Men's Road Cycling UCI World Tour 2026 (Paris-Nice)

Vivat Slovakia    But in all seriousness, it's been repeatedly stated how important it is to qualify in a team event for the next Summer Olympics. However, I have no idea if we even have a realistic chance.   We only have one fewer individual athlete competing this year than we did in Paris, so individual quota spots aren't the main issue. Where can we find a competitive team, like we do in hockey? Maybe the women's handball team could start something big, but that's still far in the future, very likely unachievable in just two years.   And to be clear, as horrific as our medal tally from Paris looked, those were some of the unluckiest Olympics for Slovakia I have ever seen. Finishing in the top six seven times (!) is absolutely insane.

2nd semi-final:      17-13   

10 Luge is just crazy achievement 

Biathlon (6 - 2W; 4M)   Anastasia Tolmacheva Andreea Mezdrea (our media put her in)   George Buta Raul Flore Dmitri Shamaev George Coltea   Bobsleigh (4M + 1 reserve)   Constantin Dinescu George Iordache Mihai Păcioianu Mihai Tentea     Figure Skating (1W)   Julia Sauter - flag bearer       Luge (7 - 3W; 4M)   Corina Buzatoiu Carmen Manolescu Raluca Stramaturaru   Denis Serban Marian Gîtlan Eduard Craciun Valentin Cretu     Ski Jumping (4 - 2W; 2M)   Delia Floea Daniela Haralambie   Daniel Cacina Mihnea Spulber   Alpine skiing (2 - 1W; 1M)   Sofia Moldovan   Alexandru Stefanescu   Nordic skiing (3 - 1W; 2M)   Delia Reit   Paul Pepene Gabriel Cojocaru   Snowboard (2W)   Kata Mandel Henrietta Bartalis   For me it’s a very special edition because two of my friends (Edi Craciun and Gabi Cojocaru) made it. So fingers crossed for them and for the whole delegation.   We don’t expect to much as usual in winter games (1-2 top 10 - luge team, women’s doubles luge, 2man bobsleigh, and maybe Julia Sauter if she will skate clean both programs)

Our biathlon entries were finalized today )    Team Ukraine    46 athletes - the same number as 4 years ago (21 women + 25 men)      ALPINE SKIING - 2 (1 + 1) =  (W) Anastasiya Shepilenko (2022) (M) Dmytro Shepiuk (Rookie) * * *   BIATHLON - 10 (5 + 5) =  (W) Yulia Dzhima (2014 - gold, 2018, 2022) (W) Khrystyna Dmytrenko (Rookie) (W) Oleksandra Merkushyna (Rookie) (W) Olena Horodna (Rookie) (W) Daryna Chalyk (Rookie)   (M) Dmytro Pidruchny (2014, 2018, 2022) (M) Anton Dudchenko (2022) (M) Vitaly Mandzyn (Rookie) (M) Bohdan Borkovsky (Rookie) (M) Taras Lesiuk (Rookie) * * *   BOBSLEIGH - 0 (0 +0) -1  ---   CROSS COUNTRY - 6 (4 + 2) -1    (W) Anastasia Nikon (Rookie) (W) Sofia Shkatula (Rookie) (W) Yelyzaveta Nopriyenko (Rookie) (W) Daryna Mihal (Rookie)   (M) Dmytro Drahun (Rookie) (M) Oleh Lisohor (Rookie) * * *   CURLING - 0 (0 +0) =  --- * * *   FIGURE SKATING - 1 (0 + 1) -5    (M) Kyrylo Marsak (Rookie)   * * *   FREESTYLE - 9 (5 + 4) + 4    (W) Kateryna Kotsar (Rookie) - Slopestyle / BigAir (W) Anhelina Brykina (Rookie) - Aerials (W) Oksana Yatsuk (Rookie) - Aerials (W) Diana Yablonska (Rookie) - Aerials (W) Nelli Popovych (Rookie) - Aerials (M) Dmytro Kotovsky (2022) - Aerials (M) Oleksandr Okipniuk (2022) - Aerials (M) Yan Havriuk (Rookie) - Aerials (M) Maksym Kuznetsov (Rookie) - Aerials * * *   ICE HOCKEY - 0 (0 +0) =  --- * * *   LUGE - 10 (4 + 6) + 4      (W) Olena Stetskiv (2014, 2018, 2022) (W) Yulianna Tunytska (2022) (W) Olena Smaha (Rookie) (W) Oleksandra Mokh (Rookie) (M) Andriy Mandziy (2014, 2018, 2022) (M) Anton Dukach (2018, 2022) (M) Ihor Hoy (Rookie) (M) Nazatiy Kachmar (Rookie) (M) Danyil Martsynvsky (Rookie) (M) Bohdan Babura (Rookie) * * *   NORDIC COMBINED - 2 (0 + 2) + 1    (M) Dmytro Mazurchuk (2022) (M) Oleksandr Shumbarets (Rookie) * * *   SHORT TRACK - 2 (1 + 1) =  (W) Yelyzaveta Sydiorko (Rookie) (M) Oleh Handey (2022) * * *     SKELETON - 1 (0 + 1) =    (M) Vladyslav Heraskevych (2018, 2022) - the flagbearer * * *   SKI JUMPING - 2 (0 + 2) -1  (M) Vitaliy Kalinichenko (2022) (M) Yevhen Marusiak (2022) * * *   SKI MOUNTAINEERING  - 0 (0 +0) # --- * * *   SNOWBOARDING - 1 (1 + 0) =    (W) Annamari Dancha (2010, 2014, 2018, 2022) - PGS * * *     SPEED SKATING - 0 (0 +0) =  --- * * *