DIRECT. Olympic Games 2022: the silver mixed relay, Perrine Laffont on the program this Sunday

[Fin du direct] It’s the end of the live for today, but tomorrow morning, find the results of the second day of the Beijing Winter Olympics with perhaps the first gold medal for the French team.

In the other Olympic finals on Sunday February 6, no French will be present, whether in the men’s individual springboard, the men’s 5000m in short-track or the women’s slopestyle, since Lucile Lefèvre was eliminated in qualifying.

Four French cross-country skiers will be involved in the men’s skiathlon of the Olympic Games, a synthesis of cross-country skiing disciplines (15 km free + 15 km classic), at 8 a.m. (French time), Sunday February 6. Maurice Manificat, Jules Lapierre, Clément Parisse and Hugo Lapalus will try to win another medal for France.

While weather conditions forced the interruption of men’s downhill training this Saturday, four French people will be engaged. Among them, the veteran Johan Clarey, 41, who will try to create a sensation against the favorites, the Norwegian Aleksander Aamodt Kilde and the Swiss Beat Feuz. Maxence Muzaton, Matthieu Bailet and Blaise Giezendanner are also at the start. This first alpine skiing event of the Olympic fortnight will be followed from 4 a.m. French time.

Reigning Olympic and world champion Perrine Laffont is eagerly awaited in the mogul ski final. Qualified without problem, it did not however achieve the best score. Jostled by Australian Jakara Anthony, the 2021 individual world champion will also have to be wary of the 17-year-old Japanese prodigy, Anri Kawamura. At 23, she will play her third Olympic final at 12:30 p.m. (French time), Sunday February 6, 2022.

Still at the microphone of Eurosport, Émilien Jacquelin blamed his gloves which bothered him when he had to draw: “It was very hard to put the balls with these gloves. With this freezing cold, they are a bit warmer, a little bigger and it was quite hard to take the balls. I complicated the task with these thicker gloves to counter the cold. So I had a little less dexterity. Afterwards, there are tenseness and who says tenseness says tremors…”

Émilien Jacquelin returned, at the microphone ofEurosporton his stint and his two errors in standing shots which may have cost him the gold medal: “I was on an engaged shot. The wind was a bit strong, so I was hanging on a lot. The first three but with the fact that the wind at the end was a little less strong, I stayed on a somewhat defensive shot, with tension to try to hold the rifle.

After a career punctuated by three Olympic titles, four World Cups and thirteen Winter X Games gold medals, American snowboarder Shaun White has announced that he will end his career at the end of the 2022 Winter Olympics. While he’ll be aiming for a fourth gold medal to finish on a high, he’s been prone to multiple knee and back injuries in recent years: ‘That’s what made me make this decision’ , he explained, as reported by L’Équipe.

In short-track, over 500 meters, Tifany Huot Marchand and Gwendoline Daudet unfortunately did not pass the series stage.

This Saturday afternoon, Quentin Ferrocq qualified for the quarter-finals of the 1,000 meters in short-track. Simon Lepape, meanwhile, is eliminated following his third place.

Suffering from two back fractures, Antoine Adelisse is recovering quietly. he will therefore not take part in training before the big air qualifications which will begin on Monday 7 February.

Despite a slower speed, Mikaël Kinsbury passes in front thanks to the cleanliness of his style and his jumps. He is ahead of Horishima and Cavet. There is still one person to start the Swede Wallberg.

Author of a very clean run, Benjamin Cavet is already assured of not winning gold. Indeed, the Japanese Ikuma Horishima was better rated than the Frenchman, who can therefore only be second at best.