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It's waaaay too expensive & inconvenient. Basically WOG minus the bobsleigh track & indoor arena for figure skating/hockey(which is the easy part of Olympic bid). Just won't happen anytime soon. Winter sports are too facility dependant and the entire alpine skiing requires a separate venue.

The ISU is looking into a combined World Championships for its 4 disciplines. The FIS tried this and it appears the progress there has stalled.

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It means that our pair will miss Olympics for sure. But I am happy for your pair. They won it fair and they deserve it. It always sad to see when your own sports bodies destroys dreams.

Stage 12 in Alta Badia (ITA) Men´s Slalom: 1. Atle Lie McGrath 1:44.50 2. Clement Noel 1:44.80 3. Loic Meillard 1:44.89 Full Final Results HERE

Not religious, but I do celebrate Christmas because it's the time of excessive and delicious meals I can't really think of any Dutch Christmas songs though, basically we hear Mariah Carey and WHAM! half the day and a collection of others the other half of the day

Check Post 2 on this thread (and those of all other winter sports) to see a compilation of results from this first part of the World Cup season. Coming in January: Olympic rosters!

Youth Sailing World Championships - Vilamoura Results (December 15-19, 2025) Men's Windsurfer (IQFoil): 1. Peleg Rajuan 2. Mattia Saoncella 3. Rory Meehan 4. Garrett January 5. Finn Brull 6. Val Erzen 7. Artun Senol 8. Antonio Medina Rodriguez Men's Kiteboarding (Formula Kite): 1. Gian Andrea Stragiotti 2. Toby Wigglesworth 3. Nell de Jaham 4. Carmel Avisar 5. Tijn Rolff 6. Marcel Stepniewski 7. Julio Houze 8. Nathan Pearce Men's One Person Dinghy (ILCA 6): 1. David Coates 2. Jiri Tomes 3. Emilios Max Boeros 4. Levian Buscher 5. Tim Lubat 6. Francisco dal Ri 7. Healy Ryan 8. Semen Khashchyna Men's/Mixed Skiff (29er): 1. Poland (Szymon Kolka - Bartosz Zmudzinski) 2. France (Nolann Huet des Aunay - Titouan Gresset) 3. Brazil (Zion Brandao da Cunha Faria - Joao Vicente Botelho Joppert) 4. Italy (Giuseppe Montesano - Enrico Coslovich) 5. Sweden (Henric Wigforss - William Drakenberg) 6. Spain (Jaime Lang-Lengton Socorro - Salvador Giles Morell) 7. Australia (Sebastian Cheng - Jacob Marks) 8. Germany (Tizian Lembeck - Julian Lembeck) Men's/Mixed Two Person Dinghy (420): 1. Ukraine (Sviatoslav Madonich - Dmytro Karabadzhak) 2. Israel (Ziv Shtub - Loya Sheffler) 3. New Zealand (Cameron Brown - Oliver Stone) 4. Brazil (Said Mohammad - Bernardo Bacha Oliveira) 5. Greece (Sokratis Chamarias - Jason Eleftherios Xypas) 6. Spain (Pedro Sotomayor - Quim Serra de Pedro) 7. France (Simon Prot - Swan Berier Joyet) 8. Hungary (Felix Erdi - Bence Csizmazia) Women's Windsurfer (IQFoil): 1. Medea Marisa Falconi 2. Taisia Stopchenko (Russia) 3. Nurhayat Guven 4. Salome Simon 5. Alba Klein Meghnagi 6. Martina Mantovani Borras 7. Yfke van der Meer 8. Emma Schleicher Women's Kiteboarding (Formula Kite): 1. Li Suofeiya 2. Emma Rennie 3. Karolina Jankowska 4. Derin Deniz Sorguc 5. Tylia Louber 6. Argyro Krotsi 7. Marija Dolenc 8. Romi Kaminer Women's One Person Dinghy (ILCA6): 1. Irene de Tomas 2. Hanna Rogowska 3. Mirja Dohle 4. Beata Dokoupilova 5. Alina Shapovalova 6. Marina Murri 7. Lea Bourhis 8. Valentina Guimaraes Women's Skiff (29er): 1. Great Britain (Lila Edwards - Amelie Hiscocks) 2. Poland (Antonina Puchowska - Alicja Dampc) 3. Argentina (Carolina Barcelo - Agustina Arguelles) 4. France (Victoire Papin - Tsippora Jouan) 5. Sweden (Cornelia Baldock Frost - Hilda Wallstrom) 6. Finland (Maisa Kauppi - Alisa Kylavainio) 7. Italy (Bianca Marchesini - Lucia Finato) 8. Brazil (Heloisa Ruschel Goncalves - Isabella Hermann Zorzi) Women's Two Person Dinghy (420): 1. Great Britain (Sabine Potter - Merle Nieuwland) 2. France (Emy Combet - Juliette Peyre) 3. New Zealand (Tessa Clinton - Amelia Higson) 4. Japan (Shion Suzuki - Riho Sanematsu) 5. Italy (Giulia Schultze - Flavia Schultze) 6. Spain (Neus Fernandez Darder - Martina Gomila Darder) 7. Israel (Tamar Bar - Rotem Gilboa) 8. Hungary (Luca Ay - Blanka Ay) Mixed Two Person Multihull (Nacra 15): 1. Italy (Lorenzo Sirena - Alice Dessy) 2. France (Marius Praud - Emilie Mansouri) 3. United States (Dylan Tomko - Casey Small) 4. Belgium (Lotte Meynen - Simon Jacobs) 5. Hungary (Greta Davoti - Liam Moore) 6. Switzerland (Morgane Mazuay - Alexis Lagger) 7. Poland (Nela Dzwigalska - Maciej Cesarz) 8. Great Britain (Marcus King - Madeleine Jinks) Results

Also a first: never before has a Dutch pair participated in the games, according to media rapports.

The Technical director of the Dutch Olympic Committee has, using his discretionary powers, decided to include them in the team. He cites “extra-ordinary circumstances”, but has not stated what they are. The use of these powers is quite rare. They were used in 2022 to nominate an alpine-skier.

Ida Lien (biathlon) - back surgery - out for the season.

Road to Junior World Championship International Test Matches Sunday 21st December, 2025 --------------------------------- - 1-6 - 1-3

I heard their singer at my last cruise :D

The damn Swiss! To borrow from Cool Runnings

2026 National team announced:https://sirc.ca/news/archery-canada-announces-the-2026-senior-national-teams/ No Crispin Duenas

Ouch for China, losing Gold in three disciplines, not even making to GMM in one...all in front of a home crowd.

Morocco won with second-half goals of Brahim Díaz and El Kaabi Morocco 2 - 0 Comores

Biathlon Giacomel seconda vittoria stagionale e terzo podio, due terzi posti per Wierer. Bottino stagionale a 9 podi sommando anche le due vittorie (Wierer e Vittozzi) e i due podi in staffetta (donne e mista) Sci Alpino Torna alla vittoria Goggia, dopo due terzi posti

A poorly planned itinerary meant that I ended up with a 9-hour layover in Dubai and as I didn't need all that time to pick up the duty free, I have mapped out the year ahead across most of the summer sports. There's still a couple of sports which don't seem to have published their full calendar, so expect that there will be some updates in the next few weeks. 2028 Los Angeles Qualification Timeline.xlsx

I think the points from the test event should be simple to figure out since WC points from 15th on (continuing through the nations cup races) just count down by 1. Why would it be any different? The only thing that would be uncertain is whether Li and Fischnaller get 1 or 0.

ATP Next Gen Finals - Jeddah Results (December 17-21, 2025) Men's Singles: 1. Learner Tien 2. Alexander Blockx 3. Nishesh Basavareddy 3. Nicolai Budkov Kjaer 5. Martin Landaluce 5. Rafael Jodar 5. Dino Prizmic 5. Justin Engel Withdrew: Jakub Mensik & Joao Fonseca Alternates: Gilles-Arnaud Bailly & Rodrigo Pacheco Mendez Results

It was always going to be hard to hang on to the 3rd men's sled but not qualifying 3 women's sleds would definitely be disappointing.

BWF World Tour Finals - Hangzhou Results (December 17-21, 2025) Men's Singles: 1. Christo Popov 2. Shi Yuqi 3. Kodai Naraoka 3. Kunlavut Vitidsarn 5. Anders Antonsen 5. Chou Tien-chen 5. Jonatan Christie 5. Li Shifeng Women's Singles: 1. An Se-young 2. Wang Zhiyi 3. Akane Yamaguchi 3. Ratchanok Intanon 5. Putri Kusuma Wardani 5. Tomoka Miyazaki 5. Han Yue 5. Pornpawee Chochuwong Men's Doubles: 1. Kim Won-ho & Seo Seung-jae 2. Liang Weikeng & Wang Chang 3. Sabar Karyaman Gutama & Muhammad Reza Pahlevi Isfahani 3. Satwiksairaj Rankireddy & Chirag Shetty 5. Man Wei Chong & Tee Kai Wun 5. Chiu Hsiang-chieh & Wang Chi-lin 5. Aaron Chia & Soh Wooi Yik 5. Fajar Alfian & Muhammad Shohibul Fikri Women's Doubles: 1. Baek Ha-na & Lee So-hee 2. Yuki Fukushima & Mayu Matsumoto 3. Pearly Tan & Thinaah Muralitharan 3. Liu Shengshu & Tan Ning 5. Jia Yifan & Zhang Shuxian 5. Rin Iwanaga & Kie Nakanishi 5. Kim Hye-jeong & Kong Hee-yong 5. Hsieh Pei-shan & Hung En-tzu Mixed Doubles: 1. Feng Yanzhe & Huang Dongping 2. Jiang Zhenbang & Wei Yaxin 3. Chen Tang Jie & Toh Ee Wei 3. Hiroki Midorikawa & Natsu Saito 5. Thom Gicquel & Delphine Delrue 5. Dechapol Puavaranukroh & Supissara Paewsampran 5. Jafar Hidayatullah & Felisha Pasaribu 5. Goh Soon Huat & Shevon Jemie Lai Results

Tino Rossi - Petit Papa Noël La Compagnie Créole - Bons baisers de Fort-de-France

We lost 6 quotas in the bobsleigh rankings this weekend.