Frédérique had became a regional technical coordinator, finding happiness in knowledge sharing.
As junior team coach, then assistant to national coach Benoît Dupin – who would later become national technical director – she lived the Olympic dream through the prowess of her former pupils.
Individual silver medallist at the Rio 2016 Olympics and three-time Olympian, Jean-Charles Valladont was in her regional team in Franche-Comté and did his first year of Pole France in Dijon, the same year she arrived there.
“He came into my hands, and it was really interesting to train a guy like that, because there were already the beginnings of what he was going to become,” Frédérique recalls. “His way of being, which allowed him to protect himself a little and last so long.”
When Valladont won his silver medal in Brazil, the atmosphere was festive in the Musy family.
“We opened a bottle,” Corinne confides with sparkling eyes.
“I was proud to have participated even a little, in one way or another,” adds Frédérique.
“I told everyone,” Corinne replies in a laughing tone. “Even people who weren’t into archery at all!”
“And Jean-Charles was talking about the fact that he idolised dad,” her sister recalls. “He remembers our father, he admired him. He told me that when he was a kid.”
“It’s great, and it makes you want to continue, to encourage young people to take up archery.”
