The PyeongChang target has already been surpassed.
With
the silver of Michela Moioli and Omar Visintin in mixed snowboarding
at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, the Italy team reaches
11 medals
.
"The first goal has been achieved: we have exceeded the number of medals won in Pyeongchang (10, ed) - said the president of Coni - We did it thanks to a discipline like snowboarding where we have become a world power".
Michela Moioli and Omar Visintin
gave the silver medal to Italy in the first historic Olympic edition of the snowboard cross race.
The first time of the mix team, staged under the snow that hit Zhangjiakou, saw the battle for the head between the blue team and the American team formed by Nick Baumgartner and Lindsey Jacobellis gold winners.
In third place the Canada of the couple formed by Eliot Grondin and Meryeta Odine, fourth the other blue couple, the one formed by Lorenzo Sommariva and Chiara Carpano.
There was expectation for the first timed trial
of Sofia Goggia's downhill
.
Test passed by the blue who is trying everything in order to be at the start of the race scheduled for February 15th and defend the Olympic title after the bad fall in Cortina.
The smile shown at the end of the test speaks for itself: "I'm very happy - she says - After the flight from Cortina it was already a miracle to be able to get here. It was my first test of descent, I had no room for doubts and I left very calmly. , I tried to stand up, to understand the knee, the track, the snow. I am happy, concentrated, serene, aware of being able to do what I can do with the means I have now. I am very satisfied. It was not easy to get down downhill on a new track, I'm very happy. We are under construction ".
Italcurling is back on the platform
looking for redemption after the defeats in the first two days against Great Britain and Sweden, and today faces China.
Among the competitions scheduled today, waiting for the 10km biathlon sprint (Thomas Bormolini, Tommaso Giacomel, Lukas Hofer, Dominik Windisch), the 4x5 km women's cross-country ski relay (Anna Comarella; Martina Di Centa, Caterina Ganz, Lucia Scardoni ), skeleton with Valentina Margaglio and Amedeo Bagnis, figure skating with the blue couple formed by Marco Fabbri and Charlene Guignard engaged in the short couples program.