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Olympic Games 2022: the meetings not to be missed (especially) on the night of Friday to Saturday

2022-02-18T16:08:16.879Z


The mixed team event to end the alpine skiing and the men's half pipe final to make you dizzy will punctuate the Olympic night in Beijing.


4-man bobsleigh, 1st and 2nd rounds (2h30).

Titled in the two-man bobsleigh (with Margis Thorsten; ahead of two other German bobsleighs), Germany's Francesco Friedrich, 2018 Olympic champion, triple four-man world champion who only missed three World Cup races will make a new times, figure of favorite.

Germany won 7 gold medals out of the 8 distributed in skeleton, luge and bobsleigh in Beijing.

With the French Romain Heinrich, Lionel Lefebvre, Dorian Hauterville, Jérôme Laporal.

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Freestyle skiing, men's half pipe final (2h30).

Being in the final, I was far from thinking about it two and a half years ago.

The bet is successful

, ”savored Kevin Rolland, standard bearer (with Tessa Worley) of the French delegation who, 10th in the qualifications (won by the American Aaron Blunck, ahead of the New Zealander Nico Porteous and the American Birk Irving ), clinched a deserved place in the final.

A small miracle for the one who, after a terrible accident in 2019, was hit in the pelvis, head, lungs and pancreas.

Alpine skiing, mixed team event (4h).

Final at 5:46.

The parallel giant, with wider curves than those offered in Pyeongchang in 2018, will offer the last test of alpine skiing.

Each team (six skiers) chooses only four (two women and two men) for each match.

The knockout competition kicks off with the round of 16.

Switzerland, defending champion, with 5 gold medals in alpine skiing in Beijing (with 5 different skiers) will leave with the label of favourites.

France presents Tessa Worley, Mathieu Faivre, Alexis Pinturault, Coralie Frasse Sombet, Clara Direz and Thibaut Favrot.

To be continued, this Saturday morning:

Cross-country skiing, men's 50 km freestyle;

Curling, men's final (7:05 a.m.);

Speed ​​skating, mass start men (8h), women (8h45);

Figure skating, free program couples (12h08);

Bobsleigh with 2 women, 3rd and 4th rounds (1 p.m.).

Source: lefigaro

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