2026 Olympics: French biathletes in gold, 10th title for Klaebo, Canada is close to leaving hockey… the recap of this Wednesday, February 18

The days follow one another and are similar for our French at the 2026 Winter Olympics. After a golden day on Tuesday, the French delegation gleaned an additional gold medal this Wednesday, thanks to the girls in the biathlon, who also won the relay.

Today’s news

Despite a small alert at the start of the race, biathletes Camille Bened, Lou Jeanmonnot, Océane Michelon and Julia Simon offered a relay demonstration on Wednesday, winning a collective coronation far ahead of the competition at the Olympic Games after internal dissensions.

Like Fabien Claude the day before, Camille Bened visited the penalty ring for a lap after his standing shot, passing the baton with a delay of 55 seconds on the head to Lou Jeanmonnot. The Jurassienne, like Jacquelin, then put the French women back on the path to gold.

And unlike Tuesday, where Éric Perrot had to dig deep to resist the return of Norwegian Vetle Christiansen, finishing livid and taking many minutes to recover, Julia Simon was able to celebrate in her final lap with the male and female staff scattered along the two-kilometer track.

When approaching the last U overlooking the Anterselva shooting range, she was able to grab the French flag to cross the line, before being joined by her three teammates of the day. Simon, three titles during the same edition of the Olympic Games, joins Jean-Claude Killy (1968), Martin Fourcade (2018) and Quentin Fillon Maillet (2026).

The results of the French

The raid hoped for by the biathlon is slowly beginning to transform into an absolute triumph, since of the nine titles at stake since the start of the 2026 Olympics, five have returned to the French purse, for a total of ten medals. Never seen before.

And also…

“I will love you forever” : Lindsey Vonn announces the death of her dog Leo, who disappeared the day of his terrible fall at the Olympics. The 41-year-old skier shares her pain after losing her faithful companion of thirteen years, who died of cancer during his European hospitalization.

The ten commandments of the Norwegian Klaebo who won his 10th gold medal at the Winter Games on Wednesday. The Norwegian, who had already held the record for titles at the Winter Games for a few days, added a 10th gold medal to his collection by winning the team sprint on Wednesday.

Canadian and Slovak hockey players qualified for the Olympic semi-finals on Wednesday of Milan Cortina, barely dismissing the Czech Republic 4-3 after extra time for the former, and sweeping Germany 6-2 for the latter.

The 2024 world champions put up a completely different resistance this time, finally giving in to sudden death in overtime after leading twice – for 22 minutes, more than a third of regulation time.

And tomorrow?

The French are competing on Thursday at the Olympic Games in Milan Cortina: it will start with Marco Heinis and Maël Tyrode in the Nordic combined in the team event. Then we will find Lorine Schild in her free program. Valentin Thiebault will defend his chances in the 1,500m speed skating event. We will then set off to discover ski mountaineering with Emily Harrop and Margot Ravinel and then the men, Thibault Anselmet and Pablo Giner-Dalmasso. Don’t miss the men’s half pipe qualifications with Vincent Maharavo in the morning.