Germany may hope for the fifth gold medal: The Nordic combined Eric Frenzel and go as the leader after jumping from the normal hill in the track. And the biathlon national coach hopes despite poor performances continue on the podium. All Olympic news at a glance.
Germany has moved to third place in the overall medals count at Sochi Games as the country’s female athletes claimed important golds in luge and the inaugural ski jump event.
Three nations – Norway, Canada and Germany – top the Olympic standings with four golds and are only separated by different number of silver and bronze medals.
Skier Dara Howell has become the Olympic champion in the women’s slopestyle at the Sochi Games.
The Canadian tackled the rails, quarter-pipes and jumps at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park to score 94.20 points.
“This medal’s for everyone, not just me,” Howell told Sportsnet in a televised interview. “There are so many people behind what I do.”
The judges put Devin Logan of the US in second place, assigning 85.40 points for her best attempt.
The result of 85.00 points was good enough for another Canadian Kim Lamarre to bag the bronze medal.
Ski and snowboard slopestyle are among the 12 new disciplines debuting at the Sochi Games.
Canada is dominating the freestyle skiing events in Sochi, also winning two gold and two silver medals in the mogul events.
Sochi Olympics Day 4:Snowboard: promotion by building a halfpipe
The Snowboard Association Germany calls for the construction of sports facilities for the Olympic trend sports halfpipe and slopestyle in Germany. “If you really mean it with the new sports, you have to create training opportunities,” snowboard President Hanns Michael Holz said in Sochi. In order to achieve an effect for the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, should be taken quickly. “In the spring you would have to start construction,” Holz said. A half-pipe costs between 1.5 and 2.5 million euros. So far, there is no such facility in Germany.
Sochi Olympics Day 4:Nordic Combined: Frenzel leads to jumping
Eric Frenzel is located in the Olympic individual event of the Nordic Combined gold course. The 25-year-old reached in jumping on the normal hill with a set of 103 meters square one and go with a lead of six seconds on the Japanese Akito Watabe in the ten-kilometer cross-country skiing . The other German competitors that spent their first competition of the combiner in Krasnaya Polyana: Tino Edelmann ranked in jumping to fifth, John Rydzek was twelfth and Fabian Riessle 19
Sochi Olympics Day 4:Speed Skating: Geisreiter for 10,000 meters nominated
Moritz Geisreiter will receive on Tuesday in the speed skating competition in the 10,000 meters the second German Launch area next to Patrick Beckert. This was decided by the team lead after the tenth of Bavaria about 5000 meters. For Alexej Baumgartner must vacate his starting place on the longest distance.
Sochi Olympics Day 4:Biathlon: Uwe Müssiggang has more medals in their sights
Germany coach Uwe idleness will not correct the objectives for the Winter Games after the weak races of women. “We want to continue to fight for medals.’s Assets to we have,” idleness said. One should not forget that you’ve won this winter Relay World Cup also. “This shows that we still belong to the world class.” In pursuit race on Tuesday it had made no German starter among the top 25. After four races the DSV team has no medal. The next chance of a podium finish at the men single race on Thursday
Sochi Olympics Day 4:Curling: German team loses again
The German curler conceded their third loss in the third game. The team led by John Skip year lost to Norway 5:8 and thus has only a slim chance of reaching the semi-finals. Here the match, the team of Hamburg held open after a poor start to the end. It was only in the tenth end decided the skip of the Scandinavians, Thomas Ulsrud, with three stones the fray. Next opponent is in the afternoon
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