Will France equal or even beat its medal record?
With 14 charms on the counter at the 2022 Winter Olympics, the French team needs to get on a single podium to do as well as in Sochi (2014) and Pyeongchang (2018).
To do this, the tricolor delegation will rely on alpine skiers, involved in the mixed team parallel, cross-country skiers, or even Kevin Rolland, who will compete in the halfpipe final.
Here is the schedule for Saturday, February 19.
A new medal for alpine skiing?
After Clément Noël's gold in the slalom, Johan Clarey's silver in the downhill and Mathieu Faivre's bronze on the giant, French alpine skiing is looking for a new charm.
And maybe it will be on the mixed team parallel.
Appeared four years ago in Korea, this discipline has a direct elimination table (eighth, quarter, semi and final).
Tessa Worley, Coralie Frasse-Sombet, Clara Direz, Mathieu Faivre, Thibaut Favrot and Alexis Pinturault are on the side of the Blues and will face the Czechs in the round of 16 (3h05).
The Switzerland of Marco Odermatt and Michelle Gisin serves as a scarecrow.
Kevin Rolland for fun
“The bet is successful, but I still have it under my feet,” enthused Kevin Rolland, after qualifying for the final.
Passed close to death on skis in 2019, the skier from La Plagne has already succeeded in his Olympic Games by reaching the final.
To try to win a medal, the French will have to participate in three rounds (the first at 2:30, the second at 2:57 and the third at 3:24) and get the best possible score.
American Aaron Blunck won the qualifications.
Break the curse in bobsleigh
If the biathlon is often synonymous with victories for the tricolor camp, this is not the case for the bobsleigh.
Indeed, France has only one medal in the four-man bobsleigh in its entire Olympic history (bronze in 1998).
Inevitably, Dorian Hauterville, Romain Heinrich, Jérôme Laporal and Lionel Lefebvre will try to break the curse and do better than their elders.
The first round will take place at 2:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Cross-country skiers take on the 50 km free
After the bronze medal in the relay, the tricolor cross-country skiers will try to create the feat in the 50 km free (at 7 a.m.).
Adrien Backscheider, Jules Lapierre, Maurice Manificat, Clément Parisse are the French people involved in this event.
A medal seems, however, difficult to achieve.