Surrounding yourself with experts

The monitoring of a high-level athlete’s health also involves discussions with experts. But this morning, it's home school! The young women of the French team are welcoming for their weight training session a physiotherapist specializing in GDS muscle chains, a chiropodist and, more surprisingly, a gynecologist. “There's always a way to combine performance with prevention,” explains gynecologist Nathalie Reynaud. “We're going to talk about what is frequently a taboo area. We have to be able to talk about it and it's interesting to take a look at this part of the body.” 
The triathletes then complete a series of breathing exercises to teach them how to take care of a pelvic-perineal area often overlooked by elite athletes. A little later on, the chiropodist and the physiotherapist took advantage of their trip outside their surgeries to talk about the optimum posture to adopt when cycling. It's a way for Stéphanie Deanaz to teach her athletes to become more attuned to their bodies and to gain precious hundredths of a second that can make all the difference in the summer when they’re competing in World Cup events.