Biathlon: a look back at the training of Quentin Fillon-Maillet, Eric Perrot and Oscar Lombardot in Tenerife
For the past ten days or so, Quentin Fillon-Maillet, Eric Perrot and Oscar Lombardot have been doing one training session after another in the sunshine of the Spanish island of Tenerife, right in the heart of the Atlantic Ocean.
The decision was taken, as Peiserot indicated in our columns, to “go and get some high altitude” ahead of the French men’s team’s training camp in Font-Romeu (Pyrénées-Orientales) starting this Tuesday.
During the two-week break between the Summer Tour races in Arçon (Doubs) and the start of the Romeufont gathering, there were two options open to the Blues.
“Take a rest and then go back to work for another week to form a three-week block, or use the first week to keep up a heavy workload on shooting before heading off to a more exotic destination that doesn’t allow you to practice shooting, but where you can do some physical work while recharging the batteries in your head,” Simon Fourcade, the group’s coach, told Nordic Magazine.
“It’s something that’s a little more common with foundrymen, who don’t have the constraint of shooting to apply”.
This was the choice made by the trio exiled on the slopes of the Teide volcano since the end of September.
It’s something that’s a little more common with cross-country skiers, who don’t have the constraint of shooting to apply,” analyses Simon Fourcade. As long as the work is well done beforehand, with a week off physically to focus on shooting, I don’t have a problem with them exploring a new place.
In fact, the coach of the French team says he knows the place because he has already been there. This week in Spain will enable Quentin Fillon-Maillet, Eric Perrot and Oscar Lombardot to complete a three-week block at altitude , adding to the two weeks spent at Font-Romeu until 17 October.
“Offering them a three-week course in Font-Romeu, stepping on each other’s toes, wasn’t an option. They would have killed each other,” finishes Simon Fourcade with a broad smile. In this final stretch, it was the last moment that allowed them to escape a little.
- “Going for high altitude”: why Eric Perrot is taking part in a training camp on the Spanish island of Tenerife with Quentin Fillon-Maillet and Oscar Lombardot
- Font-Romeu then Geilo for the boys, Ramsau and Bessans for the girls: after the Antholz training camp and the Summer Tour in Arçon, what kind of end to the preparation for the French team?
- Three men for one place: Antonin Guigonnat, Oscar Lombardot and Gaëtan Paturel will battle it out for the final ticket to the World Cup on 15 and 16 November in Geilo.
