Brazilian Nicole Silveira, 27, won the best result in Brazil in an ice sport, this Saturday morning (12), at the Winter Olympics in Beijing. The athlete took 13th place in the skeleton, with a time of 4m10s48.
The gold went to the German Hannah Neise (4m07s62), the silver to the Australian Jaclyn Narracott – first medal from a country in the Southern Hemisphere (4m08s24)– and the bronze to the Dutch Kimberly Bos (4m08s46).
The time is the sum of the four descents of the athletes (qualifying and final phase).
Nicole surpassed the result of Fabiana dos Santos and Sally Mayara da Silva, who were 19th in the bobsled bobsled with doubles at the Sochi-2014 Games.
The best participation of a Brazilian in the Winter Games as a whole was in 2006, in Turin, when Isabel Clark was ninth in the snowboard.
In an interview with Folha in January, Nicole said her goal was to be in the top 10, but warned that the goal was difficult to achieve.
“It’s going to be hard to get, mainly because, arriving at the Olympics, the bigger teams have a support that I don’t have. They always manage to arrive with the top of the top of equipment”, he said. Nicole is from Rio Grande from Rio Grande do Sul, but has lived in Calgary, Canada, since she was 7 years old.
Despite the difficulties, for the 2026 Games, in Milan-Cortina, the objective is even bolder: to go to the podium.
The skeleton final, a sport in which athletes descend, face down on a sled on an ice track, at high speed, is disputed by 20 athletes. Nicole had qualified earlier this Saturday (12) in 15th place. She therefore improved her position in the decision.
Technician says 15-year-old Russian woman caught doping is innocent
Russian Olympic Committee ice skating team coach Eteri Tutberidze came to the defense of skater Kamila Valieva, 15, caught doping.
“I am absolutely sure that Kamila is innocent and clean. For us, this is not a theorem, but an axiom, it does not need to be proved. We are with our athletes, in trouble and in joy, until the end,” she told TV. Russian state. She further stated that the test result is “either a confluence of circumstances or a planned act”.
Valieva’s doping case took place at the Russian Figure Skating Championships in December last year. The result of the retest, released last Tuesday (8), was also positive. Trimetazidine, a drug for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, was found.
The day before the retest, the athlete helped her team win team gold. If CAS decides she could not participate, the medal will be cancelled. The decision should be made until next Tuesday (15), when Valieva hopes to return to compete in the Olympics. She is a favorite to win new events in figure skating. According to the Associated Press, the teenager has the unconditional support of the Russian government.
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