Quentin Fillon Maillet, behind the scenes of the stair climb

The five Olympic medals from the Beijing Games hung on the left shoulder (i.e. 2.6 kg), Quentin Fillon Maillet poses. Shirtless, in a T-shirt, in a shirt. Standing, sitting. Sparkling eyes light up the shots from a focused but relaxed photoshoot on May 15 at the Harcourt studio in the 16^e arrondist of Paris, highlight of a morning launched by a 45-minute jog in the streets of the capital. Just for the sake of effort. Click-clack, it’s in the box: “Photography, we do a lot of it in competition but without taking the time to pose. In the studio, it changes natural settings. And there is a charitable aspect (a book for the benefit of the ociation Le Sport a du cœur, read below), it’s perfect.”

The make-up session, the play of light, the staging, the shots of stars having posed in the place are not enough to turn the head of the leader of French biathlon: “I don’t see myself as a different person with or without…