these French champions between resourcefulness and crowdfunding
They are at the start of their first two-man bobsleigh rounds, this Friday, January 18, and it’s already huge. Because you had to believe, four years ago, in the possibility of entering a French women’s crew for the Beijing Winter Games, a first at the Games. The pilot Margot Boch and the pusher Carla Sénéchal […]
Blues on time and stunning Ukrainians
He had opened the ball, and undertook to close it in the same way: as a virtuoso. Skier Arthur Bauchet sounded the first Marseillaise of the French Paralympic team at the very start of the Games in Beijing, Saturday March 5, by winning gold in the downhill. The 21-year-old champion executed his last score perfectly […]
Arthur Bauchet wins a third gold medal
Published on : 13/03/2022 – 09:36 French skier Arthur Bauchet won his third gold medal at the Beijing Paralympic Games on Sunday, in the slalom (standing category), confirming the hopes placed in him for several years. Cross-country skiers Benjamin Daviet and Anthony Chalençon pocketed silver in the cross-country ski relay. On the last day of […]
despite the war, Ukraine shines in Beijing
Published on : 13/03/2022 – 11:22 With eleven gold medals, Ukraine finished the Paralympic Games in Beijing in second place in the nations ranking, behind China and ahead of Canada. Despite the conflict affecting their country, Ukrainian athletes won a total of 29 medals and particularly dominated the biathlon events. The Paralympic flame goes out […]
cold shower for the Skicross Blues
They knew they were expected, to finish these Games in style and allow France to hope to beat its medal record, obtained in PyeongChang. They all had the goal of getting on the podium. “It’s going to be complicated to have four medals”, even joked François Place a few days before the event. → THE […]
in the bubble, pine fever
Tao, 21, with round glasses on his nose, dedicated his day off to it. If she made the trip between the mountains of Zhangjiakou and the capital, Beijing, that day, it was for this sole purpose: “exchange pins with athletes and reporters”, she announces with a big smile. → CHRONICLE. Beijing Olympics: in the Olympic […]
Benjamin Daviet in silver, Marie Bochet ends her career
Published on : 12/03/2022 – 15:01 The day of the French at the Paralympic Games was mixed. While Benjamin Daviet took silver in cross-country skiing – his third medal, star Marie Bochet ended her glorious Paralympic career with a crash in slalom. The penultimate day of the Paralympic Games in Beijing, Saturday March 12, was […]
dantesque conditions to finish the Games
This is a first in the history of Olympism. In Zhangjiakou, competitors in the mass start (mass start) of 50 km in cross-country skiing will have traveled… 28.4 km. This Saturday, February 19, they learned less than an hour from the start of the race that the queen event was cut by 20 kilometers, and […]
the end of Games locked in their bubble
China brilliantly succeeded in its Games, which ended on Sunday February 20, in sporting terms, ranking third nation against sixteenth place four years ago. But she knew she was being scrutinized on a completely different level: her management of the pandemic, as she never ceased to praise her “zero Covid” strategy. Here too, the results […]
the sports report reveals a growing specialization by country
Almost. A small medal is missing to equal PyeongChang’s record record in 2018, and no doubt this little nothing is enough to oscillate between satisfaction and slight bitterness when it comes to taking stock of the Blues at the Beijing Games: they bring back the same number titles (5), more silver medals (7 against 2), […]