French signed a perfect copy on the firing step to afford its fourth medal in four races at the Beijing Olympics, the second in gold.
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Nothing stops Quentin Fillon Maillet! The French biathlete knew, twenty-four hours after winning his third medal in as many races at the Beijing Olympic Games – Gold on the individual and the money in the mixed relay and sprint – he had the opportunity to write a page of history of his sport.
On the Zhangjiakou track, about 200 kilometers north of Beijing on Sunday (February 13th), the world’s leader has behaved in the boss, who is well imposed at the end of the prosecution in front of Norwegian Tarjei Boe and the Russian Eduard Latypov.
He brings to the French delegation the e Medal of these games, the second of the most beautiful of the metals. “Double Olympic Champion!”, He shouted, passing the finish line, before grabbing the blue-white-red flag and becoming the first French to mount four times on the podium during the same edition Olympic. Two biathletes have already succeeded such a feat: the Norwegians Marte Olsbu Roeeland, a few hours before, and the legend of the Ole Einar Björndalen Discipline.
“qfm” even better than his compatriot and recent retired Martin Fourcade, who had returned with three podiums from the Sochi Olympics (gold on the individual and the pursuit, money on the Mass Start) and Pyeongchang games ( Gold on the pursuit, the Mass Start and the mixed relay).
Souls
It is in complicated conditions that the biathletes started their five 2.5 km tracks interspersed with four shooting sequences (lying, lying, standing, standing) – with a penalty tower for each target missed.
If the snow that has fallen on the site for several hours had been a little calmed down, the wind, he had risen. Victorious sprint The day before, the Norwegian Johannes Boe has made it the cost. Party With Twenty-Five Seconds ahead of French – The Results of the Evening event conditioned the order and time differences of the departure of the prosecution – Norwegian has managed to dig the gap in the first two Tours. But gusts have polluted his first shot up.
Balance sheet: Three faults when he had already conceded two in his previous passage on the firing step. He will miss two others before arrival. Despite this 13/20, it ends 5 e from the day to more than two minutes from French.
Cozy socket
“qfm”, did not shake him, despite a coated bushing in his rifle that made him lose precious seconds on the firing step during his second shot. The Jurassian managed to stay in his race. It will even make a perfect copy behind the rifle: 20/20. Italian Lucas Hoffer and he will be the only ones committed to fill up.
The other French aligned, Simon Desthieux, Emilien Jacquelin and Fabien Claude all finished in the top 16 of the day. The first, party 24 e , ends 7 e (17/20); The second retains the e that he had obtained at the sprint (14/20); The last finally, party 21 e , ranks 16 e (13/20).
auspicious before the relay of February 15 and the Mass Start (Grouped Departure) of 18 February, the ultimate test of these games for male biathletes.