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Disaster for Amit Was with the leading pack of 3 and made his move, was so fast in that last 500m that had 2 loss of contact and DSQ 100m from finish line. Would have medalled at least if not for that error. Being a great host of world team race walking championships nonetheless

Pretty exciting week at the WTT contender in Muscat! MS QF Liang v Persson Lin S v Lin G Liao v Aruna Wang v Xiang WS QF He v Qian Fan V Shao Yang V Samara Man V Manika MD SF Chuang/Peng v Dyjas /Nyutnik Eduard/Darius v Lin / Xiang WD SF Ayika/Suthirtha v Selena /Sreeja Chen/Qian v Zhang / Man XD SF Archana/Manav beat Eczeki/Imrei (3-0) Cheng I Ching / Li v Wang / Chen

If Russian skaters want to represent other nations they should but I only request them to choose exotic nations like etc

Oh this feels boring without a few good teams ! Just hope Alimbekava returns to her home nation and gives up Belarussian citizenship. Would be a big boost for biathlon in .

With Russia and Belarus(to a negligible effect) banned , the world champs will be very open in women's and pairs category. could fight it out in women's category. If China declines participation pairs skating will be open too.

Russias plan to invade Moldova released :

https://emergingcricket.com/news/cricket-to-make-its-african-games-debut-in-2023/

Best thing try to sort it out with their teammates and do internal voting. If it's not ending in a result then inform a neutral party have a random draw done.

A huge blow to the confidence of all Russian Taekwondo practitioners

Is the fight still on in Kyiv? Some say kyiv fell some say Russian air planes were destroyed

Considering the uncertain circumstances a 1 month postponement could help . Will be great to have @Illya here, I mean I know this isn't the time to talk about it, but it could be a different scenario 2 months later if the grand finale is in May

Well it'd be nice to enjoy some golds so I was closely following a lot of nations. Then there is another big list of nations that I enjoy to watch. Basically among the medal hopefuls I was only not cheering for and at all times coz those nations are generally strong at winter games / expected to be strong this time as host / dominant in certain sports.

Great performance more medals than expected. Maybe fell short by the golds by 2 maybe that women's team pursuit and Miho Takagi in 1500m could have got that. Happy for Hirano, Takagi, Women's curling team, Kobayashi ,nordic combined team. Dissapointing but could have been worse. Huskova was brilliant. Alimbekava could have won gold in individual if not that 19th shot. Smolski made up for it but sadly no ski speed. Sola has been having a roller coaster. Had the ski speed but lost the shooting accuracy . Abramenko saved it. Pidruchnyi and Dzhima could have done better with the former had a gold medal chance had he shot 20/20 in individual. Short Track and Long Track was good as always. Maybe 2 golds less than expected, 1 was robbed from the 1000m WR holder, but he made up for it with 1500m gold. Choi defending her title was nice. Dissapointing, especially Moguls. Zhanbota couldn't land that difficult jump. Short Track Skaters came close especially Azghaliev in 500m. But no medals sadly. Nikisha should have been better.

Any generous website showing the event for free

Ok at least it's not what I thought I was thinking it'll be only pursuit and relay races on the weekend that'll be shown live and then I realise the event is in US so replay only due to the timings

Any livestream available?

Did anyone else notice Rosie Brenan taking the wrong course today and then coming back

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Day 1 and Day 3 of short track watch the entire session if you feel that's fair I'm not going to argue any further, coz I have watched it enough times.

Not to forget the 2 big robberies in short track skating, glad the chinese started falling in almost every event of short track after that.

Makes sense, Hafer already got a bronze in 2 man and he's the 3rd best, so if they clean sweeped again other nations may get doubt on their sleds and the high end technology they are using to rob the medals on the sliding track.

I totally agree. Germans need to make at least 10 mistakes in a run to not finish in the top 2. It has been the case of the entire sliding program. I don't think IOC / Organizing committee will pay and make same sleds for all in future. But that's the only way the sport can be saved .

IOC session 2023 will be held in Mumbai, India where the 2030 Winter Games could be officially awarded.

Congrats on the victory. I couldn't watch the entire match, the first time I tuned in Slovakia netted a goal thanks to that lucky deflection, watched for 5 minutes and I felt Slovakia will win it. I mean I don't follow the sport closely but I still don't get why do you always try to jinx everyone. I mean even in the qualifiers u did it. So from here on be optimistic start telling ' Slovakia is the gold medal favourites in ice hockey in 2026, no one can beat us, we will win at least 5 golds, we are a big country etc etc '