Simon Fourcade may have been a great athlete in his time, but his race breakdown was always absolute trash and he would always blow up after starting hard and never learned from it. It's like he's taken people like Jacquelin who used to have great race breakdown and get stronger and have some great head to head races on final laps and made him into a meek mouse who runs out of gas way too soon. Seeing Fillon Maillet implode so meekly on the last lap of his relay leg in Antholz was really tragic too. OK, not so bad as Alexis Bœuf's Antholz relay leg in 2014 basically terminating his career on the spot, but still, for a guy who has been as good as Fillon Maillet has been to now be where he is when he really isn't that old and doesn't have that many miles on the clock, while previous junior standouts like Martin Perrillat Bottonet and Martin Bourgeois République are now barely competitive at the Coupe de France let alone on the international calendar, is alarming.
C'mon Sophia!