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Marie

From the first steps to the first medals

gold medals
at the Paralympic Games

gold medals
at the World Championships

victories
at the World Cup

big globes
in the overall World Cup

small globes
of World Cup disciplines

FIRST CRIES

I pushed them on a cool winter morning, that of February 9, 1994, at the maternity hospital in Chambéry.

FIRST STEPS

I made them on Beaufortain land, where my parents are farmers, with my three brothers and sisters.

I started them very early, like a good mountain girl. I put on skis in kindergarten, then I followed in my brother’s footsteps by joining the Saisies sports club at age 5. In 2007 I joined the Arêches-Beaufort ski club. Even though my first ski competitions were with able-bodied people, I joined the Albertville Handisport Club in 2006 when I entered college. Indeed, I was born with a malformation of the left forearm, “agenesis” for connoisseurs.

FIRST VICTORIES

I then entered the big racing scene. First national, with the cups and championships in France, then very quickly European and world. And one beautiful day in 2010, when I was just 16, I found myself at the Paralympic Games in Vancouver. What an experience! I touched the podium with the tip of my spatulas, with fourth place on two occasions… At the height of emotions but at the foot of the podium, I came home with a fixed idea: to train, progress, and go for Gold at the Sochi games in 2014. Today I am one of the best disabled skiers on the world circuit.

AND THE STUDIES?

You understood it, my thing is skiing. Having said that, “a healthy mind in a healthy body”… I work my neurons as much as my thighs! From the sixth grade, I had the chance to enter the ski section of the Beaufortain college, and to take advantage of a schedule arranged for physical training, skiing and competitions. Then, in July 2009, I joined the ski section of the Lycée Jean Moulin in Albertville, a tailor-made center for high-level skiers. I was able to prepare for my baccalaureate in 4 years, with physical preparation sessions every afternoon, and a staggered school calendar to free up winter, from December to April so that I could devote myself completely to skiing during the season. After obtaining my bac ES with honors in June 2013, I focused on my preparation for the Paralympic Games in Sochi in March 2014. I was admitted to Sciences Po Paris to prepare the preparatory certificate adapted for high-level athletes.

trophy haul

FIRST CRY
I pushed them on a cool winter morning, that of February 9, 1994, at the maternity hospital in Chambéry.

FIRST TURNS
I started them very early, like a good mountain girl. I put on skis in kindergarten, then I followed in my brother’s footsteps by joining the Saisies sports club at age 5. In 2007 I joined the Arêches-Beaufort ski club. Even though my first ski competitions were with able-bodied people, I joined the Albertville Handisport Club in 2006 when I entered college. Indeed, I was born with a malformation of the left forearm, “agenesis” for connoisseurs.

FIRST STEPS
I made them on Beaufortain land, where my parents are farmers, with my three brothers and sisters.

FIRST VICTORIES
I then entered the big racing scene. First national, with the cups and championships in France, then very quickly European and world. And one beautiful day in 2010, when I was just 16, I found myself at the Paralympic Games in Vancouver. What an experience! I touched the podium with the tip of my spatulas, with fourth place on two occasions… At the height of emotions but at the foot of the podium, I came home with a fixed idea: to train, progress, and go for Gold at the Sochi games in 2014. Today I am one of the best disabled skiers on the world circuit.

AND THE STUDIES?
You understood it, my thing is skiing. Having said that, “a healthy mind in a healthy body”… I work my neurons as much as my thighs! From the sixth grade, I had the chance to enter the ski section of the Beaufortain college, and to take advantage of a schedule arranged for physical training, skiing and competitions. Then, in July 2009, I joined the ski section of the Lycée Jean Moulin in Albertville, a tailor-made center for high-level skiers. I was able to prepare for my baccalaureate in 4 years, with physical preparation sessions every afternoon, and a staggered school calendar to free up winter, from December to April so that I could devote myself completely to skiing during the season. After obtaining my bac ES with honors in June 2013, I focused on my preparation for the Paralympic Games in Sochi in March 2014. I was admitted to Sciences Po Paris to prepare the preparatory certificate adapted for high-level athletes.