At the Biathlon World Cup there are significant scenes between the quarreling colleagues Julia Simon and Justine Braisaz-Bouchet – before the French women celebrate a quadruple success in the sprint. How does the team manage to be so successful despite the trouble?
There they sat, in the seats of the victors, framed by the defeated, like a painting. Press conferences with athletes are not always necessarily worth mentioning. But in this case it was different. The reason was less what the four winners said in their seats, but rather how they grouped themselves there. On the far left sat the four second-placed Norwegians, two men next to two women. On the right, the Swedes had come to the question and answer session in the same order. And in the middle, a fellow countryman named Éric Perrot was crouched between the two winning women from France. So between Julia Simon and Justine Braisaz-Bouchet, who were reminiscent of the female figures in Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon”, a painting of women through whom a break occurs.