Julia Simon won by a hair against Anna Oeberg during the Antholz mass-start on Saturday.

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Marco BERTORELLO / AFP

Julia Simon, queen of the mass-start and the anthology of remembrances.

For the second time in two weeks, after her first victory over the Oberhof mass-start, the French biathlete gave us a fiery finish on Saturday to win by a hair (25 hundredths difference!) At Antholz in front of the Swedish Hanna Oeberg.

She even entered the history of French biathlon by becoming the first Frenchwoman to win two career mass-starts.

Arriving only in ninth position during the last shot after having nibbled three balls on his first fifteen shots, Simon came back to titillate the leading group by slamming a supersonic 5/5.

Before getting everyone to agree to skiing as soon as the slope has climbed.

To believe that the skier of Les Saisies needs to drool over it to be able to give the best of herself.

"I didn't want to be the joke, I wanted to put them in the hard", she explained after the race.

A good margin of progression in shooting

It must be said that in mass-start, the Frenchwoman is in her element, she who is never better than when there is a fight on the skis, which the individual races do not allow her to do. .

“It's a race that I like.

I like to compete with the girls in a battle frame of mind.

I find it easier to focus on myself.

These are pleasant races, we can see where we stand in relation to the competition, ”confirms the Savoy, who reinforced Antholz with its red bib as leader of the discipline.

But Julia Simon remains lucid.

If she wants to play the general (she is currently twelfth) and become the boss of this France team, she will need, as she said, more “shooting consistency.

“Without forgetting to achieve some results in the sprints and the individuals even if, we understood it well, it is less exciting than a good fight with the competition on the skis.

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