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Canada wins gold! 20th time!

No worries about the memory.I did a search and found Vladimir Drachev,he did win four in a row,those were the last four sprints of the season tough,he had one third place finish in the first three,that four sprint run looks to be why he won the world cup that season too.

https://hospitalitytravelpackages.paris2024.org/discover/?language=en https://hospitalitytravelpackages.paris2024.org/discover/tickets-plus-hospitality?language=en Just in case anyone is interested. The 8500 euros for top hospitality at the men's 100m final is a little out of my price range

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voted , hopefully i didn't pass the deadline

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Yeah, not much doubt about that one I mean, it wasn't exactly exciting to watch in terms of being tense, but yeah, that's to his credit. Magnificent performance.

first bunch of players for the Samurai Japan team made official: Shoei Ohtani (P/OF/DH, Anaheim Angels, MLB ) Yu Darvish (P, San Diego Padres, MLB ) Shosei Togo (P, Yomiuri Giants Tokyo, NPB ) Roki Sasaki (P, Chiba Lotte Marines, NPB ) Yoshinobu Yamamoto (P, Osaka ORIX Buffaloes, NPB ) Shota Imanaga (P, Yokohama DeNA Bay Stars, NPB ) Takuya Kai (C, Fukuoka Softbank Hawks, NPB ) Sosuke Genda (IF, Saitama Seibu Lions, NPB ) Shugo Maki (IF, Yokohama DeNA Bay Stars, NPB ) Munetaka Murakami (IF, Tokyo Yakult Swallows, NPB ) Kensuke Kondo (OF, Fukuoka Softbank Hawks, NPB ) Seiya Suzuki (OF, Chicago Cubs, MLB )

@heywoodu & @Jinzha will probably make themselves a little happier if they watch today’s Women’s Skeleton race. No spoilers.

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Off the top of my head, I can tell you that Halsall, Colliander and Baarup are, so Yom-Tov has no worries there. But here is a full list of FEI officials, including the dressage judges.

FOUR HILLS TOURNAMENT 2022/23 (Event 4/4) Stage 11 in Bischofshofen (AUT) Men´s Individual Large Hill: 1. Halvor Egner Granerud 313.4 2. Anze Lanisek 305.5 3. Dawid Kubacki 303.7 Full Final Result HERE Full Qualification Result HERE

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Granerud absolutely deserved 4 Hills champion

This is the first weekend where athletes/horses can obtain ranking points and the all important MER standard. The following events are scheduled: Dressage Exloo - CDI3* Thermal - CDI-W Thermal - CDI3* Jumping Dannevirk - CSI1*-W Eventing won't have its first event for another 2 weeks.

Here are my predictions Swimming: Women’s 100m Butterfly: Gold- Maggie MacNeil , Silver- Torri Huske , Bronze- Emma McKeon / Sarah Sjoestrom Swimming: Men’s 400m Individual Medley: Gold- Leon Marchand , Silver- Carston Foster , Bronze- Daiya Seto Changed my mind actually ignore my vote on poll. Gold- Adam Peaty , Silver- Nicolo Martinenghi , Bronze- Nic Fink (Sorry Michael Andrew. Still one of my favorite swimmers.)

https://www.handball-world.news/en/news-2-1-25-147823.html Stars to miss WCH

IIHF´s deadline for NHLers final participation decision is by Spring 2024 https://www.espn.com/olympics/hockey/story/_/id/35386713/iihf-wants-nhl-decide-2026-olympics-spring-2024 Remember this year after the WCh we will know the 8 pre-qualified Nations for the M Ice Hockey Tournament based on this June´s IIHF World Ranking.

some circus stuff in the NHL, too...

Rare Swedish and Ukrainian podium places in today's Nations Cup races. Slovak podium as well @hckošice https://www.fil-luge.org/en/news/nations-cup-victories-for-sandra-robatscher-langenhan-and-rieder-kainzwaldner-in-sigulda-lat

I have voted, as promised, couple hours ago.

Boxing, women's Middleweights...well, this is quite easy: as "young" as it is the discipline, Claressa Shields is just on another level compared to any other fighter. and Nouchka Fontijn is definitely superior to the judges' darlings from and . Boxing, women's Lightweights...easier than before...GOAT Katie Taylor is a no brainer. and the second bronze medal shouldn't even be awarded because how embarassing are the candidates ( I pass on that choice). Diving, women's Synchronized Platform...well, in this case my pick is based just on sympathy...I go with Malaysia.

Today (Friday) is the last day to vote. I hope we can still have the votes from @Agger, @thepharoah, @OlympicsFan, @Siddhartha Talukdar, @Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo, @Pablita and @CCB (who all voted in the first stage), but also from anyone who still wishes to participate. To vote, CLICK HERE.

2023 United Cup - Quarterfinals: Greece 3 - 2 Croatia Donna Vekic CRO d. Despina Papamichail GRE 6-2 6-0 Stefanos Tsitsipas GRE d. Borna Coric CRO 6-0 6-7(4) 7-5 Maria Sakkari GRE d. Petra Martic CRO 6-3 6-3 Borna Gojo CRO d. Stefanos Sakellaridis GRE 6-4 6-2 Sakkari/Tsitsipas GRE d. Martic/Gojo CRO 7-6(6) 6-4

I agree, it also helps that France is hosting and I imagine they will push hard at preventing nations from boycotting. If they can keep the United States on board then I doubt anyone outside of maybe Ukraine will end up boycotting.

Damar Hamlin has woken up from coma.

Great showing from Maya Cloetens nearly getting points in a sprint with 8/10 on her debut ...

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Gianluca Vialli, one of the greatest footballers in the Italian history, died at 58. he was fighting a pancreatic cancer since 2017. R.I.P. captain https://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2023-01-06/football/Former-Italy-strike-Vialli-dies-aged-58-6736248659

No surprises in the cancelations with this pathetic weather all around Europe.. Sadly it has become a regular occurrence, where i live, in the last few years, that there wouldn't be any snow, but seeing all of Europe, bar Scandinavia, without snow is highly depressing.