MEDAL JO. After losing ground in the medal table for the 2022 Olympics, the Blues revived this Saturday through Quentin Fillon-Maillet who won his third medal in biathlon, with silver in the sprint.
[Mis à jour le 12 février à 16h31] The 2022 Winter Olympics are very silver for France. The seventh medal won this Saturday by the tricolor delegation in silver is the sixth in silver. It was Quentin Fillon Maillet, second in the biathlon sprint, who allowed the Blues to revive France in the medal table, stopped since Wednesday. After a week, the French team is far from the top 10 in the medal rankings with only one gold medal, that of Quentin Fillon-Maillet in biathlon on the individual men. As a result, the Blues are currently in 13th place in the medal table with 7 podiums in total. In front, Germany is the leader with 12 medals, 7 in gold with a full box in the luge events. Just behind, we find nations accustomed to medals in the Winter Olympics with Norway (16 medals including 7 gold) and the United States, which join the top three after a complicated start to the 2022 Olympics (11 medals including 5 in gold).
Another change in the medal table of these Winter Olympics. Norway, favorites to finish first in this ranking, are again at the top of the table as France slip out of the top 10.
The Blues hope to obtain more than 15 medals in these Winter Olympics in Beijing and beat the record of Sochi and Pyeongchang. Thanks to Quantin Fillon-Maillet this Saturday, February 12, France is now at 7 medals, but sorely lacking in gold since the start of the 2022 Olympics.
As a reminder, before the Olympics, Gracenote had predicted 17 medals for the French team, the count:
Gold medals
- Alexis Pinturault in combined
- Mathieu Faivre as a Giant
- Clement Noel in slalom
- Perrine Laffont in mogul skiing
Silver medals
- Benjamin Cavet in mogul skiing
- Emilien Jacquelin in the Biathlon Pursuit
- Biathlon men’s relay
Bronze Medals
- Tess Ledeux in Big Air and Slopestyle
- Quentin Fillon Maillet Sprint, Pursuit and Mass Start
- Women’s biathlon relay
- Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeon in figure skating
- Léo Le Blé Jaques and Julia Pereira de Sousa Mabileau in team snowboarding
- Men’s cross-country ski relay