Kamila Valieva, 15, figure skating athlete, ended her performance in the women’s individual team free program of the Beijing 2022 Games totally emotional. And no less.
This Monday (7), the Russian figure skater became the first woman to achieve a quadruple jump in the history of the Winter Olympics. After hitting the first one, Valieva attempted a second such jump and managed to complete it. She only went down on the third attempt.
With a score of 178.92 in her program, she was in 1st place with more than 30 points difference to the second place.
Who also shone in skating, but in the 1,500 m speed modality, was Dutch Ireen Wüst, 35, who won gold and broke the Olympic record with a time of 1:53.28, her third championship in the competition.
His compatriot Antoinette de Jong (1m54s82) won bronze. The silver went to the Japanese Miho Takage (1m53s72).
It was Wüst’s sixth gold medal in five Winter Games, as well as his 12th Olympic podium. Only in the 1,500 m, the Dutch woman won bronze in Turin-2006, gold in Vancouver-2010, silver in Sochi-2014, gold in PyeongChang-2018 and also in Beijing-2022.
She will compete again in this edition on the 17th, in the women’s 1000 m, in which she won silver in Sochi eight years ago.
In snowboarding, the big story of the day was told by Canadian Max Parrot, who won gold in the slopestyle modality.
In 2018, shortly after the PyeongChang Games, the 27-year-old announced that he had been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a cancer that originates in the lymphatic system.
Parrot was out of competition for an entire season of snowboarding and faced chemotherapy sessions until June 2019.
Recovered from cancer, the Canadian returned to the sport and, in early 2020, was the big air champion at the Aspen X Games. He will still compete in this modality in Beijing next week.
Before that, on Monday, he won gold in slopestyle, a feat that crowns his journey of overcoming.
“Going through 12 rounds of chemotherapy was the hardest thing I’ve ever faced in my life. I’ve become a stronger person. Everything I’ve experienced has changed me as an athlete and as a person. Every time I tie my feet to my snowboard, I appreciate much more than before. You’re smiling more, everything is more positive. You put less pressure on yourself, less stress on yourself,” said Max Parrot.
Highlight of the Brazilian delegation in China, Nicole Silveira, skeleton athlete, had a good performance in this Monday’s training sessions.
In the first practice, Nicole was in fourth place, with a time of 1min02s47, 13 hundredths behind the German Jacqueline Loelling, the leader of the session. In the second training session, the Brazilian was in sixth place, with 1min02s8.
“There are a lot of athletes who have been here for years going downhill and more than three training sessions is too much for them. But for me, the more downhills I can get, the better. I’m at a level where I still have a lot to learn. It was great for me to have come early and this first training session is showing,” said the 27-year-old athlete.
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