14 years later, why will Martin Fourcade win a 6th Olympic gold medal?

In 2010, during the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, the mass start event (mass start) in biathlon is won by the Russian Evgeny Ustyugov, leaving second place and the silver medal to our Frenchman Martin Fourcade. Except that fourteen years later, the ranking has just been modified, offering a sixth Olympic coronation to the French biathlete.

Indeed, in a press release from the Biathlon Integrity Unit, we learn that Evgeny Ustyugov was found guilty of doping and that his appeal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) was rejected, despite the Russian athlete's defense that he has a naturally high hemoglobin level. As a result, all his results between 2010 and 2014 are withdrawn, including this gold medal at the Vancouver Olympics.

Fourteen years later, the Austrian Christoph Sumann won the bronze medal, the Slovak Pavol Hurajt the silver, and good old Martin Fourcade leaves with a sixth Olympic gold medal. Evgeny Ustyugov can still appeal to the Swiss Federal Court, but according to The Teamthe procedure is complicated. If nothing is done, Martin Fourcade will become the only French athlete to have won six gold medals, ahead of Teddy Riner and his five gold medals in judo.