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There is no story in the penultimate race of Beijing 2022 (with Francesco Friedrich who will go hunting for history next night): the phenomenal 23-year-old takes the first Olympic title, is bronze and second medal in these Games for Elana Meyers-Taylor who prevents the German hat-trick.
Saturday 19 February 2022 3 minutes reading time
It is still Germany in Yanqing, for the eighth gold medal out of the nine available so far for the gut disciplines in Beijing 2022.
It is Laura Nolte who dominates the women's two-way bobsleigh race, thus winning the first Olympic title of her career in an already amazing season. A new German brace arrives, with Mariama Jamanka second at 77 cents from her compatriot, who recovered just one cent in the fourth and last run, clearly preceding Elana Meyers-Taylor, third and therefore still on the podium as in the monobob, when the US champion was silver.
No German hat-trick then, with Kim Kalicki fourth (2 "32 from the top, 8 tenths from the podium) ahead of Christine De Bruin, bronze in the monobob and today fifth ahead of the Swiss Hasler and the one who had instead defeated the competition in the first women's competition of these Games, or Kaillie Humphries.
Sunday morning (from 2.30 am Italian the third run, followed by the fourth) the men's 4-way bobsleigh race will be decided, still open even if the big favorite, that Francesco Friedrich who is looking for the legendary double as in PyeongChang, is in front. to all halfway through the race. The Pirna phenomenon, however, precedes Johannes Lochner by just 3 cents, overtaken in the second run, with the Canadian Justin Kripps third at + 0 "38 and the only one to enter the usual German domination, given that in fourth place is Christoph Hafer, 55 cents away from Friedrich.
The Azzurri are very far away: Patrick Baumgartner's crew is 19th, with a 2 ”08 lead, only 27th Mattia Variola at 3” 58 after having made so many mistakes.
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