Hochfilzen (Austria) (AFP)
Martin Fourcade took the 10th place Friday in the sprint at Hochfilzen and lost his leading position in the overall World Cup biathlon for the benefit of Norwegian Johannes Boe, winner before the French Simon Desthieux.
Fourcade scuttled all chances of victory by committing two fouls in the standing shot, leaving the way open for Boe, who despite a rifle mistake, signed the 40th success of his career ahead of Simon Desthieux and Russia's Alexander Loginov.
This is the second podium of the season for Desthieux, 2nd of the Individual at Ostersund last week.
"It's the perfect sequence," said Desthieux on the Chaîne L'Equipe, "I have no words, it was intense, the season is going well, even better than I would have hoped. site that I like and I have fun. "
Fourcade said he was "angry" and "disappointed" with himself. "There was a way with a single foul to get in and make a good race like Simon did, I'm still in the match for tomorrow (the pursuit on Saturday, ed) but these are precious seconds that have taken off and will be hard to catch up tomorrow, "added the five-time Olympic champion.
The seven-time winner of the big crystal globe, on the other hand, played down the loss of her yellow bib of the World Cup leader.
"It's the game," said the Frenchman, "I was very happy and proud to wear it again and I'm going to fight to get it back, but whoever has it today is not necessarily the one who will have at the end of the season, it does not matter to lose it today. "
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