Martin Fourcade won gold and Jean Guillaume Beatrix earned bronze in Monday's 12.5-kilometer pursuit, putting France onto the medals table at the Sochi Olympics. Bouncing back from a disappointing performance in the first biathlon event of the games, the 10-kilometer sprint that set the starting positions for Monday's pursuit, Fourcade dominated the second half of the race and even celebrated with one arm in the air before starting his final lap around the course at the Laura Cross Country Ski and Biathlon Center. Fourcade missed one target in the standing shooting portion of the race, which he finished in 33 minutes, 48.6 seconds. Ondrej Moravec of Czech Republic finished 14.1 seconds later to take silver, and Beatrix was 24.2 seconds behind Fourcade in third. Norway's Ole Einar Bjoerndalen was fourth, missing out by 1.7 seconds on what would have been a record 13th Winter Olympics medal. Read more http://espn.go.com/olympics/winter/...e-wins-gold-biathlon-france-first-medal-sochi
