Back to the day’s events.
Finally in gold! Four years after their misadventure (in clothing) in Pyeongchang and their frustrating silver medal, Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron won the Olympic title in Beijing in ice dancingMonday, February 14. “It’s like being in a washing machine of emotions”, reacted the skater. In the lead at the end of the short program two days ago, the French delivered a masterful free program on The Elegy by Gabriel Faure.
By winning with a total of 226.98 points – a world record – more than six points ahead of the Russians Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov, the duo won the only title they lacked. “This medal carries much more weight than it did four years ago. (…) It’s the symbol of everything we went through during these four years, of the work we did, of our entire career. It’s amazing the weight of this medal today “, said Gabriella Papadakis.
In freestyle skiing, Tess Ledeux got scared but qualified for the final of the slope style, reserved for the first twelve. The 20-year-old Frenchwoman, who crashed on the landing of her first run, eventually finished 9and.
The first Olympic title in one-piece came back to Kaillie Humphries, naturalized American in December 2021 and who had already won two gold medals in two-man bobsleigh with Canada (in 2010 and 2014). The only committed Frenchwoman, Margot Boch ranked 11and.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport has ruled: despite a positive doping control at the end of December 2021, the Russian skater Kamila Valieva can continue her Olympics and take part, Tuesday, February 15, in the individual event of which she will be the favorite. The reason : “Preventing the athlete from competing in the Olympics would cause him irreparable harm”, according to the arbitration body.
The Games are over for the biathlete Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold, victim, yesterday, of a malaise at the arrival of the continuation. If the Norwegian ” feel better “, she will go home anyway.
The Chinese Xu Mengtao won the women’s race acrobatic jump and won his first Olympic gold medal.
Discover tomorrow’s menu.
Silver medalist in big air, beaten on the wire by Eileen Gu, Tess Ledeux will have the opportunity to take his revenge in the final of the slope style, from 2:30 a.m. (Paris time). At men’s, Antoine Adelissewho had failed the big air qualifications, withdrawn, will finally not be able to participate in the final of the slope style (from 5:30 a.m.).
the biathlon will have the opportunity to bring another medal to France with the relay men which will take part Quentin Fillon Maillet, Emilien Jacquelin, Fabien Claude and Simon Desthieux at 7:30 a.m. (Paris time).
In alpine skiing, make way for downhill women from 4 o’clock. Romane Miradoli, Camille Cerutti, Laura Gauché and Tiffany Gauthier will be at the start.
There will also be Nordic combined, with the large hill jump (from 9 a.m.). Four French are involved: Matteo Baud, Gael Blondeau, Antoine Gerard and Laurent Mühlethaler.
Dorian Hauterville and Romain Heinrich will play the last two rounds of the two-man bobsleigh (from 1:15 p.m.).
The Games in a snapshot.
Watch out, tiger on the tracks. For the last competition of his career, Lucile Lefevre set off… disguised as a tiger, during the big air qualifications, Monday February 14th. An outfit in reference to the Chinese New Year, placed under the sign of the tiger. “I hurt my knee in the slopestyle so I couldn’t do tricks today. (…) It’s more fun “ to compete in disguise, confided the 26-year-old Frenchwoman. “The world should be fun [car] there are many problems. If everyone was at peace, the world would be a better place (…); this is the message I want to share. » The Frenchwoman finished last in qualifying.
The Olympians on the microphone.
“ I think I’m going to have fun in the race tomorrow, even if having fun is not exactly the goal of the Olympics. »
Despite a completely failed start to the Games, with two runs off the track – in giant and slalom – and a 9and place in the super-G, Mikaela Shiffrin make sure she “don’t get stuck on winning a medal” and wants “just succeed [sa] best performance » during the descent, Tuesday, February 15. “One of my goals coming here was to take part in all the races. At least that dream is still relevant,” added the American.
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This is the number of medals won by the French delegation so far, as the last week of the Beijing Olympics has started. With three gold medals, France is 9and in the medal table, dominated by Norway. He has just under a week left to equal his record 15 awards, achieved in Pyeongchang in 2018.
Snapshot of our special envoys.
In the hotel complex where the special envoys of the World, a strange phenomenon is happening: the restaurants in the area are lowering the curtain, one after the other. It started with the one specializing in ” Chinese fondue “, then by the one who served noodle broth. Followed the establishment of skewers and the one offering food “Western”.
Even if there are still freeze-dried noodles, we wanted to know more about the causes of this carnage. The front desk clerk’s response was a bit embarrassed, lip service “special reasons”. The investigations of the journalists on the spot are based on two hypotheses: supply concerns linked to the drastic conditions of the ” closed loop “ and suspected cases of Covid-19. It’s probably a bit of both.