Olympics, Visintin bronze (snowboard cross). Goggia renounces the supergiant

Beijing 2022 Olympics, it is bronze for Visintin in snowboard cross

Omar Visintin is medal of bronze in snowboard cross at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games. The Merano snowboarder won the men’s podium in the specialty, moved by saying: “I’ve been waiting for it for some time”. Despite the injury two months ago, Visentin dominated until the end, bringing home an excellent result.

Sofia Goggia renounces the super-G, hopes for the free

From women’s skiing came the news of the Sofia Goggia renounces the supergiant scheduled for tomorrow on the snows of Yanqing, the news reported Federsci. The news was expected already in the hours following the accident of last January 23 in Cortina d’Ampezzo. The Italians will be at the super G of the Beijing Games tomorrow morning Federica Brignonand, one of the contenders for the gold medal, Marta Bassino, Elena Curtoni And Francesca Marsaglia.

Now, it remains to be seen whether Goggia, former Olympic champion of the downhill in Pyeong Chang 2018, will participate in the descent of 15 or it will be forced to forfeit. These days the blue skier is trying to ski, looking for a way to live with the bad injury of last January 23, which cost her a sprained trauma to her left knee, with a partial injury to the cruciate ligament (already operated in 2013) , a small fracture of the fibula and a tendon muscle suffering.

Doping: the first cases of Beijing 2022

L’International Testing Agency (Ita) announced the first doping case at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. It is the Iranian skier Hossein Saveh Shemshakiwho was provisionally suspended from the Olympics after being found positive in a doping test.

During the checkup on January 7, Shemshaki, 36, from Tehran, formerly an Olympian in Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014, was found positive for a dehydrochloromethyl metabolite. The sample was analyzed yesterday by the Wada (World Anti-Doping Agency) accredited laboratory in Beijing.

Meanwhile, also the Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, 15, ended up in the eye of the storm for an alleged positive doping. This is the trimetazidine, a banned metabolic agent due to the influence it has on blood flow efficiency. The women’s singles favorite of figure skating, meanwhile, has trained regularly at the pitch located near the ‘Capital Indoor Stadium’.

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