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Benedikt Doll has his last chance for a medal
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Hendrik Schmidt / dpa
That was important
Eileen Gu
is now definitely one of the stars of these games.
The freestyler, who competes for China, was crowned double Olympic champion in the
halfpipe
, after having previously won the Big Air competition.
She also won silver in slopestyle.
With her success, Gu secured an eighth gold medal for the host country in the only decision of the night.
The 18-year-old, who lives in the USA, relegated the two Canadians Cassie Sharpe and Rachael Karker to the podium places.
A German was also in the final: Sabrina Cakmakli, in twelfth place, did not play a major role in the fight for the front ranks.
The Beijing games have their
third doping case.
This time it was the Ukrainian
bobsleigh pilot Lidija Hunko
, as the International Test Agency announced.
The 28-year-old Ukrainian took part in the monobob competition, but was only 20th and last.
Previously, cross-country skier Valentina Kaminska, also from Ukraine, and Iranian ski racer Hossein Saveh Shemshaki had tested positive in a doping control.
The biggest fuss about doping, however, is about Russia
's figure skating star Kamila Valiyeva
.
The 15-year-old, who was the favorite on Thursday after a completely unsuccessful freestyle, announced that she wanted to prove her innocence with the help of the B sample.
She will apply for the B sample
to be examined
because, among other things, there may have been a technical error by the Stockholm Anti-Doping Laboratory when analyzing her doping test.
That's what Valiyeva's lawyers said.
This emerges from the 41-page verdict for the summary proceedings in the case, which the International Sports Court Cas published on Thursday evening.
In her defense, Valiyeva's lawyers referred to the "extremely low concentration" of the heart drug trimetazidine, which is prohibited under anti-doping rules, and which had been detected in the A sample.
That's going to be important today
It is the last day of competition for the
biathletes
- and thus also the last chance for the German men to win a medal in Beijing after all.
For twelve years there was always precious metal for the ski hunters, this time the
mass start
is the only remaining opportunity.
Men and women contest their mass start competitions today.
Since even lower temperatures were announced for Saturday, the men's race was brought forward to Friday.
The women start at 8 a.m. German time, the men at 10 a.m.
In
ice hockey
, it's already about the medals when the men's finalists are determined.
After Finland and Slovakia have already played against each other in the morning, at 2.10 p.m. there will be a real classic: then Sweden will play Russia.
A purely European semi-final - without Canada, without the USA, that was also rare.
All dates and competitions of the day can be found here.
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