François-Cyrille Grange

François- Cyrille " Bouli " Grange ( born March 11, 1983 in Valloire, Rhône -Alpes ) is a French former alpine skier and current instructors and coaches. He comes from a large Skirennläuferfamile; his mother Annick Levrel and his father Jean -Pierre Grange once belonged to the French national ski team; his younger brother is the successful slalom skier Jean -Baptiste Grange. Born in 1988 Alexia is also active since her early childhood in skiing.

In 1992, he was then eight- year-old junior skiers and fan of Olympique Marseille, together with Michel Platini closing runners at the Olympic torch relay of the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville.

Life and career

François- Cyrille Grange, was born in 1983 as the first son of Annick Levrel and Jean -Pierre Grange, to the national ski team of France belonged in the 1970s in the ski resort of Valloire, where he grew up and today (December 2013) is still living. Like his brother, he was born a year later began even at a very young age his career as a ski racer. Especially Jean -Claude Killy, the French ski racer successful 1960, it was thanks to them that Grange became the torchbearers in the 1992 Olympic Games. This led, together with the then Mayor of Valloire, Cyrille Rol, a great-uncle François- Cyrille Granges, that the then eight-year old enters the torch relay as a cage rotor in appearance. However, this was until recently a well-kept secret that, some did not even know the mother Annick, who brought her son to the Olympic Stadium Théâtre des Cérémonies. He ran at the hand of the " Maestro of French football ", Michel Platini, one into the stadium.

At the successes of his one year younger brother as a skier but he could not connect soon. In the adult area, he brought it later on only two official FIS races in 2000, he had his first appearance here at the Giant Slalom on January 8, 2000 in his hometown, where he finished 21st place with a time of 2:04:45. ; his brother was in the race with a time of 1:56:02 ( 01.84 ) third. A day later took François- Cyrille Grange at the slalom in Valloire part, he finally just finished on the 40th position with 13.61 seconds behind winner Christophe Gilbert. His younger brother was sixth in this race. After Grange took no further official FIS races together more and focused more on his career as a ski instructor and coach. He was, among other things, from January 2001 to April 2010 active at the ski school ESF Valloire, where he established himself primarily as a youth coach. Later he joined the Ski Club de Valloire, in which he (as of December 2013) today is still active.