Beijing – Many emotions for Italy on this day of the Beijing 2022 Winter Games. In the short track Arianna Fontana earns yet another final and looks for a double gold in the 1500 meters after the victory in the 5000. The blue finished her semifinal in second place behind the South Korean Lee Yubi and will skate for a medal at 14.18 Italian time.
A great match also for the other Italian, Cynthia Mascitto on the ice of the Capital Indoor Stadium. The blue finished in third place her quarter-finals (2’20 “268) behind the Canadian Boutin and the Korean Lee. But she was unable to access the final.
The pursuit of curling
The Italy of men’s curling finds their third consecutive victory against Denmark, bottom of the line, for 10-3 and continues to chase the company. The Azzurri remain in the running for a place in the semifinals, even if we have to hope for some favorable results. Tomorrow the last match with Norway.
The Valieva case
The spokesman for the International Olympic Committee, Mark Adams confirmed that the ranking of the women’s figure skating competition that will end tomorrow with the free program will not be final and therefore “there will be an asterisk next to the results because they will be preliminary pending. of further investigations “. The investigations concern the case of positivity to a substance prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Code of the Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva. The 15-year-old athlete originally from Kazan and who trains in Moscow after the first segment of the race is in command. The investigations, which will be conducted by both Rusada (Russian anti-doping agency) and Wada (world anti-doping agency), will concern in particular the staff that revolves around Valieva.
Razzoli’s tears
Frenchman Clement Noel won the special slalom. Second place for the Austrian Johannes Strolz, while the bronze went to the Norwegian Sebastian-Foss Solevaag. First of the Italians Giuliano Razzoli who finished in eighth place. Tommaso Sala eleventh while Alex Vinatzer went out during the second heat.
«My tears are not of disappointment, but not even of joy; tears are also a little bit of sadness for having seen everything fade for a little but sport is this, it teaches you to always look forward to shake hands with opponents who were better than me, for what I did today to play me the medal 12 years later ». These are the words of Razzoli after the race: “With a medal I would probably have said goodbye to skiing, now I want to leave with a podium and with Kitzbuehl I still have an unfinished business, some credit to take home: I will continue next year too” .
The podium was a whisker away: «It’s not for everyone to get to play for the bronze, I know it’s not for everyone I have to be satisfied with what I have done, and I am very much. I played for the medal, after all season having skied well and fought with the youngsters. I believed it, I prepared these Olympics very well I was charged even though I knew it would be difficult and that we would all be very close because the track was not so selective – he said – Surely starting in front would have helped me, in the second I don’t have much to complain about. Resting on one foot at the beginning maybe yes, I lost 2-3 tenths which cost me the medal but overall an excellent heat. All corners had to be perfect to get a medal, and I wasn’t perfect at the tenth gate so that’s not enough. A crazy level of slalom, in the first heat I was 8 tenths late and I paid for it, even if starting with 18 is never easy. If you risk too much, go out: Strolz was good but he risked a lot. The second heat was excellent but it wasn’t enough, I would have liked to finish with a medal. I am extremely excited as you can see, sport is beautiful because it teaches you to pursue your dreams and to believe in them until the end and then you get close to them ».
Combined, the hopes of Brignone and Bassino
Mikaela Shiffrin was the fastest in the women’s downhill supplementary test valid for tomorrow’s combined, which closes the individual alpine skiing competitions in Beijing 2022. The American crossed the finish line of the entire track which awarded the medals the previous day in a time of 1’33 “56, ahead of the Swiss Wendy Holdener by 93 cents and the Czech Ester Ledecka by 94 cents. Fourth position for Michelle Gisin at 12, followed by the blue Federica Brignone and Marta Bassino in fifth and sixth position, in a training that saw just fourteen starters. «Of course my race will go from downhill behavior, I’m trying to find the right times on this track and if I manage to limit the damage in the morning, I can really play something important in slalom». Bassino: “I intend to redeem an Olympics that so far has gone below my expectations, I still have two chances available,” said Federica Brignone. In addition to the Aosta Valley and Piedmontese, Elena Curtoni and Nicol Delago, who today preferred to concentrate on slalom training, will be in the match.
The girls of the fifth biathlon relay
Italy finished the women’s biathlon relay in fifth place. The blue quartet made up of Lisa Vittozzi, Dorothea Wierer, Samuela Comola and Federica Sanfilippo was in the medal zone for three quarters of the race, before undergoing the return of Denise Herrmann (Germany) and Marte Roeiseland (Norway) in the last fraction, with Sanfilippo who finished fifth. Gold to Sweden, silver to Russia and bronze to Germany. Norway at the foot of the podium. The blue team staged a tactically perfect race finishing in fifth position at 1’33 “1 with five reloads. In the first fraction Vittozzi keeps the time of the best on skis, dictating the pace at the shooting range and also managing the two reloads. Wierer is no less at the moment of the change, being the fastest at the shooting range on the ground, with a gain of 5 seconds on the opponents and passing the baton to Comola with the blue in second position. The 23-year-old from Valle d’Aosta took the chair , with a test of great character, determination and efficiency, using a single reload, standing up, and the satisfaction of coming out in the lead from his own second polygon. Federica Sanfilippo was also positive (2 reloads standing), who could do nothing to the opponent’s comeback .
Men’s sprint, Italy sixth
Federico Pellegrino and Francesco De Fabiani did not go beyond sixth place in the men’s cross-country ski sprint team at the Beijing 2022 Games. The blue couple finished 25 “43 from Norway, gold medal with Erik Valnes and Johannes Klaebo. Silver to Finland (+2 “46), bronze to Russia (+4” 29).
No final female sprint
Nothing final for the blue Caterina Ganz and Lucia Scardoni in the women’s sprint team. For Italy in the semifinals the seventh place is not enough to go to the last act for the medals, with the blue who are the second among those excluded from the repechage times.
Hockey doesn’t speak American
The United States will remain for the third consecutive Olympics without a medal in men’s ice hockey. Today at the National Indoor Stadium in Beijing the USA were eliminated in the quarter-finals after being defeated by 2 to 3 on penalties by Slovakia. For the Slovakian team the match winner was Peter Cehlarik, striker of the Russian team of Avangard Omsk. For US hockey, which together with Canada is the most important in the world, this is the second consecutive elimination in the quarter-finals. In 2014 in Sochi the US had finished fourth while the last medal dates back to Vancouver 2010, silver. In the 2002 home edition in Salt Lake City, the stars won silver while the last (second in history) Olympic gold dates back to Lake Placid 1980.
Lollobrigida flag bearer
Francesca Lollobrigida will be the Italian standard-bearer in the closing ceremony of the XXIV Winter Olympic Games in Beijing 2022 scheduled for Sunday evening at the Bird’s Nest, the stadium of the Chinese capital, starting at 20:00 local time (13:00 in Italy). The blue in speed skating, silver in the 3,000 meters test of the Games, awarded with multiple titles at international level, was chosen by the president of Coni Giovanni Malagò, in agreement with the head of delegation Carlo Mornati.
“It is a fair recognition for what Francesca has done so far in Beijing and also a spur for what she will have to do in the next few days – explained Malagò -. Furthermore, I believe it is a necessary signal of attention to the Italian Ice Sports Federation and its president Andrea Gios, who have honored these Games by winning important successes for the Italia Team ». The Lollobrigida, 31 years old on 7 February, will carry the flag that the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella had delivered to Sofia Goggia at the Quirinale but which, due to her injury, was then entrusted to Michela Moioli for the parade of the opening ceremony on February 4th, confirming an Olympics that is more than ever female. The decision, on the other hand, follows the examples that in the past saw Federghiaccio as the protagonist with two standard-bearers at the closing ceremonies in the last two winter editions, namely Arianna Fontana in Sochi 2014 and Carolina Kostner in PyeongChang 2018.
«Proud, honored, proud and excited. I have no other adjectives to define my state of mind », this is the post on Instagram with which Lollobrigida welcomed the news. «I would just like to say thank you, thank you to everyone, to Coni and to the FISG who have always followed me on my path – added the blue skater -. The Olympics for me is not over yet, concentrated until the end ».
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