Jocurile Olimpice de Iarnă

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