The French men's relay won a silver medal on Sunday in Milan-Cortina, behind Norway's Johannes Klaebo. A few hours later, it was the turn of Loan Bozzolo and Léa Casta to win bronze in the mixed team snowboard, giving France its 15th medal at the 2026 Olympics, an Olympic record equaled.

Published on: 02/15/2026 - 1:51 p.m. Modified on: 02/16/2026 - 12:07 p.m.

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Fourteenth and fifteenth medals for the French at the Winter Olympic Games. The French men's cross-country ski relay won silver on Sunday February 15 in Milan-Cortina. A few hours later, the mixed team snowboard won bronze.

The cross-country skiing relay, made up of Théo Schely, Hugo Lapalus, Mathis Desloges and Victor Lovera, was beaten by Norway by ‌22''2. Italy took bronze (+47''9).

The last Norwegian torchbearer, Johannes Klaebo became the most successful athlete of the Winter Games with a ninth gold medal.

In bronze during the last three editions, the Blues have this time climbed an additional step.

Mathis Desloges, the strong link

First to start, Théo Schely handed over the baton in sixth position, around ten seconds from the podium. Hugo Lapalus, already on the podium in 2022 with this relay, then began the comeback. At the end of its 7.5 km, France had moved up to fourth place, in the same time as third.

Then Mathis Desloges' time came. Already a double silver medalist in these Games in the skiathlon and the individual 10 km freestyle, the cross-country skier from Villard-de-Lans (Isère) was the strong link in the French team.

He took over in second position 25 seconds ahead of bronze and above all 46 seconds ahead of fourth position.

Victor Lovera, a time within six seconds of Norway, retained second place to allow French cross-country skiing to win three medals for the first time in the same edition of the Games.

Mixed team snowboarders save the day

Loan Bozzolo and Léa Casta won bronze in the mixed team snowboard on Sunday in Livigno to give France its 15th medal at the 2026 Olympics, an Olympic record equaled.

Long in the lead, the French duo finally took third place behind the British Huw Nightingale and Charlotte Bankes as well as the Italians Lorenzo Sommariva and Michela Moioli to equal the record for medals (15 including 5 titles) established in 2014 and repeated in 2018.

Océane Michelon and Lou Jeanmonnot can also claim the biathlon podium a little later on Sunday.

With this first and only medal, French snowboarding, which has never left the Winter Olympics empty-handed since the introduction of the sport in 2006, somewhat saves its record in Livigno where it had until then gone from disillusionment to disillusionment.

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In the men's event, Aïdan Chollet, his brother Jonas and Loan Bozzolo took places 4, 5 and 6. Léa Casta and Julia Pereira had failed at the gates of the final, while Chloé Trespeuch, double Olympic medalist and standard bearer of the French delegation during the opening ceremony, had been eliminated in the quarter-finals.

Sunday's medal still looks like a minimum service for the Blues who, with three teams, were the best represented nation in the mixed event.

But the other two French duos failed to reach the final. Jonas Chollet and Chloé Trespeuch were eliminated as soon as they entered the quarterfinals while Aidan Chollet and Julia Nirani-Pereira gave in in the semi-finals before winning the... small final for a frustrating fifth place.

The French delegation, for its part, beat its performance from the Beijing Games and equaled the medal record achieved consecutively in 2014 and 2018.

With Reuters and AFP

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