Biathlon: when Martin Fourcade takes himself for Édouard Baer in “Mission Cléopâtre”

"You know, I don't think there is a good or a bad situation ..." The famous improvised monologue by Edouard Baer in "Asterix and Obelix: Mission Cleopatra" to discuss his condition as a scribe continues to have many followers . Among them, the French biathlete Martin Fourcade, who won the relay in the Biathlon World Cup on Saturday in Ruhpolding, Germany, with Simon Desthieux, Emilien Jacquelin and Quentin Fillon-Maillet.

After the race, the five-time Olympic champion had fun at the microphone of the L'Equipe channel, well helped by one of his teammates. "Is it a good situation to win the relay before the Worlds? Asked Desthieux. And Fourcade, who “would have dreamed that a journalist asked him this question in his career”, to recite the tirade of Otis in a slightly modified version to adapt it to his “situation” as a successful biathlete.

The first reaction of the French team, victorious at Ruhpolding 💬 # lequipeBIATHLON pic.twitter.com/QjGKmWyLek

“If I had to sum up my life today, it would first be meetings, people who gave me my hand perhaps at a time when I could not, when I was alone at home, and c is rather curious to say that the chances, the meetings, forge a destiny because, when one has the taste of the thing, the thing well done, the beautiful gesture, sometimes one does not find the interlocutor opposite, I would say the person who helps you move forward, "says Martin Fourcade while Emilien Jacquelin, hilarious, hides behind his skis.

VIDEO. Edouard Baer's monologue in "Asterix and Obelix: Cleopatra Mission"

"So it is not my case as I said there because I on the contrary I could, and I say thank you to life, I dance life, I sing life, I am only love", continues the seven-time winner of the big crystal globe. "And finally when many people today say to me:" But how do you manage to have this humanity? ", I answer them very simply:" It is this taste, this taste therefore of love which has pushed today to win a relay with friends and tomorrow who knows how to do it in the world championship ". "

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To find out if Martin Fourcade and the French relay will be covered in gold, go to Östersund, Sweden, in two months (not three).