Revival of the closing ceremony of the Beijing Games, where the French won 14 medals

The torch has been extinguished in the Chinese capital after more than two weeks of ordeal. The closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics begins at 1 p.m. (Paris time) at the Beijing National Stadium, after two weeks under the very strict health bubble regime. event, as You will follow all these games on France Télévisions, France 2, franceinfo.fr and . antennas france.tv. This living is over now.

Spotlight on athletes. In the National Stadium in Beijing, it wasThe flags procession will be followed by the athletes’ procession after the entry of officials and the national anthem of the host country. highlight the athletes, some of them don’t He could not be present at the opening ceremony due to the excessive distance between Beijing and some competition venues.

Fourteen French medals. France won 14 medals at the Beijing Winter Olympics: five gold, seven silver and one bronze. The first tricolor coronation in Beijing, toBiathlete Quentin Fillon Maillet returned from China with five medals, including two gold, collected in six races. “The first thing that surprised me was myself.”The athlete told franceinfo on Sunday. After four years of disappointment in Pyeongchang and a silver medal, pair Papadakis Cizeron finally won the Olympic gold in ice dancing.

Six world records in two weeks. In figure skating, France’s Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Céziron set two world records in Beijing: 90.83 points in the short program and 226.98 points in the overall score. Swedish speed skater Nils van der Poel broke his own world record by over two seconds, with a 12’30” 74 over 10,000 metres.

Norway tops the medal standings. For the ninth time in its history (and third in a row), Norway topped the medal standings with 16 gold, 8 silver and 13 bronze. That’s 37 medals, compared to 27 for Germany.