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Olympic Games: the meetings not to be missed (especially) on the night of Wednesday to Thursday

2022-02-16T14:01:14.026Z


Kevin Rolland's debut, Eileen Gu's last chance for a medal, the women's combined downhill and the women's ice hockey final are on the Olympic night programme.


Freestyle skiing, women's half pipe qualifications (2h30).

After gold in Big Air and silver in slopestyle, the Chinese Eileen Gu (18), announced as the star of the Beijing Games, knocks down her last card with the half pipe.

Gu "

the frog princess

", a nickname inherited from the green helmet she wore during a competition, summed up before her last Olympic challenge in Beijing: "

I am indebted to both the United States and China, these two countries have supported, what I have experienced in these two countries has made the person that I am.

I'm American when I'm in the United States and Chinese when I'm in China.

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Alpine skiing, women's combined, downhill (3h30).

Unhappy in Beijing (giant and slalom outings; 9th in the super-G, 18th in the downhill), the American Mikaela Shiffrin (double Olympic champion (slalom in 2014, giant in 2018), in search of a rebound, is competing in her last individual event The Swiss Michelle Gisin and the Italian Federica Brignone are among the headliners of an event in which the French Romane Miradoli and Laura Gauché will participate.

Ice hockey, women's final (5h10).

Canada and the United States will make it to the final.

The Canadians won 4-2 in the preliminary round.

The Canadians, gold medalists in 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 but beaten in 2018 by the… United States will they manage to find the gold?

Freestyle skiing, men's half pipe qualifications (5h30).

11th in Pyeongchang in 2018, Kevin Rolland, flag bearer of the French delegation (with Tessa Worley) returns to the Olympics at 32 after a career that is a miracle for the one who was close to death, was relieved with a broken pelvis , a cerebral hemorrhage, lungs punctured by ribs, damaged pancreas after a world record attempt in 2019.

To be continued this Thursday morning:

Alpine skiing, women's combined slalom (7 a.m.);

Women's ski cross (7h);

Nordic combined (large hill) by team (ski jumping at 9 a.m.; cross-country skiing at 12 p.m.);

Women's 1,000m speed skating (9:30 a.m.);

Figure skating, women's individual event, free program (11h08).

Source: lefigaro

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