The French skier finished in a disappointing 23rd place this Sunday at the Beijing Olympics.
A “race to throw in the trash» for Maurice Manificat: the triple French bronze medalist in cross-country skiing, «disappointed» from his 23rd place in the 2022 Olympic Games skiathlon, had a «goldfish crateon Sunday, he told AFP. “I didn’t have a single bit of fun in this race“, delivered the Haut-Savoyard still in search at 35 of an individual medal at the Games. “I suffered completely from the classic (the first 15 kilometers, covered in classic style, editor’s note). I had a crate of goldfish. I couldn’t follow“.
The most medal-winning French cross-country skier is having a complicated season, after a preparation disrupted by pubalgia, he suffered a rib injury and had only competed in two individual races before his debut at the 2022 Olympics on Sunday. “Disrupted preparation pays off at one point or another“, he acknowledged. “Even if the sensations were not bad arrived on the site.»
Manificat hopes that the 30 kilometers of effort will allow him to get back in shape for the rest of his Games: the 50 kilometers on February 19 and before that, if he is selected, the relay next Sunday, for which he is a double medalist of title bronze. “It’s a race to throw in the trash…“, dropped “momo“. “Hoping that it wakes up the body a little, that it gets better. Anyway, it can’t be worse. It didn’t answer“.