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Olympic Games 2022: why Quentin Fillon Maillet can achieve a legendary six out of six

2022-02-17T16:07:58.912Z


DECRYPTION - The biathlete sets off on the mass start with the objective of signing a full card and becoming the most medal-winning athlete at the same Winter Olympics.


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“Why not six out of six?

It must not pass for pretension, but of course I thought about it.

Even if it means breaking records, you might as well raise them.”

So spoke Quentin Fillon Maillet last Monday, before winning the silver medal with the men's relay the next day and bringing his total at the Beijing Games to five podiums (previously first in the individual and pursuit, second in the relay mixed and sprint).

An unprecedented feat in France on a single edition.

Unprecedented also in its discipline, the biathlon.

But which has already been achieved in the history of winter sports by cross-country skiers or speed skaters.

Five, but not six, however.

A mythical barrier that the French could break this Friday during the mass start (10 a.m.).

With very good reasons to believe it.

• He is on cloud nine in Zhangjiakou

Since the start of the Games, Quentin Fillon Maillet has given the impression of being

“on another planet”,

as his roommate imagined…

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Source: lefigaro

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