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Chances for gold in the ski relay. Who to watch at the Olympics on February 12

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Medals in brief

Russia will try to win a medal in the women's ski relay, perhaps even gold or silver;

Alexander Loginov will try to take the award in the biathlon sprint;

Ski jumper Danil Sadreev and speed skater Viktor Mushtakov can compete for a place on the podium.

Curling

Women, Korea - Russia (04:05 Moscow time), Russia - Japan (15:05 Moscow time)

Earlier, the Russians lost to the United States and Switzerland, so in terms of reaching the playoffs, the upcoming meetings are of great importance.

Korea and Japan are the silver and bronze medalists of the Pyeongchang Olympics. However, that was four years ago. At the last World Championship, the Russians took second place, beating both the Koreans (8:7) and the Japanese (6:5).

Snowboard

Mixed. Snowboard cross. For 3rd place and final (05:50, Moscow time)

Quarter-finals will start at 5 am Moscow time, there will be four of them. The top two teams from each quarter-final will advance to the semi-finals. Russia (Christina Paul and Daniil Donskikh) is in a group with France, Canada and the US second team, our athletes are considered outsiders.

Hockey

Women, Russia - Switzerland (7:10 Moscow time)

Russia has already beaten Switzerland in the opening match of the tournament - 5:2. True, after that there were three defeats from the USA, Canada and Finland. At the same time, the Swiss beat the Finns.

During the tournament, the Russians constantly passed positive tests for coronavirus. But on Friday, the press service of the Russian national team reported that "as of the morning of February 11, all the players at the team's disposal have passed negative tests."

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Cross-country skiing

Women. Relay, 4x5 km (10:30 Moscow time)

The silver medalist of Beijing in the skiathlon Natalya Nepryaeva, Yulia Stupak, Tatyana Sorina and Veronika Stepanova will run for Russia. The team has very good chances for a medal, even gold or silver.

Russia's main competitor is Sweden. Third place with a high degree of probability can be occupied by Finland. As for Norway, it simply does not have four strong skiers to form a team for the relay, so even the presence of two-time Beijing champion Theresa Johaug does not give the Scandinavians a very good chance of a medal.

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Skating

Men. 500 m (11:53 Moscow time)

Ruslan Murashov, Artem Arefiev and Viktor Mushtakov got into the application from Russia. The latter has a chance for a reward. The other two are likely to be left without medals.

Biathlon

Men. Sprint, 10 km (12:00 Moscow time)

This season, if we consider only personal starts, the Russians perform best in the sprint. Alexander Loginov took first place in this discipline at the fifth stage of the World Cup and is fourth in the sprint standings. He is 29 points behind the leader Sebastian Samuelsson and claims the Small Crystal Globe.

Eduard Latypov finished second in the sprint at the fourth stage. In the standings of these races, he is on the eighth line.

Loginov has a significant chance for a medal. The main thing is good shooting. In the individual race, he made three misses and closed the top ten.

The likelihood that Latypov will win the award is noticeably lower. In the individual race, Loginov showed a much better move - with an equal number of misses, he was ahead of Latypov by 45 seconds.

Also for Russia will be Maxim Tsvetkov and Daniil Serokhvostov, who replaced Karim Khalili in the squad. The latter performed poorly in the individual race (34th place).

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Figure skating

Dancing on ice. Short program (14:00 Moscow time)

Russia will be represented by three couples Victoria Sinitsina - Nikita Katsalapov, Alexandra Stepanova - Ivan Bukin and Diana Davis - Gleb Smolkin.

The first pair has every chance to take medals, the second one can also get on the podium, but the third one is most likely not.

The winners of the awards will be determined on February 14 after the free program.

Ski jumping

Men. Springboard HS-140. Final (15:00 Moscow time)

The first round of the competition will begin at 13:00 Moscow time. From Russia, Mikhail Nazarov, Roman Trofimov, Danil Sadreev and Evgeny Klimov will take part in it.

The best result in qualifying was shown by the Norwegian Marius Lindvik - 136.4 points. The second place was taken by his compatriot Halvor Granerud (131.6). Third - Slovenian Peter Prevc (128.3).

Among the Russians, Sadreev turned out to be the best - the fifth position (127.3). Klimov - 13th (119.5), Trofimov - 16th (116.0), Nazarov - 21st (112.6).

Hockey

Men. Russia - Czech Republic (16:10 Moscow time)For Russia, the match has no tournament value. Victories over Switzerland (1:0) and Denmark (2:0), as well as the results of other meetings, made the Russians inaccessible to competitors in the group. Aleksey Zhamnov's team can safely prepare for the quarter-finals, where it went directly, and before the game with the Czech Republic is considered a favorite.

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Skeleton

Women. 3 and 4 attempts (15:20 Moscow time and 16:55 Moscow time)

After two attempts, the Russians are far from medals. Julia Kanakina takes 13th place, Alina Tararychenkova - 15th, Elena Nikitina - 18th.

In first place is Jacqueline Narracott of Australia, followed by Germany's Hanna Neise and Tina Herman.

Chances for gold in the ski relay. Who to watch at the Olympics on February 12