About ten days after a brilliant interlude for the French biathlon team during the World Championships in Nove Mesto (Czech Republic), the Biathlon World Cup is back on track and is heading into its home stretch.
The biathletes will set off for a seventh stage in the quest for the big crystal globe, contested on the slopes of Holmenkollen, in Norway.
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Six races will be on the program from Thursday to Sunday, including the last individual races of the winter.
If the French Justine Braisaz-Bouchet and Julia Simon have not yet said their last word in the race for the crystal, local stars Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold and Johannes Thingnes Boe will wear the yellow bib.
Sunday will also take place the last mixed events of the year.
Only one change in the delegation of twelve tricolors in Norway: sidelined during the Worlds, Antonin Guigonnat is returning to a group made up of the same biathletes present in the Czech Republic.
The program for the seventh stage of the World Cup:
Thursday February 29:
individual 15 km ladies (2:15 p.m.).
Friday March 1:
men's individual 20 km (2:15 p.m.).
Saturday March 2:
mass-start 12.5 km ladies (1:20 p.m.), mass-start 15 km men (3:20 p.m.).
Sunday March 3:
single mixed relay (12:45 p.m.), mixed relay (2:45 p.m.).
This stage of the Biathlon World Cup is broadcast on La Chaîne L'Équipe and on Eurosport 1.