In this seventh episode, she details her change of coach and training structure, as well as the doubts that accompany these novelties.

"I started working with my new trainer Walter Lapeyre, between Bordeaux and Paris. It's going pretty well, with a new approach, a new way of working. It's something fresh, which makes me feel good. But it's under construction and I couldn't imagine having in a few months the relationship I had with Laurent Sasso, with whom I worked for ten years.

Usually, the season starts with a big technical block, then we go into competition with this solid base.

But Walter arrived saying to me + technically, I have nothing to teach you +.

So we work more on adaptation, on setting match conditions.

Sometimes there are small technical revisions, but no more.

We create match situations, with scores to be made, by integrating elements of disruption that should not prevent me from succeeding in my gesture.

It's special because normally, the technique is reassuring.

I find it quite interesting, but we will have to see if it is a productive long-term strategy or if we have to go back a bit, find a happy medium.

French shooting champion Martine Lamolle in training on February 15, 2021 in Allauch near Marseille NICOLAS TUCAT AFP / Archives

"Small adjustments"

"I needed time to adapt to find my bearings. Until December, I did not return to Marseille but I realized that I lacked a balance. So I asked Walter if I could sometimes come back at the weekend to see family and friends, then stay three days to work.I like shooting here, with Jean Quiquampoix (Olympic champion in Tokyo, editor's note) and Clément Bessaguet who are Top 5 Worlds. They help me to maintain a high-level approach.In Bordeaux there are many young people and the atmosphere is different, less in a quest for excellence.I was afraid of leaving my quest for high standards and performance.

At the end of December, we saw that my results were not very good.

It made too many changes, new coach, new methods, new framework... We tried to identify the shortcomings and now the results are better.

These are small adjustments that allowed me to find benchmarks and to be efficient."

French shooting champion Martine Lamolle in training on February 15, 2021 in Allauch near Marseille NICOLAS TUCAT AFP

"Always on top"

"This year, there are the Worlds, which are like the Games every four years. This is my priority, with a medal objective, and I also want to keep my title of European champion. There are also four Cups World Cup and I won the first, in Cairo. It's my first victory in the World Cup and it validates my progress.

The objective now is to confirm my level.

So the idea is to score a few more points to have a bit of a margin, be in all the finals and try to enter them by finishing 7th rather than 8th etc.

To achieve this result, these are very fine adjustments.

It's not a question of quantity, but the physical brings something, the mental too, the management of the pressure, the state of form, the day a little less well... There are about fifteen girls who can win and I want to be systematically in the Top 8, always performing on D-Day, always at the top level.

The final objective is Paris-2024.

It's good to have results now but what matters is to be strong at the Games.

I try to tell myself that it's a year of transition and that I have to be patient because things have to fall into place.

I am in a process of work and personal progress before really projecting myself towards 2024. But it will happen super quickly and inevitably, in the corner of my head, the Games are already there.

Interview by Stanislas TOUCHOT

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