Chloé Trespeuch and the Blues during the team snowboardcross event and the ice hockey tournament with a highly anticipated United States-Canada are on the program for the Olympic night.
Snowboardcross by mixed teams (3h). Two French teams are in competition: Chloé Trespeuch (silver medal in the women’s event) and Merlin Surget (5e of the men’s competition) and Julia Pereira de Sousa Mabileau (unhappy in the women’s competition with an early elimination in the quarter-finals after a fall in the semi-finals) and Loan Bozzolo. After the quarter-finals and semi-finals, the final will be played at 3:56.
Ice Hockey, Canada-United States (5h10), Group B match. The last time the two teams met was in the semi-finals of the 2014 Olympic Games. Canada won 1-0, before heading for a new title, after that of Vancouver in 2010. Private of its NHL stars, the tournament will experience a highlight. “ The ice may be cold, but the action in the rink is about to get hot. Tensions between the two countries date back to 1920, when the teams met in the semi-finals of the Antwerp Olympics. Canada prevailed 2-0 to claim gold in the final “recalls NBC.
To be continued this Saturday morning: Cross-country skiing, women’s 4 x 5 km relay (8h30); men’s 500m speed skating; biathlon 10 km men (10h); ski jumping, men’s large hill final (12 p.m.); figure skating, rhythmic dance (12:07 p.m.); women’s skeleton (2:55 p.m.).
