The essential
- The Games will end with the closing ceremony at 1 p.m. The French athletes, led by Quentin Fillon Maillet, should parade there.
- The France team was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the parallel giant against Norway, for two hundredths. Alexis Pinturault and Tessa Worley leave the Games empty-handed.
- Delphine Claudel is not far from a medal in cross-country skiing over the 30km. Long in the leading group, the Frenchwoman took 7th place.
Follow the day’s events live:
14h05. Passage of the Olympic flag between the mayor of Beijing and the mayors of Milan and Cortina, which will host the Olympic Games in 2026.
14h00. Greek anthem now, in tribute to the founding country of the Olympics.
13h50. Martin Fourcade is honored by the IOC, after being elected to the Athletes’ Commission. He is in charge of giving the representatives of the volunteers a symbolic lantern.
13h44. No Russian anthem for Alexander Bolshunov, who represents the Russian Olympic Committee, like his entire delegation. Gold medal around his neck, he still has the right to a Tchaikovsky concerto.
13h38. The anthem of Norway resounds for Therese Johaug, three times gold medalist at these Games.
13h34. Right in the heart of the ceremony, the winners of the main cross-country skiing events (the 30km for women and the 50km for men) will receive their medals.
13h25. Athletes are asked to leave the stadium, but they don’t really seem to be in a hurry to leave…
13h23. The French have formed a circle in the heart of the stadium and jump holding hands.
13h18. As the Ode to Joy resounded through the stadium, the French took their places in the center of the stadium, as delegations continued to enter the Bird’s Nest.
13h14. France in turn enters the stadium. The medalists parade alongside the rest of the Blues.
13h10. The delegations’ turn to enter the stadium. Again, no specific order for the athletes within the delegations. Norway opens the ball.
13h08. The standard bearers are entering the stadium! All mixed up. Quentin Fillon Maillet waves the French flag.
13h03. Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, is present alongside IOC President Thomas Bach for the ceremony.
1:00 p.m. Let’s go for the closing ceremony! The festivities start at the Bird’s Nest.
12h25. With 14 medals, France experienced several great emotions in Beijing. Back to these highlights from the inside.
11h25. Double double for Francesco Friedrich. The German won gold in two-man and four-man… just like four years ago in Pyeongchang.
11h00. Jackpot for Quentin Fillon Maillet at the Games: 205,000 euros bonus, out of the 790,000 paid to the French medalists.
10h25. It was not easy for Bing Dwen Dwen, the panda mascot of the Games, to skate during the skating closing gala.
09h50. The hour of the closing ceremony (1 p.m., French time) is approaching. Delegations should parade through the Bird’s Nest. Quentin Fillon Maillet will lead the French delegation.
09:10. Imperial Norway. With 16 titles and 37 medals in total, Norway still finished top of the balance sheets in Beijing. Germany takes 2nd place with 27 medals (12 gold), followed by China (15 medals, 9 gold). The Blues are 10th.
08h45. France will not beat its Pyeongchang medal record. She remains stuck at 14 medals, against 15 four years ago.
08:30. The reaction of Delphine Claudel, 7th in the 30km. “I didn’t really pay attention to those who were leaving, I saw that there were four of us with Jessie Diggins, Ebba Andersson and me. I said to myself “wow, you are having a great start to the race”. […] I missed it in the head, confidence in my finish, in my ability to put the watts until the end. »
08h15. “It comes down to very little. Two hundredths is so nothing that it could have gone one way or the other. “Mathieu Faivre and the France team were inevitably disappointed after their elimination in the quarters of the parallel giant.
07:59. Great Britain crowned in curling. The British crushed the Japanese (10-3) in the final tonight. Sweden takes third place.
07h53. All the events are over in Beijing! Finland’s ice hockey gold is the last medal awarded at these Games.
07:40. German double in four-man. Francesco Friedrich’s crew is ahead of Johannes Lochner’s. The bronze goes to the quartet of Canadian Justin Kripps.
07:30. Triple gold for Therese Johaug. The Norwegian wins her third gold medal of the Games in cross-country skiing. On the 30km, she is ahead of the American Jessie Diggins and the Finnish Kerttu Niskanen.
07:20. The hockey title for Finland. Overjoyed, the Finns won their first Olympic title after a thrilling final against Russia (2-1).
07:18. No medal for Shiffrin. Beaten in the small final of the parallel giant by Norway, with the United States, Mikaela Shiffrin leaves these Games without a podium. Beijing will remain one of the greatest failures of his career.
07:15. The team title for Austria. Tied with Germany in the final of the alpine skiing parallel giant (2-2), the Austrians, authors of the best times, won gold. Norway completes the podium.
07:08. 19th place for the French four-man bobsleigh. There were no miracles in bobsleigh. Led by Romain Heinrich, the blue quartet took 19th place, out of 20 entries, in the competition.
07:05. Delphine Claudel came close. In the 30km, the French cross-country skier has long been in the hunt for a medal, in the leading group. She finally took 7th place, just 7 seconds from the podium.
07:02. Disappointment for the Blues in parallel giant. In the alpine skiing team event, the French came out in the quarter-finals, by 2 hundredths. Tied with Norway (2-2), they were decided at the fastest time.
06h50. Good morning all ! Welcome to this 16th and final day of the Beijing Olympics, which will conclude with the closing ceremony.