BiathlonRossignol

Band of Heroes, Martin Fourcade

In the opening photo of this article a glimpse that includes Martin Fourcade, committed to follow closely the companions of the other winter disciplines and in particular the young skiers.

Wednesday 6 March 2019 3 minutes reading time

Born September 14, 1988 in CÃ©ret, department of the Western Pyrenees, in that part of Catalonia that has been part of France since 1659, raised in La Llagonne, the same department, and then moved to the Jura, Martin Fourcade, who has an older brother , Simon, in turn biathlete, can be considered the 'man symbol of the Band of Heroes Rossignol.The reason is simple: the palmares. His numbers are impressive: leaving the relays, 74 races won between the World Cup, World Cup and Olympics (21 sprint, 27 chases, 14 mass start and 12 individual), second only at 95 Ole Einar BjÃ¸rndalen, and 137 podiums total (48 sprint, 47 chases, 25 mass start, 17 individual), again behind only the Norwegian who has 179; four golds and two Olympic silvers, ten golds, four silver and two world bronze medals: seven overall World Cups from 2012 to 2018, seven sprint Cups from 2012 to 2018, eight pursuit Cups in 2010 and then again from 2012 to 2018, five Mass start Cups in 2013, 2014 and from 2016 to 2018, four Individual Cups in 2013 and from 2016 to 2018. Practically, he has not given away either a general or specialty crystal ball in the last three seasons except for the last of the individual won in cohabitation with his great Norwegian rival Johannes Thingnes BÃ¸. Frankly we struggle to understand how it can, with a bulletin board so full of trophies, which stimuli can still have this absolute champion not only of winter sports but of all-round sport. One of these, however, in addition to continuing to beat his impertinent rival BÃ¸, could be to get even closer to BjÃ¸rndalen in terms of victories and podiums.