#French biathlon team

[everythingthatsgoingon]

Aaaaaaaand the French women take the Nations Cup ahead of Norway, Sweden, Germany and Italy.

[sportsallover]

Sophie photobombing Julia's interview on French TV and Julia being like "I'm so tired of her" with a BIG smile on her face. I love them your honor.

[footbiall]

Quelle sortie pour Anaïs ❤️

[quentinfiletmignon]

Ready for NMNM I think 😊

[cerisia76]

The fact that it's impossible to hate the Norwegian athletes even after they took the podium from a French man. Like... I can't be annoyed by them they are way too kind and nice. They just play the game better than the rest and have "luck" when they need it. Sadly skis weren't here for French team (and for Sebastian Samuelsson too).

What is terrible is the flow of insults these athletes receive. Like... stop hating on the French Team when they don't perform, stop hating on the Swedish Team when they don't perform, stop hating on the Norwegian Team when they don't - yeah no this one doesn't work.

But basically if you say you love a sport, you can't hate the people who make it live.

[omniavincitamor]

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@vacancy90 was curious about what I told her about it, so here’s the beginning of their interview with some subtitles!

[juliasimongf]

Maria Sakkari please go away.

[detectiv-emerson]

мерехти, моя зірка

[everythingthatsgoingon]

The most incredible thing about the French women's team performance this winter is how unexpected it was.

Not that we didn't think they would get good results, given their 2022/2023 season (relay cup and Nations cup, global score for Julia, first podiums for Jeanmonnot and Chloé Chevalier, first flower ceremonies for Chauveau and Colombo, and so on).

So sure, we expected Sophie to get her first podium, Lou her first win, Julia and possibly Justine to fight it out for the global score (if Julia wasn't too burnt out from last year and that the legal issues from the summer didn't interfere).

But we didn't expect Caroline Colombo to get sick before the season start, and Chloé Chevalier to follow early in the season, prompting the arrival of Gilonne Guigonnat, Océane Michelon and Jeanne Richard on the WC. We didn't expect Jeanne Richard, whose name nobody knew before this winter, to get a top 10 or Guigonnat to get her first podium. We didn't expect Jeanmonnot to get her first win as early as the Östersund sprint and follow up with the pursuit, while Julia and Justine started with bad results. We didn't expect Justine's grand chlem in Lenzerheide, or Julia's incredible World Championships. We didn't expect the 1 to 4 sweep in the World Championship sprint, especially as sprints aren't usually where Frenchmen shine. We didn't expect Lou to race in the World Championship single mixed relay with QFM and win. We didn't expect for them to win 11 out of 21 individual races this season, let alone for Julia to be the one with the less victories out of the 3 French winners. We didn't expect to get 3 French women in the top 5 of the global score, especially not with Lou as the first French athlete in second place. We didn't expect Lou to be the one to win a small glob.

Especially not with how competitive the women's biathlon world cup is, how good other athletes are too.

So yes, a good season was expected and hoped for, but no one would have ever imagined it the way it ended up happening.

[sportsallover]

The girls having written CHEV ❤️ on their cheeks for Anaïs... I'm not crying, you are

[footbiall]

❤️ LA REINE JUJU ❤️

Elle mérite tellement !

(📷 Nordic Focus)

[lizzie-is-drawing]

A little sketch i did when the French Biathlon team became world champion !

[mrchiipchrome]

I’m officially revoking my status as a fan of the Swedish biathlon team and am now taking to my french side. Allez les bleus

[magdasabs]

I don't get the identity theft defence from Julia because It's some very weird identity theft if they buy goods on other peoples cards and then send it to Julia's house rather, lol. although maybe there is more to it the coverage has been kind of weird overall and the investigation is still ongoing and such so maybe there is more going on that just isn't out in the public domain currently.

exactly haha like how is that supposed to be believable 😅 I kinda get a claim that someone did it to tarnish her image or get her banned or even disrupt the chemistry of the french team but like... I don't think anyone will put all that effort into biathlon

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Here is the Belgium Team video that passed on l’équipe and that I found nice to translate as we’re a bit obsessed with them on the chat @vetlesclown and @vacancy90