The eight-time Paralympic ski champion Marie Bochet, disappointed after the lackluster Games in Beijing, has decided to continue her career “at least one season” with the aim of the 2023 world championships in Sweden. “I am not satisfied with skiing, competitions and high-level,” the 28-year-old skier admitted on Friday during a videoconference.
In Beijing, Marie Bochet had experienced complicated Games, marked by a fourth place in the giant, a fifth in the super combined and two unfinished races in downhill and slalom. But she had managed to win a silver medal in the super-G, her ninth and last Paralympic medal, while she will not take part in the Paralympic Games in 2026 in Italy.
“I needed to cut and ask myself the right questions” after the Games, detailed the sportswoman, who recognizes with hindsight that “the balance sheet was not so negative”. The Savoyard skier did not want to stop on a fall either, like the one she suffered in Beijing during the slalom. At the Lillehammer Worlds last January, she managed to win two gold medals, a silver and a bronze before injuring her shoulder. She will thus take part in the next Worlds in Sweden alongside a new head coach, Thomas Frey, former coach of the French ski cross team.
