Biathlon star Julia Simon laboratories on an ankle injury. However, the French woman does not want to be idle and relocates her training to other priorities.
Julia Simon does not let her stowed ankle throw herself out of the track. “I feel physically good, quite fit,” said the biathlete in a press release on Tuesday.
The day before, the 28-year-old announced via her Instagram profile that she injured herself at the end of May. “The leading word of the past few weeks: Adaptation!” She wrote to a picture on which she holds her foot in the camera. This is packed into a rehab shoe. Due to the injury, her “original program was turned upside down”.
The blessing sustained four times the world champion from 2025 during a training run.
Biathlete Simon: “It is a setback that I use”
Nevertheless, Simon wants to make the best of the situation, as she now announced. “I take care of myself, avoid standing and instead ride a bike. My ankle will stay in a special shoe for a few more days.”
The overall World Cup in the pre -season continued: “It is a setback that I use to train differently. The program with the rifle benefits from it.”
Simon also announced that she will travel “as planned” on June 23 with the French women’s national team to the training camp in Prémanon. “My program is also adapted here, but I know that the intensity of preparation will increase again with increasing recovery.”
It was only at the beginning of June in an interview with “La Dauphiné” about her preparatory plans. After a quieter May, in which she was finally able to take a break “and hardly trained, she had traveled to the pre -Olympic training camp with the Équipe.