Marion Rousse became one of the best-known faces of the Tour de France on television. The former runner has made a name for herself with Laurent Jalabert or even journalist and presenter Laurent Luyat, a victim of health concerns, in the audiovisual landscape. And this Sunday, July 24, 2022, she took on a new role for the launch of the Tour de France women, at the Eiffel Tower. For this great first, where 144 runners were on the start line, the companion of Julian Alaphilippe is the great director of the event.
Thirty years after a first attempt, the biggest cycling race in the world is once again available for women, worn by the former champion, who has now become patroness. At 30, Marion Rousse has been waiting for this moment for a year and a half, after Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour de France, entrusted her with the reins. It is dressed in a superb long satin dress, and low-cut, that the mother of little Nino, the fruit of her love with Julian Alaphilippe, caused a sensation in front of the Eiffel Tower, for this long-awaited launch. The France Télévisions consultant has received many congratulatory messages on Instagram.
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“We have as much fun commenting on the girls as the men because there is spectacle and, sportingly speaking, it is coherent“, informed Marion Rousse to franceinfo. […] I’m already receiving CVs from mayors who tell me ‘I’m applying for the women’s Tour de France to come to my town in the next few years!“She is proud to see her sport evolve, she who had to end her career at the age of only 24, for lack of a decent salary, as our colleagues remind us.