Coming up next in Poll #3.
Will we have a new NOC between Dec 20th and Dec 22nd in a brilliant Winter World Cup Events medal ranking 2024-2025 made by @Gianlu33 in a Winter Olympic Games Milano-Cortina 2026 News thread??? Great job, mate!
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/7081-winter-olympic-games-milano-cortina-2026-news/?do=findComment&comment=679116
Voting opens on Monday/Tuesday but you can already start figuring it out!
2. 2.2. Who will place higher in Men's Ski Jumping World Cup Event, Titisee-Neustadt, GER, Sat, Dec 14th
Correct answer:
a German athlete - Pius Paschke has won.
3. 2.3. Who will place higher in Men's and Women's Snowboard Parallel Giant Slalom World Cup Events, Cortina D'Ampezzo, ITA, Sat, Dec 14th
Correct answer:
Woman - Aleksandra Król-Walas POL was 2nd.
Oskar Kwiatkowski hasn't started at all. Looks like he's injured.
4. 2.4. Who will be 4th in Men's Snowboard Cross World Cup Event, Cervinia, ITA, Sat, Dec 14th
Correct answer:
Canadian!!!!!
Elliot Grondin was 4th
So: non-Italian
This is Walsh's first time swimming in a 25m pool at a major competition. The only other time she's competed in short course metres was one mid-season meet in which she first broke the 100 IM World Record. Otherwise, she usually competes in a 25 yard pool at college events where she holds 5 individual world records and also beats her opponents by a similar margin as to what you're seeing here. She's just that good at short course racing.
Kinda feels like the Russian athletics championships when they were in Cheboksary and all the Russians had mega performances there (and then not really outside of it)
Although to be fair, the World Cup saw tons of WR's as well, so it might feel more like a sort of trend of some new development (hopefully in equipment).