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Dual Moguls WC Alpe D’Huez, France Men Gold- Walter Wallberg Silver- Rasmus Stegfeldt Bronze- Mikael Kingsbury Louis-David Chalifoux, and Julien Viel with career best WC results in 4th and 5th as well Women Gold- Jakara Anthony Silver- Olivia Giacco Bronze- Alli Macuga Full Results

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Despite missing the final Richard Tury is very satisfied with his performance and very good amount of points to the Olympic Ranking. Also special mention: First time ever our public TV (RTVS) broadcasted Skateboarding live early this morning

Impressive, considering that you're only like five years old according to your profile. @Josh is at least a decade your senior I believe

Stage 4 in Engelberg (SUI) Men´s Individual Large Hill: 1. Pius Paschke 316.8 2. Marius Lindvik 315.1 3. Stefan Kraft 313.3 Full Final Result HERE

The BBC think Trondheim is in . https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-sports/67737757

Spectacular meltdown at transition for Bergane. Think the judges took pity on her, in triathlon would have been a DQF because her old skis ran away & blocked the piste!

2023 Hancock Prospecting Queensland Championships - Brisbane (AUS) December 9th - December 15th 2023 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Men's 200m Freestyle Thomas Neill Men's 100m Butterfly Cody Simpson Women's 200m Freestyle Kaylee McKeown Women's 400m Freestyle Eve Thomas Women's 200m Backstroke Jaclyn Barclay Mollie O'Callaghan

What a difference a proper downhill course can make for the excitement of the race. My heart warms when seeing those 2 minutes on the clock, not that cop out 1:20 we had on Thursday. If a DH isn't clocking 1:40, then it's not a real DH.

2014 & 2018 Olympics, 2013 and 2017 Worlds (not mentioning some world cup stages and the X-games)

OK it's done here are the quotas 68kg: Liang +80kg: AIN Larin 49kg: Akgul (Turkey already has the quota) therefore Quo 67kg: Song (China already has the quota) therefore Gbagbi I highly doubt I'm wrong but nothing is 100% final until WT officially confirms it.

Parallel Giant Slalom WC Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy Men Gold- Benjamin Karl Silver- Andreas Prommegger Bronze- Roland Fischnaller Women Gold- Ramona Hofmeister Silver- Lucia Dalmasso Bronze- Sabine Schöffmann Full Results

2023 Youth Sailing World Championships ( Buzios) men's Windsurfer (iQFOiL) Gold: Stanislaw Trepczynski Silver: Leonardo Tomasini Bronze: Noè Garandeau women's Windsurfer (iQFOiL) Gold: Kristyna Pinosova Silver: Lina Erzen Bronze: Darcey Shaw men's Kiteboarding (Formula Kite) Gold: Maximilian Maeder Silver: Huang Qibin Bronze: Riccardo Pianosi women's Kiteboarding (Formula Kite) Gold: Derin Atakan Silver: Catalina Turienzo Bronze: Mika Kafri men's One-Person Dinghy (ILCA 6) Gold: Mattia Cesana Silver: Luka Zabukovec Bronze: Joao Pontes women's One-Person Dinghy (ILCA 6) Gold: Roos Wind Silver: Emma Mattivi Bronze: Sienna Wright men's/mixed Two-Person Dinghy (420) Gold: Quan Cardi & Mattia Tognocchi Silver: Zou Schemmel & Jean-Philippe Boudard Bronze: Miguel Angel Morales Hernandez & Alejandro Martin women's Two-Person Dinghy (420) Gold: Joana Faulhaber Tostes Antunes Gonçalves & Gabriela Vassel Silver: Maayan Shemesh & Emilie Louviot Bronze: Kerkezou Iakovina & Giannouli Danai men's/mixed Skiff (29er) Gold: Hugo Revil & Karl Devaux Silver: Alex Demurtas & Giovanni Santi Bronze: Ben O'Shaughnessy & Ethan Spain women's Skiff (29er) Gold: Ewa Lewandowska & Julia Maria Zmudzinska Silver: Sarah Jannin & Fleur Babin Bronze: Boroka Feher & Szonja Feher mixed Two-Person Multihull (Nacra 15) Gold: Daniel Garcia De La Casas & Nora Garcia De La Casas Silver: Cody Roe & Brooke Mertz Bronze: Clement Guignard & Marie Mazuay Full Results https://worldsailingywc.org/notice-board/

Big Air WC Copper Mountain, United States Men Gold- Mac Forehand (187.00) Silver- Miro Tabanelli (185.00) Bronze- Birk Ruud (184.00) Women Gold- Tess Ledeux (189.00) Silver- Mathilde Gremaud (185.50) Bronze- Kirsty Muir (173.75) Full Results

2023 Gyor Open - Gyor (HUN) December 13th - December 16th 2023 Meet Results The following new OQTs were achieved Men's 1500m Freestyle Zalan Sarkany Men's 100m Backstroke Adam Jaszo Women's 200m Backstroke Dora Molnar Women's 200m Individual Medley Dalma Sebestyen

Best thing is that his sister Posy was on Comms for Eurosport! Best day since cyclist Magnus Bäckstedt commented on his daughter Zoe winning the Junior World Championsips.

I figure they'd have a better chance for a gold medal

Stage 4 in Trondheim (NOR) Men´s 20km Skiathlon: 1. Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo 43:50.7 2. Andrew Musgrave 43:51.4 3. Didrik Toenseth 43:51.5 Full Final Result HERE

Stage 4 in Engelberg (SUI) Women´s Individual Large Hill: 1. Nika Prevc 305.3 2. Ema Klinec 302.7 3. Eirin Maria Kvandal 297.0 Full Final Result HERE

Diggins 2nd place in the 100th podium for the USA in the winter season

Westvold Hansen lost

Stage 11 in Val Gardena/Groeden (ITA) Men´s Downhill: 1. Dominik Paris 1:59.84 2. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 2:00.28 3. Bryce Bennett 2:00.44 Full Final Results HERE

A few more new OQT's to report from the Chinese National Championships: Men's 100m Freestyle Ji Xinjie Women's 200m Freestyle Yang Junxuan Women's 400m Freestyle Gao Weizhong Liu Yaxin Yang Peiqi Women's 100m Backstroke Peng Xuwei Women's 100m Butterfly Yu Yiting Women's 200m Butterfly Chen Luying China has already has two or more qualifiers in each of the events.

Answer time So at the end will play (Picked) the Boys Tournament, since a spot was still available ( chosed rather their W Team, do not ask me why) so no Nela Lopušanová in Korea..instead our boys will probably end in 5th place behind CAN, USA, FIN and CZE Boys Tournament A: USA, CZE, SVK B: CAN, FIN, KOR Girls Tournament A: SWE JPN NOR B: SUI GER FRA 3v3 Tournaments Boys : Girls :

Stage 4 in Trondheim (NOR) Women´s 20km Skiathlon: 1. Ebba Andersson 49:23.4 2. Jessie Diggins 49:38.6 3. Heidi Weng 49:40.1 Full Final Result HERE

Stage 12 in Val d´Isere (FRA) Women´s Downhill: 1. Jasmine Flury 1:43.47 2. Joana Haehlen 1:43.69 3. Cornelia Huetter 1:43.71 Full Final Results HERE

According to Eurosport, speed skier Breezy Johnson is in trouble over the drug-testing whereabouts rules & can’t compete until that is all sorted out.

Левајац и Лупулеску у финалу фидера у Бјели, победом над Индијцима који су први носиоци. У финалу против Пиштеја и Балажове. Што се осталих резултата тиче, Тодоровић, Лупулеску и Шурјан остварила по једну победу у синглу, Шурјан и Лупулеску стигле до ПФ дубла.

Too young to remember some of them, but I can’t believe I forgot about Pyeongchang 2018

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Seoul (Stage 4/6) Women's 1.000m: 01. Hanne Desmet 02. Kristen Santos-Griswold 03. Xandra Velzeboer Men's 1.000m: 01. Steven Dubois 02. Hwang Daeheon 03. Pascal Dion Women's 1.500m [1/2]: 01. Kim Gilli 02. Corinne Stoddard 03. Gong Li Men's 1.500m [1/2]: 01. Park Ji Won 02. William Dandjinou 03. Felix Roussel Mixed 2.000m Relay: 01. the Netherlands 02. Italy 03. South Korea & United States of America (both PEN in the final)

No back to back WCh finals. Rišo missed the final for 3 points this time Anyway this 10th place bring another very valuable points to the Olympic Qualifiers. Will be really tough to qualify, but hopefully this time it will really happen ! #InParis24WeTrust I still remember how he lost his quota for Tokyo at the very last race by some points...

The end of the Bulgaria vs Iceland game was horrible. Of course a Bulgarian win likely would give Estonia the winner of the group even before the Iceland/Estonia game was played. Bulgaria was up 3-2 when Iceland pulled its goalie with about 2 minutes left. With about 30 seconds left a Iceland player takes down a Bulgarian player from behind. The player looked seriously hurt not moving at all. Looked like a dead body. Refs don't stop play. So its 6 Iceland players against 4. Because of the injury Iceland scores with 17 seconds left. The player would remain not moving while staff came out. Suddenly Refs huddle with Bulgarian and Iceland players. Looks like the goal might not be allowed. Then suddenly they declare goal counts plus say Iceland also scored with 1:23 to play ! Suddenly scoreboard changes from 3-2 Bulgaria to 4-3 Iceland. Never have a seen a team get credit for two goals as the same time. There was no stoppage of play for a goal at 1:23 nor any indication on the ice that a questionable decision even existed. I wish all 12 teams the best wishes in Round Two but that result smells. I hope Estonia wins on Sunday because they deserve it not Iceland

FIRST STAGE OF VOTING First Stage voting is now open! Please copy the design from this post, fill in the categories you want to vote and send it to me by message. Voters have until Friday, December 22nd to cast their votes. Please contact me if you have any questions and pay attention to the following rules: In all categories, votes must be written in order of preference; Votes are required, at least, for the Best Female and Best Male Athlete categories; You don't have to vote in every category, but at least 3 choices are required in the categories you vote in; You can vote for athletes and teams from your own nation, but only 1 vote is allowed in each category.

This voting was very close but ultimately more people were against the idea of splitting the categories. Next year we can discuss new categories.

Olympic Qualification Rankings updated as of December 15th, 2023

by the way, took their revenge Tonight in Cortina, as Benny Karl edged out Andreas Promegger in the night PGS. the best , the veteran Captain Fisch, aka Roland Fischnaller, finished only 3rd among the women, it went a little better, as Lucia Dalmasso miraculously came 2nd behind the unstoppable Ramona Theresia Hofmeister. Sabine Schoeffman was 3rd.

Horigome is back, and he really needs to sum as much points as possible in this event. I think those are the best japanese skateboarders up this moment, and one of them will miss Olympics.

Goalball qualification has been completed. For the men's tournament, the qualified teams are Egypt (absent since 1992) and Iran (2012) return to the Games, while France qualifies for the first time thanks to the host quota. In Tokyo we had 10 teams instead of 8, and 5 of them didn't qualify (including current bronze medalist Lithuania): For the women's tournament, the qualified teams are Algeria (absent since 2016) and South Korea (2000) return to the Games, while France qualifies for the first time. Out of the 10 participating teams in Tokyo, 5 didn't qualify this time (including current silver medalist USA): In general, Europe (men's) and the Americas (women's) suffered with the reduced field, while Asia did pretty great.

Points Points for ,would never have believed that I would hear it this year Miracles apparently does not happens only during Christmas It was also the first career WC points of Ema Kapustová, Congrats, something nice for her after finishing 41st just a couple of seconds behind points Thursday right on her 21st birthday, was her new PB but rather bittersweet on your birthday I mean lol

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Bobsleigh WC Innsbruck, Austria Women’s Monobob Gold- Lisa Buckwitz (1:49.42) Silver- Kaysha Love (1:49.53) Bronze- Breeana Walker (1:49.55) Full Results Nice 5th for Cynthia Appiah, definitely shows that she’s starting to get back into form.

Snowboard Cross WC Cervinia, Italy Women Gold- Sina Siegenthaler Silver- Belle Brockhoff Bronze- Josie Baff Men Gold- Alessandro Hämmerle Silver- Adam Lambert Bronze- Éliot Grondin Full Results

Taekwondo Golubic izgubio u finalu Grand Slama i opet ostao korak kratak. Poraz 2-1 u finalu od Kineza i kvota Kinezu. odlican u 1/4 finalu i polufinalu. Kinez ipak malo bolji. 20-17 u trećoj rundi. pokusala je i Pole ali ispala u kvalifikacijama.

Gold and silver for Mikael Kingsburyand Elliot Vaillancourt at the Alpe D’Huez moguls WC! For Vaillancourt, it’s a first career WC medal!

Bobsleigh WC Innsbruck, Austria Women’s Monobob Gold- Lisa Buckwitz (1:51.17) Silver- Breeana Walker (1:51.42) Bronze- Laura Nolte (1:51.47) Full Results

Some suggestions for Best Doubles/Pair (or Mixed Team) Storm Hunter/Elise Mertens (Tennis) Ana Patrícia Ramos/Eduarda Lisboa (Beach Volleyball) Chang Yani/Chen Yiwen (Diving) Chen Meng/Wang Yidi (Table Tennis) Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan (Badminton) Chen Yuxi/Quan Hongchan (Diving) Lian Junjie/Yang Hao (Diving) Wang Chuqin/Fan Zhendong (Table Tennis) Wang Zongyuan/Long Daoyi (Diving) Xu Shixiao/Sun Mengya (Sprint Canoeing) Ivan Dodig/Austin Krajicek (Tennis) Ondřej Perušič/David Schweiner (Beach Volleyball) Emma Jørgensen/Frederikke Matthiesen (Sprint Canoeing) Johannes Lochner/Georg Fleischhauer (Bobsleigh) Kim Kalicki/Leonie Fiebig (Bobsleigh) Peter Kretschmer/Tim Hecker (Sprint Canoeing) Toni Eggert/Sascha Benecken (Luge) Emily Craig/Imogen Grant (Rowing) Fintan McCarthy/Paul O'Donovan (Rowing) Ruggero Tita/Caterina Banti (Sailing) Keiju Okada/Miho Yoshioka (Sailing) Riku Miura/Ryuichi Kihara (Figure Skating) Bart Lambriex/Floris van de Werken (Sailing) Melvin Twellaar/Stef Broenink (Rowing) Ymkje Clevering/Veronique Meester (Rowing) Anders Mol/Christian Sørum (Beach Volleyball) João Ribeiro/Messias Baptista (Sprint Canoeing) Ancuța Bodnar/Simona Radiș (Rowing) Kang Min-hyuk/Seo Seung-jae (Badminton) Lim Si-hyeon/Kim Woo-jin (Archery) Vilma Bobeck/Rebecca Netzler (Sailing) Roman Röösli/Andrin Gulich (Rowing) Cory Thiesse/Korey Dropkin (Curling) Madison Chock/Evan Bates (Figure Skating) Rajeev Ram/Joe Salisbury (Tennis) Sara Hughes/Kelly Cheng (Beach Volleyball) Nikki Ayers/Jed Altschwager (Para Rowing) Wu Chunyan/Zhao Lixue (Para Archery) Tereza Brandtlova/David Drahoninsky (Para Archery) Alfie Hewett/Gordon Reid (Wheelchair Tennis) Lauren Rowles/Gregg Stevenson (Para Rowing) Sarita/Rakesh Kumar (Para Archery) Yui Kamiji/Kgothatso Montjane (Wheelchair Tennis) Sam Schröder/Niels Vink (Wheelchair Tennis)

Actually I'm for the no. I like the idea to have THE best athlete.

Patinage de vitesse : les Championnats de France sont confirmés. Ce sera le week-end prochain à Inzell. Un championnat chapeauté par la FFRS, ce qui peut apparemment poser problème pour les néophytes, souvent (dans un premier temps), transfuges temporaires du short-track, donc licenciés FFSG. Les quelques essais de jeunes qui ont eu lieu ici et là sont tous issus des clubs de glace, le roller va-t-il mettre en place une passerelle ? Paul Lenglin dont j'ai parlé plus haut continue d'abaisser ses chronos, malheureusement il est trop jeune pour prendre part aux CDM junior cette saison. Retour sur les première CDM avant la quatrième ce week-end à Tomaszów Mazowiecki. Obihiro : Loubineaud : 12ème (mass-start A), 16ème (5000 B) Belloir (Mathieu) : 12ème (mass-start B), 14ème (1500 B) Thiébault : 22ème (1000 B) Poursuite par équipe : 10ème (4ème B) Pékin : Loubineaud : 6ème (mass-start A), 18ème (5000 B) Belloir : 17ème (1500 B), DNF (mass-start B) Stavanger : Loubineaud : 7ème (mass-start A), 18ème (10000 B) Belloir : 2ème (mass-start B), 12ème (1500 B) Loubineaud en difficulté sur les distances classiques, assez loin de ses records et du haut du tableau mais très en vue sur les mass-starts. Il ne passe pas loin à Stavanger, son groupe d'échappée se fait reprendre à quelques encablures de la ligne et il se fait bousculer et perd une ou deux places. Belloir pas chanceux sur les deux premières, mieux en Norvège, s'il pouvait être promu sur la course A les deux Français pourraient jouer en équipe. Deuxième PPE ce week-end en Pologne, Giovanni Trebouta va faire ses débuts en CDM, sur 5000m probablement, à voir qui est aligné sur la poursuite. Short-track : retour de la CDM à Pékin cette semaine. Délégation réduite pour la France, qui devrait même faire l'impasse sur la suivante à Séoul puisque les CDF sont apparemment prévus en même temps. Les plus jeunes étaient alignés ces deux dernières semaines sur la nouvelle CDM junior, avec des résultats intéressants pour Tawan Thomas (2ème d'un 500m) et Bérénice Comby (sur 500 aussi, une finale). Les Français sont plutôt performants hors Asiatiques qui écrasent complètement la concurrence (donc face aux Européens et Canadiens). La mauvaise nouvelle c'est qu'Aurélie Monvoisin ne semble pas revenir de sa grave blessure. Elle a disputé une compétition en Italie où elle est restée loin du compte, se faisant déposer par des filles qu'elle battait très sereinement avant. Bobsleigh : début "officiel" de la Coupe du Monde à La Plagne ce week-end. Un bob féminin (Boch) et un skeletoneur (Defayet) seulement à la maison.

Il y a en l'occurence 6 athlètes masculins (de ce que j'en sais), tous spécialistes du roller à la base (logique) impliqués : - Timothy Loubineaud, 27 ans, qui a plus ou moins repris le flambeau d'Alexis Contin. Il n'est pas passé loin de se qualifier aux J.O 2022. Plusieurs participations aux Coupes du Monde. Equipe pro en roller, pas en vitesse. Spécialités : 5 000m, 10 000m et mass-start. - Mathieu Belloir, 23 ans, plusieurs Coupes du Monde aussi. Spécialités : 1 500m, mass-start. - Germain Deschamps, 21 ans, cousin du précédent, plusieurs CDM néo-sénior (pour les espoirs pas encore au niveau sénior) avec une victoire sur une mass-start. Equipe pro néerlandaise en vitesse (il fait pas mal de marathons). Spécialités : 5 000m, mass-start. - Valentin Thiébault, 25 ans, aucune compétition internationale. Spécialités : 1 000m, 1 500m. - Giovanni Trebouta, 24 ans, aucune compétition internationale. Spécialités : 5 000m, mass-start. - Martin Belloir, 21 ans, frère, participations aux CDM junior et néo-sénior. Spécialités : 1 500m, mass-start. Je ne connais pas le degré d'officialité du projet. A la base c'est plus des profils isolés qui s'impliquent de leur côté. Maintenant le fait qu'ils se retrouvent généralement au même endroit pour s'entrainer (Inzell en Bavière) fait que. La FFSG est probablement perdue mais n'a de toute façon plus la main sur le patinage de vitesse depuis le début de l'année. La délégation de ce sport est désormais entre les mains de la FFRS, la fédération du roller (et skate). De manière décevante il n'y a toujours pas le moindre onglet dédié au patinage de vitesse sur leur site. Pas de documents officiels non plus. Le changement récent de tutelle fait qu'il n'y a à ma connaissance aucun projet de performance fédéral pour la discipline. Je ne sais pas le degré d'implication de la FFRS dans le "projet" de fait. Quoi qu'il en soit elle doit suivre, ne serait-ce que pour procéder aux inscriptions en compétition et parce que, contrairement à la FFSG, la plupart des athlètes impliqués sont reconnus par la FFRS en tant que spécialistes du roller de premier plan. Loubineaud était aux Europe à Valence-d'Agen cet été par exemple (et a dominé la compétition). La première info se fait relais d'un stage découverte pour une dizaine de patineurs des clubs de Belfort et Dijon. Toujours à Inzell. Mais c'est une initiative de la Ligue des sports de glace de Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. Donc passage de short-trackeurs à la longue piste, ce qui arrive, mais ne me semble pas le parallèle le plus simple. Meilleur rapport à la glace que les spécialistes du roller dans un premier temps, mais techniquement différemment.