Chauvet made her breakthrough in the World Cup in the 1987/88 season , when she scored her first points in the slalom in Courmayeur in fifth place and shortly afterwards finished second in Piancavallo and third in Saas-Fee . She took part in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and was 14th in slalom. In the following seasons, she consistently finished in the top ten in her specialty.
Two months before the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville , Chauvet was diagnosed with glandular fever . Nevertheless, she took part in the slalom race in front of her home crowd and surprisingly came in sixth. In the following season she won her first World Cup race, the slalom in Haus im Ennstal on January 24, 1993. In that season she also came third in the Slalom World Cup behind Vreni Schneider and Annelise Coberger .
After the 1997/98 season , in which she could not classify in any race among the top 20 and was eliminated from the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano in slalom, she retired from active ski racing.
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