The cold bites but he burns.
Carried by a flame which allowed him to erase internal obstacles, Quentin Fillon Maillet, last of the musketeers of the men's relay, flies towards the sixth medal of the French biathlon in Beijing.
Flamboyant symbol of a discipline that loves half of the blue collection.
What a long way covered by a sport long reserved for a circle of initiates unable to overflow intimacy when the test of endurance and patience was stuck in the shadow of alpine skiing and big brother cross-country skiing .
A concentration of challenges in which the wind, the cold, the snow and the sun sneak in, at will, which can alter the shooting or the quality of the snow and the glide.
A telegenic soap opera that has slowly but surely established itself as a popular fireside rendezvous.
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