Paris (AFP)
Perrine Laffont secured this weekend in Deer Valley, United States, a fourth crystal globe of the Mogul World Cup, thanks to a fourth straight victory Thursday and a fifth place Friday in parallel.
Among men, Benjamin Cavet chained two podiums, with a second place Thursday and a third Friday in parallel.
The other Frenchmen entered in the Nordic and acrobatic World Cup have experienced varying fortunes, the cross-country skiers just missing the podiums.
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And four!
With 175 points ahead of her Japanese runner-up Anri Kawamura, Perrine Laffont is sure to win the Mogul Skiing World Cup for the fourth time, with only one event remaining.
She opened the Deer Valley meeting on Thursday with a fourth consecutive victory, the 21st of her career in the World Cup.
The next day, in the parallel event, she was beaten in the quarter-finals and finished 5th.
Unusual for her but enough to remain the queen of the season.
Ben Cavet, he is still in the race for the globe, in 2nd position just 28 points behind Australian Matt Graham, thanks to his two podiums: 2nd place Thursday behind Canadian Mikaël Kingsbury, victorious for his return to competition. .
And a 3rd place thanks to his victory in the small final of the parallel Friday.
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Nordic combined
Laurent Muhlethaler made further progress towards the top on Saturday entering the Top-10, in 7th position after finishing 3rd in the jump thanks to a jump of 138 meters.
On the 10 km cross-country course in Klingenthal (Germany), the French skied with the leading peloton for a very long time, but he broke down when the strong guys started the fight two kilometers from the line, to finish at 28 7/10 sec of German winner Vinzenz Geiger.
He failed to stay at that level on Sunday and had to settle for 29th place in a competition won again by Geiger, after jumping 138.5 meters.
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Cross-country skiing
It didn't go very far for the sprinters during the Swedish stage of Ulricehamm.
On Saturday, Richard Jouve and Richard Chanavat both qualified for the final, but fell short of the podium, respectively in 4th and 5th position in a race won by the Swede Oskar Svensson.
Jouve lost third place in the photo finish, against Italian Federico Pellegrino.
On Sunday, the two men were teamed up for the relay, and they were perfectly on pace to claim a podium when Chanavat crashed in the sprint before the final stint.
Suddenly, he launched Jouve in last position with several seconds behind the peloton and the French team could not do better than 9th place, far behind the Italian winners.
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Ski jumping
On the women's side, Joséphine Pagnier had the best result of her career, with a superb 7th place on Friday on the HS90 springboard in Hinzenbach, Austria.
She did not confirm Saturday and Sunday, finishing 30th then 33rd.
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