Brazilian Nicole Silveira finished this Friday (13) the first day of skeleton at the Winter Olympics in 12th placewith 1min55s78 in the sum of two descents in Cortina D’Ampezzo. She returns to the track at 2 pm (Brasília time) this Saturday (14) for the last two heats.
The 31-year-old from Rio Grande do Sul, who moved to Canada when she was seven, holds the best placement of a Latin American pilot in the Olympics, with 13th place achieved at the Beijing 2022 Games, his Olympic debut. The objective is to at least surpass the brand itself.
“I had difficulties with this track in November. My goal was to have strong starts and improve the descents. I’m confident for tomorrow,” the pilot told CazéTV. “The start and some corners can be improved, but the game is consistency. This season, mentally, I had difficulties, because I experienced ups and downs. I had to recover my head because of a fall, I’m happy to have that consistency.”
In the Olympic competition of the sport, the final classification is defined by the sum of the times of all four descents. Austrian Janine Flock, who broke the track record by clocking 57.22 in the second heat, is currently leading the race, with 1min54.48, ahead of Germans Susanne Kreher (1min54.52) and Jacqueline Pfeifer (1min54.61).
Nicole was seventh to go down in the first heat. Control during the descent was not perfect, so much so that the Brazilian even hit the wall during the journey, which affected her final time.
Anyway, she improved performance in relation to training, in which he had not managed to go beyond 58 seconds, and had a time of 57.93. As a result, he came in 13th place.
Nicole showed progress in the second descent and reduced his time on the track by eight seconds. By reaching 122.95 km/h and completing the route in 57s85, she came in first place, with a combined time of 1min55s78. She was the 13th to go down, but in descending order of the classification of the first heat, so she went down before the favorites returned to the track. In any case, the Brazilian managed to gain a position and took 12th place in the general classification. Janine Flock and Susanne Kreher held on to first and second place respectively, but Tabitha Stoecker lost third place to Jacqueline Pfeifer.
*With Agência Estado
