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Honestly, any sport not being broadcast is an IOC fuck-up that's truly beyond belief. Don't market an event as a big deal if nobody is going to be able to really watch it anyway. A massive majority of sports fans (in countries where winter sports are significant) won't even have any clue the whole thing is going on in the next weeks. God knows it won't make any news here.

2-0 . Quota for Spain!

0-1 qualified.

Seems we are entering "EEVA" era with Andreeva, Korneeva and Timofeeva coming up

Total Dominance by Sabalenka

Just started a bit delayed to watch the Opening Ceremony and I can already confirm the commentators are as exciting as Chickenpox ...

Opening ceremony starts at the top of the hour

16 year old Mirra Andreeva comes back from 1-5 down in set three, to defeat Diane Parry 1-6, 6-1, 7-6 (5), and advance to R4!

have officially selected the first 2 Olympic crews women's ILCA 6: Chiara Benini Floriani despite the quota place was won by Carolina Albano, the 3rd place in last year's pre-Olympic Regatta in Marseille and the 18th place at the recent world champs in Argentina gave Benini Floriani the edge over Albano, who finished in a miserable 40th place at the world champs women's 49er FX: Jana Germani & Giorgia Bertuzzi this was never in doubt, they definitely are our best crew in this class (despite having a bad week at last year's world champs, they won gold and silver at the last 2 European champs and performed well in many other international regattas)

forgot to post the medallists... Gold: Anne Marie Rindom Silver: Charlotte Rose Bronze: Emma Plasschaert Full Results https://2024ilca6women.ilca-worlds.org/race-results/

4-0 qualified vs for the last spot in Valencia

https://watch.hockey/#home 5/6 mins highlights available for free (but you need to register)

Will participate again

Some more pics

Draw ceremony for tomorrow GS just ended. Brignone picked the #1, Gut-B. #2 Petra #4 Shiffrin #7 Thousands of people attended the ceremony. Around 12k are expected tomorrow, god only know how many will come Sunday for the Slalom

Stage 8 in Oberhof (GER) Men´s Sprint Classical: 1. Erik Valnes 2. Ansgar Evensen 3. Even Northug Full Final Result HERE

Stage 8 in Oberhof (GER) Women´s Sprint Classical: 1. Linn Svahn 2. Frida Karlsson 3. Jonna Sundling Full Final Result HERE

She made the Top 30 start list in World Cup after Flachau. It would be rather dumb from her to throw this out of the window by withdrawing important next WC races. Weird for for sure, but completely logical and clever for her. She is already in Jasná right now preparing for the weekend races btw

Stage 23 in Kitzbuehel (AUT) Men´s Downhill: 1. Cyprien Sarrazin 1:55.75 2. Florian Schieder 1:55.80 3. Marco Odermatt 1:56.09 Full Final Results HERE

I know , but Japan has been really dominating matches recently , they defeated Jordan 6-1 days before the tournament , whom can really defeat Iraq easily . Whatever the result Iraq will achieve , they have always proven to be true fighters , it's always not easy mission facing them in Asian Cup since 2007

if this result stays, both Korea and Iran should think twice about winning their groups otherwise Japan has to go through Korea and then Iran to reach the semifinal

One game doesn’t make a tournament. Japan are far superior in every aspect , they are so fluid & so good to watch. Today has just not been their day so far.

Sssshhh they are bringing the needed views to flex for youth engagement

Since the Biathlon events will not be streamed, here some pics from our NOC how it looked this morning training

The third performer kind of showed us why… And before the k-pop stans come for me, I appreciate the art form, but flat vocals are flat vocals no matter the singer.

Stage 14 in Zao (JPN) Women´s Individual Normal Hill: 1. Nika Prevc 235.2 2. Yuki Ito 223.1 3. Alexandria Loutitt 216.7 Full Final Result HERE

in turn, gets called

gets called

& locked together like convicts on a chain gang. As are &

Boo, not a full athletes’ parade!

gets called “South Africa”

Flagbearers confused af by this dumb procedure

Thomas Bachchampionolympiquedel’escrime1976 is in the House!

Alexandria Loutitt wins bronze at the Zao WC in women’s normal hill!

Brazilian roster: https://www.instagram.com/p/C2PuDjxtTHF/?img_index=3

Sabalenka really wanted that double bagel. Actually Tsurenko somewhat acknowledged her at the net now that the war thing is common bread for most people outside of Ukraine. She plays Amanda Anisimova in R4 as the American beat Paula Badosa 7-5 6-4. Mind you, Anisimova leads the h2h 4-1!

Can't believe that Barber is gone! During the 2015 Pan Am Games I sent a couple of athletes friends request on facebook. He not only accepted but was always super friendly and during the Rio Games we chatted a bit more and he even wrote he would try to get me tickets for the pole vault final. Was super happy to read his come out post on facebook in the spring of 17, but hard to know what was it about. Afterwards he disappeared from social media and his results got a bit behind as well.

Crazy match between Rybakina and Blinkova. Disappointed Rybakina couldn't convert her match points. After great Brisbane she should have made at least semifinal here. That quarter of the draw is hilarious now. If Zheng really aspires to get far, she has a great chance here. Pegula losing early ain't surprising - losing to Burel is what is baffling a bit Gauff keeps getting cakewalks to semifinals and I can see Aryna losing her sh*t again in the semis against Coco But would love to see Iga spanking Swiatek yet again! With Rybakina being out, and Ostapenko being big IF as always, Iga could (should) make the final relatively easy.

3 times Olympic champion Matthias Mayer apparently is arrested by the local Polizei ... not many additional information to be found now

2015 men’s pole vault champion Shawnacy Barber has died at the age of 29 from unspecified medical issues.

I want to qualify but sadly I dont see it happening

Very intersting match in last 15 minutes , Senegal joins Cape Verde in R16 with 2 wins

I follow them and their association seems completely certain that they will go.

Croatia is in

Our lone representative in this edition of winter youth games . Sahil Thakur ( Alpine Skiing)

Bad news is that short athletes’ parade = more time for speeches.

Someone messed up the order here…wrong nations keep getting called.

Some background on curling team from the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/67974904 The quotes from the sports ministry are certainly less than ideal in terms of attitude, even if I understand the limitations.

I'm in for Italy