Biathlon: no official training this Thursday for Julia Simon
On Wednesday, in the first round of the mixed relay at the Biathlon World Championships in Lenzerheide (Switzerland), Julia Simon from Beaufort crashed. Falling heavily on the Swiss snow, she admitted to having a major headache after winning the world title.
In fact, at the very end of the afternoon, the winner of the 2023 Crystal Globe skipped the official IBU press conference. From 2.30pm on Thursday, the day after her stunt, Julia Simon was not present at the official women’s sprint watch training session.
Our colleagues at L’Equipe broke the news. However, the Tricolor staff are not worried. “It‘s voluntary, out of concern for her, explained Cyril Burdet. Julia [Simon] had a restful night, she had some after-effects and aches and pains in her back. We did some light training, no new symptoms, and she will be examined again this [Thursday] evening by the medical team. But don’t worry, she should be at the start of the sprint.”
She still skied in the morning
At the end of the morning, outside the official training period, Julia Simon went skiing with her coach. According to information from France’s leading sports daily, “the Frenchwoman was far from feeling 100%, even though she reportedly responded favourably to the concussion protocol questions on Wednesday evening”. “Her sensations were not optimal during this short hour on the slopes, with slight concentration problems and slight dizziness”, it also states.
When the sprint start list comes out this afternoon, the name of Julia Simon, the reigning world champion in this exercise, should be on it.
- The full programme for the World Championships in Lenzerheide, the highlight of the 2024/2025 season
- Léna Arnaud: my best memory of… Lenzerheide
- Swiss biathlete Arnaud Du Pasquier presents the Roland Arena, the Lenzerheide stadium used for the 2025 World Championships
- Delphyne Burlet on the challenges of the Lenzerheide world championships
- Two of the four reigning world champions have been retained: the French mixed relay line-up for Wednesday’s opening round of the World Championships in Lenzerheide.
- “We decided to follow the sporting logic”: Stéphane Bouthiaux explains how the French mixed relay team for the World Championships in Lenzerheide was put together.
- Quentin Fillon-Maillet annoyed at being sidelined in the mixed relay at the world championships in Lenzerheide: “I thought I deserved more consideration from the staff”.
- “We’re aiming for the title”: a year after their triumph in Nove Mesto, France will attempt to make it two in a row in the mixed relay at the World Championships in Lenzerheide.
- Mixed relay in Lenzerheide: the first day on which Johannes Thingnes Boe could become the most successful biathlete in the history of the World Championships
- Lenzerheide: France, with Julia Simon, Lou Jeanmonnot, Eric Perrot and Emilien Jacquelin, retain their world mixed relay title
- “We couldn’t have got off to a better start than this”: the perfect start for the French team, which won gold in the mixed relay at the world championships in Lenzerheide.
- “I don’t feel like I made a mistake”: Julia Simon recounts her collision with Sweden’s Anna Magnusson during the mixed relay in Lenzerheide
- Julia Simon and Sebastian Samuelsson crash, Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold and Hanna Oeberg fail to shoot: an opening mixed relay full of twists and turns in Lenzerheide
- Lenzerheide: Czech Republic surprise silver medallists in mixed relay
- Lenzerheide: seventh in the mixed relay with Lukas Hofer and Tommaso Giacomel, Italy’s Hannah Auchentaller and Dorothea Wierer battled it out on the difficult Swiss track
- “It was fun”: during the mixed relay at the World Championships in Lenzerheide, Britain’s Shawna Pendry was surprised to ski with her idol Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold.
