More details of all the changes.  Also changes to start order to reduce the impact of the kind of weather-affected races we saw in skeleton a couple of weeks back.  And YT link above is now live with this week's start times.   https://www.fil-luge.org/en/news/season-opening-at-the-olympic-ice-track-and-premiere-for-mixed-events-in-norway

Bears "forgot" they had a timeout left and executed one play in 33 seconds so they didn't even kick a FG to force overtime. Clown show...    

It's the bible of ski mountaineer

As of this year, sprint events have been eliminated (a pity, I liked them), while single and double relays have been added. These are two more events that the FIL wants to add to the Olympics. Both events will make their debut on Sunday in Lillehammer 

First Ruka start lists are there    any thoughts ? 

The loss to  last weekend was a real blip, everyone about 20% down on what they usually do.   Maybe just not taking the opposition seriously enough. 

very slim, I think  and  (also  among the women) have better chances (and I wouldn't underestimate  too, in 2 seasons their very strong juniors might surprise also at senior level)   gotta say that sprint races are not the core disciplines of this sport, the classic individual and the vert races would have been a lot more entertaining and "fair" to the athletes

They filed an appeal in the Sinner case and then went to CAS as well. This is still ongoing while Sinner keeps playing (until the season ended anyway) and there is zero noise he might get a significant additional ban if any. So it's basically lawyers exchanging papers to make their money. I expect the same will happen with Świątek

WADA will not appeal here?

I don't think so. Sinner got away without extra punishment so Świątek probably will too. I mean even Polish experts on TV said trimetazydyne acts like a "new" meldonium in all honesty