“We have a lot of means of being on the podium”
Make it during the last World Cup before World championships is not trivial either. France affected the center of the target, reached its goal but also impacted its opponents with this victory. All his opponents.
“Any victory is always good to take, because the unconscious of people works, the general unconscious. It means that it is not that the Koreans who potentially can say to themselves ‘Ah well these guys, they beat us the last time’. It is also ‘these guys defeated the Koreans the last time’, “admits Jean-Charles Valladont who nevertheless nuances this advantage, certain nations which can be transcended by the possibility of bringing down the new French favorites.
Then everything will be different at the world championships, a competition apart in the season of archery.
Everything except one thing: the ambition of the French.
They arrive in Gwanju with the label of favorites, and it is not only for their recent feat against the Republic of Korea. Since the start of the year, the Blue The World Cup podiums are subscribed with a silver medal in Shanghai and a bronze medal in Antalya before their victory in Madrid.
THE Title Olympic Vice-Champions perfectly known after Paris 2024, a regularity that started a few months earlier, with the victory at European Championships 2024.
After “two years to row well, to lose often at the start on the first games”, the French archers broke the European record in qualification and crossed the table with direct elimination without the slightest defeat. Gold medal around the neck on the bus to return to France, they became aware of their ability to look for something at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
And it is now at the 2025 world championships that they know that great things can be done.
“Given what we have done the last three years and over the last three competitions this season, we, the French men’s team, we have largely the means to be on the podium, or even pretend to try to win this competition. In any case, we have that in the head, we say that it is possible. Do not be fooled and say that it will be simple, on the contrary, even, you have to say that anything can happen. […] We have the goal at the head of having nothing to regret and if we get to our level and we have nothing to regret, it will go far and that is what we hope. »»
