Olympic Games 2022
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Silver medal for the quartet composed of Fabien Claude, Emilien Jacquelin, Simon Desthieux and Quentin Fillon Maillet. This is the fifth individual medal for “QFM”, a new record for a Frenchman at the Winter Olympics.
Biathlon will never be an exact science. A rifle can always jam, a burst can blow without being announced or even, worse still, the panic win you when entering the firing line. But with his cap down to his eyes and his appearance of not touching it, Quentin Fillon Maillet transforms the exercise into an art without surprise. Start, finish, medal, podium. Routine. The distance can change, the sky goes from white to blue and the thermometer drops without holding on to the branches (-15° C Tuesday afternoon at the start of the relay), the Frenchman never leaves the good track. A mechanic.
In five races, “QFM” has won five medals. Two in gold, three in silver. Jean-Claude Killy and his hat-trick in alpine skiing at the 1968 Grenoble Games can get dressed. Martin Fourcade can also bow to Quentin Le Grand: the Catalan needed three Winter Games – Vancouver 2010, Sochi 2014 and PyeongChang 2018 – to complete his collection of seven Olympic charms.
Starving Finale
This Tuesday, Quentin Fillon Maillet shared the effort, and a step on the podium, with three other French people. On the menu for the day: the 4×7.5 km relay. The strength of a nation, suggests the middle. Two passages of shooting by torchbearer, lying down then…