Well, to be fair lately China abandoned plenty of their naturalized players whom they used only for Beijing 2022 in both male and female categories.
UAE in other hand is still a 99.9 % team of former russians, americans, canadians etc...
The men won their opening game as well. 4-1 against Japan.
Canada crushed S. Korea 11-0 among Men and 16-0 Taipei among women in the hockey opening day
Also It will be hard to beat the Netherlands and Norway in the team and I'm still afraid that the USA will put Stolz on the team... I hope that the Italians will prepare the ice for Ghiotto and he will be able to test the conditions there in advance.
I'm counting on the same in luge, although the results of the Italian team there are so poor that even knowledge of the track probably won't help
it will depend also a lot on the track and the ice quality
I think the track in Milan will be quite slow, which would favor Ghiotto also in the 5k (and damage somehow Lollobrigida, who could really be a contender in the 3k on a very quick track)
For me the Czech is still too young to be afraid of in 1 year. On the other hand, Eitrem will be very dangerous in 5 km and Roest was always 1 step ahead of Ghiotto in the last 2-3 rounds. If Ghiotto is counting on a double, he has to make progress in 5 km.
It doesn't look like the Swede will be back in 2026...
https://www.svt.se/sport/skridsko/nils-van-der-poel-har-bytt-namn-heter-nu-svensson
Despite everything I thought German women's hockey was much better: bigger country, more players and greater traditions. Btw., do they naturalize people for the women's team in Hungary, like in China?
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