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The reverse jinx strikes again

he's really devilish! by the way, great game by the Slovaks so far...really entertaining match overall...

So the whole family seemingly was given a passport today (some Albanian politician is announcing the girl as a chance for Albania to get an Olympic champion) and Ceccarelli is the new boss of the Albanian alpine skiing team - money, a private team for her girl with her family running the whole show and to make her compete among seniors immediately are the reasons, I don't see why the Italian federation, which is not exactly the worst of the world in term of current results, should let a 15yo (even a possible future champion) and her megalomaniac family dictate the conditions to compete as Italian.

It looks that 15 years young Lara Colturi (Super-G Olympic Champion Daniela Ceccarelli's daughter), considered the most talented girl in Italy (at least) among the youth classes in SG and above all, GS, will represent Albania from next season... https://www.oasport.it/2022/05/sci-alpino-lara-colturi-sceglie-di-gareggiare-per-lalbania-litalia-perde-un-talento-straordinario/?refresh_ce I wonder how Italy can afford to lose their upcoming alpine skiing star even before she starts to compete at the highest level? Just ahead of the Home Olympics? Going to Albania??? (I mean, I could understand if she goes to Austria, Switzerland or another skiing powerhouse in search of a better and more competitive team, but c'mon, man! Albania???!!!) I knew there's something wrong in our Wintersports Federation, but that's really scary (and humiliating)...

https://olympics.com/en/news/india-open-of-surfing-2022-national-championship A bit dissapointed not to see any surfers from other nations unlike the 1st few editions but still will try to watch it in person , just 60km away from my home

There really isn't any strong argument to dropping shooting imo. Only thing I have read is venue requirements being an issue (but both Australia and England have hosted the games this century with the sport...). Rhythmic is easily accompanied in the same venue as artistic....but I never understood its inclusion either as the sport has almost no tradition in the Commonwealth.

Extremely proud of our boys. we gave some fear to the big favorite. Anyway, I am not worried about our future at all. Slovakia is not dead, Slovak hockey will shine in a couple of years. when the 04-06 generations will be around 22-23 years old we will be damn good. Congrats . Go for that home gold

VICTORYYY!!!!!!!! Thank you Slovakia for a GOOD MATCH!

Controversy! Traditionally athletes with connections to have been able to compete for Northern Ireland in the Comms, but now bureaucrats have found out this is happening & put a stop to it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/gymnastics/61596695

Oh please, bring Madona into the circuit, we've held over 10 national championships and other events there since we didn't have our own functional course up until this last season. Though home advantage is unlikely to help our young "talent"

Yeah, the gripe about shooting or weightlifting is a bit unfounded. The team and the snatch/C&J events were only there to inflate medals. I'd have the same feeling if they removed the individual apparatuses in rhythmic gymnastics. When I look at whether a sport/event should be part of the Commonwealth Games, I ask myself, "are there at least 8 competitive nations?" Admittedly, that helps Great Britain more since they are split at the games. England and Scotland are major players and Wales and Northern Ireland can add depth. Throw in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa who tend to have similar interests and it's not too difficult to find a couple of other nations to make the event competitive. Meanwhile for India (or other nations), if they don't have the support of the previously mentioned nations it will be hard to find enough nations to make the event viable.

Calendar for 2022/23 season is out. They rejected all the new ideas after all, parallels are almost gone and no combined of any sort. Big change is the addition of North American rounds after the World Championships for men as women will race in Kvitfjell instead. Maribor is out like previously reported. https://www.fis-ski.com/en/international-ski-federation/news-multimedia/news-2022/decisions-of-the-53rd-international-ski-congress @hckošiceSki Association of Slovakia is the new name of Slovakia Ski Association Women 22.10 Sölden GS 05.11 Zermatt-Cervinia DH 06.11 Zermatt-Cervinia DH 12.11 Lech/Zuers PAR Night event 19.11 Levi SL 20.11 Levi SL 26.11 Killington GS 27.11 Killington SL 02.12 Lake Louise DH 03.12 Lake Louise DH 04.12 Lake Louise SG 10.12 Sestriere GS 11.12 Sestriere SL 16.12 St. Moritz DH 17.12 St. Moritz DH 18.12 St. Moritz SG 28.12 Semmering GS 29.12 Semmering SL 04.01 Zagreb SL Night event 05.01 Zagreb SL Night event 07.01 Kranjska Gora GS 08.01 Kranjska Gora GS 10.01 Flachau SL Night event 14.01 St. Anton DH 15.01 St. Anton SG 20.01 Cortina d’Ampezzo SG 21.01 Cortina d’Ampezzo DH 22.01 Cortina d’Ampezzo SG 24.01 Kronplatz GS 28.01 Spindleruv Mlyn GS 29.01 Spindleruv Mlyn SL 06-19.02 WSC Courchevel Méribel 25.02 Crans Montana DH 26.02 Crans Montana SG 04.03 Kvitfjell DH 05.03 Kvitfjell SG 10.03 Åre DH 11.03 Åre SG 13-19.03 Soldeu Finals Men 23.10 Sölden GS 29.10 Zermatt-Cervinia DH 30.10 Zermatt-Cervinia DH 13.11 Lech/Zuers PAR Night event 26.11 Lake Louise DH 27.11 Lake Louise SG 02.12 Beaver Creek SH 03.12 Beaver Creek SG 04.12 Beaver Creek SG 10.12 Val d’Isère GS 11.12 Val d’Isère SL 16.12 Val Gardena SG 17.12 Val Gardena SH 18.12 Alta Badia GS 19.12 Alta Badia GS 22.12 Madonna di Camp. SL Night Event 28.12 Bormio DH 29.12 Bormio SG 04.01 Garmisch-Partenkirchen SL Night Event 07.01 Adelboden GS 08.01 Adelboden SL 13.01 Wengen SG 14.01 Wengen DH 15.01 Wengen SL 20.01 Kitzbühel DH 21.01 Kitzbühel DH 22.01 Kitzbühel SL 24.01 Schladming SL Night Event 28.01 Garmisch-Partenkirchen DH 29.01 Garmisch-Partenkirchen GS 04.02 Chamonix SL 06-19.02 WSC Courchevel Méribel 25.02 Palisades Tahoe GS 26.02 Palisades Tahoe SL 03.03 Aspen SG 04.03 Aspen DH 05.03 Aspen DH 11.03 Kranjska Gora GS 12.03 Kranjska Gora GS 13-19.03 Soldeu Finals

commonwealth Games is becoming such a farce what is the purpose of any multigame event ...... I believe it is to foster sports , participation and interest in all the countries which form the nations which are part of the nations involved .... There are 70 odd participants to the games ( but look closely and you will find there are only53 countries in the commonwealth so all the rest are overseas territories or Ok adding isle of man and jersey as seperate team ) so lets look at the 53 countries an africa group which includes kenya , uganda , whose primary interest would be athletics a carribean group like jamaica, bahamas etc whose primary interest would be athletics so possibly 15 -20 odd countries who would have a wider interest in a multigames program which would be divided into the core dominion countries - UK , Australia , canada and NZ Large african countries - Nigeria , SA South asian cluster - India, Pakistan , bangladesh srilanka SEA cluster - singapore , malaysia now let us look at the sports they have increased medals in or cut in the last 20 years ( last 5 games ) They have cut shooting 40 to 0 where india dominated , but also the sole medal winner for bangladesh They have cut wrestling from 14 to 0 where it was a sport where india dominated and nigeria did well and so did pakistan ( this took a lot of effort as they had to change the whole framework as they have reduced the weightlifting medals from 45 to 15 a sport where india dominates but the smaller oceanic countries like soma, fiji , etc did well in, also pakistan and srilanka get a majority of their medals . I am seeing this as the next target as this is a sport the dominion do badly at and other countries somoa , india and nigeria do well at so cut a 100 medals here what sports have they increased or added aquatics gone up from 48 to an incredible 66 ...... this event is almost wholly dominated by the dominion 4 and SA cycling gone up from 15 to 26 ...... the event is almost wholely dominated by the dominion 4 lawn bowls gone up from 6 to 11 again a sport dominated by the dominion 4 gymnastics gone up from 15 to 20 odd adding rhythmic gymnastics again a sport dominated by the dominion 4 + cyprus judo has been added by UK and dropped by Aus every time a desperate ping pong in sport of 14 medals again dominated by UK \ Para atheletics around 10-12 events carefully selected to reflect the dominion 4 only 11 /12 medals only by them triatholon and squash with 10 or so medals have been added which are events where all the gold medals are won by the dominion 4 so added a 80 odd medals here so if you add the athletics program of 60 or so , , almost 200 medals out of 270 or so ( 75% comes in just 6 sports .with the new changes l ) ...... 5 out of these 6 sports almost exclusively the dominion of the 5 dominion countries .........and you cut a 100 medals in sports like weightlifting , wrestling and shooting where non dominion countries did well in and completely dropped shooting and wrestling pretty much mainstay programs if india protests it is a fair protest ....... this is turning into a dominion games.... of interest of only the 4 dominion countries and possibly SA ........ so go ahead you are killing interest in the CWG in all countries except the 4 dominion countries and SA ............ anyway commonwealth para games , commonwealth youth games , cCWG winter games are already killed .......very soon the main CWG will die or you convert them into a quadrilateral games and drop the multigames tag

It´s in Slovak but quite vague https://zive.aktuality.sk/clanok/KCNm3S1/eurosport-zrusi-eurosport-player-predplatitelia-budu-mat-obsah-k-dispozicii-aj-nadalej/

Greetings from Pferd International in Munich! Very tired from the night drive, but I finally get to fulfill my dream of attending a big German horse show in person. Will be sharing more pictures next week hopefully.

I tuned in with Slovakia up 1-0 and turned off at 5-0. Does it count?

2022 Karate European Championships ( Gaziantep) May, 25th through May, 29th Day #1 was maybe one of the most surprising session of Karate I saw in the last few years... Nothing new happened in Kata, as expected, but, man! no one of the Kumite events went according to plan/expectation... For Italy, it was basically a disaster, with no gold medal match reached by our guys (even the great Luigi Busà, at his first competition after the Olympic title, couldn't do better than earning a miserable -for his standard- bronze medal match, losing to the most improbable, unknown Englishman Brian Wilkins in the semifinal match)... we all expected him and the eternal Rafael Aghayev to make us the gift of another chapter of their neverending rivalry (it would have been the highlight of the Championship, of course), but both of them couldn't reach the expected showdown... on the other hand, Slovakia @hckošice Croatia @dcro @prso1000 @ all Croatian friends and Hungary @Vektor @ all Hungarian friends seem to have earned the status of powehouses in this sport together with usual suspect and host Nation, Turkey (it's just for this tournament, don't start dreaming too much, guys! ), reaching 2 gold medal matches each in Kumite events... here's a quick recap of the already determined Gold Medal matches (Saturday, May 28th @ 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. CET): Women's Individual Kata: Sandra Sanchez Jaime vs Dilara Bozan Men's Individual Kata: Alì Sofuoglu vs Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg: Ingrida Suchankova vs Anna Miggou Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg: Miroslava Kopunova vs Eda Eltemur Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg: Ivana Perovic vs Aicha Zakia Boussebaa Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg: Erman Eltemur vs Brandon Brian Wilkins Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg: Enes Garibovic vs Daniel Gyorgy Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg: Andjelo Kvesic vs Luca Costa

Ah yes, the youthful and hip sport of golf. I think the IOC needs to concede to either cut sports/events or increase the total number of athletes to around 12,000. That's how many athletes we needed once they made the (correct) decision to expand women's sports.

Hah! And I wanted to wait until December until the new names updates

There will also not be a Regina Oja anymore. Which is a shame, because 'Oh ja' is one of my million-times-a-day quotes, whenever I remember I was supposed to do this or that As in: "heywoodu, don't forget to do the dishes" "Oh ja" She'll now by Regina Ermits.

Looks there will be only one Fialková next winter in the results pages becuase Paulína Fialková will be Paulína Bátovská from now on Nice congrats wishes from Doro Wierer and Hanna Oeberg among others

Power Rankings 24th May 2022 Get ready to bite your fingernails! The quarter-finals are next, and the host Finns – who have allowed the tournament’s fewest goals by far – are sitting pretty in first place in our sixth Power Rankings of the 2022 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship. The unbeaten Swiss, coming off a hard-fought 4-3 shootout win over Germany, are second, while Sweden holds down third place. 1 FIN Fun fact: the word “Tampere” has “team” in it 2 SUI From the first shift, we’ll devalue their currency 3 SWE Kneel before Nylander! 4 GER When Plachta kneels, it makes highlight reels 5 CAN The “Workhorse from Whitehorse” is a stud 6 CZE Us: Lose to Finland. Slovakia: Hold my beer 7 USA Last won gold the year Larry King was born 8 SVK Which Nordic nation will we beat 7-1 next ? 9 DEN Duckly laid an egg 10 LAT Finland? In 2023...Team Latfinvia! You down? 11 AUT No more Sound of Music jokes now, ja? 12 FRA Canada made us dance to “Mambo No. 5” 13 NOR Bjorn Daehlie is not impressed 14 KAZ It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish 14th 15 ITA Two words: “Euro 2020” 16 GBR “I Am Sixteen, Going On Seventeen” Click 12th May 15th May 17th May 19th May 22nd May to check out the previous editions of the Power Rankings. The Power Rankings are for the enjoyment of IIHF.com readers, and reflect the progress of teams during the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship. They are distinct from the official standings and IIHF World Ranking.

Sweden as always

The bid failed. The Hungarian government decided to not support the hosting of the event due to the war and the economic crisis. Orbán has been very supportive of sport events in Hungary, so this is the first time in the last 12 years that he stopped a bid. Probably a sign of how deeply the Hungarian economy is fucked.

looks like the Eurosport Player platform will end in July, was announced by Eurosport

Thomas Ulsrud, olympic silver medalist 2010 and world champion 2014 as skip for the norwegian curling team died at the age of 50.