The French duo was preceded on Sunday by the Norwegians Paal Golberg and Johannes Klaebo and by the Italians Francesco de Fabiani and Federico Pellegrino. They bring to the tricolor delegation its second medal in the competition.
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and two medals for the French delegation at the cross -country ski championships, in Planica, Slovenia. Three days after Jules Chappaz, in bronze on the sprint, individual, Renaud Jay and Richard Jouve seized this Sunday 26 February from the same metal on the team test. The coronation returned to the big Norwegian favorites, Paal Golberg and Johannes Klaebo. The Italians, Francesco de Fabiani and Federico Pellegrino, seize money.
Sixth chrono of qualifying disputed in the morning, the French duo has always played the leading roles in the final behind the Scandinavians. By embarking on his latest relay, Richard Jouve was even already guaranteed to win a podium: Norwegians, Italian and French had distant their rivals, especially Swedish, on the heavy snow of Planica.
But the leader of the French team and winner of the 2021-2022 World Cup from Sprint, who had missed his individual event -eliminated in the quarterfinals -, did not manage to worry Johannes Klaebo, before giving in against Federico Pellegrino. 2>
eight world titles for Klaebo
Richard Jouve, 28, now has two Olympic medals (3 e of teams from the Olympics of the 2018 and 3
Considered one of the best founders in history, Johannes Klaebo, 26, now totals eight world titles – he had already won the individual sprint on Thursday. To which are added five Olympic coronations and three world number 1 globes.