MAINTENANCE – In search of a rebound after a complicated season, the French skier spoke at length about his career and his environmental convictions.
While the great white circus is preparing to take over for him by a giant in Sölden (October 23), Alexis Pinturault needed to turn the page of a very complicated last season, without the slightest victory in the World Cup for the first time in ten years. And above all, without a podium at the Beijing Olympics. To exorcise this delicate period, the winner of the large crystal globe in 2021 embarked on the exercise of the autobiography, “From gold to crystal” (Éditions Marabout), where he confides without taboo. A way for him to open a new chapter in his career, at 31, and to talk about subjects that concern him, such as education or ecology.
Alexis, what motivated you to write this book?
Alexis Pinturault: I had been asked for this for several years. At first, I told Romane (his partner) that it was not the time. And then over time, and in particular the complicated last season that I experienced, it is…