Jean-Philippe Le Guellec was a 13-year old cadet with 660 Des Mille-Iles Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron in Laval, Québec when he developed a passion for his Squadron and learned to shoot a rifle and to cross-country ski. Over the years, he became a champion in the Cadet Program Biathlon competitions. In February 2010, 24 year old Jean-Philippe will compete for Canada in the 2010 Winter Olympics.

“I have literally been training for these Games for ten years” says Jean-Philippe. “Now that they’re close, I can’t believe how fast the time flew. I’m definitely ‘pumped’ that the time has come. And what’s more, they are home Games. It means a whole lot and it’s a bit overwhelming at the same time”.

The aims of biathlon in the Cadet Program are to promote physical fitness, allow cadets to participate in a progressive biathlon program, to act as a catalyst for a cadet fitness/sports program, to promote the safe handling of rifles and to stimulate and maintain an interest in Cadets.

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According to the Ottawa Citizen:

In his first two races at Whistler Olympic Park, he scored best-ever results by a Canadian male biathlete. He was sixth in Sunday’s 10-kilometre sprint, improving on Steve Cyr’s eighth-place finish in the 1992 Albertville Games. In Tuesday’s 12.5-kilometre pursuit, he was 11th, erasing the 42nd by Dunrobin’s Robin Clegg in 2002.