won the bid for 2031 Pacific Games with 12 votes, according to Pita Taufatofua social media.

GSOC HearingLife Tour Challenge Women’s Quarterfinals  Team Gim v.  Team Fujisawa  Team Wranå v.  Team Einarson  Team Constantini v.  Team Lawes  Team Homan v.  Team Kim

Team Lawes defeats Team Tirinzoni 5-3 in the C-qualifier, for a second win against them at this event! With that, another shocker as Tirinzoni also misses out on the playoffs 

Ah, hadn't seen the arrow to go to page 2. I assume that means they make a 'nickname' thingy for every country that has at least a single athlete participating...   Ice spiders and wolves and eagles and lions and hussars and vikings and then there's the Singapore....Gazelles  

There’s two pages of those by the way.

I wonder under which name the many athletes who aren't from one of these 14 nations will race?

More of the new national idenities have been added to the website, or I just noticed them for the first time 

Team Retornaz, currently the title holder of the Challenge, lost in the qualification bracket and isn't even in the top 8

Regular Season   Day 5, Part 1 Tuesday 08.10.2024 - Schedule*   19:00  Färjestad Karlstad (SWE) - Oceláři Třinec (CZE) 19:00  Skellefteå AIK (SWE) - Fehèrvàr AV19 (HUN) 19:00  Växjö Lakers (SWE) - Red Bull Salzburg (AUT) 19:00  SønderjyskE Vojens (DEN) - Tappara Tampere (FIN) 19:45  ZSC Lions Zürich (SUI) - Sheffield Steelers (GBR) 19:45  Fribourg-Gottèron (SUI) - Eisbären Berlin (GER)   *All times CET     Watch live   Check here for details of live TV broadcasts: https://www.championshockeyleague.com/en/fans/where-to-watch   All games are also live on the https://everyplay.live/ website (CHL Pass costs 9.99€/month), subject to geo-blocking restrictions in certain countries due to TV rights.

game over!    Ineos Britannia wins the 11th race against  Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli and takes the Louis Vuitton Cup home by a final score of 7-4   once again, with those boats and those rules, the start was the key of the whole race   winning the early engagement and gaining the advantage to choose the side of the regatta course where to go first made any effort of the opposing team useless, like in some F1 circuits (like Montecarlo) there's no chance to overtake (unless the opponent makes a capital mistake or breaks the boat -it happened twice to LR in this final series)   for , this is the first America's Cup match appearance since 1964, when the Royal Thames Yacht Club (boat: Sovereign) lost (4 races to 0) to the  New York Yacht Club (boat: Constellation) in  Newport   the 37th America's Cup match (best-of-13 races regatta) will start next Saturday, October 12th, always in  Barcelona and features the defending team  Emirates New Zealand and the challengers,  Ineos Britannia