Alpine skiing. Team Excoffier launched its season in Annecy with JB Grange as technical director
One month before the resumption of the World Cup in Sölden, Team Excoffier made its comeback during an evening at Moon Beach in Annecy, with all of the association’s partners, the Haut-Savoyard senator Cyril Pellevat, sympathizer of the cause, or Martial Saddier, president of the Departmental Council of Haute-Savoie. All in a friendly atmosphere on the shores of Lake Annecy at the time of a sunset to die for.
A reunion after a Covid-19 pandemic which distanced Excoffier Recyclage from his athletes and from the Cirque Blanc which was played behind closed doors.
For this 2021-2022 season, Excoffier Recyclage is counting on a new-look team. “We are playing the card of youth and the future. This ambition reinforces the vocation of the Excoffier Alpine Team, namely to help young talents to follow in the footsteps of their glorious elders ”explains François Excoffier.
JB Grange: “happy to be able to pass on my experience”
Newcomers can benefit from the experience of a young retiree since the end of last winter, and reconverted into Technical Director of the Team, Jean-Baptiste Grange. “It is a great pride to continue the adventure with the company Excoffier, François and Jean-Philippe. We have always felt that this partnership was shared by all the employees of the company. I am happy to be able to pass on my experience and in particular to support the young people of the team so that they progress The Alpine team of the Excoffier.
“We have boundless admiration for JB Grange, author of an exceptional career and we share the same values. We could not imagine parting like that. He joins his faithful accomplice Steve Missillier, also worthy representative of this 84 generation who has so much vibrates the supports of French skiing “adds François Excoffier.
François Excoffier: “Unlimited admiration for JB”
Around Brice Roger (excused because in internship), Léo Anguenot and Jérémie Lagier (also in internship), already under contract with the recycling company last season, are added the Savoyards Augustin Bianchini, Steven Amiez, and Léo Ducros who cannot be inspired by their elders passed by the team like JB Grange, or the Olympic vice-champion Steve Missillier, or the winner of eight rounds of the World Cup Clément Noël, who finished his contract under the Excoffier colors. “