Until about 15 years ago, France probably didn't even have a national futsal team? Or if they did, they certainly didn't play in big events. On the other hand: Italy, Russia and Ukraine have always been strong in this sport, although Italy almost always lost to Spain in key matches.

In these days it's rare for a Russian to support for the Ukrainians, am I right?

This feels like... not an argument an American (or a Canadian :P ) should be making given where we live and how many countries could "take us back"...

Plus losing one of the classic winter sports in Nordic combined would be yet another disaster. Like it's not going downhill faster than Marco Odermatt already.

And considering Lappartient is basically known as having 'Conflict of Interest' as his middle name....yeah.

What nonsense is this?     And Tour de Ski only in Italy...meh. It was such a cool event, years ago.

Hundreds of dead under hurricane helene

World Junior Championships ( Chuncheon)   Day #1 Medallists   women's -52kg Gold:  Parnian Noori Silver:  Xu Yinuo Bronze:  Sila Irmak Uzuncavdar &  Noa Romero Fernandez   women's -59kg Gold:  Aynaz Nasiri Silver:  Nuray Kaznabek Bronze:  Ella Brewster & Marija Uglesic   men's -52kg Gold:  Jung Jaebin Silver:  Stanislav Mitkov Bronze:  David Valdez Vazquez &  Vasif Salimov  

well, that's true, but at least we have something...hopefully in 2030 they will extend the schedule to the classic race (I doubt they will ever make the vertical race Olympic), instead of adding new senseless leisure time activities 

Shhhhhhhhhhhh....  Gold medal for Canada