US EditionSixteen years on, Fourcade finally tastes sweet Vancouver gold
- On Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026, Martin Fourcade, of France, received his 2010 Olympic gold for the men's 15-kilometer mass start during a reallocation ceremony in Anterselva, Italy.
- After reviewing an Athlete Biological Passport and lab data, the IBU disqualified Evgeny Ustyugov's results from 2010–2014, citing rule violations.
- Germany's relay quartet of Erik Lesser, Daniel Boehm, Arnd Peiffer and Simon Schempp received gold 12 years after the 2014 Sochi Games, and Peiffer called it `kind of weird` to reunite on a podium after so long.
- Between the men's and women's pursuit races, organizers presented medals before about 20,000 fans at the Antholz-Anterselva competition stands during the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Games.
- Other reallocations included the Austria relay team of Christoph Sumann, Daniel Mesotitsch, Simon Eder and Dominik Landertinger receiving silver, and the Norwegian relay team awarded bronze.
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A Russian biathlete was stripped of his title for doping, and Martin Fourcade was named the gold medalist in Vancouver. On Sunday, Lisa Vittozzi won Italy's first Olympic gold medal in biathlon.
At the Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, the German biathlon team of the men received the gold medals of the 2014 Games in Sochi.
It is "a medal of symbols" that Martin Fourcade received this Sunday, February 15, who won the silver in 2010 in front of a Russian athlete doped.
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The Straits TimesBiathlon-Sixteen years on, Fourcade finally tastes sweet Vancouver gold
ANTERSELVA, ITALY, Feb 15 : Sixteen years after coming second to Evgeny Ustyugov in the biathlon 15km mass start at the Vancouver Games, Frenchman Martin Fourcade was finally awarded the gold medal following the disqualification of the Russian for anti-doping violations.Stripped of his competitive results, Us
Sixteen years on, Fourcade finally tastes sweet Vancouver gold
Sixteen years after coming second to Evgeny Ustyugov in the biathlon 15km mass start at the Vancouver Games, Frenchman Martin Fourcade was finally awarded the gold medal following the disqualification of the Russian for anti-doping violations.
Sixth Olympic gold medal for Martin Fourcade, the former French biathlete, legend of the biathlon, yet retired, has just received in Italy, sixteen years later, the medal of the mass event...
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