Despite a sprint crushed by the Norwegians this Friday in Oslo, the French male biathlon team is guaranteed to end the season with a historic performance. Explanations.
We only saw “Norge”! While the public of Oslo-Holmenkollen was ready to celebrate Johannes Boe,
The darling of Norwegian biathlon responded this Friday by winning the latest sprint in his careerIn front of four of his compatriots, including Sturla Laegreid.
Johannes Boe pockets the little globe of the sprint,
that Emilien Jacquelin still dreamed of before the race. But Isérois sank, with a awful standing shot (4 faults, 5/10 in total), and finished 63rd. Overall, the Blues failed to spoil the Norwegian party. But they haven’t lost everything.
Thanks to the places of honor of Quentin Fillon Maillet (7th), Emilien Claude (9th) and Eric Perrot (13th), France ends in the winter at the top of the Nations Cup. This classification takes into account the best results of the biathletes of each country during different races: the sprint, the individual, the male relay and the mixed relays. The pursuit and the Mass-Start, the number of starters of which are limited, are not taken into account. The final classification is therefore known since this Friday.
Full cardboard (or almost) for the blue!
France wins with 9002 points, ahead of the inevitable Norway (8,842 points). And it is the very first time in the history of French male biathlon that the Blues won this symbolic trophy, which makes it possible to hire the maximum quota of biathletes at the start of the next season, and which offers a financial reward from the International Federation (IBU).
Even in the time of the domination of Martin Fourcade, winner of the big crystal globe seven times, France had never won this Cup nations. It has been seven years in a row that Norway won the bet, without much surprise. Note that the full card is almost total for the blue (e) s, which also won this nations cup in women, in addition to winning small globes in boys and girls. Only the small globe of the mixed relay escaped the tricolor armada.
