Kevin Rolland and Tessa Worley will lead the French delegation at the opening ceremony on Friday February 4 at 1 p.m. The Savoyards were designated, this Wednesday evening, France’s flag bearers for the Beijing Olympics (February 4-20). The announcement was made live on the show all sports on France 3. They succeed Martin Fourcade, flag bearer in 2018. The name of the flag bearer for the Paralympic Games was also revealed this Wednesday evening, it is the Grand-Bornand founder Benjamin Daviet.
Kevin Rolland, the resilient
the freestyler from La Plagne (Savoie) is going to participate in his third Olympic Games in China. Bronze medalist in Sochi in 2014 in the halfpipe, Kevin Rolland has come a long way. In April 2019, the 32-year-old skier tried to break the record for the highest jump in the world from a “quarter pipe” (vertical springboard), but he suffered a very heavy fall. Result: numerous fractures and three days of coma. Three years later, Kevin Rolland will attempt the feat of winning a new Olympic medal on the Chinese halfpipe.
Tessa Worley, the just reward
For the skier from Grand-Bornand (Haute-Savoie), it will also be his third Olympic Games after Vancouver in 2010 and Pyeongchang in 2018. Tessa Worley, 32, missed all her appointments with the Olympics. In 2014, the figure of French alpine skiing had to give up the Olympics because of a ruptured cruciate ligament. In Beijing, “the chip” is aiming for the podium. This World Cup season, the giant slalom specialist won that of Lienz in Austria at the end of December. This week, she signed the 35th podium of her career on the giant Kronplatz.