The countdown begins. As the Biathlon World Cup season opens this weekend in Östersund (Sweden) with an individual Saturday (3:00 p.m.) and a sprint on Sunday (1:45 p.m.), Emilien Jacquelin must already count the number of days that separates it from the main season deadline: the Beijing Olympics (from February 4 to 20). “
I know what an Olympic title represents,” he tells us. Some athletes have made careers without relief, but they managed to be Olympic champions and we only remember that. And conversely, some have shone for many seasons in the World Cup but they did not win this Olympic gold, suddenly in terms of notoriety it is not that. Nothing beats the Games for a discipline like ours.
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Jacquelin discovered the world of Games four years ago in Pyeongchang.
At 22, for a very modest 77th place in the individual event and a 5th in the men's relay.
But since then, the Grenoblois
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