great fencing weekend, with all the 6 weapons on stage    nice!    but also a nightmare for the fans...how can you follow all of them?   

finally the alpine snowboard is back!    and it's immediately  all the way!    basically, with this 1st race of the season alpine snowboard has already given us more wins and medals than any other wineter sport, which is beautiful, but not so good for us 

13th day 

Jess Diggins give all the  young 'uns a lesson.  

And Malinin bounced back.  He earned a WR 238.24 in the FP...and of note that in this Grand Prix Finals event, the 6th place competitor earned 242.19 combined (not even 4 points higher).   Dang.

Liu  fell 8 minutes in, a hard fall it seems which prevented the race from going on. The three skaters (Lorello  Bosker  and Trebouta ) will get a rerun tonight.  As the Netherlands and Italy already have two guys in qualifying spots this is not a disaster for them. But Trebouta will now start another 10000 with 15 laps in the legs, alone in his pair, aiming for 12'49 to qualify. We'll never know what he would have done in those last laps but he was on pace to at least approach this time. 

10km, Division B and already a new track record by Vladimír Semirunniy. I feel that this fella might be a dark horse for 5km and 10km in Milano 

Gretzky actually says at one point he practiced the names and still got a lot of them wrong, including the easiest one Jordan. 

I only kinda know Wayne Gretzky by name, don't think I ever heard or saw him really do anything, but man, for someone called 'The Great One' that sure was an underwhelming performance by him     Pronounced half the countries like he had never even heard of them (which I assume is correct), and made it seem as though reading a card with a grand total of 4 countries on it was super difficult. Shaquille O'Neal and Aaron Judge at least clearly practiced the names in their pot. The full 'Islamic Republic of Iran' by Shaq for example, I feel like Gretzky would just have said 'I R Iran' and thought the I and R were a typo.

Ok, take the Norwegian World Cup regulars, add the top Norwegian club skiers, guess what happens.........