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Biathlon: Julia Simon was unable to defend her chances until the end during the Kontiolahti relay

This Sunday late afternoon, the French women's biathlon team was heading towards a beautiful and deserved victory during the relay of the Kontiolahti World Cup (Finland). After the good passages from Lou Jeanmonnot, Justine Braisaz-Bouchet and Sophie Chauveau, Julia Simon All he had to do was finish the job.

La Savoyarde being specialized in this field, the end of the race therefore did not inspire concern in the tricolor clan. Except that biathlon remains biathlon and thata surprise quickly arrived.

Standing shootingthe Beaufortaine cracked in an astonishing waygoing so far as to spin on the penalty ring once. Joined by the Swede Elvira Oeberg for the ultimate cross-country ski loop, she was in pain and fell in the big bump of the course, hit in the left calf. If she managed, courageously, to finish in second place, the images were worrying.

Cramp or injury?

“I hope it's just a cramp.” We're going to wait for it to cool down, we're going to do examsshe then announced in the mixed zone at the microphone of The Channel L’Equipe. I already have a little weakness there from having suffered a tear in 2018. I had it in the second lap, I managed to adapt on the skis until this last wall. He's so stiff and demands so much […] that I could no longer be on the front of my foot. It was too painful. »

“We'll have to wait and see what my medical staff will say. We hope it’s just a cramp”then confirmed his coach Cyril Burdet. Response in the next few hours.

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