Crowned alpine combined world champion this Tuesday, February 7 in Courchevel, Alexis Pinturault once again marked the history of French sport. But the 31-year-old skier might not have had the same career without his wife, Romane Faraut.
Alexis Pinturault is back on the front of the stage. And with style: the French skier became this Tuesday, February 7 the new world champion in alpine combined at the end of a dream day on the slopes of the resort of Courchevel. A title acquired in front of his executioner of Cortina, the Austrian Marco Schwarz who had won the bet two years ago, who adorns himself with money (+ 0”10), while his compatriot Raphaël Haaser (+ 0′ ’44) completes the podium.
Officially inducted into the pantheon of French sport, Alexis Pinturault might not be such a great skier without a hassle-free family life. Because as the saying goes, behind every great man, there is a woman. The woman hidden in the shadow of the grand prize list of the double world champion is called Romane Faraut. And the latter is far from staying behind in the career of the 31-year-old skier.
Romane Faraut, the wife of Alexis Pinturault, is also his press officer
While the other skiers of the French team have a federal press officer, Alexis Pinturault has his own press officer: Romane Feraut. The latter is omnipresent for the good of her husband. “Living with Alexis makes a lot of things easier at work. I don’t need to ask him what he wants to do or not. I know him by heart so I can afford to make a lot of decisions alone and do his planning myself without asking him questions first.”she said in an interview with Parisian three years ago.
Born in Nice, Romane Faraut spent a large part of her childhood in the Haute Tinée resort. “As my father was a ski instructor in Auron, for a few years of primary school, I spent the winter in the resort, and the rest of the year at the Bischoffsheim school in Nice”. After primary school, the latter was one of the rising stars of French skiing, but at 21, she decided to stop her career to devote herself to that of her husband. A more than winning duo.