“This fall will haunt my nightmares”. Jeanmonnot reflects on her painful defeat to Preuss

Yesterday witnessed one of the most thrilling conclusions of the season in the history of biathlon: Lou Jeanmonnot lost the Big Crystal Globe due to a fall just before the final turn to the finish. The Frenchwoman does not hide her disappointment.

Details: As Jeanmonnot herself recounted, she didn't have enough of an advantage in that turn to overtake Franziska Preuss, and the German took full advantage. In fact, it was her own fall.

Quote: “I wanted to attack on the last climb, thinking I had enough of an advantage to lead through the turn, and the idea was to make it very tight because it was so long that every extra meter matters and is very challenging to execute. So I wanted to take the tight turn, but unfortunately, on the penultimate straight, I didn't have enough of an advantage to make it tight.

Therefore, Franziska closed the gap, as anyone would, and I would have done the same if I were in her position. Then I placed my pole on the ski, she did nothing wrong, it was all about my handling. And at that moment, I fell. I think this fall will haunt my nightmares for a few days because it doesn't reflect the season we both had.

Until today, everything was great, the competition was good and clean. Today, on the other hand, it's not that it was an unclean race, but it's not the way we wanted to end the season.”