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The management of UTMB Group met via videoconference on January 23, 2024, with representatives from the Pro Trail Running Association (PTRA) executive office. The management was led by co-founders Catherine and Michel Poletti, CEO Frédéric Lénart, and Elites and Teams Manager Marie Sammons. This conversation, which was started by UTMB number, came about as a result of the private email that Zach Miller and Kilian Jornet wrote to a select number of professional athletes being made public on social media on January 9, 2024.

As an introduction, Zach Miller and Kilian Jornet expressed, in their name as well as in the name of certain elite athletes, their concerns and questions regarding the direction taken by UTMB Group over the last two years through the development of the UTMB World Series, which was launched in 2022.

Zach Miller and Kilian Jornet also clarified:

The private email revealed by the press was not intended to be malicious towards the UTMB, but was intended to open dialogue with professional athletes on the subject of the development of sport, while respecting all of those involved;

This email was not intended to be revealed publicly, through social networks;

They had not called for a boycott of the UTMB, as was wrongly interpreted by some media;

They strongly believe that UTMB had contributed greatly to the development and media profile of the discipline and its athletes over the past 20 years.