Lausanne (AFP)

Alpine skiing, biathlon, ski mountaineering ... Several young Blues burst the screen at the Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne (Switzerland), completed on Wednesday, and sowed promises for the future ...

- Jump: Joséphine Pagnier -

At only 17, the Franc-Comtoise de Chaux-Neuve (Doubs) is already the leader of the French senior ski jumping team, after having scored her first World Cup points at 16 last winter in Prémanon (Jura) and finished several times in the top-20 since then.

On this same springboard at the Jason Lamy-Chappuis stadium, managed by his father, Joséphine Pagnier won silver in individual and bronze in mixed teams during the YOG. It will be followed as soon as the Beijing Games in 2022.

- Ski mountaineering: Margot Ravinel -

Margot Ravinel (17 years old) distinguished herself by winning the bronze in individual then in sprint format, as well as the silver by mixed teams in ski mountaineering, sport which alternates climbs on light skis equipped with sealskin or on foot , skis in the bag when the slope is too steep, then descents.

For the first time on the YOG program, this still confidential sport (38 federations in the world only) dreams of being Olympic in 2026 in Milan and Cortina.

- Biathlon: Mathieu Garcia and Jeanne Richard -

Mathieu Garcia and Jeanne Richard, both 17, impressed individually (3rd for him, 2nd for her) and in teams, winning together the mixed relay in pairs (Mathieu Garcia added bronze in mixed teams of four biathletes) , while their elders are currently blazing at the World Cup.

"They are top athletes but we, we aspire to be like them, we are largely capable of doing what they do in the years to come," Mathieu Garcia said without blinking at the Olympic channel.

- Alpine skiing: Caitlin McFarlane and Auguste Aulnette -

Caitlin McFarlane created the surprise by bringing to France her first medal, in silver on the super-G, while she is a specialist in technical tests.

Wink of fate, the two parents of the teenager (17 years old) are Australian, the nationality of the mother of Tessa Worley, the leader of the French senior team, double world champion of giant.

Auguste Aulnette (17) reported to him in France his only individual title of these YOG on the combined, a big surprise when he was not previously mounted on any podium in FIS racing (the 3rd level of international competition , skimmed by young skiers).

- Snowboard cross: Margaux Herpin -

At only 16 years old, Margaux Herpin bowed with a breath in the final of the snowboard cross against the Australian Josie Baff.

She thus completed a splendid month after having climbed on her first podium of the European Cup (the anteroom of the World Cup) on January 11 in Puy-Saint-Vincent (Hautes-Alpes), finishing 3rd in particular in front of the medalist bronze medalist Chloé Trespeuch.

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