Do or die for the US women.  Japan has nothing to play for, but I'm sure they would love to beat Norway if they have to face them again.  Let's go Tabitha!

Play-off round fixtures:   Quarterfinals     vs       vs      vs      vs      9th-12th Place Semifinals   -   -     13th-16th Place Semifinals    -    -

Women´s World Championship 2025 (Brno, Ostrava  )   DAY 4 - 09.12.2025     Play-Off Round   -   11-4 -   1-2 After PSO -   4-3  -   4-1

vs.  to see who can play in.  If  wins and  loses to , then  will be in 2nd place due to tie breaker (we beat Norway).  C'mon ladies!   

6 games done in the Women's Draw & even without the final result of   the top 4 cannot be shaken, so the last round will merely determine the semi-final draws   Women       JPN 6   0     P NOR 4   1     GER 4   2     USA 4   2     TUR 2   4     CZE 1   4     AUS 1   5     EST 1   5    

Yeah, Today was added the 34th Quota for Team Slovakia.    5th Sport, 7th Female athlete of the team, Return to the Olympic Short Track Speed Skating for Slovakia after 12 years     One of the two young girls Tamara Tokárová or Lea Popovičová will represent the country in Milano 2026 in Short Track Speed Skating. The chosen one will be announced by our federation in the following weeks after some internal evaluations of current performances of both girls being done.   For one or the other it will be an Olympic debut and for the country a return under the five rings in this sport since Sochi 2014.   Our representative will take part only in the W 500m   Team (Updated as of 9th December 2025) 34 Athletes (27 M + 7 W)   Ice Hockey : (25 Athletes: 25+0) M Team   Figure Skating: (1 Athlete: 1+0) Adam Hagara (M Singles)   Biathlon: (4 Athletes: 0+4) TBD (W Sprint, W Pursuit ?, W Individual, W Mass Start ?, W Relay) TBD (W Sprint, W Pursuit ?, W Individual, W Mass Start ?, W Relay) TBD (W Sprint, W Pursuit ?, W Individual, W Mass Start ?, W Relay) TBD (W Sprint, W Pursuit ?, W Individual, W Mass Start ?, W Relay)   Ski Mountaineering: (3 Athletes: 1+2) Jakub Šiarnik (M Sprint, Mixed Relay) Marianna Jagerčíková (W Sprint, Mixed Relay) Rebeka Cully (W Sprint)   Short Track Speed Skating: (1 Athletes: 0+1) TBD (W 500m)

Yeah. It was pretty bad that they cancel the contract with the original creative director after 7 months of work. I feel like politics, in this particular context of the changing of prime minister and the cabinet, may had caused changes in organizational decisions regarding the Sea Games including the direction of the opening ceremony. 

That's what I figured.  Wouldn't be a proper lead up to an Olympics without some media-fueled fearmongering.  

Today : Jordan 3-0 Egypt  This team will surprise us                 

option no.2 for sure, as it's been all this shitstorm organized by the nhl owners through their embedded reporters   ps not that the north american audience looks really aware of the hockey rules and habits outside the nhl (and around their game, too, since they look not to know that just a couple of weeks ago they played 2 nhl matches on an ice sheet of the exact same size of Milan's olympic arena)