Cross-country skiing, Men's Skiathlon (8h).
On the French side, Maurice Manificat, Jules Lapierre, Clément Parisse, Hugo Lapalus will be on the track.
Olivier Michaud, director of the French cross-country ski teams, explains: “
Psychologically, we prepared well for the cold.
We worked upstream with army specialists to be able to perform in such temperatures.
We have, for the moment, had colds and feelings that give great cold but not encountered any problems.
If we are afraid of it, it can become a problem, it is not.
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Men's speed skating, 5000m (9:30 a.m.).
Sven Kramer's first challenge.
The Dutchman (35) has 9 Olympic medals (including 4 gold) and 22 world titles.
He begins his campaign with the 5,000m which he dominated in 2010, 2014 and 2018. Symbol of the Netherlands, the dominant nation of speed skating (42 titles, 121 medals at the Olympic Games since 1924).
Ski jumping, men's small hill (12h).
The German Andreas Wellinger, quadruple Olympic medalist and defending champion is among the favorites. With his compatriot Karl Geiger and the Pole Piotr Żyła. The competition site in Zhangjiakou (180 km northwest of Beijing) is very spectacular. The structure of the springboard resembles a traditional ruyi scepter, a Chinese talisman, hence its nickname "
Snow Ruyi
" (" Snow
Ruyi
").
Freestyle skiing, women's moguls (1:40 p.m.).
Finalist and curiosity at 15 in Sochi in 2014, covered with gold in Pyeongchang in 2018, Perrine Laffont will participate, this Sunday in her 3rd Olympic final.
The mogul queen (2nd in qualifying) will have to chain two jumps and swallow dozens of bumps on a 28% track to take up the challenge of a new gold medal.
She assures: “
It is not because it is the Olympic Games that you have to take the cabbage and look for noon to 2 p.m., do what you have been doing for eight years and do not think.
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Single-seater men's luge, 4th and final run (2:15 p.m.).
The first training session, marked by the fall of the Ukrainian Anton Dukach, the second to enter the track, and fell flat on his stomach after getting out of his sled, following a shock, reminded us of the dangers of the discipline.
British luger Rupert Staudinger summarizing to
Reuters
: “
The G, from one curve to another, is like flying, but differently.
I love it, it's like Formula 1 I guess.
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