Winter Olympics 2026: France Medal Chances – Feb 20th

We hope you don’t get tired of biathlon, because it’s not over yet. This Friday, the men will compete in their last event of the 2026 Winter Olympics: the mass start. With, as since the start of the competition, high ambitions for the gold medal and the podium.

Leader of the general classification of the World Cup and silver medalist in the individual event, Éric Perrot will logically be one of the favorites for the race scheduled for 2:15 p.m. Émilien Jacquelin, bronze medalist in the pursuit, Quentin Fillon Maillet, Olympic sprint champion, and Fabien Claude also hope to shine and finish in style.

If you hope to see French medals, it will undoubtedly be appropriate to follow the women’s skicross in the morning. Victorious in a World Cup round in San Candido (Italy) in December, Marielle Berger-Sabbatel hopes to grab the podium there. His day begins at 10 a.m. with the ranking round, before the round of 16 (12 p.m.), quarter-finals (12:35 p.m.), semi-finals (12:54 p.m.) and the grand final (1:15 p.m.).

Initially scheduled for Thursday morning, the men’s ski halfpipe qualifications were postponed until Friday due to heavy snowfall, the organizers announced. They will start at 10:30 a.m. Vincent Maharavo must try to qualify for the three final halfpipe rounds (7:30 p.m., 7:59 p.m. and 8:28 p.m.).

Margot Boch and Carla Sénéchal will take part in the first two rounds of the two-man bob (6 p.m. and 7:50 p.m.), while Cloé Ollivier and Aurélie Lévèque hope to have a great day over 1,500 m on the short track. They will begin with the quarter-finals at 8:15 p.m., with the final in the sights at 10:03 p.m.

In ice hockey, the end of the men’s tournament is looming with the semi-finals this Friday. Canada will start against Finland at 4:40 p.m., before the United States tries to reach the final against Slovakia (9:10 p.m.).

Aiko Tanaka

Aiko Tanaka is a combat sports journalist and general sports reporter at Archysport. A former competitive judoka who represented Japan at the Asian Games, Aiko brings firsthand athletic experience to her coverage of judo, martial arts, and Olympic sports. Beyond combat sports, Aiko covers breaking sports news, major international events, and the stories that cut across disciplines — from doping scandals to governance issues to the business side of global sport. She is passionate about elevating the profile of underrepresented sports and athletes.

Leave a Comment