Still trying to get over the disappointment of failing to qualify a full men’s team in short track, not expecting much… we’re probably not going to get a quota as usual with our terrible terrible luck 

Stage 4 in Wisla (POL)   Men´s Individual Large Hill:   1.  Domen Prevc    286.2 2. Philipp Raimund    279.4 3. Ryoyu Kobayashi    267.2   Full Final Result HERE

JTB and TB announce retirement and everyone outside Norge pop open the champagne and say "finally". Then Norge enter Botn and Uldal, who are the next incarnation of JTB and Taraj Boe 

Nightmare vision of  1-2-3 looms.  

Wright blows it 8/8 fast and heading for a big lead.....then 0/2.  

It's been a slow start to the winter for many West Coast North American ski resorts, but you'll see plenty of snow on the broadcast today. I'm still sizing up the prospect of digging my way out and heading to the venue 

Aerials WC Ruka   Women Gold-  Xu Mengtao (89.28) Silver-  Marion Thenault (83.28) Bronze-  Chen Meiting (75.31)   Men Gold-  Oleksandr Okipniuk (130.56) Silver-  Pirmin Werner (109.95) Bronze-  Christopher Lillis (109.74)   Rare day with no Chinese on the podium, 5th and 6th in the final for them.    Full Results

Great to see the Poles coming out again for their Wisla round.  The atmosphere is on hand as usual.   With all due respect to Norway, Finland and Sweden who have invented these sports, but in the last couple of years it's painful to watch the starts in Scandinavia with 30 people in the stands.. It is always a shock how barely anybody goes out to watch a WC round in a historical sport for that nation. Same goes for the cross-country, Nordic combined races we had. Only biathlon managed to pull a nice crowd in Ostersund.

Even if there are still a few matches postponed to be played, it's incredible how tight  Extraklasa is this season! Only 11 points are separating surprising leaders Gornik Zabrze to equally surprising 16th and 1st relegation spot Legia Warszawa! And not forgetting Poland has 4 teams playing in European groups: Jagiellonia, Rakow, Lech and Legia, so there are not weak teams.

It was only a matter of time: today Jilek secured his first victory in the World Cup.