Ledeux and Pinturault aim for gold, double objective for Jacquelin and Fillon Maillet… Tuesday’s program

Tuesday February 8

The French on the menu

There will be very heavy on the tricolor side this Tuesday and we could leave with a nice skewer of medals. We will start at 3 a.m. with Tess Ledeux, who is in the Big Air final. Second in qualifying, the young skier (20) is aiming for gold. No more no less. Emilien Jacquelin and Quentin Fillon Maillet will also seek to climb to the top step of the podium, during the individual, after the second place obtained during the mixed relay. Simon Desthieux and Fabien Claude will also be there and will try to create a surprise.

Finally, make some noise for Alexis Pinturault who will compete in the Super-G and try to win a first Olympic title. Well, against the machine Marco Odermatt nothing is won, but on a misunderstanding, you never know. Matthieu Bailet, Nils Allègre, Blaise Giezendanner will accompany the Courchevel skier.

The star of the day

Three gold medals at the Olympic Games, six world titles, six big crystal globes… Cross-country skiing and Johannes Klaebo are one. The Norwegian will compete in the sprint qualifications (with the French Lucas Chanavat, Richard Jouve and Renaud Jayet) surely the final, this Tuesday, after an improbable 40th place in the skiathlon on Sunday. “Johannes started thinking about sprinting,” said coach Eirik Myhr Nossum. It’s important to him. He was disappointed not to be able to follow, but the three guys on the podium put in an extraordinary performance. Klaebo was aiming for at least a medal in each of the six races he contested.

The race of the day

Two snowboarders, a blue lane, a red lane, a slalom and the first down who win. There is nothing simpler and more exciting than the parallel slalom to watch this Tuesday. And then, it allows us to have a little thought for Karine Ruby, the first Olympic snowboard champion in 1998 in Nagano (Japan), who died in a mountain accident at only 31 years old, in 2006.

The paper to read so that our French people imitate Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet

How Anaïs Chevalier-Bouchet corrected the situation to win the silver via @20minutesSport https://t.co/FjeNFVdMlL

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