It's an image that could, for those who follow Canada's biathlon team at least, prove one of the most enduring of the Games.
It was a day that should have served as one of the feel-good chapters in the two storylines that have dominated men's biathlon since racing began last week.
Russia's Evgeny Ustyugov suprised a strong field of biathletes, including Norway's Ole Einar Bjoerndalen and Emil Hegle Svendsen, to win gold at the men's mass start Sunday.
Jean-Philippe Le Guellec is on the outside looking in for Sunday's 15-kilometre mass start. And that's just the way he likes it.