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3x3 basketball is great! I love it! And not only because Polish team is good.

I have mixed feelings. I mean, breakdance was one of the worst options they could choose, but at the other hand you can't say that bboys/bgirls are not athletes. To be a good breakdancer takes years of training. I'd prefer squash for example, but I am able to understand IOC's decision. Also talking about new audiences, encouraging youth to Olympics, I think that adding "urban" sports could work. A lot of my friends are quite hyped about freestyle BMX, skateboard, sport climbing. But I don't like the idea of changing few sports every Olympics. It's just not fair for the athletes. Maybe it's not a problem with baseball/softball, which doesn't need Olympics imho, but it is a problem in karate now. Some younger karatekas may dreamt about competing in Paris and then... France doesn't want it (to my surprise, they're good at karate). However, afaik WKF and probably also WBSC would try to become core sports. I'm not sure, but it was probably Polish Karate Union who wrote, that decision about karate as a core sport would be made next year.

Apart from men's team first time ever we're sending women. Kinga Rajda and Kamila Karpiel are going.

Polish team: Kamil Stoch Piotr Żyła Dawid Kubacki Jakub Wolny Stefan Hula Maciej Kot who was in a gold winning squad in 2017 stays home. Not a surprise tho. Sadly, he barely gets any points this year.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Cross-Country Skiing Men's Sprint Freestyle February 21st, 2019 Alex Harvey Lucas Chavanat x Richard Jouve Baptiste Gros Federico Pellegrino x Emil Iversen Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo Finn Haagen Krogh Sindre Bjoernestad Skar Alexander Bolshunov x Gleb Retivykh Any Athlete from Sweden Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's Sprint Freestyle February 21st, 2019 Sandra Ringwald Mari Eide Maiken Caspersen Falla Kristine Stavaas Sistad Any Other Athlete from Norway Natalia Nepryaeva x Yulia Belorukova Any Athlete from Slovenia Nadine Faehndrich Maja Dahlqvist Stina Nilsson x Any Other Athlete from Sweden Sophie Caldwell Jessica Diggins x Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined Men's Individual Gundersen Large Hill 10km Cross-Country February 22nd, 2019 Martin Fritz Franz-Josef Rehrl Mario Seidl x Ilka Herola Eric Frenzel Vinzenz Geiger Fabian Riessle Johannes Rydzek x Akito Watabe Espen Bjoernstad Joergen Graabak Jarl Magnus Riiber x Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 7.5km+7.5km Skiathlon February 23rd, 2019 Teresa Stadlober Krista Parmakoski Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Therese Johaug x Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg Heidi Weng Yulia Belorukova x Natalia Nepryaeva Anastasia Sedova Natalie Von Siebenthal Ebba Andersson Charlotte Kalla x Jessica Diggins Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 15km+15km Skiathlon February 23rd, 2019 Alex Harvey Iivo Niskanen Maurice Manificat x Francesco De Fabiani Emil Iversen Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo x Sjur Roethe Martin Johnsrud Sundby x Alexander Bolshunov Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete from Russia Any Athlete From Sweden Dario Cologna Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Men's Individual Large Hill February 23rd, 2019 Stefan Kraft x Roman Koudelka Marcus Eisenbichler Karl Geiger Stephan Leyhe Ryoyu Kobayashi x Johann Andre Forfang Halvor Egner Granerud Robert Johansson Dawid Kubacki Kamil Stoch x Piotr Zyla Timi Zajc Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's Team Sprint Classical February 24th, 2019 Finland Germany Norway x Poland Russia x Slovenia Sweden x Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Men's Team Sprint Classical February 24th, 2019 Canada Finland France Great Britain Germany Italy x Norway x Russia x Sweden Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Nordic Combined Men's Team Sprint Large Hill 15km Cross-Country February 24th, 2019 Austria x Czech Republic Finland France Germany x Italy Japan Norway x Poland Russia United States Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Men's Team Large Hill February 24th, 2019 Austria Czech Republic Finland Germany x Japan x Norway Poland x Russia Slovenia Switzerland Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Women's 10km Classical February 26th, 2019 Teresa Stadlober Krista Parmakoski x Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen x Therese Johaug x Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg Any Other Athlete From Norway Yulia Belorukova Natalia Nepryaeva Ebba Andersson Charlotte Kalla Sadie Bjornsen Jessica Diggins Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Women's Team Normal Hill February 26th, 2019 Austria Czech Republic France Germany x Italy Japan x Norway x Russia Slovenia United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Men's 15km Classical February 27th, 2019 Alex Harvey Iivo Niskanen x Any Athlete From France x Francesco De Fabiani Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo x Martin Johnsrud Sundby Didrik Toenseth Any Other Athlete From Norway Evgeniy Belov Alexander Bolshunov Any Other Athlete from Russia Any Athlete From Sweden Dario Cologna Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Women's Individual Normal Hill February 27th, 2019 Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Eva Pinkeling Katharina Althaus Juliane Seyfarth x Ramona Straub Carina Voigt Yuki Ito Sara Takanashi x Maren Lundby x Anna Odine Stroem Lidia Iakovleva Nika Kriznar Ursa Bogataj Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 4x5km Relay February 28th, 2019 Finland Germany Italy Norway x Russia x Slovenia Sweden x Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Nordic Combined Men's Individual Gundersen Normal Hill 10km Cross-Country February 28th, 2019 Martin Fritz Franz-Josef Rehrl Mario Seidl Eero Hirvonen Ilka Herola Eric Frenzel Vinzenz Geiger Fabian Riessle Johannes Rydzek x Akito Watabe Joergen Graabak x Jarl Magnus Riiber x Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 4x10km Relay March 1st, 2019 Canada Finland France Germany Italy x Norway x Russia x Sweden Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Men's Individual Normal Hill March 1st, 2019 Stefan Kraft Roman Koudelka Marcus Eisenbichler Karl Geiger Stephan Leyhe Ryoyu Kobayashi x Johann Andre Forfang Halvor Egner Granerud Robert Johansson Dawid Kubacki Kamil Stoch x Piotr Zyla x Timi Zajc Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 30km Mass Start Freestyle March 2nd, 2019 Krista Parmakoski x Therese Johaug x Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg Heidi Weng Any Other Athlete From Norway Yulia Belorukova Natalia Nepryaeva Anastasia Sedova Ebba Andersson Charlotte Kalla x Any Other Athlete from Sweden Nathalie Von Siebenthal Jessica Diggins Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined Men's Team Gundersen Normal Hill 4x5km Cross-Country March 2nd, 2019 Austria Czech Republic Finland France Germany x Italy Japan x Norway x Poland Russia United States Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Mixed Team Normal Hill March 2nd, 2019 Austria Finland France Germany x Italy Japan x Norway x Poland Russia Slovenia United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Men's 50km Mass Start Freestyle March 3rd, 2019 Alex Harvey x Jean Marc Gaillard Maurice Manificat Francesco De Fabiani Emil Iversen Sjur Roethe Martin Johnsrud Sundby Any Other Athlete from Norway Alexander Bolshunov x Sergey Ustiugov x Any Other Athlete from Russia Any Athlete From Sweden Dario Cologna Any Other Athlete [/hide]

Not a single combined a year before olympics? I thought they would put at least one somewhere.

Hadalin is a talented guy. It was not only luck. He won gold in combined at 2016 junior WCh and silver a year before. I think there's bright future for him.

Tbh good competition so far. It will be a very interesting slalom. This one isn't as ridiculous as women's.

You don't have to watch winter sports if you dont't like it. Stop being massochist and annoying others.

Aaaand... It'll be a short one again. That's a one tricky weather hilltop.

Naaaah… Vonn has a bruised eye and Ross has a bruised… botttom

If we're already here. When totallympics count will be updated?

I'm not surprised with that comment but I still laughed tho.

I think it was a really entertaining race. Would never say it was an easy one. Becuase of wheather conditions it was short, but still there was drama and it was very close-fought. Shiffrin deserved the win. This season she had won every super g she started and saying that she was lucky today is just an ignorance.

Maybe you think so because it is a niche sport in Poland and it's more like sunday recreational activity here, But it is popular worldwide and I think it should be included at olympics. I can't understand why they are still out of olympics.

He was stopped during his race because of Buzzi's injury behind the finish line. He has just went down the course once again and though he had to race almost two times today he still did pretty well.

Source of that information?

She's really talented tho and receives government's scholarship. Nevertheless, nobody hoped for the medal here and now she's gold. Just wow!

Wow, Dorota Banaszczyk in the final! I knew she is talented, but didn't expect her to win a medal here. And now she will fight for gold!

Amelia Brodka fell during her training run at the world championships and lost consciousness, so unfortunately European Champion didn't start in today's women's qualis, but fortunately she is ok now.

The upcoming competiton in park skateboarding, set in Shanghai is not considered as world championships anymore. It was renamed as Tour Finals, because World Skate organises their world champs few days later in Nanjing: http://www.worldskate.org/skateboarding/news-skateboarding/2981-2018-world-skate-park-world-championships.html

We have one new curling arena opened in Łódź in August.

I heard rumors that Walter Hofer is going to retire after 19-20 season. F I N A L L Y

WOW! 4 YEARS AGO WE WERE FAVOURITES TO THE GOLD, NOW WE WEREN'T, BUT STILL, WE DID IT! CAN'T BELIEVE IT!