titles into individuals and teams on competition. But Lisa Barbelin has not only taken advantage of the past few months to do her psychoanalysis.
Surrounded by Romain Girouille and Jean-Manuel Tizzoni, respectively coaches of the male and female French teams, she says “to have started a new facet of technical work, more picky, which allows me to be more confident with what I do. »»
In continuation of the turn taken by the federation with the arrival in 2022 of the South Korean Oh Seon-Tek, which chapped the Blue (e) s and considered as one of the global laying of archery. With him, less muscle strengthening but more technique. “He brought me a lot to the level of relaxation,” says Barbelin. I have a much more released shot than 2-3 years ago and which allows me to be much more regular in what I do, to repeat the movement better. Now, all you have to do is transpose this learning of itself from the first arrow that it will draw from its quiver in the country of the calm morning. A nickname as a symbol.
▶ The French selection for the world championships : Lisa Barbelin, Amélie Cordeau, Victoria Sébastian in women; Baptiste Addis, Thomas Chirault and Jean-Charles Valladont in men
