Broken sticks Friday, calamitous relay Saturday and waxing problem Sunday, it is little to say that Martin Fourcade lived a weekend without Nove Mesto. Fourteenth at the mass-start on Sunday, the Frenchman carried out the very bad operation in the race for the big globe which he disputed against Johannes Boe (winner on Sunday) and QFM, eighth.
It must have been a somewhat depressed Martin Fourcade who suffered from a "migraine" who spoke to the media after the race. But if he concedes that this waxing error has hurt this French team very much, the biathlete refuses to lay the blame on the French technicians and to dwell on the question. What matters to him is that the race for the big globe is far from dead and buried. Everything will be decided during the last two stages of the World Cup in Finland and Norway (from 12 to 15 and next March 22).
The new general classification:
Virtually:
1. JTBoe 810
2. M.Fourcade 793
3. Q.Fillon Maillet 753 # biathlon #lequipebiathlon #novemesto pic.twitter.com/aMK3LxCBkl
Do you remember such a big crash in waxing?
At this point, no. It's not a good weekend, either mentally, performance-wise or emotionally. I am necessarily disappointed but I will not cry, I have passed the age. It's part of the game, there are times when success is on our side, this weekend it was not the case for me. I hope it will be different next week. We must think about the rest.
Is it even more annoying to see that this problem is beyond your control?
I felt helpless, I did not fight with the same weapons as the others. In these cases we put ourselves in a bubble to try not to think too much because otherwise we come quickly to put the skis and the bib on the edge of the track. We try to limit the breakage, we tell ourselves that it will be a difficult day and that we have to bite the bullet.
How do you see the rest of the season?
Big hiccups like that, it happens once in a career for the France team. I am a little behind Johannes in terms of points, there are two stages of the World Cup, we will have to scrape a few more points than him to hope to win. It will not be easy because I am against an athlete who is very strong. Today was paradoxically one of his worst winter races.
Is Johannes Boe now the big favorite on the big globe?
For me he was already since the Worlds, he scores much more points than Quentin and me on each race. He's a little better than us this season. You have to count on your mistakes because he will make them. It is up to us to seize these opportunities and further raise our level. It's possible. Even if you can't afford this kind of mistake in this type of battle. But I repeat, nothing is done. I was fifteen points ahead, today I'm a few behind. No, it can really be played for nothing. I am on a dynamic of combat but I know that it will be very complicated because my opponent is at an excellent level. But today nothing is played. We are on the same line and it is the one who will achieve the next two best weeks of the World Cup who will win this general.
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