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Take it to the bank: George Russel out qualifies Bottas but fails to score a point anyway.

Some hard core revolution happened today in Slovakia. The Slovak Ski Association is not anymore a National sport federation. The Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sports of the Slovak Republic takes away the status of the national sports association from the Slovak Ski Association (SLA). Following an agreement with the International Ski Federation (FIS), the state moved the whole movement, which brings together several disciplines, temporarily under the Slovak Olympic Committee (SOŠV). Based on this, also our skier Petra Vlhová should continue undisturbed in the started season of the World Cup. but will not represent the Slovak Ski Association but the Slovak Olympic Committee. The patronage of SOŠV should apply not only to the Alpine Skiers, but also to other sections and their representatives, Cross-Country Skierss, Freestyle Skiers, snowboarders, Ski Jumpers or atletes in the Nordic combined and grass skiing. this reaction from the state and the olympic committee came right after 46 sports clubs with 1,317 members !!! (almost all our skiing clubs), including Petra Vlhová, basically the whole Alpine Skiers and other representatives from ski jumping to cross-country skiing, decided to leave the association today. Five of the six members of the general assembly also resigned everyone has enough of the current leadership under the Italian Marino Mersich (an extremely controversial character) who is behind our ski association for 12 years now (even if he was successfully kicked out a couple of years ago he still under some strange circumstances was able to place at highest posts of the federation his people and under which the Slovak skiing has completely disappeared, Ski Jumpinh and Nordic Combined does not exist anymore Cross-Country is barely living and behind Petra there a big hole also in the alpine skiing. More here in slovak https://sport.aktuality.sk/c/472080/revolucia-v-slovenskom-lyzovani-petra-vlhova-a-dalsi-pretekari-opustaju-sla/ Reaction of the State https://sport.aktuality.sk/c/472099/ministerstvo-skolstva-odobralo-sla-statut-sportoveho-zvazu/ and the Ski federation attacked back saying that nobody can take away anything from them and they are the only eligible representatives of all Skiing sports in Slovakia and in all FIS events, and whoever want to step out from the federation will have to return all the fnancial support they get and also return all the assets they have borrowed from the SLA. Sort of slovak stop the count ! We won ! https://sport.aktuality.sk/c/472122/reakcia-sla-na-aktualnu-situaciu-vlhova-je-nadalej-clenkou-tvrdenia-sa-nezakladaju-na-pravde/

Deaths of Olympians in November. Don McDermott, 90 - Speed skating (1×S) Yalcin Granit, 88 - Basketball Matti Laakso, 79 - Wrestling Anne Covell, 70 - Athletics Taymi Chappe, 52 - Fencing Gennady Bukharin, 91 - Canoe sprint (2×B) Abdul Rashid, 73 - Hockey (1×G, 1×S, 1×B) Leonid Osipov, 77 - Water Polo (1×G, 1×S, 1×B) Barbara McAuley, 91 - Diving Sakari Paasonen, 85 - Shooting June Foulds, 86 - Athletics (1×S, 1×B) Willie Smith, 64 - Athletics (1×G) Heidar Shonjani, 74 - Swimming & Water polo Mohammed Bakar, 75 - Football Shkelqim Troplini, 54 - Wrestling John Kinsela, 70 - Wrestling Virginia Bonci, 71 - Athletics Fernando Atzori, 78 - Boxing (1×G) Amir Yavari, 88 - Boxing Gunther Pfaff, 81 - Canoe sprint (1×B) Giuliana Minuzzo, 88 - Alpine skiing (2×B) Jorge Llopart, 68 - Athletics (1×S) Boris Gurevich, 83 - Wrestling (1×G) Attila Horvath, 53 - Athletics Peter Florjancic, 101 - Ski jumping Osmo Ala-Honkola, 81 - Shooting Egidio Cosentino, 93 - Hockey Jagmohan Singh, 88 - Athletics Walt Davis, 89 - Athletics (1×G) Eitaro Okano, 90 - Athletics Anneliese Schuh-Proxauf, 98 - Alpine skiing Resit Karabacak, 66 - Wrestling Helen Morgan, 54 - Hockey (1×B) Hannu Lahtinen, 60 - Wrestling Jacques Deprez, 82 - Athletics Ernesto Canto, 61 - Athletics (1×G) Jens Sorensen, 79 - Cycling Billy Evans, 88 - Basketball (1×G) Doris de Agostini, 62 - Alpine skiing Anwar Aziz Chaudhry, 89 - Swimming Jozef Rysula, 81 - Cross-country skiing Mohammad Khadem, 85 - Wrestling Peter Lichtner-Hoyer, 93 - Equestrian & Modern pentathlon Yasil Yakusha, 62 - Rowing (1×S, 1×B) Vladimir Ivanov, 65 - Athletics Sir James Wolfensohn, 86 - Fencing Paul Nyman, 91 - Cycling Dimitar Largov, 84 - Football Kevin Burnham, 63 - Sailing (1×G, 1×B) Clifton Bertrand, 84 - Athletics Tan Eng Bock, 84 - Water polo

Women’s Nordic Combined World Cup premiere rescheduled in Ramsau am Dachstein The historic premiere of the Women’s Nordic Combined World Cup will happen in Ramsau am Dachstein! The Local Organising Committee and the Austrian Ski Federation agreed to host one of the cancelled events originally planned for Otepää (EST) in January 2021. Now, the first-ever Women’s World Cup will take place on Friday, 18th of December, in conjunction with the Men’s World Cup events and also one additional event in Women’s Ski Jumping.

There’s a full run of the Yanqing track from the men’s luge start at the end of this video. I believe the slider is none other than the pride of the Slovakian police force, Jozef Ninis @hckosice

Finally a race without Hamilton! I wonder if his replacement kicks Bottas' ass and really stirs the pot!

Veronika Vítková is a mother now. She announced on Facebook that her daughter Eliška was born last Saturday.

Poland big sky jumper, Austria A team, Russia A team. Probabily Czech Republic, Bulgaria and some other (maybe Slovenia?)

this makes more sense than all the other jokes reported in the last few months, but still... I just can't stand those mixed gender team events anymore...this thing's really got pandemic... and the most recent news about Bach's unopposed candidature for another mandate as the IOC President could make more damages than another Trump's mandate as US President...

I heard three Norwegian skiers had asthma attacks when reading this, thankfully Chris Froome was there and was able to lend them his inhalers

I think Norway should instead get credible asthma diagnosis to support their institutional doping in Nordic events.

Raising the competitive age solves nothing. You'd still take up figure skating at age 4 or 5 to begin with. Herein lies the problem. Physical injuries always take their toll more on a sport you have to start very early to ever stand a chance. You can't take up figure skating at 10 if you want to be a competitive pro. Raising the age won't stop having career-ending back injuries at age 21 instead of 19 for instance Anorexia? Geez, what else is new. Good thing USA sucks at ski jumping or else we'd here more bullshit like that given how strict BMI in ski jumping is But thankfully USA, France and UK don't care about ski jumping so we can have anorexia over there! Of course this push makes a whole lot political sense if the Western Europe & USA want to influence the Russian dominance of the sport. I'd laugh my ass off if this somehow gets approved and 17 year old Russians still kick the 17 year old Americans & French all over the ice rink

Norway controls FIS already. Do they really have to control ISU as well? Hell no. Name me ONE Norwegian figure skater not named Sonja Henie who won a World Championship gold medal I'm pretty sure they will be put back to their place and rightfully so. Norway in figure skating doesn't mean anything. It's like Romania or Poland trying to tell USA how the baseball World Series should be run

Literally more chance of getting in a car crash on the way to the race.

Today is 9/9/99 in the Persian calendar. to me it doesn't mean anything special. but believe it or not there are "so many" people trying to have their babies exactly today. and that means early C-section https://ifpnews.com/luxury-birth-date-tragedy-happening-again-in-iran-as-9-9-99-looms in middle of a pandemic and all other disasters we are facing nowadays I don't know what you will gain in your life by having a "Luxury Birth Date" , there is no limit for stupidity

BREAKING: Bach will stand unopossesed at next IOC elections.

Kevin BURNHAM, 63, Sailing 1992 Silver Medalist 470 Class 2004 Gold Medalist 470 Class https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1101427/olympic-sailing-champion-burnham-dies