My life

I like

- to be right.

- to stroll through the city.

- flowers, especially wild flowers, narcissuses, corn poppies and flowers with big blooms, e.g. sunflowers and clematises.

- the feeling of well-being at the end of a good training session, when your muscles feel tired but your body is just satisfied!

- to listen to people being able to play with words, finding fitting rhymes… poets!

- to watch hip hop dancers.

- to observe street painters (especially those who paint with aerosol cans, that’s magic)!

- if artists use their popularity to spread positive messages.

- chocolate, Nutella, caramel...

- to decorate and renovate my flat.

- the colors of autumn, the hoarfrost of winter, the nature awaking in spring, the sun and flowers in summer.

- Singers: Noah, Grand Corps Malade, Diam’s, Shakira, Renauld, Goldman, De Palmas, Pink, Avril Lavigne…

- Comedians: Jamel Debouse, Gad Elmaleh...

- Movies: The fabulous world of Amelie, Gladiator, Life is beautiful, Lord of the rings, The third twin...

- Comics: Dinosaur, Shrek, Ice Age, Brother bear…

- TV series “Friends”.

- friendship between boys. I somehow like that.

- the temperament of children.

- occurrences uniting people of different generations, different colours of skin and different opinions for an (unfortunately) short moment.

- animals.

I don’t like :

- to be wrong!!!

- large cities, where everything is grey, where people don’t smile and where you are lost in the crowd.

- to wake up from a siesta.

- the negative and old-fashioned image of cross-country skiing still existing in France.

- political debates being hold against each other by people of different parties, people, who always have conflictive opinions without suggesting something workable. It makes me sad, that there is no constructive output, just because they are satisfied to be against each other.

- the distance existing between ourselves and the people governing us. The rules limiting us so that there is no space left for naturalness. „... you above are brilliant holding wonderful speeches, but they sound strange from here. Get down, quickly get down, get down, Mr. President, down here on the ground, on the ground real life is awaiting you. We are all similar here on the ground, average or genius, we are all similar…” NOAH

- people always feeling sorry for themselves.

- soft people, I would really like to shake them up.

- the picture of Frenchmen in foreign countries: those grumblers!!! But unfortunately this is true.

- spiders, uff, I really didn’t like the spiders on Fort Boyard!!! Well, the snakes have been much better!

- sparkling drinks, white and red wine.

- paprika, pimento and spicy food.

- to be in a narrow crevice of a cave.

- the end of big events: the party is over and everybody is leaving. This always makes me a bit sad.

- athletes being doped and the hypocritical system supporting doping, as the Tour de France, for instance.

Should sport still make us dreaming?

Of course, it makes us dreaming because its not possible to shut down emotionally. Well, there are always some liars, frauds, a corrupt system, but there are some empathetic people left as well – they want to fulfil their dreams by fighting against each other with their own physical strengths. Don’t dope! This is like signing an agreement with your clear conscience and with your health. In the end I even prefer to feel pain. I always think it is a good possibility to feel my legs – it’s like being handicapped and dreaming to feel ones legs. I also prefer to be clean and to be able to look at myself in the mirror after having won a race. But some people are weak. They easily become thoughtless and don’t have the chance I have – the chance to be in a sound system, in which nobody is doping and in which there is no force to win.

It is possible to do sports on a very high level without asking too much of yourself. It is enough to be able to assess yourself realistically and to listen to your body if it is getting tired or overtaxed.

Fundamental weakness:
- lack of rigor, stubbornness.

Fundamental strength:
- positive, optimistic.

Most I appreciate at my friends:
- that they make me laugh.

My dream of happiness:
- a smile for the whole world.

Favorite color:
- blue and yellow.

Favorite fiction figure:
- Harry Potter.

Favorite actor / actress:
- Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Jean Reno, Orlando Bloom, Viggo Mortensen, Cameron Diaz and Meg Ryan.

Favorite real personality:
- among those people I like there is no one I would prefer. Everyone has his or her strengths and weaknesses and I don’t know, how I should split it up.

Natural gift you would like to own:
- I’d like to be artistically talented (painter, musician, singer, dancer…), and if it shouldn’t be that, I’d like to be able to climb up trees like a cat.

The fault inspiring the most indulgence to you:
- actions done by jealousy. For me jealousy is nothing more than a sign of lacking self-confidence and of need for recognition. Jealous people are more unhappy than another ones.

My training:

In April we always have a break before training starts in May again. During this period I always do a lot of physical work, jogging, bicycling and roller skiing.

Training camps with the French team started in June again, when we spent 8 days in Obertilliach.
In July we spent 3 days with tests fighting against the clock – on roller ski, pushing and on foot. We also did some shooting tests in the shooting range. These tests take place every year and allow to see my progression. After those tests we went to Notschrei in Germany.

In August we spent 10 days in Bessans to train on high altitude.
In September we participated in a two weeks competition, the Biathlon Summer Tour, in Bessans and on the plateau d’Hotonnes, where I live.
In October we’ll meet in Bessans for 8 days again – there we’ll hope for some snow. The other training camps will be on a glacier near Tignes, where we will ski again.
If I don’t spend time with the team I train on my own, at home in l’Ain on the plateau d’ Hotonnes.

My current coaches are Lionel
Laurent for condition and technique and Bruno Clement for shooting. Pascal Etinne, my coach of the last season, became the coach of the junior team and Christophe Vassallo took over some IBU responsibilities. He is responsible for organizing competitions in France now as well.

My seasonal balance 05/06:

I had great ambitions on the Olympic Games in Turin, but unfortunately I was not able to finish the Games with the success I was hoping for because I was not able to win a medal in an individual competition. So my satisfaction of the last season was the bronze medal I won with the women’s relay team.
Well, I’ve analyzed my results and got a positive-negative-balance. Anyway, the Games belong to history and I’ll concentrate on the new goals of the season 06/07 now.

My goals 06/07:

This season one of my goals are the World Championships taking place in Anterselva in February. There I would really like to win my first title in World Championships, because I like that place and it’s special mountain atmosphere.
I don’t want to risk the World Championships in any case.

My equipment:

Since 2003 I ski on MADSHUS skis and I will continue this collaboration as long as I am satisfied.

I’ve used shoes and bindings of SALOMON from the very beginning. This model is dynamic and fits me very well.

Apart from that I use gloves and sticks of SWIX and ski-glasses of BOLLE.

My other partners:

I will go on representing the department L’AIN (my home area) on my bonnet, and additionally there will be the car producer SUBARU (SUBARU put the car OUTBACK on my deposal).
ODLO is my partner for functional cloths this year.

LA CIAT, the largest enterprise in l’AIN (air conditioners, heat pumps...) is another new partner, who will be represented on my stock.
SIDAS takes care that my soles suit my shoos.
SUUNTO put a heart rate monitor on my deposal so that I’m able to measure and to analyze my training.

Profession:
I’m a competitive athlete and a member of the armed forces. I’m a sergeant at the military school of the high mountains of Chamonix. I represent the army in all competitions and in military ski world championships as well.