Sunday 18 March 2007

French Nationals



Next week end will take place in the little city of "Damgan" on the western shore of France in the south of French brittany.Skaters will compete during both days of the week end with an individual TT on saturday, 3k for juniors and 5k for seniors on a very windy circuit.On sunday will be the thoughest race of the week end with a 42k race for junior women, men and senior women and a 70k for senior men on a 4k circuit with very few corners and windy straights.Back from hell after a big crash in sempach in a 2006 and a successfull ice season Tristan Loy the oldest guy of the bunch seems to be once again the one to beat but all the guys from both Powerslide and Matter team are ready for the battle.Pascal which seemed to be the strongest last week in the 50 k of la "Ferté Bernard" seems to be capable to catch the victory as well as the other Ps guys Thomas Boucher,Ewen Fernandez and Alexis Contin just back from the Ice Skating single distance Worlds in Salt Lake City USA.In the women race the winner of 2006 Nathalie Barbotin from the italian based team Alessi-Powerslide-Pierrel is back after spending 5 month in India training in better weather condition than the cold european winter.All the PS guys are ready to go and we should have a pretty good show with all this world class skaters trying to catch the national champion jersey.Lets cross the finger to get good weather conditions, what is not really common in French Brittany more used to rainy days.

Pictures and races report will be online as soon as possible after each race.

GOOD LUCK TOO ALL THE SKATERS BELONGIN TO THE POWERSLIDE FAMILY

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