Back to the day’s events.
90.83 ! In ice dancingthe couple Gabriella Papadakis – Guillaume Cizeron set the bar very high. The French, who broke their own short program record on Saturday February 12, took first place just ahead of their big rivals, the Russians Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov. “We were very nervous. We’re happy with what we’ve done.” rejoiced Gabriella Papadakis at the microphone of France TV Sport. The long program, which will take place on Monday, will decide the podium.
And three for Quentin Fillon Maillet in these Games: following gold in the individual event and silver in the mixed relay, “QFM” became Olympic vice-champion in the biathlon sprint (10 km), bringing the seventh medal to the tricolor delegation (one in gold and six in silver). Few regrets for the Jura, who finished 25 seconds behind the Norwegian Johannes Boe, imperial. His brother, Tarjei Boe, ranks 3e.
Double French disappointment, on the other hand, in mixed team snowboardcross. Penalized by a waxing problem, the two competing duos were eliminated in the quarter-finals, when they were among the favorites. The freshly fallen snow has changed the sliding conditions, and the French technicians have not managed to adapt to this new situation.
With a final jump at 140 meters, the Norwegian Marius Lindvik, recognizable by his golden helmet, won the individual competition on a large hill, ahead of the Japanese Ryoyu Kobayashi and the German Karl Geiger. This is the first time since 1964 that a Norwegian has won the Olympic Games in the queen event of ski jumping.
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In monobob (individual bobsleigh), the Savoyard Margot Boch, originally from La Plagne, will try to distinguish herself for her first Olympic meeting in a confidential discipline in France (at 2:30 a.m., Paris time).
In freestyle skiing, Tess Ledeux will aim for gold in the event of slopestyle (acrobatic descent). She will find on her way the Chinese Eileen Gu, who beat her by a hair on February 8, in the big air event (at 3 o’clock).
If he is sufficiently recovered from his contusion on his right shoulder following his fall during the combined on Thursday, Alexis Pinturaultleader of the French alpine ski team, will try to save his Games during the giant slalomin the company of Clement Noel and of Mathieu Faivre (from 3:15 a.m.).
Disappointing so far in these Olympics, the French team of cross-country skiing will try to do better during the 4 x 10 km relay (8 hours).
But it is once more on the tricolor biathletes that the main medal hopes of the French team will rest on Sunday. After the sprint, place at the pursuit (12.5 km)one of the highlights of this discipline, from 10 a.m. for women and 11:45 a.m. for men. Quentin Fillon Maillet will start with a delay of 25 seconds on the Norwegian Johannes Boe, for a duel between the two strong men of these Games. In their wake, Emilien Jacquelin, Simon Desthieux and Fabien-Claude will try to get on the podium, just like Julia Simon, Anais Bescond and Justine Braisaz-Bouchet in women.
The Games in a snapshot.
For this first shock of the ice hockey tournament, the United States emerged victorious from a fierce match once morest Canada (4-2), on Saturday, in the arena of the National Omnisports Palace in Beijing. This hockey classic, a remake of the final won by Canada at the Vancouver 2010 Games, however, did not have its usual flavor as NHL players were barred from the Games by the National Hockey League North -american, which has seen its schedule disrupted by the covid-19 pandemic.
The Olympians on the microphone.
“This is the sixth time since 2012 that Russia has tainted the Olympics. The meager sanction imposed on them has not changed their habits. It’s just a shame for all the sportsmen around the world who suffer from it. »
Travis Tygart, head of the American Anti-Doping Agency, spoke on Friday regarding the Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, who tested positive for trimetazidine, a prohibited substance, following her participation in an event in Saint Petersburg on December 25, 2021 An expected star of the Games, just 15, Valieva helped Russia win team gold on Monday. That it took nearly six weeks for Valieva’s positive test to come to light “is a catastrophic failure of the system dedicated to protecting the integrity of the Games and the clean athletes who competed”, Mr Tygart told Agence France-Presse.
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End of series for the Dutch. Since the start of the speed skating events in Beijing, the Netherlands had always managed to place at least one representative on the podium in each race (four titles and eight medals in six races). On the Men’s 500mthe Dutch did not achieve such a performance and left the gold medal to the Chinese Gao Tingyu, winner in 34.32, an Olympic record. He beat South Korean Cha Min-kyu and Japanese Wataru Morishige.
Snapshot of our special envoys.
for games “environmentally friendly, unifying, open and clean”, as the Beijing 2022 Organizing Committee proclaimed in 2019, can do better. While the competition sites are all supplied with green energy, the organizers boast, on a daily basis, small signs suggest that the environmental bill may be heavier than expected. An example: on all the competition sites, there are pallets of small plastic bottles. Admittedly, it is not recommended to drink tap water, but finally, is it necessary to put a dozen bottles of water in hotel rooms every morning? It is not uncommon to see them abandoned on the ground or in buses. Funny example for ecologically responsible Games.