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Olympic Games: the meetings not to be missed this Tuesday

2022-02-08T04:21:35.751Z


The tricolor Biathlon Musketeers (20 km), the free sprints in cross-country skiing and the men's 1,500 m in speed skating are on the program this Tuesday morning.


Snowboard, women's parallel giant slalom (from 7:30 a.m.), men (from 7:48 a.m.).

The Czech Esther Ledecka had entered the history of the Games in front, in 2018, the first to reach the podium in two different sports, covered with gold on the parallel giant slalom of snowboarding and the super-G of alpine skiing.

She begins the defense of her titles in Beijing with snowboarding, before tackling the Super G this Friday.

Among the men, South Korean Lee Sangho is among the favorites after his silver medal in Pyeongchang with Dmitrii Loginov (ROC) and Andreas Prommegger (Austria).

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Biathlon 20 km men (9.30 a.m.).

Well launched with the silver medals in the mixed relay and Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet (in the 15 km), the French biathlon team is breaking new cards in the individual with Quentin Fillon-Maillet, Emilien Jacquelin, Fabien Claude and Simon Desthieux.

Cross-country skiing, men's free sprint (9:50 a.m.), women's free sprint (11:30 a.m.).

The nervous, spectacular races bring together six competitors over a course of approximately 1 km.

The Norwegian Johannes Klaebo will leave with the favors of the forecasts.

The French Lucas Chanavat (two podiums this winter) and Richard Jouve (2nd in the World Cup standings) will seek to climb the Olympic podium to succeed Roddy Darragon, silver medalist in 2006 in Turin.

“There is no tactic to beat Klaebo, I will focus on my race.

We will discover the tactics at the time on a race that we do not know.

If I manage to do the perfect race in the final, there can be some great things at the end”, summarizes Lucas Chanavat.

Speed ​​skating 1500m men (11:30 a.m.).

The Dutchman Thomas Krol (sponsored by Jumbo-Visma but whose idol is Peter Sagan) and the Chinese Ning Zhongyan and the flag bearer of the delegation Gao Tingyu (bronze medalist in Pyeongchang, which made him the first Chinese medalist in speed skating) are among the favorites.

Individual women's luge (12:50 p.m.).

Germany's Natalie Geisenbreger (who crashed in training in Beijing, like last November) wears the banner of favorite with four Olympic gold medals and a bronze, which makes her the most decorated luge woman ever. the history of the Games.

If she wins two more medals in Beijing, she will become the most decorated athlete in luge, erasing the Italian Armin Zoggeler (six medals, including two gold).

Source: lefigaro

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