How far away the tears of Vancouver seem! However, we still see him sneaking away, to take Martin, his little brother, in his arms, and shout to him, with reddened eyes, his love. The Games in Canada, in 2010, were to be his, he who had worked so hard to experience the thrill of an Olympic medal and who was then leading the general ranking of the Biathlon World Cup.
History would have it that this Sunday in February 2010 marked the beginning of the reign of a phenomenon, Martin Fourcade, Simon’s younger brother. For a long time, the six-time Olympic champion carried the images of Vancouver like a burden. “This story is part of me, it participated in my construction,” Martin Fourcade told us in 2017, when his biography was released. How could I blame Simon for being unhappy? »
