Skiing: Second Women’s Super-G in St. Moritz Canceled Due to Weather
unfavorable Conditions Force Cancellation of St. Moritz Super-G The highly anticipated second women’s super-G race in St. Moritz, originally slated for Sunday morning, has been officially canceled. Persistent low visibility and strong winds plaguing the Swiss track led to the International Ski Federation (FIS) making the difficult decision after multiple postponement attempts. Initially, saturday’s frigid […]
Biathlon in Grand-Bornand: at what time and on which TV channel to watch the women’s and men’s races?
As the end-of-year holidays arrive, the Biathlon World Cup is in full swing and stops in France for the 3rd stage. A week after Hochfilzen in Austria, the various events will take place on the Annecy-Le Grand Bornand track from Thursday December 19 to Sunday December 22. As is often the case, the French will […]
Martin Fourcade at the IOC, Kevin Rolland in the final… The Olympic Games recap of Thursday February 17
► Martin Fourcade elected to the IOC Former French biathlete Martin Fourcade has been elected to the Athletes’ Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the IOC announced Thursday (February 17th) in Beijing. He joins this commission for eight years, whose mission is “to represent the athletes and support them, both on and off the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Pinturault best time of the 1st round of the giant of Kranjska Gora
Frenchman Alexis Pinturault set the fastest time in the first round of the Alpine Skiing World Cup giant in Kranjska Gora (Slovenia) on Saturday, and Swiss Marco Odermatt is 7th at 42/100. At the heart of a missed season, Pinturault set the fastest time for the first time, without creating any gaps before the second […]
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), […]
Beijing Olympics: farewell, the bubble
Farewell, bubble. A kind of relief has been floating in the air for the past few days for the participants in the Beijing Games, happy to return home and leave the daily constraints and frustrations involved in life under a bell in China. The first of them being perhaps that of seeing the Great Wall […]