Thursday March 6th, 2025 - Round-Robin Day 4 Results (GMT +1)   12:30  Thailand  6 - 1  South Africa 16:00  Croatia  2 - 4  Lithuania 19:30  Serbia  2 - 0  Romania   Provisional Standing After Day 4:   1.    9 ------------------ 2.   9 3.   9 4.   6 5.   3 ------------------ 6.   0 Relegated to Women´s Division III Group B WCh 2026

how can you say that?   we've never had so many medal chances like nowadays, we can bring something home in almost every sport   who cares if CC skiing is no longer a medal factory? we have others now   OK, most of our champions are not youngsters anymore, but again, who cares? the Home Olympics are next year, not in a decade   don't look at the single world championship's race, just look at how good we are in many Olympic events and please, for you health's sake, relax and try and enjoy the competition as it is (independently from the Italians' results) 

Harrop surprisingly lost to Fatton after being unbeaten so far this season in the sprint races, all according to plan in the men's division, where Cardona Col proved once more unbeatable   finally,  and  get the Olympic Quota Places among the women,  and  get the OQPs among the men

Men's Sprint Race   Gold:  Oriol Cardona Coll Silver:  Thibault Anselmet Bronze:  Jon Kistler   Full Result and Ranking https://www.dataskimo.org/pdf/WCH2025-morgins-SPR.pdf

Women's Sprint Race   Gold:  Marianne Fatton Silver:  Emily Harrop Bronze:  Tatjana Paller   Full Result and Ranking https://www.dataskimo.org/pdf/WCH2025-morgins-SPR.pdf

Men's U-23 Sprint Race   Gold:  Jon Kistler Silver:  Thomas Bussard Bronze:  Ot Ferrer Martinez   Full Result and Ranking https://www.dataskimo.org/pdf/WCH2025-morgins-SPR.pdf

Women's U-23 Sprint Race   Gold:  Caroline Ulrich Silver:  Ida Waldal Bronze:  Maria Costa Diez   Full Result and Ranking https://www.dataskimo.org/pdf/WCH2025-morgins-SPR.pdf

Men's U-20 Sprint Race   Gold:  Griffin Briley Silver:  Lorenzo Milesi Bronze:  Bi Yuxin   Full Result and Ranking https://www.dataskimo.org/pdf/YWCH2025-morgins-SPR.pdf

Women's U-20 Sprint Race   Gold:  Laia Selles Sanchez Silver:  Robine Deseyn Bronze:  Emma Albrecht   Full Result and Ranking https://www.dataskimo.org/pdf/YWCH2025-morgins-SPR.pdf

I have already written that I will consider 15 medals a success, but it will still be less medals than in 2022 (17)- an edition over our real capabilities at that time in my opinion. In any case, it may be 2 times in a row that Italy as the host of the Winter Games we will get fewer medals than in the previous edition and it will not be nice. Currently we have a more stable base and results achieved in summer sports: 2 more great last editions of the Games and this can no longer be called a coincidence.   It's hard to change anything positively with 1 year to go until the Olympics. We have to count on our veterans in various sports not having injuries and being in good shape. Unfortunately, cross-country skiing has been neglected for many years and even Cramer's good work over the last 3 years couldn't change much. Maybe if we gave him 7 years from 2019, the situation would be better.