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Vancouver men´s biathlon gold for France
by Zuzana Zelenakova

The 24-year-old French Vincent Jay became the winner in the biathlon 10-kilometre sprint on Sunday with time of 24 minutes and 7.8 seconds. Jay ranked 40th in the World Cup sprint standings hit all his targets. "I was very lucky as far the weather conditions," said Jay referring to heavy snowfall slowing down his main rivals. "But the shooting was all my doing, and had nothing to do with the climate." Emil Hegle Swedsen from Norway missing one target took the silver and Croatia´s Jakov Fak finished third winning the bronze. The Norwegian ended up 12.2 seconds behind Vincent Jay, Jakov Fak was 14 seconds behind. Canadian Jean-Phillippe Le Guellec arrived sixth, which i! s the best result achieved by a Canadian male biathlete at any Olympics. "All in all, it was an awesome race, and I'm really happy," said right after the race Le Guellec, who was originally hoping for the top ten spot at best. "The crowd was behind me, reacting to each target and it was just awesome to feed off of them." Ole Einar Bjoerndalen of Norway generally considered the most successful biathlete of all time ended up 17th after series of penalties loosing 1:41.1 on Vincent Jay. His performance – he missed three out of five shots in the first shooting stage and one in the second – was bit of a surprise for the audience. Bjoerndalen has won five Olympic Gold medals and fourteen World Championship Gold medals so far in his carrier. When it comes to Olympic medal standings of France so far, it has two golden medals. One by Vincent Jay and the second by Jason Lamy Chappuis for the first place in the Olympic Nordic combined event, where he beat American Johnny S! pillane. 23-year-old Chappuis won at Whistler Olympic Park wit! h a time of 25 minutes and 47.1 seconds leaving Spillane four-tens of a second behind.

related story (sgx16471): http://www.france24.com/en/20100214-france-olympics-vancouve...

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