A first victory for the Blues? The Biathlon World Cup season begins this Saturday, November 30, in Kontiolahti, Finland, with the single mixed relay and the mixed relay. For the mixed relay at 1:15 p.m., the Blues will have the sign, the French management having made the decision to trust the duo Julia Simon and Quentin Fillon Maillet to achieve victory.
Fillon Maillet in search of sensation
At 28 years old, Julia Simon is counting on the experience accumulated during her last two fruitful winters to perform. “I can draw on these last few years which have been very enriching, with a new status to manage, new expectations. I'm trying to tell myself now that I have a bit of a bottle”, explains to theAFP the Savoyard, who “approaches the season quite calmly”.
Five-time Olympic medalist at the Beijing Games in 2022 and crowned world number the same winter, Quentin Fillon Maillet has not experienced the flavor of an individual victory in the World Cup for more than two and a half years (March 2022) .
To the point of having “the impression that it's a bit as if the last two seasons had erased my record, that I was leaving with an empty record and that I had everything to recreate”, he described a few weeks before the resumption.
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Julia Simon will have the task of launching the blue train in the single mixed relay, before handing over to Quentin Fillon Maillet, who must therefore regain some sensations.
Follow the single mixed biathlon relay in Kontiolahti live ⬇️
Biathlon World Cup – Single Mixed Relay
13 h 15
Kontiolahti (Finland)
