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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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