December is probably going to be focused on either Italy/Austria or Norway, but the plans are still being made as we speak. Renting a car, driving from the Netherlands down to Italy, finding accomodations and help with preparing the skis and all that...trying to make it as an independent 'solo' athlete is...hard     I can't go and help out, because we got the keys to our house (finally) and there's lots of work to be done there, so it's all happening at the same time and the mind is getting crazy (for both of us)  

I have a question for everyone: Will Russia participate in Milano-Cortina? What's your (very early) prediction about this? I guess it largely hinges on who the next IOC president will be, which we'll know next March I think.

Haha. OK, I see. You are bound to do much better this time around although -as I recall- you won 5 golds back then, which is pretty good. In terms of total number of medals at least, you'll easily exceed the 11 you won in Torino 2006.

My English must have definitely improved . I meant that any result worse than Torino2006 would be a bad result 

How could Torino become a disaster for Italian sport? It was 18 years ago.

Yes. Minus than Torino could become a total disaster for our sport

yes...not that it would take a big effort to be better than 2006 (in every aspect, from the organization of the Games to the Italian medal table) 

it's not her LT debut, maybe a world cup debut...she already tried to qualify for the 2022 Olympics

not the start of the season I expected from our boys...   meanwhile, once again, when the Olympic pressure is off, our girls are just a class apart   what's new? 

so, the 2024 season is over     have got a lot of good results, but unfortunately underperformed in the only place that really mattered, in Paris    see you next year...hopefully...