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Meldonium ?

Sure, and you could be a monkey typing from Thailand for all I know. We can't live life without making any assumptions. (now, being more serious, Pablita is either: a real female name -it's an unusual one in spanish at least- or, more likely, a nickname for Paola, which also is a female name in all latin languages).

Her profile says she's female (in the case the clues of having female username and female cartoon character as her avatar weren't convincing enough).

So this is the part where I'm supposed to mumble about losing a "safe" gold right?

What you are saying is basically "all medals which weren't almost completely certain are surprises". There are events in which you don't have three clear favorites and in some of those you'll make a medal, in some of those you won't. It's not surprising the Italian men's ski team didn't win a medal in the speed events but it also wouldn't have been surprising if they had won one. Same for the women in the gs. Seriously, calling brignone's medal a surprise is just ridiculous. Btw, Arndt Peiffer's gold medal is not a surprise to you but Windisch winning any medal is?

Ragnhild had to ruin my perfect podium. I like her just fine, but she already has a silver medal as a surprise and Norway has plenty of medals, while Lichtenstein only depends on Tina.

In a one game playoff, anything is possible. Germany did just beat Sweden after all. But Canada will be a bit tougher, and Canada will not be taking Germany so lightly. Or at least they shouldn't. Korea is not as good as Germany and while Canada dominated them, they had trouble scoring and gave up some good chances. I'm certainly not taking anything for granted. It's the Olympics. Crazy stuff happens all the time.

the world champion failed , i told you this team should be replaced by an African one

Cvetkovic podnio izvjestaj. Rekao da su igraci pili po Zagrebu,da se nisu borili da je 7 njih kupilo karte posle 1 faze. A to su inace bili Nenadic i jos par najboljih. Ovi inace sve demantuju

Yeah, I had hoped Wüst would finally have a bit of Olympic succes...

Japanese are having a picnic.

So fucking happy for Maurice Now, go get that historic globe 

Delbosco is reported to have a pelvic injury, he's stable

Isadora shall advance to Free Program

I'm crying.

Matchfixing!

Zagitova is out of this world technically but god is she a bore to watch. I really hole Medvedeva pulls it out.

Probably no chance for that. She will win bronze medal even with few mistakes.

For the first time ever, France has more than 4 gold medals

Women´s 2-Man 1. Germany (Mariama Jamanka, Lisa Buckwitz) 3:22.45, 2. United States (Elana Meyers Taylor, Lauren Gibbs) 3:22.52, 3. Canada (Kaillie Humphries, Phylicia George) 3:22.89 Full Results HERE

I know it's incredible, I feel a lot of pressure and I hope not to end like Peiffer in Biathlon mixed relay I have a secret weapon but it's not bet sites (in Italy I don't think that bets on skeleton or skii jumping exist) but I will tell you at the end of the OG.

Number 1 overall morelike

Damn , 1-0 loss At least Sweden lost to GERMANY, so it's good

You're welcome , but don't be too optimistic about defeating Canada here

My heart warms by the McNeill/Moore interview on the BBC

Two gold speed skating medals for Norway including in a team event, this is so very much enjoyable

Let's see if he'll stand behind his words.

One of the main Dutch parties has already submitted official questions about the earlier Dutch scandal

Ok, thanks that's probably true. I was very moved by her tears of joy at the end, you could really feel all the pressure coming off. She promised to win a medal for her grandfather and she did it, now she can retire in peace.

15+ seconds away at the exchange before that, behind Switzerland.

First ever women's olympic medal in Cross Country Skiing for the US

Me too

And we've got another scandal, this time in Korea! In the women's pursuit first round, Kim Bo-reum and Park Ji-woo are accused of not being enough of a team player. Noh Seon-yeong crossed the line last, 4 seconds behind them, so her time counted and they were out. Noh was crying afterwards, and instead of talking to her, Kim and Park basically ignored her and only coach Bob de Jong cared for Noh. Now a petition has been started, which has been signed by over half a million people, calling for Kim and Park to be kicked out of the team. Funny detail: a petition which has been signed by over 200k has to be discussed in parliament, so, here we go

Gonna be a close one....

Magnus Kim is going for those predicted golds.

Sì, terzo oro! Nell'ultimo minuto di gara la Goggia è stata perfetta. Quei 3 decimi lasciati in alto mi avevano un po' spaventato perché lasciavano una porta aperta alla Vonn, che però non ha sciato come mi aspettavo. La Mowinckel mi ha terrorizzato Ora c'è la team sprint di fondo. Il tracciato è molto selettivo, il che mi fa un po' paura pensando alla forma non eccezionale che ha mostrato finora Nöckler.

Considering she's 33, I'm surprised by that

https://www.isu.org/news-inside-isu/135-owg-short-track-news/11978-ladies-3000m-team-relay?templateParam=15 ISU released images of what the judges were looking at

Personally I think of it in the same way as mass start in speed skating, but the exact opposite in terms of what should be different Mass start should be way longer to be taken serious. Team sprint should be way shorter to be taken serious (for example 6x500m, so you sort of have a double sprint, which makes more sense with two athletes).

I'm pretty sure my Slovakian friends are breaking stuff right now

@hckosice I know you're of course sad about the Slovaks, but come on, let's raise a glass to your Czech brothers

Lol the Russians are so good, it's so funny to see the usual people having a a severe heartache whenevers the Russians do well.

Meh, very predictable and boring. Disappointed with Kostner and the americans.

Alexandra Coletti 27th ind women's downhill out of 31 who finished (just 39 starting) with 5,82 secs of loss to the winner.

She can't participate because she needs some snowboard training

Oh well, everybody is going well in the first 3 splits.

Isadora

Winner on Malta