Virginie Phulpin 07:24, February 14, 2022
Every day, the morning of Europe 1 returns to one of the sporting events which makes the news.
This Monday, she is interested in the French successes which have sunny this sporting weekend.
Our ice dancers Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron won the gold medal this morning in Beijing. With gold also for Quentin Fillon-Maillet yesterday in biathlon, plus the victory of the XV of France against Ireland on Saturday, French athletes made our heart beat this weekend.
When it comes to putting on a great show and wowing the world, you know, the Americans are second to none.
Those who stayed up to watch the Super Bowl last night know this.
But everyone has their specialty.
We in France, we have this incomparable romanticism, the one that capsizes hearts even on the sports fields.
A gold medal hung around the neck of our couple of ice dancers in the early hours of this nascent February 14, who can answer that?
Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron didn't miss their meeting, they made us capsize.
This title that had escaped them 4 years ago for a recalcitrant piece of fabric is now theirs.
These two are as much artists as sportsmen.
And they don't just compete, they mark the history of their sport.
Not only because they broke the world record this morning, but also and above all because they dusted off ice dancing ruthlessly, with commitment and eclecticism, whether to the rhythm of Gabriel Fauré, like this morning, or of John Legend like during the rhythm dance two days ago.
These two work like hell, but as soon as they enter the rink, we forget the work to see only the grace and the audacity.
They do crazy good at ice dancing, let it be said.
The guarantors of a flashback.
These two work like hell, but as soon as they enter the rink, we forget the work to see only the grace and the audacity.
They do crazy good at ice dancing, let it be said.
The guarantors of a flashback.
These two work like hell, but as soon as they enter the rink, we forget the work to see only the grace and the audacity.
They do crazy good at ice dancing, let it be said.
The guarantors of a flashback.
There is also the flame that does not go out, that of French biathlon.
And it was Quentin Fillon-Maillet who took over the torch from Martin Fourcade.
Today he is more than a worthy successor.
In Beijing, he has definitely come out of the shadow of his glorious elder to take on all the light.
4 medals in the same games.
No French athlete, among the able-bodied, had achieved such a feat since 1924… Quentin Fillon-Maillet is our Olympic thunderbolt.
The one that amazes us today and promises us tomorrows that still sing the Marseillaise.
The tomorrows which sing, it is also what one can imagine by seeing playing the XV of France.
The victory against Ireland on Saturday showed us that beating the All Blacks in the fall was not a holiday love, a short-lived bluff, but more surely the beginning of a beautiful story.
These Blues have seductive flashes like in the first half, but they also know how to bow down when things go wrong like in the second.
And today, they are the only ones able to achieve the grand slam in this Six Nations Tournament.
The only suitors.