After recalling Thursday by winning the Sprint of November Mesto for the resumption of the World Cup that he always had to count with him, Emilien Jacquelin, rising to the passage on the podium of the general classification, admitted that the break after the Worlds had done him the greatest good but regrets to be lost in wanting to complain about the expectations around him.
Of all the circuit biathletes, Emilien Jacquelin is perhaps the most atypical. And when his rivals feed on their favorite sport, the Grenoblois is paradoxically, perhaps never as strong as when he moves away from it. He proved it again on Thursday by winning the Sprint of November Mesto, the first appointment at the agenda after these Worlds during which the 29-year-old French had experienced many difficulties on the individual level. Once the fifteen of the Lenzerheide is finished, the winner of the first winter sprint has been recovered with his loved ones and made a vacuum in his head, far from this IBU circuit which does not like as much as one might think. “Being in the world of biathlon for five months H24, it does not suit me (…) Biathlon is not life. Having spent time with my friends, to have seen something else, to have seen real life, it allows me to put things into perspective and it allows me to arrive on a site with more energy and to be more focused on the present moment, without wasting energy on the right ”. Result: he signed his second flawlessness of the season on Thursday and offered himself his third victory in the World Cup, to find third place as general.
Jacquelin: “It’s good to get your head out of the water”
Not bad for this eternal champion that many had already buried. The interested party is used to it, just as he still understood Thursday that he should not listen to what he says around him but rely on his instinct. A strategy that has always succeeded. “I sometimes get lost in wanting to do biathlon as others would like me to do it or to target objectives that other people put me,” he said at the microphone of L’Equipe chain. But I will be able to be all the more regular if I remain myself and confident in that I can do and in my choices especially (…) You have to stay focused on yourself, give your maximum. I do it above all for me and to prove something to myself. And thanks to the help of family and friends, I sometimes get my head out of the water. “This was again the case Thursday -” after complicated Worlds, it is good to get their heads out of the water ” – even if the double world champion of the pursuit shortly after his beginnings (” the titles on the prosecution his arrival rather early and especially at the same time as when the great Martin Fourcade stopped his career “) understood that he generates so many expectations that he will always make disappoints.
Jacquelin: “To say Renaissance, it makes me laugh a little …”
“I quickly felt that the wait was quite high and I had trouble with this vision.” Unless … “Even by being third of the general, we will say that I am someone irregular. If I earn the general classification, maybe they will say that I am almost regular ”. In the same way, avoid talking about resurrection in Jacquelin as soon as it shines again. “Saying Renaissance makes me laugh a little, on the one hand, but it’s the game too. “It’s always the same: it’s a question of point of view. We have always expected podiums or winnings (sic) from me. And when we wait a lot, and I first, yes, it can be seen as missed. In any case, he readily signs. “Finish 11th in a Mass Start (at the last Worlds), many biathletes take. And being 4th in the world (3rd now) is already very good. »»
