it didn’t fart for french snowboardcross
A combination of falling snow and bad waxing dashed podium hopes in the new mixed team snowboardcross event. The grimace soup. For its great Olympic premiere, the mixed team snowboardcross event did not smile on the French, to say the least. Two quarter-finals, two last places and two medalist hopes evaporated under the falling snow […]
LIVE – Olympic Games 2022: no medal for France in snowboardcross
The Sports Court (CAS) announced on Saturday in Beijing that it had received appeals from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) about the positive control of Russian skater Kamila Valieva. In a statement, the CAS, which received calls from the IOC and WADA on Friday night in Beijing, said it […]
the appointments not to be missed (especially) on the night from Friday to Saturday
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 […]
French biathlon cannot always hit the bullseye
For the first time since the start of the Games, a biathlon event ended without a hexagonal representative on the podium this Friday during the women’s sprint. This cannot smile every time for the French biathlon. After an Olympic title – Quentin Fillon-Maillet in the individual – and two silver medals – Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet in […]
the intense emotion of Shaun White at the time of bowing out
At 35, the American, a true legend of freestyle snowboarding, competed in his last competition on the occasion of a halfpipe final which he finished at the foot of the podium. Our special correspondent in Beijing The story almost got even better. For his last competition, Shaun White dreamed of finishing on the podium. At […]
LIVE – Olympic Games 2022: Four French women including Tessa Worley in the running for Super-G
With his long hair hidden under a USA cap, his beautiful mustache, his arm tattoos, his little overweight and his psychedelic-colored shoes, the American curler
events not to be missed on Saturday morning
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 […]
Follow the first day of the Beijing Olympics live
Ask for the program! The first medals will be awarded this Saturday, the day after the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics. On the menu, the Women’s Slopestyle (3h45), with in particular the Frenchwoman Lucile Lefèvre, 3rd in a round of the World Cup in 2019, in China, but also Women’s Ice Hockey with […]
Perrine Laffont, the mogul queen
PORTRAIT – Olympic champion four years ago in Pyeongchang, the specialist in mogul skiing intends to conquer a new title in Beijing. At only 23 years old. Eight years like an eternity. How far Perrine Laffont has come since 2014, when she discovered – a carefree little 15-year-old kid – the Olympic Games in Sochi. […]
the Olympic adventure told by Jean-Claude Killy, anecdotes and confidences
MAJOR MAINTENANCE – The unforgettable triple gold medalist of the Grenoble Olympics in 1968 was, thirty years ago, the co-president of the Albertville Olympics. Confident for the French team in Beijing, he shares his Olympic adventure, that of a lifetime. Sport and its actors (former and current) hold no secrets for Jean-Claude Killy. He always […]