Comments for Oriane Bertone's (16) WC silver
"We stay in France for the moment and travel for comps, training camps and outdoor projects. School for them and work for me are impacted by Covid anyway. Their lessons are given remotely, by computer. There is no real difference between doing these lessons by computer in Reunion Island or in France due to the lockdown situation. So we prefer to stay in France in order to avoid travels and to have better conditions for training."
Stefano: How did Oriane prepare for her first World Cup?
Oriane prepared for this WC by participating in selective competitions in France and in training camps with the french senior team in Paris and Voiron. It was hard for her being close to Fontainebleau and not have time to spend on boulders outdoors. The last days before Meiringen she trained at the "Pôle France" in Voiron. There, specific boulder circuits had been created for her. For the rest, she has not changed her training habits. In the end, she wasn't completely ready to endure so much waiting in the isolation zone. She struggled to start her competition in qualifying and to finish it in the final. Her best streak was in the semi-final, where she was not forced to wait for too long. She has to do further progress in her volume of climbing which will allow her to withstand three such intense stages of competition. We will see during the next WC how it progresses.
Oriane: How was it competing with the seniors for the first time?
I had already experienced the atmosphere of a senior competition two years ago in Stuttgart, but I was really young and I didn't have the same interaction with the other competitors. Meiringen was really different. I stayed in the isolation zone for a very long time since I was the last climber to start and I had the opportunity to talk with the other athletes and the ambience was much cooler than I thought :) I didn't see things the same way, and I'm glad I got to experience of the final stages (semis and finals) of a World Cup. The outcome of the competition was incredible, it was hard to tell myself that I belong here, and for almost two days I didn't seem to realize what was happening. Thanks a lot to IFSC, the organisation and the route setters who made that event possible and set these incredible boulders, and evidently the french national team for the incredible support that I had along with the comp. I heard my friends and coaches behind me screaming and supporting me and it gave me wings! More comments on her Insta.
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