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 […]
solutions developed for recreational skiing
Initially, it was the adaptation of a verticalizer, a device used in hospitals to allow patients to straighten up. In fifteen years, over the course of improvements, the machine became the Gotoski, a snow scooter invented by Marc Gostoli, an instructor from La Plagne (Savoie) who wanted to offer disabled people the possibility of hurtling […]
At the Paralympic Games, equipment in the race for medals
When Jordan Broisin sets off on the slopes of Yanqing for the alpine skiing events of the Paralympic Games in Beijing, organized from March 4 to 13, he will not only rely on his sense of trajectory. The hopes of the Haut-Savoyard, whose left leg was amputated after a motorcycle accident, will also rest on […]
These resorts that rely on ski touring
It’s the winter hit that Christian Dejax replays without getting tired. The president of the ski touring commission at the French Ski Federation (FFS) counts and recounts the number of routes laid out in the resorts in recent years. “It represents 70 stations and 150 routes in all the massifs, it’s a real ground swell”, […]