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Freestyle skier Tess Ledeux won the silver medal in big air skiing behind Chinese star Eileen Gu on Tuesday and thus brings France its fourth medal, all silver, of the Beijing Games. Ledeux, in the lead after two of the three passages, was finally narrowly overtaken by Gu, victorious with a total of 188.25 points against 187.50 for the Frenchwoman.  Swiss Mathilde Gremaud ranks third (182.50).   Big air skiing, which consists of jumping off a giant springboard to perform acrobatic tricks, is on the Olympic program for the first time. On the structure installed in the heart of Beijing's industrial wasteland, between chimneys, blast furnaces and cooling towers of a former steel factory, Ledeux hit hard at the start of this final in three rounds by signing a "double cork 1620", i.e. a rotation of four and a half turns, rewarded with 94.50 points. She did not weaken then by succeeding in a "switch left 1440", this time four turns in the air, which earned her 93 poin...

Emmanuel Macron, who has always pleaded to maintain contact with Vladimir Putin, was received for the first time in Moscow.   He told himself that the meeting would last as long as it took.  That the schedule would not necessarily be respected if the discussion was worth pursuing.  Fact,...

French President Emmanuel Macron is on his way to Kiev on Tuesday where he is to meet his counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky after presenting to Moscow - who said he was ready to "compromise" - his proposals to defuse the crisis around Ukraine.Westerners fear an invasion of Ukraine, with tens of thousands of Russian troops deployed on the Ukrainian border.Mr Macron will then meet in Berlin with Chancellor Olaf Scholz, himself just returned from Washington as part of a series of European diplomatic efforts this week and next.  According to the French presidency, Mr. Macron's proposals concern a commitment not to take new military initiatives on both sides, the start of a dialogue, in particular on the Russian military system or even peace negotiations on the conflict in Ukraine. and the beginning of a strategic dialogue. After more than five hours of discussion, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that "some of the ideas" of his French counterpart could ...