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It took only 9 years but bronze medal from Sochi 2014 Womens Biathlon Relay finally arrived to its rightful owners Veronika Vítková, Jitka Landová, Gabriela Soukalová and Eva Puskarčíková

Yeah, historically the problem has been that all their pole vaulters have to wear oxygen masks.

Duplantis CHOSE to skip this event. It is not their fault that he created an opportunity for the others, and they took advantage of it. Also, one could argue that they are unlucky to compete against Duplantis in all other competitions, and that in another era they would be more successful because they wouldn't have to compete with Mondo. And Blech cleared 5.80 and didn't win a medal, which was the first time in the men's pole vault since Belgrade 2017 that someone cleared 5.80 and still missed the podium. The level was not as low as you make it out to be. I am happy that Karalis finally got a medal after being close many other times (4th at the Tokyo Olympics, 4th at the 2019 European Indoors, 5th at the 2018 World Indoors as an 18 yo...)

It's pretty common for Roest to be totally collapsed after November or so, but he's been pulling it later and later, at least this time he postponed it to March Incredible race for Ghiotto and Schouten today (and the whole women's 5k was fantastic). Ghiotto's race showed why only fools who have no clue about the sport (i.e. important people, sadly) would want to even think about getting rid of the 10k, what a race.

We know Duplantis was not there, no need to remind it every 30s. As we say here "les absents ont toujours tort", congrats to the winner.

No, I just knew that joke that the High Jump world record mark is the highest point of the Netherlands

Ha, the Irish skier beat all the Germans, Austrians, Swiss. and so did the Andorran and the Icelander..

nice titles for Tentoglou and Mahuchikh in M LJ and W HJ this morning. Lovely start of the day off topic: hope it will continue like this the whole day and end by Košice winning the slovak hockey league regular season tonight

Marta Kostyuk wins her first WTA title in Austin 6-3 7-5 over Varvara Gracheva in the final. Wilson and their red dress can be proud they signed her at the right time when she can maybe make a run towards Top 30 of the rankings this season. Obviously there was no handshake at the end given Kostyuk's previous comments.

Good stuff! Training has been very much on/off for me since the summer. Politics took away most spare time meaning that I didn't run much for the last 3 months of last year. But I'm getting some pretty good runs in the last couple of months giving hope for a good half mara this summer. Did manage my best 5k since 2020 last weekend (24:09) and have started adding some kms. Have had a bit of back issues as well. Doing a bit of core training to help.

In the end the Greek team ended with 3 medals (1 gold and 2 silver). It was more or less expected. Tentoglou getting gold was always extremely likely to happen, now it was his third in a row and he is still undefeated in European competitions. He has a chance now in Budapest to hold all 6 major titles at once (Olympics, World Championships, European Championships, World Indoor Championships, European Indoor Championships, Diamond League). He was so close last year and very unlucky in Eugene to leave with silver. Karalis silver was nice and I knew he would have a good chance for a medal. Andrikopoulos was a surprise, I thought maybe one of the other triple jumpers or Stefanidi could win our other medal. A few others with PBs and SBs was also nice to see.

Full medal table:

After about half a year of more serious training I finally ran a new PB again! 10 km in 38:45! In other news I will also slowly start to learn to be a youth trainer at our local athletics club.

Iapichino is a very pleasant surprise, she seemed to be stuck well below her 6.91 from two years ago (she's still 20, of course).

no one's acting like the pole vault gold is amazing,why are you heated ?

Jumping Wellington CSIO4*-NC Results The following have achieved 3/3 MER result Mario Deslauriers (Emerson) Arturo Prada Vallejo (Bacot) Natalie Dean (Acota M) Mimi Gochman (Celina BH) Amanda Derbyshire (Cornwall BH) The following have achieved 2/3 MER result Erynn Ballard (Gakhir) Tiffany Foster (Hamilton) Cian O'Connor (Berlux Z) Tanimara Maria Macari Carrillo (IB Chica) Adrienne Sternlicht (Faquitol-S) Emilie Conter (Balento C.S.) Jos Verlooy (Nixon Van't Meulenhof) The following have achieved 1/3 MER result Beth Underhill (Nikka VD Bisschop) Fabio Leivas da Costa (Ilex) Luiz Francisco de Azevedo (Nashville) Eduardo Pereira de Menezes (H5 Elvaro) Max Wachman (Kilkenny) Eugenio Garza Perez (Contago) Thaisa Erwin (Vanturo) Lauren Balcomb (Verdini d'Houtveld Z) David Cameron (Oaks Come By Chance) Jessica Mendoza (OO Seven de L'Equipe) Nicola Philipparts (Luna Van't Ruytershof Z) Samuel Parot (Chrystal Blue) Luis Fernando Larrazabal (Condara) The Nations Cup event at Wellington saw quite a few athletes getting MER results, including first MER. Jumping Wellington CSIO4* Results The following have achieved 3/3 MER result Daniel Coyle (Ivory TCS) Mclain Ward (Callas) The following have achieved 2/3 MER result Lacey Gilbertson (Karlin Van't Vennehof) Beth Underhill (Nikka VD Bisschop) Jacob Pope (Highway FBH) Luis Fernando Larrazabal (Condara) Callie Schott (Garant) The following have achieved 1/3 MER result Daniel Bluman (Gemma W) Jos Verlooy (FTS Killossery Konfusion) Richard Vogel (Codex 28) Andre Thieme (DSP Chakaria) Scott Keach (Noble de la Chapelle) Bertram Allen (Caprisco) Mimi Gochman (Halita BH) Alex Matz (Davidson) Amy Millar (Christiano) Max Wachman (Quintini) Cian O'Connor (Eve D'Ouilly) Johan-Sebastian Gulliksen (Equine America It's Me Des Saules) Sam Walker (Equine America Ivanhoe GPH) The individual event at Wellington was a good turnout. Most riders who competed in the Nation's Cup used a different horse. However, both Underhill and Larrazabal pulled the double and got MERs with the same horse in both events.

Grand Slam (Tashkent ) Results - Day 3 Men's -90kg Gold: Davlat Bobonov Silver: Sanshiro Murao Bronze: Giovani Ferreira / Krisztian Toth Womenʻs -78kg Gold: Rika Takayama Silver: Giorgia Stangherlin Bronze: Patricia Sampaio / Ma Zhenzhao Men's -100kg Gold: Varlam Liparteliani Silver: Aaron Fara Bronze: Kotaro Ueoka / Dzhafar Kostoev Women's +78kg Gold: Wakaba Tomita Silver: Xu Shiyan Bronze: Hilal Ozturk / Su Xin Menʻs +100kg Gold: Alisher Yusupov Silver: Tatsuru Saito Bronze: Andy Granda / Gela Zaalishvili

What time for Ghiotto, this should be a gold (And the Hevereen atmosphere was AMAZING)

Final Standing is available here valtellina rafQ Pablita Here is the presentation of the three medallists. Congratulation to all three medallists of this prediction contest. @valtellinawith the gold medal, @rafQ with the silver medal and @Pablita with the bronze medal.

Interesting little fact. The money generated by qualifying for the tournament is enough the run the British Baseball Federation until 2030.

I think the timing of the three competitions this weekend could have been scheduled a little better. Let me explain, when an WC or IBU Cup stop are in North America, there are always fewer who attend. But combine that with the World Youth/Junior Championships also along way from central Europe and you get even fewer younger biathletes able to attend. I love the spreading out of the races, but I think that this schedule did not permit the IBU Cup in Canmore to see a full field.

Very happy for Caroline Colombo, who progress in the shadows of Julia/Justine for many years now, and who had a very serious injury years ago, but who never gave up !

Wow I didn't expect us to win with this composition

Tokyo Marathon March 5, 2023 Men's: Deso Gelmisa, Mohamed Esa, Tsegaye Kebede Getachew, Tadu Deme Abate Titus Kipruto, Vincent Raimoi, Brimin Misoi (Nyairo Dominic Omare missed out by 3 seconds) Cameron Levins Ichitaka Yamashita, Kenya Sonota, Suguru Osako, Hiroto Inoue, Kyohei Hosoya (Naoki Koyama missed out by 2 seconds) Stephen Kissa Women's: Rosemary Wanjiru Tsehay Gemechu, Ashete Bekere, Worknesh Edesa Betsy Saina, Lindsay Flanagan Mizuki Matsuda, Ai Hosoda, Kaori Morita

Women's 10000m San Juan Capistrano, California, USA 4 March Eilish McColgan Alicia Monson National records and Olympic qualifiers for both

Topicmaster1010's 2023 WBC Power Rankings: Part 3 Been a while since the last edition. I"ll try to get another edition done later today. Tier 3: Dark Horses 9. Colombia WBC History: 2017 - 11th 2023 Schedule: 3/11 - @ Mexico, 3/12 - Off, 3/13 - @ Great Britain, 3/14 - vs. Canada, 3/15 - vs. United States Notable Absences: Luis Patino, Donovan Solano Players to Watch: Jose Quintana, Gio Urshela, Jorge Alfaro So every power rankings that I've seen so far have Colombia outside of the top 10 and I don't understand why. This is a very solid team in all areas. Colombia qualified for WBC for the first time in their history in 2017. They made sure to make the most of if beating Canada and almost upsetting the powerhouses teams of the United States and the Dominican Republic. Arguably no nation has improved more in the last six years than them producing many MLB players that will be making their debut in this edition of the tournament. 8. Cuba WBC History: 2006 - 2nd, 2009 - 6th, 2013 - 5th, 2017 - 7th 2023 Schedule: 3/8 - @ Netherlands, 3/9 - vs. Italy, 3/10 - @ Panama, 3/11 - Off, 3/12 - vs. Taiwan Notable Absences: A bunch of MLB players who either weren't invited or declined to participate Players to Watch: Luis Robert, Raidel Martinez, Livan Moinelo, Alfredo Despaigne It has been quite a fall for the nation that was almost unbeatable during the 90's and 00's. There WBC record has been trending down and during they failed to qualify for the 2020 Olympics marking the first time that Cuba has ever failed to medal, let alone qualify for the Olympics. This decline can be widely attributed to the fact that most of their talent defected from the country in order to pursue an MLB career. This has lead to the Cuban federation approving the participation of US based players for the first time ever in their history. A total of 6 MLB affiliated players accepted the invitation highlighted by a pair of Chicago White Sox players. 7. South Korea WBC History: 2006 - 3rd, 2009 - 2nd, 2013 - 9th, 2017 - 10th 2023 Schedule: 3/9 - vs. Australia, 3/10 - @ Japan, 3/11 - Off, 3/12 - vs. Czech Republic, 3/13 - @ China Notable Absences: Choi Ji-man, An Woo-jin, Ryu Hyun-jin Players to Watch: Tommy Edman, Kim Ha-seong, Lee Jung-hoo, Go Woo-suk, Kang Baek-ho Speaking of countries on the decline, South Korea is another. After medaling at the first two editions of the tournament, they failed to advance past the opening round in the last two editions including the 2017 one where they were on home soil. During Tokyo 2020, they were playing in the bronze medal game against the Dominican Republic when they lost the lead late in the game and ultimately lost. 13 players return from that 2020 team seeking redemption along with a couple MLB stars including an American-Korean. Edit: After the news today about Quintana's injury, I might move Colombia down a tier.

Semifinals for the Canada Sevens v v is in the Olympics. can join them if they win the title and the winner of finishes 6th.

Summer McIntosh 2:08.08 200m Individual Medley, moving her from #17 > #8 all-time McIntosh also sets a new Canadian record (Sydney Pickrem previously held it with a 2:08.61) and lowers her WJ record (2:08.70) by a whopping 0.62s.

I always think Bart Swings is a great name for a speed skater.

I'm very impressed by the development of Belgian athletics as well. Felt like they were represented in a lot of finals and have some great talents like Noor Vidts and Rani Rosius.

Stage 34 in Aspen (USA) Men´s Super-G: 1. Marco Odermatt 1:06.80 2. Andreas Sander 1:06.85 3. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 1:07.14 Full Final Results HERE

HC Košice won the Regular Season after long 7 years Top 6 teams advance directly to the Play-Offs 7-10 will play the pre-qualifying round (best of 5 games series) Prešov relegated to lower division

IndyCar season started in St. Petersburg with a ski jumping effort from Devlin DeFrancesco. Everyone walked away.

Jumping Vilamoura CSI3* Results The following have achieved 1/3 MER result Victor Bettendorf (Simolo de La Roque Z) Hugo Breul (Utahmano Alu) Aidan Killeen (Inlaws Orinoco) Matis Jones (Uplands du Richemont) Oliver Fletcher (Grande) Rodrigo Carrasco (Carolina) Adrian Speight (Millfield Baloney) Emil Hallundbaek (Chalisco) Juliette Faligot (Arqana de Riverland) James Smith (Arkuga) Kasper Hansen (Katrinelund Satisfaction) Nicole Pavitt (Goldstar) Molly Hughes Bravo (HHS Vancouver) Michael Pender (HHS Fast Forward) Rikke Andersen (Chaccossini) This is one of those lower tier competitions, but with a lot of participation so we see a lot of people getting their first MER. and got their first rider with an MER. Jumping Doha CSI5* Results The following have achieved 2/3 MER result Christian Kukuk (Nice van't Zorgvliet) Simon Delestre (Dexter Fontenis Z) Malin Baryard-Johnsson (H&M Indiana) Ioli Mytilineou (Levis de Muze) Hans-Dieter Dreher (Elysium) Maikel van der Vleuten (Luigi d'Eclipse) Pieter Devos (Mom's Toupie de la Roque) Mike Kawai (Saxo de la Cour) Rashid Towaim Ali Al Marri (Concordess Nrw) Niels Bruynseels (Delux van T & L) Jerome Guery (Cristel) Kim Emmen (Edgar) Abdel Said (Arpege du Ru) Olivier Philippaerts (H&M Miro) Denis Lynch (Vistogrand) Christian Ahlmann (Mandato van de Neerheide) Marlon Modolo Zanotelli (VDL Edgar M) Gerrit Nieberg (Ben) Jack Whitaker (Equine America Q Paravatti N) Max Kuhner (Eic Cooley Jump the Q) Anna Kellnerova (Catch me If You Can) The following have achieved 1/3 MER result Philipp Weishaupt (Just Be Gentle) Kevin Staut (Dialou Blue PS) Harrie Smolders (Bingo du Parc) John Whitaker (Equine America Unick du Francport) Marcus Ehning (DPS Revere) Niklaus Schurtenberger (C-Steffra) Unsurprising the crew from Doha last week stayed around for another round. Most competed with the same horse and thus now have two MER results.

he did it

Iapichino 6.97, NR in back-to-back jumps and goes into silver...

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy,my old sport love,sucks that competitons are behind a paywall now,so i'll just follow the results on the official site.

Very impressive race and deserved winner The gap between Ghiotto and Bergsma is 14.2 seconds and with Bloemen even 20.4 seconds

Coming back from torn ACL Jaqueline Cristian has gone down to ITF level after some bad losses in WTA and today she won the Trnava 60K tournamenent 7-6 7-6 in the final over Oceane Dodin. Earlier this weeks Cristian saved 7 match points vs Clara Tauson in R2

Coach said: "We're going anyway" Club president said: "A final on Sunday is just not possible." So who knows Although a TV program, slightly satirical, made me laugh a bit: "If they win the Cup, they can go into Europe and you might get SV Spakenburg - FC Barcelona. If they win that, they could get into the Champions League, so we'll get SV Spakenburg - Real Madrid. And if they win that, they're going to the Club World Cup and we'll see SV Spakenburg - Boca Juniors." Then he was asked, with some disbelief, "where will this end?!". PEC Zwolle, yeah.... Den Bosch is from the southern part of the Netherlands, where it's more Catholic and so Carnival is somehow a thing (which we, here in the center and north, just find odd), so maybe they partied a bit too hard in Carnival week recently

Eventing Tonimbuk CCI4*-S Results The following have achieved CCI4*-S MER result (still require CCI4*-L) David Middleton (WEC In The Money) Only three riders finished, but two of them already got the CCI4*-S MER.

Pretty much. With the United States pretty much qualifying through the World Series nothing is really stopping Canada from winning the quota at the RAN Sevens.

Men's Team Sabre ( Padua) Gold: Hungary Silver: Italy Bronze: South Korea Semifinals Hungary b. China 45-37 Italy b. South Korea 45-42 Bronze Medal Match South Korea b. China 45-37 Gold Medal Match Hungary b. Italy 45-30 Full Ranking & Results https://fie.org/competitions/2023/758

Chotis "Chotis" is a dance and music style that apparently originated in Bohemia in the late 18th century, quickly making its way to other parts of Europe and America. It is characterized by its slow and graceful rhythm, and is often performed as a ballroom dance. The chotis is usually performed by couples, who dance to the accompaniment of a small orchestra or a single piano. The dance is characterized by its smooth, gliding steps and elegant movements, and is typically performed in a relaxed, leisurely manner. The chotis was very popular in Spain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was considered one of the most sophisticated and refined forms of Spanish dance. Although its popularity has declined in recent decades, the chotis remains an important part of Spanish cultural heritage, and is still performed and appreciated in Madrid.

Travel restrictions and testing requirements, did I dream that we had New Year's Eve and entered 2022 and 2023 somewhere in the past 15 months, so secretly we're still in 2021?

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The women's races are always a great pleasure to watch

yesss! great first world cup win for one of our most promising youngsters this time he could manage the pressure and didn't waste any chance, like it happened in Warsaw in the previous WC stage. meanwhile, not a great day for our stars...but you can't have it all.