Quentin Fillon Maillet won the silver medal in the Biathlon sprint event on Saturday.
After silver in the mixed relay and gold in the individual 20 kilometers, Quentin Fillon Maillet won another medal on Saturday. He finished second in the sprint, just behind Norwegian Johannes Boe. It offers France its seventh medal, the majority of them coming from biathlon, while new races could still bring some charms to the Blues.
Emilien Jacquelin finished in the top 10 while Fabien Claude and Simon Desthieux had more difficulties. “I’m happy with this race. The objective of these Olympics was already fulfilled with a team and individual medal but I am in a very good position to let go of the horses so I approached the race with a lot of desire and I will approach the next ones in the same way. . I am about to write a beautiful page in history, I want to continue,” reacted Quentin Fillon Maillet on France 2 after his race.
France remained on two days without medals. On Friday, the French biathletes missed their sprint, making too many shooting mistakes to hope to compete with the leading trio. A bad deal for them since the sprint defines the starting classification of the pursuit race, which takes place on Sunday.
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