The week ended on a high note for Pauline Ferrand-Prevot last Sunday. The 30-year-old Frenchwoman took part in the mountain bike world championships and after a first gold medal in the short-track event, she did it again by becoming cross-country world champion. An incredible performance for the young woman who now has 8 world championship titles and is still a little more in the legend of her sport. A very good omen two years before the Olympic Games to be held in Paris and during which she should be one of the headliners of the tricolor delegation.
After this superb performance, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot decided to express herself on her Instagram account, where she is very followed with more than 485,000 subscribers. In a long text published a few hours ago, she looks back on this crazy week and this Sunday when she had a lot of trouble falling asleep as the excitement was present. The pretty blonde paints an unfiltered portrait of her life and she notably evokes her “personal problems, which were not originally problems, but which took on a dimension” that the champion would not have imagined. She then explains in more detail the substance of her thinking, specifying that one of the greatest lessons of her career has been to mix professional and personal life.
I think you girls may be bitches, but an upset man’s ego is worse than anything.
For almost six years, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot was in a relationship with another cycling legend, Julien Absalon. The two athletes announced their breakup in September 2021, but the champion is still part of the training created by the 42-year-old former rider, Absolute Absalon-BMC. “I think you girls can be bitches, but an upset man’s ego is worse than anything. And an vexed man will go all the way (so it’s not over haha…)”, loose the native of Reims, without precisely naming this upset man. Is it Julien Absalon?