Winner of the Tour de France women, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot marked her opponents and observers by a clear weight loss before competition. The subject divides, but the Frenchman assumes.
On the Tour de France women, the strongest won with Pauline Ferrand-Prévot. The leeter too?
While the debate on the weight of the runners was opened during the race by the French Cédrine KerbaolHalf vollering, “pfp” runner -up in the general classification, did not hesitate to deliver her point of view. And indirectly tackle his rival.
“In my eyes, health is essential, explained the Dutchman, victorious of the Tour in 2023. I am proud of my weight and I want to show the example. I hope to be able to win again with my weight and show the girls that it is not necessary to be ultra-thin, that it is enough to believe that with strength and intensive training, we can do it. »»
In this duel, everyone assumes. Larger than Ferrand-Prévot, Vollering is visually less sharpened than the Frenchwoman, to whom she makes a few pounds on the scale. « I could lose weight too, but I don’t want to be extremely thin ”she advocates. While Ferrand-Prévot does not have the same approach. “” The Col de la Madeleine is twenty terminals and every kilo that you have in excess, it is not ideal ”, Explain the tricolor, when she evokes behind the scenes of her preparation.
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, 4 kilos of lost in six weeks?
After working with power at the start of the season, the Olympic mountain bike champion then focused on her weight loss. She clearly melted from the Vuelta in May (see photos below), and the team indicates that it would have abandoned about 4 kilos. With a certain mastery, taken from his preparation for the Olympic Games in particular. “” Now I used to start this diet about six weeks before the goal “,
she explains.
It is a harsh preparation, but Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, once again, does not hide it. “Being a little in the extreme is my way of doing me, a few months when I only dedicate my life to this. It pays, but it’s also really hard. This is also why I cannot do it several times a year … it asks me for so much effort, sacrifices. (…) It’s weird because this rigor of life, I can sometimes hate it. But in reality, this is the thing I love the most. It’s my whole life, cycling. It is a life a little monk but it is there too where I feel best, the most myself. »» Well in his body, well in his head?