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About the medals in brief
Alexander Bolshunov is the favorite in the fight for gold in the 50 km cross-country skiing race. Denis Spitsov will also fight for the podium;Ruslan Zakharov will compete for the award in the speed skating mass start;
In figure skating, two Russian couples may be on the podium.
Alpine skiing
Mixed team competition. For 3rd place and final (06:28 Moscow time)This discipline is the youngest in alpine skiing. For the first time, viewers saw mixed team competitions four years ago.
Mixed is carried out according to the playoff system, starting from the 1/8 finals (starts at 5 am). Two men and two women participate from each team (two reservists can also be included in the application).
Russia in the 1/8 finals will meet with Italy. The Russians have no hope for medals. And, most likely, they will fly out already at 1/8. At the World Championships, at least for me, they never went beyond the first round.
The main favorites are Austria, Norway, Switzerland, Germany.
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Cross-country skiing
Men. Mass start, 50 km (09:00 Moscow time)Four Russians will go skiing - Alexander Bolshunov, Ivan Yakimushkin, Artem Maltsev and Denis Spitsov.
The main contender for the first place is twice gold, silver and bronze medalist Beijing Bolshunov. His main competitors are the Norwegians Simen Kruger, Johannes Klebo, Hans Holund and Shur Rete. Two-time Olympic champion Pyeongchang Kruger will hold the first and last race in Beijing. He missed previous starts due to the coronavirus.
There is also a chance to climb the podium and the gold and silver medalist of the current Olympics Spitsov.
Skating
Men. Mass start. Final (11:30 Moscow time)The semi-finals will start at 10:00. Each has 15 participants. The top eight will advance to the final. Daniil Aldoshkin will take part in the first race. In the second - Ruslan Zakharov. Both Russians are silver medalists of the current Olympiad in the team race.
Zakharov has hopes for a medal. Most likely, the Russian will be able to compete for bronze. But gold, apparently, will be played by Belgian Bart Swings and American Joy Mantia. Also competing for the podium will be Dutchman Jorrit Bergsma and Italian Andrea Giovannini.
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Skating
Women. Mass start. Final (12:00 Moscow time)The semi-finals will start at 10:45. There are 14 participants in the first one, 15 in the second one. Eight best will go to the final.
Elizaveta Golubeva runs in the first semi-final. In the second - Elena Sokhryakova. The first has theoretical chances for bronze, the second does not.
Most likely, the competition will be won by Beijing's twice gold and bronze medalist Irene Schouten from the Netherlands. The main candidates for the podium are also the Canadian Ivani Blonden and the Dutch Mareike Grunevaud, the Italian Francesca Lollobrigida and the Japanese Nana Takagi.
Figure skating
Pairs. Free program (14:00 Moscow time)The balance of power after the short program is as follows:
Sui Wenjing/Han Cong (China) — 84.41 points;
Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov (Russia) - 84.25;
Anastasia Mishina / Alexander Gallyamov (Russia) - 82.76;
Alexandra Boykova / Dmitry Kozlovsky (Russia) - 78.59.
It was expected that the main contenders for gold would be the pairs of Wenjing / Cong and Mishina / Galliamov, but the latter are still only third. It will be difficult for Russian couples to get ahead of the hosts of the Olympics, although the struggle is still ahead.
Boikova and Kozlovsky are highly likely to remain fourth.
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Bobsleigh
Women. Twos. 3-4 attempts (15:00 Moscow time)Russia is represented by two crews. Nadezhda Sergeeva and Yulia Belomestnykh, after two attempts, are in ninth place, losing 1.89 seconds to the leaders. Anastasia Makarova and Elena Mamedova are in 14th place, 2.07 seconds behind the leaders.
Domestic bobsledders do not qualify for medals in this type of program. The three winners after the third and fourth attempts are unlikely to change: Laura Nolte / Deborah Levy (Germany), Mariama Yamanka / Alexandra Bughart (Germany), Ilana Meyers Taylor / Sylvia Hoffman (USA).
The State Duma proposed to award the heads of federations for victories at the Olympics Olympics 2022 Also on Saturday in Beijing, medals will be played among men in freestyle (halfpipe), but the Russians will not take part in these competitions.
In the meeting for the bronze medals of the hockey tournament, Sweden will play with Slovakia.
In the men's curling match for the gold medals, the national teams of Sweden and Great Britain will meet, in the women's bronze medal match, the teams of Switzerland and Sweden.
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