From our special correspondent in Zhangjiakou,

For someone who has just won a third Olympic medal in three races, Quentin Fillon Maillet, second in the sprint on Saturday behind a definitively found Johannes Boe, remains surprisingly very restrained in his celebration.

Firstly because, in his own words in the mixed zone, "the result is not as strong as on the individual", but above all because the guy is "already in pursuit of tomorrow (Sunday)".

On his social networks, the speech is the same.

“Looking forward to tomorrow”.

And we understand it.

In the event of a podium on Sunday during the pursuit (he will go after the Boe 25 seconds behind), QFM could make history a little more by becoming the first Frenchman ever to win four medals in a single Olympiad.

He is fully aware of this and announces it himself, a few minutes later at a press conference.

“I am with Martin Fourcade and Anaïs Bescond, who have had three medals at the Olympics.

And since there are still three races left…, he said smiling, deliberately leaving his sentence on hold.

It's that the boy has a sense of staging.

And words that snap: “I still want to.

I want to make the French dream.

Not only the French, moreover, to make the planet dream.

“As we see, the leader of the World Cup has absolutely not decided to stop there.

“He is absolutely right to take advantage of his state of form, of his current sensations, supports Vincent Vittoz.

That's why he didn't have to come down to earth (after Monday's gold) because it's his character,

he was aware that he could make several medals.

It was not on the individual format that the story should end.

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One more 🥈 The goal was checked ✅!


Looking forward to tomorrow 🔥 pic.twitter.com/AEfApDFJPP

— Quentin Fillon Maillet (@quentinfillon) February 12, 2022

Already turned to the continuation of Sunday

But the coach of the France team may well know his colt, he is still amazed by his ability to immediately remobilize: "Quentin had to digest his title on the individual, so to see him confirm today c 'is strong.

Because he could have seen being an Olympic champion as an achievement”.

Yes but no.

However, Monday evening was not easy and we had to manage the media requests as well as possible (he will have to get used to it).

He tells.

“It was quite tiring, I finished the interviews at 11:30 p.m. for a race that started at 4:30 p.m.

I landed the next day but I still took the hit.

Maybe that explains why I'm behind Johannes today.

Afterwards, I knew that gold medal might cause a little fatigue, but that's a rich man's problem.

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A problem he will not experience on Saturday.

Yeah, we were nice and released him at 7:30.

Finally… It was taken away from us at 7:30 p.m., the press chief of the France group mimicking the gesture of a scissor with his fingers.

For the older ones, you know, it was the Twix ad, two fingers make you hungry.

But we digress, sorry.

Before leaving to warm up, we still dared to ask one last question.

What will it take to go for gold on Sunday?

Coach's response: “He will have to race.

We know that Johannes leaves very, very quickly whereas Quentin tends to accelerate more (as we go along), we will simply have to be on hold, run his race alone and wait for Johannes to open a door at some point and that's it. this is where you really have to know how to seize this opportunity”.

For France.

No, for the planet.

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