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.  

Snow League Secret Garden    Women Gold-  Eileen Gu Silver-  Keixin Zhang Bronze-  Fanghui Li   Men Gold-  Brendan MacKay Silver-  Luke Harrold Bronze-  Gus Kenworthy   Full Results

Snow League Secret Garden    Women Gold-  Patti Zhou  Silver-  Mitsuki Ono Bronze-  Rise Kudo   Patti Zhou is only 14!  (this kind of makes me feel old… and I’m not even that old)   Men Gold-  Ayumu Hirano Silver-  Yuto Totsuka Bronze-  Ryusei Yamada   Full Results

Big Air WC Beijing    Women Gold-  Mia Brookes (176.50) Silver-  Hanna Karrer (146.75) Bronze-  Momo Suzuki (145.75)   Men Gold-  Su Yiming (181.00) Silver-  Kira Kimura (178.25) Bronze-  Rene Rinnekangas (176.25)   Full Results

And the Americans take 3 gold medals in the GP Finals, with Japan taking the fourth.  The Japanese ladies just took a couple of stumbles, allowing Alysa Liu to snag gold for the ladies.  Japan ends up on top for the season overall.     Check out Post 2 for complete medal tables from the season...see you all in Milano!

Italian hopes for LA 2028 done and dusted...   Local prosecutor in  Trapani requested a 10-year sentence against Antonino Pizzolato (and 3 friends of him) because of a supposed rape against a  tourist, down in Sicily   (and it looks he'll be almost certainly convicted, there's no sign he can be named not guilty by the evidence)   https://www.oasport.it/2025/12/nino-pizzolato-chiesti-dieci-anni-di-reclusione-le-motivazioni-della-procura-di-trapani/   I know he's quite an idiot, but I never thought he was so disgustingly an asshole 

it's Christmas time! miracles happen!     2 Italian girls in the semifinals of a women's sabre world cup tournament    and since they're going to face each other, one is guaranteed to make the gold medal assault 

men's Foil ( Fukuoka)   Gold:  Ryan Choi Chun Yin Silver:  () Kirill Borodachev Bronze:  Giulio Lombardi &  Alexander Massialas   Full Rankings & Results https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/08BC4919254145BAABBFC4F7529C274E