It's a fair reward that will undoubtedly erase his disappointment at having missed the opportunity to win a sixth medal by a hair's breadth on Friday.
Brilliant during the last two weeks in Beijing, Quentin Fillon Maillet was therefore logically designated this Friday as the flag bearer of the French delegation for the closing ceremony which will take place this Sunday at 1 p.m. (French time).
With his two gold medals (individual and pursuit) and his three silver medals (sprint, relay, mixed relay), the 29-year-old from the Jura took the tricolor delegation to the top by providing (currently) more than a third of its charms total.
If he did not manage to write history on Friday by becoming the first athlete to win six medals by failing at the gates of the podium on the mass-start (4th), Quentin Fillon Maillet is the man of the 2022 Olympics on the tricolor side. .
In Beijing, he entered the history of French sport by collecting 5 medals, which no French athlete had achieved before him at the Winter Games on the same edition.
He succeeds, as flag bearer of the tricolor delegation for a closing ceremony, skater Gabriella Papadakis, designated in Pyeonchang (South Korea) in 2018. By the way, Quentin Fillon Maillet takes up a tradition of tricolor biathlon because Martin Fourcade had , in fact, had this honor in Sochi in 2014 four years after Sandrine Bailly at the Vancouver Olympics.
