Enoshima (Japan) (AFP)

Olympic champion in return after a maternity break, windsurfer Charline Picon finished Wednesday in the second place of the test-event, organized in Enoshima, on the site of the Olympics 2020, offering France its best performance of the day.

Picon, who gave birth to a little girl in September 2017, closed her 5 days of competitions in Japan with a victory in the final round - Wednesday (medal race).

"The week has been beautiful overall, I'm happy to take the money this year, which augurs well for the future," says AFP, who only thinks of one thing: Tokyo Games in a year.

"In terms of emotion, here it remains the test-event, it's not the Games, it's sure that I think about it, everything is already planned from the beginning, Tokyo is in my head every Today, it was a question of marking my territory, of putting myself in confidence, of seeing what I must continue to work for next year, but when I am here, it is already next year ", she continues.

Picon, ahead in RS: X ladies by the Chinese Yunxiu Lu, is the only Blue has already been assured to go to the Olympics 2020. All other athletes must wait for the announcement of the selection at the end of April.

Thomas Goyard (RS: X Gentlemen) is one of three contenders for the Olympic ticket and finished fifth after committing a foul at the start when he was convincing in qualifying.

Chinese Mengfan Gao won the test-event.

In 49er, the pair ladies Lili Sebesi / Albane Dubois was 8th, as the duo gentlemen, Mathieu Frei / Noé Delpech. In Nacra 17, Quentin Delapierre and Manon Audinet finish 9th.

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