The day after his ballistic demonstration over 500 m, Laurent Dubreuil once again broke the house on the ice of the Gaétan-Boucher ring in the 1000 m, Friday evening.
Posted at 8:56 p.m.
For the first time in his career at sea level, the local hero went below 1 min 8 s. His time of 1 min 7.94 s is faster than the one that won him the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics in February.
“I did not expect to be so fast,” rejoiced Dubreuil, who does not “explain” how he can be in the shape of his life in October after a disastrous resumption of training.
“It was not going well with my back, I had the flu in May too, bronchitis. I had put on a solid seven, eight pounds in the off season… A little cheese… It took a long time to get me going again, but by the time it came back, my back got back in place, it went away. set to go extremely well. »
To be certain of being able to finish his 1000m well, a problem last season, he also did a new exercise in training: climbing half of the 400 steps of the Cap-Blanc staircase, thoroughly, four times. Not to be tried at home…