The top twenty slots on a World Cup Downhill or Enduro World Series results sheet are often peppered with a healthy number of French riders, and whenever I get a chance to interview French athletes I ask if they have a hunch why that is.
To give a little context, four of the five men’s EWS leaders in 2019 were French, with three Frenchmen on top in 2018, and two atop the women’s elite category for both 2018 and 2019. On the downhill circuit, two French women and two men earned a top-five at the 2018 World Champs race in 2018, and in 2019 the rainbow stripes in both elite fields were awarded to French athletes. There seems to be some special gravity gravy these talented folks have access to.
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