15:30. For her first start at the biathlon world cup in Le Grand-Bornand (Haute-Savoie), Océane Michelon arrived in the Aravis mountains with the blue bib of best athlete under 23 on her shoulders. The Savoyard woman madethree mistakes on her standing shot in the sprint on Friday, but it wasn’t the first time she’d dreamed of.
As a result, the 22-year-old biathlete lost first place to her team-mate Jeanne Richard, who finished an excellent thirteenth in front of her home crowd in the middle of the afternoon. But the gap between the two friends remains unbridgeable, as they are separated by just five points.
Live data from the women’s sprint
The overall World Cup standings
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