"I realized that I was missing something human in the goodbye I had been able to do in biathlon", Martin Fourcade tells AFP, as he talks about his upcoming show "Hors Piste" ("off-road skiing"). Foucard, who retired in 2020 and is now president of the Paris 2024 Athletes' Commission and a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), will be on stage across dozen cities in France in the fall. "I think there is more stage fright to go on stage because I have less control of the universe," he says. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES