Paramotor Magazine
October / November 2009, issue 15
New Paramotor World Champion Michel Carnet is glad he won, but is now quitting international competition for good. He tells Ed Ewing why
So you had fun? The first question is always meant to be an ice-breaker, but in this case, the ice already seems pretty well broken.
“Actually no, it was a very painful championships, not very enjoyable.”
‘Painful’ is not a word you expect to come out of the mouth of a new World Champion, but after two weeks of battle at the sixth Paramotor World Championships in the Czech Republic in August, that is how Michel Carnet condenses his experience.
CIMA competitions, that’s the Worlds and the Europeans, are…” he searches for the right word, “just not very nice.”
“You do it because you want the title, you want to win, because you want the team to win, but they are actually not very nice at all.”
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