The essential :
- The French clan experienced some disappointments on Thursday, with in particular the fall of Alexis Pinturault on the alpine combined, or the poor performance of the Bleues in cross-country skiing.
- For the last race of his immense career, the three-time American Olympic snowboard half-pipe champion Shaun White took fourth place in the Olympics.
- The International Anti-Doping Agency confirmed on Friday that Russian Kamila Valieva tested positive for trimetazidine. The 15-year-old skater, crowned by teams in Beijing, had been tested before the competition.
8 hours. We will be able to project ourselves on the classic 15 km of cross-country skiing. We remind you, three Tricolores will start: Richard Jouve, Maurice Manificat, Hugo Lapalus! Very disappointed following his elimination in the semi-final of the sprint on Tuesday, when he was aiming for a medal, Jouve is already putting his skis back on. The competition should once once more be there, with a Russian contingent that has been very fit since the start of the Games and the return to form of the captain of the discipline, the Norwegian Johannes Klaebo.
7:52. During the night, everyone had eyes only for Shaun White, known as the white wolf.
7:45 a.m. If you missed it yesterday. Alexis Pinturault’s medal hopes vanished at the same time as his fall in the slalom, while the first proven doping case of these Olympic Games was Iranian. Otherwise, no new medal for the Blues, who remained blocked at six on Thursday (1 in gold, 5 in silver). All the info in the link below.
7:30 a.m. A glance at the program for the day. With from 8 am, our three Frenchmen Richard Jouve, Maurice Manificat, Hugo Lapalus engaged in cross-country skiing!
7:26. A case of doping which is likely to cause controversy. The International Anti-Doping Agency confirmed on Friday that Russian Kamila Valieva had tested positive for trimetazidine before the competition. The 15-year-old skater, gold medalist in team skating on Tuesday, is due to compete in the individual event from February 15. The IOC wants this file to be decided before… while the Russian Olympic Committee assured in a press release that Valieva would have the right to continue to compete in these Games.
7:21 a.m. The immense emotion of legend Shaun White, who was playing his last Olympic event this Friday morning.
7:17 a.m. End clap for Tessa Worley. The Grand Bornand giantist announced in the mixed zone that Beijing “will be [ses] last Games. “Leaving for four years, honestly, is not going to do it. I do not yet ask myself the question of when I will stop my career but what is certain is that the Olympic Games are over for me.
7 hours. Brief recap of the night from Thursday to Friday for our first early risers. American half-pipe snowboarding legend Shaun White, 35, a three-time Olympic champion, bowed out with a fourth-place finish in a high-flying contest won by Japan’s Ayumu Hirano. In the radius of disappointments, no super-G medal for Tessa Worley who announced that she was playing her last Olympic Games. The French skier, who finished only 19th early this morning, has yet to start the team parallel. The best tricolor is Romane Miradoli, 11th, Laura Gauché is 16th, Tiffany Gauthier 28th.
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