Paris (AFP)
The French Pauline Ferrand-Prévot retained her title of European MTB champion on Sunday in Novi Sad in Serbia, two and a half weeks after her failure at the Olympic Games in Tokyo.
After an hour and a half of racing, Ferrand-Prévot beat the Dutch Anne Terpstra (5th in the Olympic Games in Tokyo) in silver on Sunday and Anne Tauber (11th in Tokyo), bronze medalist for these European Championships.
At 29, "PFP" won his second European title after that won in 2020 in Monteceneri in Switzerland.
She will go in defense of her world title in two weeks in Val di Sole in Italy, she who already has three rainbow jerseys in mountain biking.
“It was a great day for me and I wanted this title more than anything else. I had a tough Olympic race and just wanted to do my best. It was pretty tactical at the start, then I attacked. and I tried to keep my speed, ”commented the Frenchwoman after the race.
At the Olympics-2020 on July 27, she only took 10th place while she was aiming for the Olympic title.
"ALWAYS believe it! ALWAYS get up! ALWAYS prove to some journalists who write / speak without knowing that they are big C ***!", "PFP" wrote on his Instagram account after his run to Novi Sad.
Of the three Swiss women rewarded with a historic treble in Tokyo - in the order of Jolanda Neff, Sina Frei and Linda Indergand - only Indergand was present in Serbia on Sunday, taking 5th place.
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