“This year, I want to experience good times and I think that the good times I will experience will happen in France,” said Jeanne Richard has Olympics.com at the start of the season.
The Frenchwoman could actually have experienced the cruelest moment of her winter this Sunday, December 22 at Annecy – Le Grand Bornand. While his first podium in World Cup stretched out her arms to her, she was preceded by Paulina Batovska-Fialkova at the photo finish. The biathlete from Les Gets, who was even in the lead after the first standing shot of the day, was still third at the start of the final straight. She ultimately had to settle for fourth place, just a tenth of a second behind the Slovak.
They crossed the finish line 35 seconds later Selina Grotian who won in 38 min 35 s 4. The 20-year-old biathlete obtained her first World Cup victory, and even her first podium, by winning 12.7 s ahead of her compatriot Franziska Preuss. The biathlete at the top of the general classification scored a sixth consecutive individual podium to give Germany a double.
France is still the nation most represented in the top 10 of this race thanks to Julia Simon (6e) et Océane Michelon (8e).
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