Zhangjiakou (China): The appearance of skiing that stormed helped Quentin Fillon Maillet from France to rise back from two mistakes at the shooting distance when he won the 20km son’s individual gold medal at the Beijing Olympics after a full action race.
The World Cup leader adds gold solo to mixed silver relays that he won on Saturday, with Anton Smolski from Belarus took silver after the perfect shooting and Johannes Norwegian Thingnes Boe bagged bronze.
The bitter wind and bitter black Saturday had disappeared when the race began in the end of the sunlight that was burned that day, with the temperature floating below the freezing when the guide flag fluttered softly in almost perfect shooting conditions.
The BOE comes out the second of 92 racers, which starts at 30 seconds intervals with 20 KM Tangguh ski divided into five rounds and four visits to the range in front of them.
With most climbing at the beginning of the course, there was plenty of time for athletes to reflect on their last misses, as the BOE did with his first competition injection.
Maillet set a starting marker with five perfect hits but then skipped twice, once tended and once stood up, before turning on afterburner to redeem the minute penalty.
Representing the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), Maxim Tsvetkov made the start running but he took his time and skipped his last shot that day, a mistake that made him finally ended fourth and right outside the podium place.
With BOE and Maillet have added two minutes with a punishment, they attacked the trail of the ski wisely, clawing back enough time to make a medal position, with Smolski shooting clean to share it and take silver, 14.8 seconds behind French players.