Retired from the pelotons for nearly seven years, Marion Rousse is nonetheless entitled to training outings that are tough to say the least…
Runner at Lotto Soudal alongside her then husband, Tony Gallopin, part-time employee at the Etampes town hall and recently commentator at Eurosport, Marion Rousse had to make a choice in 2015. But the decision did not ultimately was not difficult to take. At only 24 years old, it was time for her to put an end to her running career. A career that began at the age of 6 and which earned her the title of French champion in 2012, her greatest victory.
“If there’s one thing I don’t like, it’s doing things halfway and it turns out that I felt like I was only halfway riding a bike,” she said. recently recalled for Ouest-France. I worked during the day at Eurosport then, in the evening, I went to train. I finally felt like I was doing two things but doing them wrong. I hate that so much. So I asked myself the right questions.”
Every time I let myself be fooled
Marion Rousse has not cut with cycling, whether in her professional life or in her personal life. Passed to France Télévisions in 2017, where she became one of the most popular personalities in the world of cycling, the Northerner was also named head of the women’s Tour de France last year. And the observation is therefore also valid in her private life since separated from Tony Gallopin, she got into a relationship with Julian Alaphilippe. And nearly seven years after the end of her career, the native of Saint-Saulve still shares a few training outings from the tricolor double world champion. In his defending body.
“He’s the one who always insists that I ride with him. Each time, he makes me the same comedy. He said to me, “I swear I don’t drive fast, come with me.” Every time I get fooled and he drives like crazy. I am fully behind him, I tell him that he is boring and we start again the following week “she said, adding about her relationship with the double tricolor world champion: “You shouldn’t believe that I joined a cyclist because I wanted to stay in the world of cycling. Nor that I did TV because I wanted to stay in that environment. I have a go-getter temperament and I let myself live. »