Biathlon at the Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

[Bohemia 1,540]

1 hour ago, NearPup said:

Hey I’d take six gold medals in Biathlon

Our results in biathlon were definitely incredible don't get me wrong, I just wish we'd have more variety of disciplines providing us medals :')

[De_Gambassi 1,367]

1 hour ago, Federer91 said:

You have good athletes already in snowboard and freestyle, they just need some extra guidance to make the jump to being elite ones.

 

Alpine is lacking, especially on the women's side, so a lot of work needs to be done there. Cross-country showed big potential on the men's side, but the women are again not present. Ski-jumping has Faubert, but that is a specific sport.

 

The biggest problems are in the skating and sliding sports. As we see those sports bring looooooooots of medals and France is nowhere near competitive in them (bar one Loubineaud). 

 

 

 

 

Have you not seen our great recent artistic performance in bobsleigh ?

We basically never win anything on ice except one figure skating medal from time to time and one historic bobsleigh back in 1998. Definitely, our only hope to win medals (plural) on ice relies on speed skating. We have the athletes thanks to roller, and a new program that has started 2 years ago under a new federation. Performances in Milan were very encouraging.

[clemsonbeav 438]

On 2/20/2026 at 8:26 AM, Quaker2001 said:

Need to ask this because I trust this crowd more than I trust NBC's announcers.  What is the correct pronunciation for Sturla Holm Lægreid?  I remember it from last Olympics as "LA-greed" but now we're getting it more as "luh-GRYed"?  Which is accurate?  Or is it neither of them?

https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/results/athlete-details/42254

 

One of my favorite things that the Olympics site does is have the athletes record themselves pronouncing their names.  Just click on the speaker icon next to their name.   

Edited Monday at 01:03 PM by clemsonbeav

[clemsonbeav 438]

Also, I missed this moment...but check out this sprint to the end (for last place) in the M Mass Start.  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k6khs5QeBQ

[De_Gambassi 1,367]

An interesting bit from the head of french biathon on the olympic success. Asking if the early gold in the mixed relay was a major factor in the following podiums, he highlighted the last world cup stage (9 podiums over the week) as a great confidence boost just before the Olympics.  

 

https://www.nordicmag.info/jo-2026-biathlon-pour-nordic-magazine-stephane-bouthiaux-tire-le-bilan-des-incroyables-jeux-olympiques-du-biathlon-francais-on-naurait-jamais-pense-ramener-autant-de-medailles-0226/