Biathlon: Martin Fourcade reacts after Evgeny Ustyugov’s appeal was rejected
Martin Fourcade‘s reaction to the rejection ofEvgeny Ustyugov ‘s appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) was expected. The fact is that this decision – although the Russian still has a minor appeal to make to the Swiss Federal Court if he so wishes – gives him a sixth Olympic title, the one he won in the mass start at Vancouver 2010.
So, if it is officially and definitively confirmed, the Catalan will become the most successful Frenchman in the history of the Olympic Games, ahead of a certain Teddy Riner.
“I’ve built my life around that founding silver medal, so I’m bound to have different feelings at the news that the winner of the Vancouver 2010 mass-start has been disqualified, wrote the champion on Instagram. First of all, the satisfaction that the fight against doping is bearing fruit, even 15 years later. This fight that I put so much effort into has finally changed the colour of my first medal.”
“The pride of becoming Olympic champion at three different Olympics between 2010 and 2018”
“Then there’s the pride of becoming Olympic champion at three different Olympics between 2010 and 2018, he continues. At a time when people are wrongly trying to rank athletes whose disciplines don’t give them the same medal chances, this performance is my greatest satisfaction. Finally, there’s the question that will go unanswered forever: what would my career have been like if I’d won gold at my first Games?”
Nobody can say it, but Martin Fourcade’s record of achievements since 2010 is gargantuan: 7 major crystal globes, 26 smaller ones, 150 podium finishes, 84 victories and 28 world medals, including 13 gold.
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