not the start of the season I expected from our boys...   meanwhile, once again, when the Olympic pressure is off, our girls are just a class apart   what's new? 

so, the 2024 season is over     have got a lot of good results, but unfortunately underperformed in the only place that really mattered, in Paris    see you next year...hopefully...

Stage #5, Final ( Neom Bay)   mixed 4*1.5km Relay   Gold:  Germany (Lea Boy, Jeanette Spiwoks, Arne Schubert, Florian Wellbrock) Silver:  Italy (Giulia Gabrielleschi, Ginevra Taddeucci, Marcello Guidi, Dario Verani) Bronze:  France (Caroline Laure Jouisse, Ines Delacroix, Sacha Velly, Marc-Antoine Olivier)   Full Results https://www.worldaquatics.com/competitions/4735/world-aquatics-open-water-swimming-world-cup-2024/results?event=9931dd26-5d1e-43fc-b2f3-daa65d4cede4&unit=finals

Men's Foil ( Tunis) Gold:  MASSIALAS Alexander  Silver:  LOUIE Bryce Bronze:  CHOUPENITCH Alexander &  HAMZA Mohamed    Full results: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/4783D9C4744B4159B7F86D9DA5C867FA     Women's Foil (:TUN Tunis) Gold:  FAVARETTO Martina  Silver:  ERRIGO Arianna Bronze:  HARVEY Eleanor &  WALCZYK-KLIMASZYK Julia    Full results: https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/3C0E54FFB6BE43DCB70DC892DF2B654D

Just rewatched that last minute, because apparently there were a controversy according to medias, but it took almost 15 minutes.  oh dear, this sport is just something else.    

Apparently was leading 0.4 seconds to go by 3 points but still managed to lose the match     Anyway it looks there some progress from the loses to Albania and co from couple of years ago... maybe thhere a chance for a win in a international match in the next decade. As San Marino proved last week in football, only sky is the limit    

Stage 1 in Lillehammer (NOR)   Men´s Individual Large Hill:   1.  Pius Paschke    317.1 2. Daniel Tschofenig    309.2 3. Maximilian Ortner    307.1   Full Final Result HERE

Hope so (for my adopted country, Norway, that is). Torino 2006 was the first Winter Olympics I followed closely and it was nothing short of a disaster for Norway. Strangely enough, that was actually the reason I became an avid fan of Norwegian winter sports and have been ever since. As for my actual home country, Greece, a medal for Ginnis in slalom (alpine skiing) would be a miracle.

Medal matches are set for Sunday:   Bronze Medal Match:  United States vs.  Venezuela   Gold Medal Match:  Taiwan vs.  Japan

2006 medal table   1  Germany 11 12 6 29 2  United States 9 9 7 25 3  Austria 9 7 7 23 4  Russia 8 6 8 22 5  Canada 7 10 7 24 6  Sweden 7 2 5 14 7  South Korea 6 3 2 11 8  Switzerland 5 4 5 14 9  Italy* 5 0 6 11 10  France 3 2 4 9  Netherlands 3 2 4 9 12  Estonia 3 0 0 3 13  Norway 2 8 9 19 14  China 2 4 5 11 15  Czech Republic 1 2 1 4 16  Croatia 1 2 0 3 17  Australia 1 0 1 2 18  Japan 1 0 0 1 19  Finland 0 6 3 9 20  Poland 0 1 1 2 21  Belarus 0 1 0 1  Bulgaria 0 1 0 1  Great Britain 0 1 0 1  Slovakia 0 1 0 1 25  Ukraine 0 0 2 2 26  Latvia 0 0 1 1 Totals (26 entries) 84 84 84 252