The biathlon starts this Saturday with the mixed relay. With the first French medal?
Women’s Skiathlon; 7.5 km free + 7.5 km classic (8h45). The Swedes (Therese Johaug, Frida Karlsson, Ebba Andersson and Charlotte Kalla) are among the favorites along with the Finns and the Americans. On the French side, two entered: Delphine Claudel and Coralie Bentz.
Speed skating F 3000 m (9:30 a.m.). The women’s 3,000m will launch the events on the “Ice Ribbon”, a spectacular speed ring, the only newly built arena in the Olympic Park, located on the former archery and field hockey grounds used during the Olympic Games in 2008. The Dutch Carlijn Achtereekte, Ireen Wüst and Antoinette de Jong who sat on the podium in Pyeongchang will be among the candidates for the medals. To enrich the Dutch collection (16 medals including 7 gold 4 years ago) in speed skating 4 years ago.
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Biathlon, mixed relay, 4 x 6 km (10h). Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet, Julia Simon, Émilien Jacquelin and Quentin Fillon Maillet (in that order) will make up the tricolor relay. The World Cup leader summarizes: The competition will be very tough. With the two best boys and the two best girls, it’s quite dense races. We have a strong French team, we have a good card to play, I hope the whole team will go with desire and not fear. “Four years ago in South Korea, Martin Fourcade, Marie Dorin, Simon Desthieux and Anaïs Bescond, composed a relay covered in gold. The blue relay took 5th place at the 2021 Worlds in Pokljuka, Slovenia.
Ski jumping, small hill F (11.45 a.m.). Damien Maître, head of the French women’s team, presents: “The site is magnificent, one of the most beautiful springboards in the world in terms of architecture, but the profiles look great.Jérôme Laheurte, director of the France team, adds:There are wind turbines around, we say to ourselves that when there are, it’s not a place to put a jumping platform but they seem well protected from the wind.Julia Clair and Joséphine Pagnier took part in the qualifications (from 7:20 a.m.). Women’s ski jumping hopes to be invited to a new event in 2026 during the Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo Olympics: jumping on the large hill.
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Ski freestyle, bosses H (13h40). Benjamin Cavet (vice-world champion in 2017 and 2021), 3rd in qualifying (Sacha Theocharis had to go through a new qualifying phase) will start in the final with the hope of winning a first Olympic medal. Twenty years after Richard Guay’s bronze medal in Salt Lake City. In a discipline whose Olympic debut had been marked by the smile, the audacity and the gold of Edgar Grospiron, in 1992 in Albertville.
Short-track mixed relay (final 2:25 p.m.). After the always spectacular women’s (500m) and men’s (1000m) short-track series, it’s time for one of the 7 new events on the Olympic programme, the mixed relay.
