ISU World Tour 2024/25 -  Milan (Stage 6/6)   Final Overall World Tour Classification - Women:   01.  Kristen Santos-Griswold - 1120 points 02.  Xandra Velzeboer - 950 points 03.  Corinne Stoddard - 948 points 04.  Hanne Desmet - 918 points 05. Choi Minjeong - 760 points 06.  Kim Gilli - 713 points 07.  Danae Blais - 540 points 08.  Florence Brunelle - 518 points 09.  Elisa Confortola - 496 points 10.  Arianna Fontana - 493 points   Final Overall World Tour Classification - Men:   01.  William Dandjinou - 1184 points 02.  Jens van 't Wout - 950 points 03.  Pietro Sighel - 764 points 04.  Steven Dubois - 740 points 05.  Miyata Shogo - 614 points 06.  Park Jiwon - 606 points 07.  Roberts Kruzbergs - 595 points 08.  Jang Sungwoo - 512 points 09.  Sun Long - 472 points 10.  Jordan Pierre-Gilles - 434 points   Final Overall World Tour Classification - Nations:   01.  Canada - 8731 points 02.  the Netherlands - 6919 points 03.  Italy - 6184 points 04.  South Korea - 6015 points 05.  China - 5135 points 06.  United States of America - 4589 points 07.  Japan - 3500 points 08.  Poland - 3187 points 09.  Belgium - 2668 points 10.  Kazakhstan - 2182 points

Lots of injuries, including often just pure bad-luck stuff like a fall from a set of stairs, illness, and of course the Sochi tragedy in 2014: one of her biathlon friends, young Julia Pieper, killed herself with a biathlon rifle early during the Olympics (she wasn't on the team, but was a training partner of both Preuss and Dahlmeier). Obviously a hard hit, which led to terrible Olympics for Preuss, with a DNF, awful results in her other individual races and a relay where she was the first runner for Germany, but fell early on, got snow in her rifle and broke a pole and ended up losing almost 3 minutes, which in turn resulted in Germany being off the podium for the first time ever.   After that came all the injuries and illness and everything. So glad to finally see her have her big individual global gold, that is so well deserved.

Dave Ryding's Sixth was the best from a  man since 1934!  We actually have two Women's Golds in the 1930s.

first win for the Italian men's relay since 2007      very good Home stage for us   if only the organizers didn't set the finals sessions at 2 p.m. (especially on Saturday), there would have been a lot more spectators on the seats 

update: Not the best start to the year for Tentoglou, but I guess it can only get better from here    Karalis seems to be getting consistent in jumps over 5.90m, and proving that 2024 was no fluke and he is hopefully here to stay (and I guess to win more silver and bronze medals because there is some Swedish guy who is apparently too good )   No news on Stefanidi and she hasn't been very active on social media. She may have quietly retired, but I have a feeling she is pregnant and will try to come back for LA 2028.    Meanwhile, we have some other hopes in the women's pole vault and I think we'll still qualify 3 girls for LA even without Polak (suspended), Kyriakopoulou (retired), and Stefanidi. Two 16 yos are doing well this indoor season, Bouboulidi (4.21) and Mirtsiou (4.15). We also have 21 yo Retsa, who seemed very promising a number of years ago with 4.14 as a 16 yo and then had some injuries and her progress kind of stalled. Now she is improving a lot this year and has a SB (and obviously PR) of 4.41    New U18NR in the men's long jump from 17 yo Tzelepis with 7.46. It will be interesting to track his progress over the next few years vs Tentoglou when he was that young. There are another two teenagers who seem promising, both from Grevena (Tentoglou's hometown) - Samaras and Isaakidis.   Also 19 yo Mita in the men's high jump with a new PB of 2.26 

ISU World Tour 2024/25 -  Milan (Stage 6/6)   Men's 5.000m Relay:   01.  Italy 02.  Canada 03.  Kazakhstan   Final Men's 5.000m Relay World Cup Classification 2024/2025:   01.  Canada - 400 points 02.  China - 390 points 03.  Italy - 360 points 04.  the Netherlands - 336 points 05.  South Korea - 304 points 06.  Japan - 264 points 07.  Kazakhstan - 234 points 08.  Belgium - 220 points 09.  United States of America - 172 points 10.  Great Britain - 168 points                &  (host country) qualified for the World Championships 

ISU World Tour 2024/25 -  Milan (Stage 6/6)   Women's 500m:   01.  Kristen Santos-Griswold 02.  Arianna Fontana 03.  Xandra Velzeboer   Final Women's 500m World Cup Classification 2024/2025:   01.  Kristen Santos-Griswold - 410 points 02.  Xandra Velzeboer - 398 points 03.  Florence Brunelle - 360 points 04.  Hanne Desmet - 256 points 05.  Michelle Velzeboer - 242 points 06.  Kim Boutin - 218 points 07.  Choi Minjeong - 208 points 08.  Corinne Stoddard - 194 points 09.  Arianna Fontana - 184 points 10.  Kim Gilli - 176 points

ISU World Tour 2024/25 -  Milan (Stage 6/6)   Men's 1.000m:   01.  William Dandjinou 02.  Pietro Sighel 03.  Jang Sungwoo   Final Men's 1.000m World Cup Classification 2024/2025:   01.  WIlliam Dandjinou - 380 points 02.  Jens van 't Wout - 360 points 03.  Roberts Kruzbergs - 294 points 04.  Jang Sungwoo - 248 points 05.  Felix Roussel - 246 points 06.  Pietro Sighel - 240 points 07.  Sun Long - 192 points 08.  Michal Niewinski - 179 points 09.  Park Jiwon - 162 points 10.  Jordan Pierre-Gilles - 156 points

ISU World Tour 2024/25 -  Milan (Stage 6/6)   Women's 1.500m:   01.  Hanne Desmet 02.  Kristen Santos-Griswold 03.  Arianna Fontana   Final Women's 1.500m World Cup Classification 2024/2025:   01.  Hanne Desmet - 404 points 02.  Kristen Santos-Grisowld - 380 points 03.  Corinne Stoddard - 360 points 04.  Kim Gilli - 310 points 05.  Elisa Confortola - 274 points 06.  Choi Minjeong - 252 points 07.  Courtney Sarault - 184 points 08.  Xandra Velzeboer - 146 points 09.  Arianna Fontana - 127 points 10.  Petra Jaszapati &  Gong Li - 122 points

Our entry:   We had a national final for the first time in many years, it was mainly between Klavdia and Evangelia (see below), but here are some other songs I also liked: