Aurélien Canot, Media365, published on Thursday January 16, 2025 at 9:31 p.m.
Friday afternoon, the third men's relay of the season will be held on the snow of Ruhpolding. The Blues, winners of the first two, will line up a unique quartet with the two Claude brothers, Emilien and Fabien, as first torchbearers. Quentin Fillon Maillet and Emilien Jacquelin will be the two other French people lined up on Friday in Germany.
A unique quartet to attempt the pass of three. Winners of the first two relays of the season, on December 1 in Kontiolahti during the inaugural round of the World Cup and on December 15 in Hochfilzen, the Blues will try to continue their flawless performance on Friday, this time on the snow of Ruhpolding ( Germany) on the occasion of the third winter meeting in the specialty. For the first time this season, the four men lined up to represent the French team will not be Fabien Claude, Quentin Fillon Maillet, Eric Perrot and Emilien Jacquelin, who had achieved the feat during the first two meetings of resisting the terrible Norway of the Boe brothers while Sweden had to settle for third place each time. Perrot, who won the first mass start of the season on December 8 in Finland, beating his compatriot Fillon Maillet, will in fact be left to rest with a view to the third mass start of the winter, scheduled for Sunday (12:30 p.m. ) on the snow of Ruhpolding.
Emilien Claude will open the ball
To replace him alongside Fabien Claude, “QFM” and Jacquelin, who will be reappointed on Friday, the name of Emilien Claude, Fabien's little brother, would have naturally come up in the discussion anyway. History does not say, however, whether the youngest of the Vosges brothers (Florent Claude, aged 33, defends the colors of Belgium) would have won his place (which he certainly deserved) within the quartet if he did not had not been decided to spare Perrot in preparation for Sunday (Editor's note: Saturday, the women's relay will take place). On Thursday, the 25-year-old French biathlete, who had never been on the podium in a World Cup, had indeed made a splash in the individual event by finishing 2nd. Friday, “Mimi” will be the first torchbearer, while her big brother, who started the ball rolling during the first two meetings, will this time take over from his little brother. Fillon Maillet, accustomed this winter to succeeding Fabien Claude, will therefore become third torchbearer, while Jacquelin, winner in Kontiolahti of the first sprint of the season, will be the last French torchbearer. Even unpublished, this quartet certainly has everything to hope for a solid success.
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