Biathlon: the Blues’ hat-trick is talked about in the foreign press
“French jubilation in Germany”. It is with these words that our colleagues from SVT Sport qualified the French performance achieved this Friday in the Oberhof Biathlon World Cup sprint (Germany). It must be said that the hat-trick achieved by Quentin Fillon-Maillet, Fabien Claude and Emilien Jacquelin has material to provoke a reaction in the media.
Impressive in today’s sprint, the French have indeed monopolized the first three places available on the box. A historic performance that the Blues have not achieved since March 14, 2020, Martin Fourcade’s farewell day during the Kontiolahti mass start (Finland).
Accustomed to the many all-Norwegian top 3s in recent seasons, Scandinavian journalists have not failed to praise the French performance: “From now on, it is France which leads the circuit”announced Marius Skjelbækexpert for the TV2 channel. “We have to improve to face them in the World Cup”declared for his part Change Stroemsheimonly twenty-second this afternoon.
“He shoots so well!” »the commentator even exclaimed Ola Braenholmcommentator on the SVT Sport microphone, during the standing shot of Quentin Fillon-Maillet. Their Swedish colleagues fromThe Express titled as for them “French domination of the Oberhof sprint”.
A race full of mastery which marked the spirits in the four corners of Europe and who also laid the foundations before the continuation planned for this Saturday and on which the French will once again hope to find “the perfect synthesis”as our colleagues at Italian Fund to evoke the score by Quentin Fillon-Mailletback to world biathlon summit for the first time since March 10, 2022.
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