Some will say that only a handful of sports can covet so many Olympic medals at once.
Still, the feat would be immense.
Quentin Fillon Maillet still has to compete in three races at the Beijing Olympics: the pursuit this Sunday (from 11:45 a.m. in France), the men's relay on Tuesday (10 a.m.) and the mass start on Friday (10 a.m.).
If he still climbs on the box in one of these three events, the Jura player will become the first Frenchman to win four metals in a single edition of the Winter Games.
As a reminder, so far in China, he has twice won silver in the mixed relay last Saturday and in the sprint this Saturday, and gold on Thursday in the individual.
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While waiting for his next performances, there are now five of them with three medals around their necks in a single fortnight.
The oldest is called Henri Oreiller, winner of the downhill and the combined in Saint-Moritz (Switzerland) in 1948, and bronze in the slalom.
Twenty years later, Jean-Claude Killy repeats the feat and does even better with three titles in Grenoble (giant, downhill, slalom).
In 2018, Martin Fourcade also triumphed three times (pursuit, mass start, mixed relay) while Anaïs Bescond, still in biathlon, won two bronze medals (pursuit, relay) and one silver (mixed relay) in South Korea.
In number of accumulated medals, Fourcade has no equivalent with seven charms.
Behind Marie Dorin-Habert (four, two in 2010 and two in 2018), then, tied with three podiums, are many athletes: alpine skiers Henri Oreiller (1948), Jean-Claude Killy (1968), Marielle Goitschel (1964, 1968), and Franck Piccard (1988, 1992), biathletes Quentin Fillon Maillet (2021), Anaïs Bescond (2019) and Anne Briand-Bouthiaux (1992, 1994) and the figure skater duo Pierre Brunet and Andrée Joly (1924, 1928, 1932).
