Anterselva (Italy) (AFP)

Six days after her fantastic comeback from Oberhof, Julia Simon reproduced the same scenario on Saturday in Anterselva to offer herself with panache a second consecutive mass start in the Biathlon World Cup.

The Frenchwoman is definitely the queen of suspense.

Last Sunday in Germany, she had already achieved a small miracle by managing to win despite three shooting errors and at the cost of one last crazy lap on the track.

She did exactly the same thing in Italy, disgusting her rivals who believed her already out of the race before the incredible outcome.

But you should never bury Julia Simon too early.

Only tenth at the start of the final passage behind the rifle, the Frenchwoman emerged as at Oberhof with a supersonic standing shot, while taking advantage of the general failure of the leading biathletes.

She then put pressure on the skis to eventually outrun the Austrian Lisa-Theresa Hauser (3rd) and then settle the Swedish Hanna Oeberg in the sprint, signing the third success of her career and the second of the season in spectacular fashion.

- Find the regularity -

"I made three faults like last week, the last round is hung like last week, on the other hand there is nothing to see in the way, she declared. My shots are much more constructed, that me comfort in my work and I am much happier today. The race, I went to look for it, it is a great pride. "

Twice in less than a week, the biathlete from Les Saisies (24 years old) has shown phenomenal strength of character and power on the skis.

Too bad this potential is often wasted by a chronic lack of consistency.

Just before her Oberhof feat, she had only taken 59th place in the sprint and two days ago she left the Individual of Anterselva in a pitiful 62nd position.

An incessant yo-yo that she will absolutely have to get rid of if she wants to aim higher in the future and one day join the fight for the general classification in which she occupies only eleventh place, far from the leader, the Norwegian Marte -Olsbu Roeiseland.

"I miss the shooting performance, it's something that I will have to find and manage to put in place. Maybe it will be at the Worlds (February 10-22 in Pokljuka)" , she explained.

In the meantime, here we are in the lead in the race for the small globe of the mass start with this second consecutive victory in this specialty.

"As long as I have the red bib (leader of the mass start, editor's note), I will fight in each race. But to think only of the jersey, it would be adding pressure", she said warned.

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