Olympia 2022
An end to the winning streak in the ice channel and a premature end to the Olympics – that was the Olympic night
After six gold medals, there was no precious metal for the German winter athletes around Laura Nolte in the Yanqing ice rink for the first time
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After six gold medals, the German athletes have nothing to gain for the first time in the ice channel. A combined athlete experienced a great disappointment at the start of the tenth day of decision at the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing.
The organizers of the Winter Games in Beijing did not report a positive test in the closed Olympic system for the first time on Monday. At the start of the tenth decision day, the German bobsledders and the Nordic combined athlete Terence Weber have to cope with disappointments. The International Court of Arbitration for Sports makes a decision in the doping case of Russian figure skater Kamila Valiyeva.
Without a medal in the ice channel
The German winning streak in the Olympic ice track in Yanqing has broken. Laura Nolte from Winterberg only managed fourth place in the monobob on Monday. European Champion Mariama Jamanka from Oberhof finished 13th in the new competition. Previously, both the German lugers and the skeleton pilots had won all their competitions and, in addition to six gold medals, three silver medals. The first monobob Olympic champion is world champion Kaillie Humphries from the USA, who finished 1.54 seconds ahead of her teammate Elana Meyers Taylor. The Canadian Christine de Bruin, who was 0.30 seconds faster than Nolte, secured bronze.
gold dance
The ice dancers Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron from France have reached the goal of their dreams with the Olympic victory in Beijing. With 226.98 points, the four-time world champions beat the Russian European champions Viktoria Sinizina/Nikita Kazalapow (220.51) to silver in the freestyle on Monday. The Americans Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue came third with 218.02 points. Katharina Müller and Tim Dieck (Berlin/Dortmund) had bad luck in their Olympic debut. The two-time German champions had to go onto the ice with the ungrateful start number one in the rhythmic dances on Saturday and missed the entry into the freestyle of the 20 best couples with the 21st place.
substitute
The Nordic combined Terence Weber can no longer compete in these Olympic Winter Games after his corona infection and will be replaced by Manuel Faißt. The 25-year-old Weber, like record world champion Eric Frenzel, has to remain in quarantine. “Now they’re still not out, so we made the decision to take Terence Weber out and let Manuel Faißt start in his place,” said national coach Hermann Weinbuch on Monday. For Frenzel there is still a chance of an Olympic start. There are still two decisions to be made in the combination at the Winter Games this week. This Tuesday, the athletes will first jump off the large hill. The subsequent running race over ten kilometers will take place at 12.00 p.m. (ZDF and Eurosport). The team competition follows on Thursday.
Null-Covid:
For the first time, no new corona infections occurred in the closed Olympic bubble. As the organizers announced on Monday, all 69,872 tests carried out the day before were negative. Three other infections were discovered in those arriving at Beijing Airport. The trend of new infections has been pointing downwards for days. While more than 30 infections per day were temporarily registered after the start of the recording on January 23, the number of new cases was recently always in the single digits. A total of 432 infections have been detected since the start of travel to the Winter Games.
TV Criticism
The image selection of the Olympic Broadcasting Service (OBS) for the relay silver of the German cross-country skiers caused annoyance among TV viewers and broadcasters. “The finish was cut by the director,” said ARD team boss Christoph Netzel of the German Press Agency. “He goes into the duel three against four instead of showing the successful silver finish of the German relay – that was extremely unfortunate.” The final of the German team was “only insufficiently shown”, complained ZDF team boss Thomas Fuhrmann. “In the live situation we had to live with the situation. In the review we were able to submit the necessary pictures later.”
qualification
German freestyle snowboarder Annika Morgan has reached the finals in the Big Air competition. Two days after her 20th birthday, the athlete from Mittenwald received a total of 132.25 points in Monday’s qualification for her two best runs. She was eighth in the final of the twelve best athletes this Tuesday (02:30 a.m. CET). “I didn’t expect that. I’m still a bit speechless now,” said Morgan after her performance in the world’s first permanent big-air stadium. Beijing hosts the men’s and women’s freestyle skiing and snowboarding big air competitions in Shougang. The facility is about 50 minutes by bus west of the Olympic Stadium and was built on the site of a former steelworks.
Olympia-Aus
The Olympic Winter Games in China are over for ski freestyler Aliah Delia Eichinger. The 20-year-old clearly missed the final of the slopestyle competition. In the end, the athlete from Sankt Oswald finished 17th in the qualification in Zhangjiakou, which was postponed from Sunday to Monday due to the weather. Only the twelve best athletes will fight for the medals on Tuesday. China’s star Eileen Gu also has a good chance of winning a precious metal. The American, who competes for the Olympic hosts and won gold in the Big Air discipline last week, finished third in qualifying after a faulty first run. Best of the day was Kelly Sildaru from Estonia.
return
National ice hockey player Marco Nowak is about to make his Olympic comeback in the decider on Tuesday (5:10 a.m. / ZDF and Eurosport) against Slovakia to qualify for the quarter-finals. After a forced break of several days, the 31-year-old defender was back on the ice in training on Monday in Beijing and was able to complete the session without any problems. “It looks very good,” said the sports director of the German Ice Hockey Federation, Christian Künast, afterwards. In the first group game last Thursday against Canada (5-1), Nowak had to take a hard check to his head and was not back on the ice due to suspected concussion.
