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Geisenberger record holder after new German toboggan gold
4:42 PM: Natalie Geisenberger has become Germany’s gold record holder with her sixth medal at the Winter Games. Geisenberger won the final team competition at the Yanqing National Sliding Center together with Johannes Ludwig and the duo Tobias Wendl-Tobias Arlt, who won gold medals in three Games.
Never before has a German athlete won six golds at the Winter Games. Geisenenberger, 34, who also owns a 2010 silver medal, had been the first to equal the record five golds with speed skater Claudia Pechstein with individual victory earlier in the week.
Geisenberger was also seen twice in Sochi 2014 and Pyeongchang 2018 for the win. The Germans won all the luge events in Beijing. Ludwig was also advice from the best, we exploratory titles and titles gold.and in the two-seater
The silver in the team competition, in which a woman, a man and a duo slide down the ice channel in succession, was for Austria, which conceded eight hundredths of a second after the three runs. Latvia was close to second-third.
The Netherlands in half the number of slices from previous Winter Games
2:32 pm: The Netherlands is on four gold medals at the Beijing Olympics after six days. That is half the total number of the previous Winter Games in Pyeongchang (2018).
Long track skater Irene Schouten won her second gold medal in the 5000 meters on Thursday. Previously, she won the 3000 meters in the National Speed Skating Oval. Ireen Wüst and Kjeld Nuis written to their name at 1500 meters
TeamNL in China further three silver (skaters Patrick Roest and Thomas Krol and short track Suzanne Schulting), one bronze and skater Antoinette de Jong.
At the Pyeongchang Games, the Netherlands achieved eight gold, six silver and six bronze medals. At the most successful Winter Games ever, in Sochi in 2014, the Orange formation collected eight gold, seven silver and nine bronze medals, so 24 in total. Both times the Netherlands was fifth in the medal standings.
Patrick Roest in second stage at 10 kilometers, Jorrit Bergsma in stage 4
11:27 am: Patrick Roest will compete in the second stage of the 10 kilometers at the Olympic Games in Beijing. The winner of Olympic silver in the 5000 meters at these Games will compete against the Italian Michele Malfatti. Jorrit Bergsma, the Olympic champion of the Sochi 2014 Olympics in the 10 kilometers, rides on the mopping break in stage four against Aleksander Rumyantsev from Russia.
World record holder and top favorite Nils van der Poel comes onto the ice at Bergsma. He will take on the Italian Davide Ghiotto in the fifth stage. In the last of the six written titles defending champion Ted-Jan Bloemen from Canada skates against the Belgian Bart Swings.
The 10 kilometers in the National Speed Skating Oval starts Friday at 09:00 Dutch time.
Mikaela Shiffrin doesn’t know when she’s going to start.
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Goggia skips super-G on Games, Shiffrin does start
11.11 am: Italian skier Sofia Goggia skips Friday’s Olympics. One of the most successful skiers in the World Cup this season, 29-year-old Goggia has recovered from a knee injury and does not feel fit to compete in the Super-G. The Italian hopes to be able to defend her Olympic title on the downhill next week.
At the end of last month, Goggia went down in the super-G at the Cortina d’Ampezzo World Cup. She protected from that fall a strain of the cruciate ligaments and a small fracture in a fibula. Goggia not to appear, hoping to be fit in time to take a shot at new Olympic success in China. The Italian has won four of the five World Cup races on the downhill this season.
Mikaela Shiffrin will start after a reflection period. The 26-year-old dropped out in both giant slalom and slalom this week, leading to doubts about her form. The two-time Olympic champion and leader in the overall World Cup class ended up not withdrawing from the super-G on final practice.
Second title for cross-country skier Therese Johaug
10.03 am: Norwegian cross-country skier Therese Johaug at the Winter in Beijing has performed her second Olympic title on an analysis. In the 10 kilometers she narrowly beat Finnish Kerttu Niskanen after an exciting race of just over 28 minutes. The difference between gold and silver was exactly 0.4 seconds. Krista Parmakoski, also a Finnish finished just over half a minute from the winner in third.
The 33-year-old Johaug yesterday the first gold medal that was at stake at these Games. The fourteen-time world champion in the 15-kilometre skiathlon did this, a combination of 7.5 kilometers classic style and 7.5 kilometers free style.
Johauge landed the Olympic title in the 4×5 kilometer relay in Vancouver in 2010. Four years later, she designs silver in the 30 kilometer style and bronze in the 10 kilometer classic style in Sochi.
From October 2016 to April 2018, she was banned for doping, which prevented her from entering the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang. She tested positive for a banned substance that she said she had injected into her body through a sunscreen that she had forged on her lips.
Number of corona cases at Games is rising again
07:44 am: The positive corona tests at the Beijing Olympics decreased further in recent days, but has now increased slightly. last day, nine participants in the Winter Games tested positive. In six cases upon arrival at Beijing airport; within the ‘closed super bubble’ in China, three people tested positive. Seven of the nine corona cases are athletes of officials.
China used a total of 71,516 tests for the corona virus on Wednesday. All participants in the Games, from athletes to journalists, are tested daily. On Wednesday 61 participants arrived at the airport, more than half of them athletes and their trainers who are still going to take action.
On Tuesday, five new corona were observed. That was the lowest number since the start of the tally on January 23, when the first athletes and coaches went to China. Monday there were six positive results. In total, more than 1.1 million corona tests have been carried out at the Winter Games since January 23.
Nathan Chen succeeds Yuzuru Hanyu as figure skating champion
6.37 am: American figure skater Nathan Chen has dethroned Yuzuru Hanyu, who is also an Olympic champion. Earlier this week, 22-year-old Chen set a world record in the short freestyle with 113.97 points and he finished it on Thursday in the free freestyle (218.63). The Japanese Hanyu, the Olympic champion of Sochi 2014 and Pyeongchang 2018, finished in fourth place behind two compatriots.
The 27-year-old defending champion had not gotten further than the eighth score in the short freestyle. Hanyu had suffered a lot from injuries in recent years and it was even uncertain for a long time whether he could participate in the Games. Like the Swede Gillis Grafström, he hoped to become Olympic champion three times in a row in 1920, 1924 and 1928, but Hanyu was unable to compete for the gold in Beijing. The Japanese fell in the closed free time, including when attempting to be the first figure skater to perform a quadruple axel.
While Hanyu made the mistakes, Chen put in a perfect freestyle. To the music of Rocket Man by Elton John, the world champion of 2018, 2019 and 2021 came to a point total of 218.63, slightly below his own world record. The US points of gold with a total of 332.60 points, more than 20 points more than the Japan Yuma Kagiyama points (310.05). The bronze went to his compatriot Shoma Uno (293.00). Hanyu fell 283.21 off the podium.
“This means everything to me,” said Chen, whose parents are from China. He himself was born in Salt Lake City. “I have a special bond with Beijing through my family. Great to become an Olympic champion here. It was a very nice freestyle to skate, it went by like a whirlwind. After the last one I was sure I could win.”
Earlier this week, Chen already won silver with the US in the Nations Cup behind Russia, although the medals have still not been awarded due to a “legal issue”. Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva is said to have tested positive for doping.
Chloe Kim is overjoyed with her golden race.
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Chloe Kim again the best on the halfpipe
4:48 a.m.: American snowboarder Chloe Kim won the Olympic title in the halfpipe four years ago. The 21-year-old American captured the gold in the Genting Snow in Zhangjiakou for the Spanish Queralt Castellet. The Japanese Sena Tomita the bronze.
Defending champion Kim scored 94.00 points in her first run. The American fell in the second and third run, but did not see her top score in danger. They don’t come there. Castellet scored 90.25 in the second run. Tomita scored 88.25 in the same run.
At the age of 17, Kim won gold in the halfpipe at the Pyeongchang Games with a score of 98.25.
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