DIRECT. Olympic Games 2022: after Clément Noël’s gold, new medals… – Linternaute.com

Fairly little known, the alpine combined event is rarely contested over a ski season. It takes place in a downhill or Super G run followed by a slalom run. The times of the two runs are added together, which constitutes the final classification of the event.

This Thursday, February 17, the last individual alpine skiing event takes place. From 3:30 a.m. (French time), the women have an appointment with the alpine combined and the descent where two French women are engaged: Romane Miradoli and Laura Gauche. Among the main competitors of the tricolors for the medal, Michelle Gisin will start. The Swiss, reigning Olympic champion in 2018 and 3rd in the last World Championships will try to retain her title. Olympic vice-champion in PyeongChang and reigning world champion, Mikaela Shiffrin does not want to leave Beijing fanny and will do everything to get a first charm in these Olympics. The big absentee from this alpine combined is the Slovak Petra Vlhova, Olympic champion in the slalom at the Beijing Olympics on February 9, who withdrew for the rest of the Olympic Games. Beginning of hostilities at 3:30 am with the descent and the slalom will start from 7:00 am.

The women’s ski cross competition for the 2022 Olympics starts this Thursday, February 17 from 4:30 a.m. (French time) with two French women in the running: Alizée Baron, 3rd in the last Worlds who can seriously claim an Olympic medal and Jade Grillet Aubert. To win a medal, the French will have to pay attention to the Canadian Brittany Phelan, reigning Olympic vice-champion but also the Swiss Fanny Smith, 3rd in 2018 and reigning vice-world champion. Double world champion, Sweden’s Sandra Naslund is the favorite of the event. The final is scheduled for around 8:30 a.m.

The individual events over, it’s time for the team competition in Nordic combined. This Thursday, February 17, the four French will try to create the feat and win a medal behind the ogres of the Nordic combined like Norway or Germany. Composed of 4 members (Mattéo Baud, Gael Blondeau, Antoine Gerard and Laurent Muhlethaler), the French team starts with ski jumping on the large hill from 8:00 am (French time) with the trial run. The competition round starts at 9:00 a.m. and cross-country skiing in the 4 x 5 kilometer relay will take place from 12:00 p.m.

At the top of the rankings at the end of the short program on Tuesday February 15, Kamila Valieva is back in these 2022 Olympic Games in individual women’s figure skating with the free program. Tested positive for a doping product last December, the 15-year-old skater was able to manage the pressure during her first pass. Favorite of the event, the Russian who has 82.16 points, is two points ahead of her compatriot Anna Shcherbakova (80.20 points) and 3 points over the Japanese Kaori Sakamoto (79.84). The free programs start this Thursday at 11:00 a.m. (French time) and Kamila Valieva will start in last position.

Canada and the United States have shared the first two places in the women’s ice hockey tournament since 2010 and the Vancouver Winter Olympics. This Thursday, February 17, the two nations have another appointment with the gold medal. Will the Americans retain their title and double down? The two finalists have already met during the preliminary round and the meeting had turned to the advantage of the Canadians who won 4-2 on Tuesday February 8th. Kick-off at 5:10 a.m. (French time).

Reigning World Champion Brittany Bowe will be competing tomorrow in the women’s 1000m final on Thursday February 17 at 9:30 a.m. (French time). The American will try to win the title of Olympic champion in the discipline. But other skaters also have this goal. This is particularly the case of the Japanese Nao Kodaira and Miho Takagi, 2nd and 3rd in PyeongChang or the Dutch Jutta Leerdam, vice-world champion in title. Her compatriot Ireen Wust, gold medalist in the 1500 meters will try to do the double with the 1000 meters. See you this Thursday at 9:30 a.m.

The men’s and women’s curling tournaments of the 2022 Olympics continue this Thursday, February 17. In the men’s competition, the matches start from 2:05 a.m. (French time) with the program: Denmark – United States, Sweden – Switzerland, Canada – Great Britain and Norway – Italy. The two men’s semi-finals will follow and will take place from 1:05 p.m. Meanwhile, the women have an appointment with session n°12 of the tournament from 7.05 am: Japan – Switzerland, Russian Olympic Committee – Great Britain, Denmark – Canada and Korea – Sweden.

This Wednesday, February 16, session 10 and 11 of the women’s ice hockey tournament took place. Four matches were played at 2:05 a.m. (French time): Canada – United States (7-6), Switzerland – Korea (8-4) and China – Great Britain (8-4). In the matches which started at 1:05 p.m., China won against Canada (11-9) and Sweden against the Russian Olympic Committee (8-5) while at the same time, Korea and Japan respectively beat Denmark (8-7) and the United States (10-7). Meanwhile, the men also played from 7:05 am with 3 matches: China – Switzerland (6-5), Great Britain – Russian Olympic Committee (8-6) and Italy – Denmark (10-3).

For the second time in these 2022 Olympics (after a women’s ice hockey match at the start of the Olympics), an ice hockey referee is injured. During the quarter-final between Finland and Switzerland, a referee took a puck, which knocked him out.

First Haitian athlete in history at the Winter Olympics, Richardson Viano finished 34th in the men’s alpine skiing slalom, more than 15 seconds behind Clément Noël, Olympic champion.

Reigning Olympic champion in the discipline, Minjeong Choi retained her title on Wednesday in the women’s 1500m short track speed skating event. The Korean, 8th in the World Cup rankings, beat two of the best speed skaters in the world, the Italian Arianna Fontana who won her third medal in these Olympics and the Dutch Suzanne Schulting who won her fourth charm in Beijing.

Seventh this Wednesday in the team event of the classic sprint of the 2022 Olympics, Richard Jouve and Hugo Lapalus had come to seek an Olympic medal. The first named would have liked to do better today: “We are disappointed not to be on the podium. When we are in the final, we are there to get a medal. So we were there for better but we gave the best of ourselves today. There was stronger, that’s how it is. We weren’t favorites but underdogs. Hugo (Lapalus) gave the best of himself, it was still a very good race.”

Eliminated this Wednesday, February 16 from the women’s 1500m short track speed skating in the quarter-finals, Gwendoline Daudet and Tifany Huot Marchand struggled to find satisfaction after their performances: “I knew my level before arriving here. I knew it would be complicated. I left with the objective of doing a race without any regrets and giving everything I had. Today (Wednesday), I I’m going to have some harsh words with myself but I’m ashamed of my performance, I’m more than disappointed” said Gwendoline Daudet. For her part, Tifany Huot Marchand is having a complicated Olympic Games: “I couldn’t do worse (very emotional). Fall in the 500, disqualified in the 1,000, I had a lot of expectations in the 1,500, I wasn’t stressed. Mentally, I was ready, came back up like never. I did the right race but it’s just that I don’t have enough energy. It was clearly physical. I couldn’t even stand on my skates anymore.”