posted Jan 4th, 2020 - France has two different national teams in the 4-way Women event, as the NSL News explained earlier last year. The French Weembi Girls, 4-way Women world champions of 2018 and one of the best 4-way Open Class teams in the world, have not been competing indoors. The complete lineup posted their last scores at the FAI European Indoor Championship in April 2018, where they won their event with a 32.3 average.

French national coach Mathieu Bernier wants his best 4-way team to focus on winning gold medals in 4-way Women and in 8-way Open at the FAI Outdoor World Meet 2020 in Tanay. He thinks that training and competing at indoor events at the same time would add too much efforts and distraction and could jeopardize the French plan for 2020.

He did not create a separate national indoor team in 4-way Women only for this purpose. In fact, the Nephtys Weembi team began with training and competition before Mathieu Bernier developed the plan for the new "French Mission Impossible".

He succeeded with this part of the plan when Nephtys Weembi won the gold medals for France at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019 at Weembi Lille. New outdoor team member Gaelle Giesen competed in 8-way at the same event, her team mates Sophia Pecout and Christine Malnis in 4-way Open with Weembi High Rollers.

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FAI Indoor World Meet 2019			1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		Total	Avg
Rank	4-way Women		M,K,D,14		Q,4,5		P,E,9,15		3,N,G,2		6,1,8		F,12,11		13,22,J		H,L,B,18		O,20,A,17		21,7,19		Total	Avg
1	Nephtys Weembi	FR	34		27		35		25		23		25		23		33	-1	31		24		280	28.0
2	NFTO	UK	34		26	-1	34		28	-1	23		24		24		34		28	-1	23	-2	278	27.8
3	XPG4	US	34		26		33		24		21	-1	24		24		28	-4	25		23		262	26.2
4	Bubble Hubble	RU	29	-2	25	-2	33		24	-1	22		23		22		31		25		21	-2	255	25.5
5	China	CN	31	-3	26	-1	31		22	-2	23		24		22	-1	30	-3	22	-3	23	-2	254	25.4
6	Team X	SE	26		25		28	-1	24		20		22		23		28	-1	24		23		243	24.3
7	No Mercy	PL	29		22		25	-1	21		19		17	-1	21		23	-5	20	-1	22		219	21.9
8	Skynamite	DE	28	-1	20	-2	26		20		17	-1	17	-2	19		26		18	-2	19	-2	210	21.0
9	Voss Vind Girls	NO	27	-2	22		24	-1	18	-1	18		19		20		23	-1	19	-1	19		209	20.9

Nephtys Weembi and NFTO at the FAI Indoor World Meet 2019 at Weembi Lille

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Nephtys Weembi came recently back to competition action at the Weembinamic 2019, where they finished in 3rd place under the team name "Espoir Weembi Lille". It was not the complete lineup, as Odin Parachute Systems member Maxime Lacourt filled the open 4th slot.

Claire Victoire De Fleurian, Elise Poindron and Jessica Thebault are used to have a different team mate in the 4th slot, while the 3-way have not missed a meet together since they started in October 2018. There was only one exception when Jessica Thebault was injured at the FAI Indoor World Meet last year, and Pamela Lissajoux helped out.

Clementine Le Bohec, reigning outdoor world champion in 4-way Women and 8-way member, has spent most of the time with the three Nephtys. However, she will compete with Weembi Unicorns at the upcoming Wind Games, and Pamela Lissajoux will be back in the Nephtys Weembi lineup.

The Wind Games will be the first competition for this lineup since Jessica Thebault is back in action.

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Wind Games 2019			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Total	Avg
Rank	AAA Class		F,21,6	L,H,22,7	C,8,19	9,D,5	16,N,14	13,20,G	4,N,J,M	11,17,Q	3,O,K,E	A,12,2	Total	Avg
1	NMP-PCH Hayabusa	BE	33	37	31	50	31	26	46	34	39	27	354	35.4
2	Weembi High Rollers	FR	29	33	26	47	31	28	44	32	34	29	333	33.3
3	Arizona Airspeed	US	28	34	28	46	29	25	37	30	31	26	314	31.4
4	Qatar Tigers	QA	31	29	27	39	26	24	39	29	32	24	300	30.0
5	SDC Rhythm XP	US	29	29	23	41	27	26	37	27	35	24	298	29.8
6	Echochamber	SE	25	26	23	37	23	23	35	28	31	26	277	27.7
7	Nephtys Weembi	FR	25	26	21	36	23	21	35	25	31	20	263	26.3
8	NFTO	UK	24	26	25	30	21	19	33	24	30	21	253	25.3
9	Papea Masculino	ES	24	24	22	28	22	21	31	20	28	18	238	23.8
10	Team X	SE	23	23	22	29	21	16	32	22	26	21	235	23.5
11	Voss Vind Girls	NO	19	22	18	27	19	18	27	20	24	19	213	21.3
12	Out of the Blue Project 20+	NL	21	20	19	28	19	17	28	21	23	15	211	21.1
13	Alakran	ES	19	18	20	22	17	16	30	19	22	14	197	19.7
14	Barak	ES	19	21	15	26	19	13	23	17	19	16	188	18.8
15	Só Pressão	BR	21	16	17	21	19	12	25	16	21	17	185	18.5
16	Are We There Yet?	HU	17	21	15	25	19	16	22	14	21	14	184	18.4
17	Les Affranchis	FR	19	17	16	22	17	15	20	15	20	17	178	17.8
18	Windobona Angels	ES	12	19	13	23	15	14	27	17	18	13	171	17.1
19	Papea 1	ES	19	17	16	17	13	16	25	12	19	14	168	16.8
20	Chimera	UK	0	0	0	0	0	18	28	26	27	20	119	11.9

Nephtys Weembi - NFTO at the Wind Games 2019

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British team NFTO will once again be the main opponent for the French team. NFTO had finished only two points behind Nephtys Weembi at the FAI indoor world meet last year, after a 10-point difference a few months earlier at the Wind Games, where Clementine Le Bohec competed for Nephtys Weembi.

NFTO will be launching the 2020 competition season once again with former Satori member Julia Swallow in the lineup. She had also competed for NFTO at the Wind Games last year when Anna Hicks was not available. This time, she steps in for NFTO point Kate Lindsley, once again in the front piece.

As last year, the Wind Games will also provide a preview of the situation before the FAI Indoor World Cup a few months later, where NFTO will probably be back with the complete lineup.

Both teams met each other already during the Weembinamic, as NFTO was training with coach Roy Janssen while the three Nephtys were competing with Maxime Lacourt. Pamela Lissajoux will be back in her slot at the end of the month for the Wind Games.