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I'm not reading any Japanese medias, so I do not know how far they are in the process. You are probably reading more Asian medias than I do. At the moment YONEX is sponsor for many of the players on the national team, though not all. (I do not know which players who has a sponsorship deal with YONEX) I can't remember the case between Viktor and Badminton Denmark. Viktor has not been part of the national team for a couple of years, but he has agreed to be part of the new sponsorship deal. That is why he is part of the Danish team for the Mixed European Championship.

I do not know. It has been about two weeks ago this story came out in Danish medias and nothing new has been published about this case. So I guess they, Yonex Japan, are either working on a lawsuit against Badminton Denmark or they have dropped their accusation. I can't find any more information about this conflict, and my sources don't know more at the moment. We just have to wait and see what happens.

Welcome @up and down Glad to see another badminton enthusiast has joined the forum.

Link to article about Mia: http://sport.tv2.dk/badminton/2019-02-14-blichfeldt-er-overrasket-over-hvordan-hun-er-blevet-behandlet. Indeed sad for Antonsen, but he's one our future stars indeed. Boe and Mogensen will still train together when Boe is in Denmark. They are still partners, but they are no longer part of the elite program and will not be provided coaches or training facilities by Badminton Denmark. About the Badminton Denmark and Yonex Japan case, I can't say much more about that case. It will be up to lawyers to solve this if Yonex Japan really think one of their document has been tampered with. @up and down Do you have more questions?

From the Danish article Mia Blichfeldt says she has felt like she has been looked upon differently by some of the players after the conflict was solved. So it's more about her personal relation to some of the players on the nation team than the national team rejecting her to be part of the team. Boe is no longer part of the national team. He decided to step out of the elite program in Denmark, and instead, train in India, where he is closer to his Indian girlfriend. Mogensen has been offered a new partner, but has rejected Badminton Denmark offer. So I guess both are out at the moment, but they both hope Badminton Denmark will select them for the WCH later this year.

We have a Chinese user here on the forum. I will tag him. He can maybe translate it . @Function CR Lee Could you translate this?:

Can't you send a link to the article?

Maybe with some help from google translate.

To clarify, Yonex says Bo Jensen has tampered with one our their document, but Badminton Denmark denies that. "The accusations are unfounded, since the working document that is the subject of the accusations correctly describe Yonex Japan's perception on how players, sponsored by Yonex, can be used by Badminton Denmark in our marketing," says René Toft, chairman of Badminton Denmark. I do remember that conflict. It was solved and they agreed on a mutual agreement. Where have you read that? Link? I read she is still on the national team for the Mixed European Championship. This is where I read this: http://sport.tv2.dk/badminton/2019-02-14-blichfeldt-er-overrasket-over-hvordan-hun-er-blevet-behandlet. It's in Danish, but google translate should do the work. It's the same with our national football team. Many players nowadays have many personal sponsorship deals with bigger companies, who wants the players exclusively for them self. This conflicts with the association who also expects to have exclusive marketing rights of the players when they are part of the national team. Because many of the players only uses Badminton Denmark's facilities, coaches, doctors etc... when training, Badminton Denmark expect them to do more marketing for their sponsors. Viktor Axelsen almost never train in Denmark because he is such a big name in China. Most of his sponsorship deals and training facilities are there, but somehow, Badminton Denmark has an personal agreement with him that allow them to use him in their marketing. It's quite confusing to be honest, and I don't fully understand why it's was so difficult to find a mutual agreement between the players and Badminton Denmark.

Mia Blichfeldt is still part of the national team. It seems that the conflict is a closed chapter for the players, and they will try to look forward. Hans-Kristian Vittinghus, who was the player's spokesman during the conflict, also encourages everyone to look forward. He said at a meeting before the first training after the conflict, that the players agreed on this. - The ladies singles need Mia because she is one of the very best we have here at home, and Mia also needs the others, so it is stupid if there is someone bearing a grudge over something that happened during the conflict. The news about Bo Jensen is true, but Badminton Denmark still has full confidence in him.

She is back! Justyna Kowalczyk has confirmed on her Twitter that she will be part of the Polish Relay team and Team Sprint at the WCH in Seefeld.

FIS writes in a press release that the Alpine Combined will remain on the program for the next World Championships in Cortina in 2021. At the same time, FIS writes that individual parallel slalom will be a new discipline on the program in Cortina 2021. Additionally, a Council working group will review the alpine combined format.

[hide] Cross-country Skiing (20) 1- Norway will win gold in both Men's and Women's Individual Sprint [YES/NO - X] 2- Sweden will win 2 medals in Women's Individual Sprint [YES/NO - X] 3- Norway will have at least 5 athletes in the final in the Men's and Women's Individual Sprint (Example: 3 Men and 2 Women qualify for the final. Bet won/yes) [YES/NO - X] 4- Sophie Caldwell will qualify for the final in the Women's Individual Sprint [YES/NO - X] 5- Andrew Young will be in Top 25 in the qualification for the Men's Individual Sprint [YES/NO - X] 6- Therese Johaug will win 4 gold medals [YES/NO - X] 7- Therese Johaug will win Women's 10km C with 35 or fewer seconds to second place [YES/NO - X] 8- Norway will win more or the same amount of medals in total as Canada, Finland, Italy, Russia and USA [YES/NO - X] 9- Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo will run the 4th leg for Norway's Relay [YES/NO - X] 10- Finland will win at least two or more Individual medals [YES/NO - X] 11- Sindre Bjoernestad Skar will represent Norway in the Teamsprint [YES/NO - X] 12- At least 2 or more athletes from the Women's 5km C will be slower than the winner of the Men's 10km C [YES/NO - X] 13- No male athlete from Sweden will win a medal (Including Relay) [YES/NO - X] 14- The winner of the Men's Skiathlon will be in Top 10 after the first 15km [YES/NO - X] 15- The same nation will lead after every leg exchange (including finish line) in the Men's or Women's Relay [YES/NO - X] 16- A nation will sweep a podium in any event [YES/NO - X] 17- At least one athlete will be 10 or more seconds after a heat winner in the Men's or Women's Individual Sprint [YES/NO - X] 18- The winner of the Men's 50km will win with 3 or fewer seconds to second place [YES/NO - X] 19- The winner time of the Men's 50km will be 1:50:00 or under [YES/NO - X] 20- Ebba Andersson will win more or the same amount of medal as Charlotte Kalla [YES/NO - X] Nordic Combined (15) 1- An Athlete will win 2 or more gold medals. [YES/NO - X] 2- Jarl Magnus Riiber will be Top 3 after the ski jumping in both Individual events [YES/NO - X] 3- Franz-Josef Rehrl will lead after the ski jumping in at least one of the Individual events [YES/NO - X] 4- Austria will have at least 3 or more athletes in Top 10 after the ski jumping in one of the two Individual events [YES/NO - X] 5- Alessandro Pittin will be in Top 35 after the ski jumping in at least one of the Individual events [YES/NO - X] 6- Szcepan Kupzcak will fall at least 25 places back in the Cross-Country Skiing (Example: 5th after ski jumping, ends 30th. Bet won/yes) [YES/NO - X] 7- Ilka Herola will overtake at least 15 athletes in the Cross-Country Skiing [YES/NO - X] 8- Johannes Rydzek and Fabian Riessle will represent Germany in the Team Sprint [YES/NO - X] 9- Germany will have at least 2 or more athletes on the podium in the same event [YES/NO - X] 10- Japan will win at least one medal [YES/NO - X] 11- Finland will win a medal in the Team Sprint [YES/NO - X] 12- At least 2/4 events will be decided in a sprint (3 or fewer seconds) between first and second place [YES/NO - X] 13- The podium for the Team Event will be; 1. Germany, 2. Norway, 3. Austria [YES/NO - X] 14- Vinzenz Geiger will be the highest-placed German athlete in at least one Individual event [YES/NO - X] 15- Austria will win at least one gold medal in the Individual events [YES/NO - X] Ski Jumping (15) 1- Ryoyu Kobayashi will not win a gold medal in any of the Individual events [YES/NO - X] 2- Poland will have 3 or more athletes in Top 10 in at least one the Individual events [YES/NO - X] 3- Maren Lundby will win with 7 or more points to second place in Women's Individual event. [YES/NO - X] 4- Stefan Kraft will win at least 3 medals [YES/NO - X] 5- At least one defending champion (from 2017) will win a gold medal [YES/NO - X] 6- Vladimir Zografski will qualify for the second round in both Individual events [YES/NO - X] 7- Killian Peier will be in Top 12 in at least one of the Individual events [YES/NO - X] 8- Marcus Eisenbichler will be the highest-ranked German athlete in both Individual events [YES/NO - X] 9- The podium in the Mixed Team event will be; 1.Germany 2. Norway, 3. Japan [YES/NO - X] 10- Halvor Egner Granerud will be the highest-placed Norwegian athlete in at least one of the Individual events [YES/NO - X] 11- Nika Kriznar will be the only athlete born in 2000 or later to be in Top 10 in the Women's Individual event [YES/NO - X] 12- Norway will win a medal in all team events, Men, Women and Mixed [YES/NO - X] 13- Finland will qualify for the final round (last 4 jumps) in the Men's Team event [YES/NO - X] 14- Austria will win at least one gold medal in any event [YES/NO - X] 15- The leading athlete/nation in at least 4/6 events after the first round, will end up winning the gold medal (First round in a team event will be after the first jump from every athlete on the team) [YES/NO - X] General/Overall (6) 1- Top 3 of the Overall medal table will be; 1. Norway, 2. Germany, 3. Austria [YES/NO - X] 2- At least one event will be postponed with 1 hour or more during the WCH [YES/NO - X] 3- Austria will win at least one gold medal [YES/NO - X] 4- Norway will win a medal in at least 18/22 events [YES/NO - X] 5- Sweden and Finland will win more or the same amount medals as Germany overall [YES/NO - X] 6- Athletes with three names will win at least 12 or more medals in all events (Only the official name on fis.com will count. Examples: Franz-Josef Rehrl, Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, Daniela Iraschko-Stolz) [YES/NO - X] [/hide]

Well @Wanderer knows I would create a bet contest, so I guess it is approved.

PREDICTION/BET DESIGN Start Copying Here [ hide] Cross-country Skiing (20) 1- Norway will win gold in both Men's and Women's Individual Sprint [YES/NO - X] 2- Sweden will win 2 medals in Women's Individual Sprint [YES/NO - X] 3- Norway will have at least 5 athletes in the final in the Men's and Women's Individual Sprint (Example: 3 Men and 2 Women qualify for the final. Bet won/yes) [YES/NO - X] 4- Sophie Caldwell will qualify for the final in the Women's Individual Sprint [YES/NO - X] 5- Andrew Young will be in Top 25 in the qualification for the Men's Individual Sprint [YES/NO - X] 6- Therese Johaug will win 4 gold medals [YES/NO - X] 7- Therese Johaug will win Women's 10km C with 35 or fewer seconds to second place [YES/NO - X] 8- Norway will win more or the same amount of medals in total as Canada, Finland, Italy, Russia and USA [YES/NO - X] 9- Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo will run the 4th leg for Norway's Relay [YES/NO - X] 10- Finland will win at least two or more Individual medals [YES/NO - X] 11- Sindre Bjoernestad Skar will represent Norway in the Teamsprint [YES/NO - X] 12- At least 2 or more athletes from the Women's 5km C will be slower than the winner of the Men's 10km C [YES/NO - X] 13- No male athlete from Sweden will win a medal (Including Relay) [YES/NO - X] 14- The winner of the Men's Skiathlon will be in Top 10 after the first 15km [YES/NO - X] 15- The same nation will lead after every leg exchange (including finish line) in the Men's or Women's Relay [YES/NO - X] 16- A nation will sweep a podium in any event [YES/NO - X] 17- At least one athlete will be 10 or more seconds after a heat winner in the Men's or Women's Individual Sprint [YES/NO - X] 18- The winner of the Men's 50km will win with 3 or fewer seconds to second place [YES/NO - X] 19- The winner time of the Men's 50km will be 1:50:00 or under [YES/NO - X] 20- Ebba Andersson will win more or the same amount of medals as Charlotte Kalla [YES/NO - X] Nordic Combined (15) 1- An Athlete will win 2 or more gold medals. [YES/NO - X] 2- Jarl Magnus Riiber will be Top 3 after the ski jumping in both Individual events [YES/NO - X] 3- Franz-Josef Rehrl will lead after the ski jumping in at least one of the Individual events [YES/NO - X] 4- Austria will have at least 3 or more athletes in Top 10 after the ski jumping in one of the two Individual events [YES/NO - X] 5- Alessandro Pittin will be in Top 35 after the ski jumping in at least one of the Individual events [YES/NO - X] 6- Szczepan Kupczak will fall at least 25 places back in the Cross-Country Skiing (Example: 5th after ski jumping, ends 30th. Bet won/yes) [YES/NO - X] 7- Ilka Herola will overtake at least 15 athletes in the Cross-Country Skiing [YES/NO - X] 8- Johannes Rydzek and Fabian Riessle will represent Germany in the Team Sprint [YES/NO - X] 9- Germany will have at least 2 or more athletes on the podium in the same event [YES/NO - X] 10- Japan will win at least one medal [YES/NO - X] 11- Finland will win a medal in the Team Sprint [YES/NO - X] 12- At least 2/4 events will be decided in a sprint (3 or fewer seconds) between first and second place [YES/NO - X] 13- The podium for the Team Event will be; 1. Germany, 2. Norway, 3. Austria [YES/NO - X] 14- Vinzenz Geiger will be the highest-placed German athlete in at least one Individual event [YES/NO - X] 15- Austria will win at least one gold medal in the Individual events [YES/NO - X] Ski Jumping (15) 1- Ryoyu Kobayashi will not win a gold medal in any of the Individual events [YES/NO - X] 2- Poland will have 3 or more athletes in Top 10 in at least one the Individual events [YES/NO - X] 3- Maren Lundby will win with 7 or more points to second place in Women's Individual event. [YES/NO - X] 4- Stefan Kraft will win at least 3 medals [YES/NO - X] 5- At least one defending champion (from 2017) will win a gold medal (including gold winners from team events) [YES/NO - X] 6- Vladimir Zografski will qualify for the second round in both Individual events [YES/NO - X] 7- Killian Peier will be in Top 12 in at least one of the Individual events [YES/NO - X] 8- Marcus Eisenbichler will be the highest-ranked German athlete in both Individual events [YES/NO - X] 9- The podium in the Mixed Team event will be; 1.Germany 2. Norway, 3. Japan [YES/NO - X] 10- Halvor Egner Granerud will be the highest-placed Norwegian athlete in at least one of the Individual events [YES/NO - X] 11- Nika Kriznar will be the only athlete born in 2000 or later to be in Top 10 in the Women's Individual event [YES/NO - X] 12- Norway will win a medal in all team events, Men, Women and Mixed [YES/NO - X] 13- Finland will qualify for the final round (last 4 jumps) in the Men's Team event [YES/NO - X] 14- Austria will win at least one gold medal in any event [YES/NO - X] 15- The leading athlete/nation in at least 4/6 events after the first round, will end up winning the gold medal (First round in a team event will be after the first jump from every athlete on the team) [YES/NO - X] General/Overall (6) 1- Top 3 of the Overall medal table will be; 1. Norway, 2. Germany, 3. Austria [YES/NO - X] 2- At least one event will be postponed with 1 hour or more during the WCH [YES/NO - X] 3- Austria will win at least one gold medal [YES/NO - X] 4- Norway will win a medal in at least 18/22 events [YES/NO - X] 5- Sweden and Finland will win more or the same amount medals as Germany overall [YES/NO - X] 6- Athletes with three names will win at least 12 or more medals in all events (Only the official name on fis.com will count. Examples: Franz-Josef Rehrl, Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, Daniela Iraschko-Stolz) [YES/NO - X] [ /hide]

Prediction Contests Are Just-For-Fun Games You don't need to be an expert to take part in a Prediction Contest. If a mistake penalizes you, always keep in mind that everyone is in good faith. Competition Details City Seefeld Start Date February 20th, 2019 End Date March 3rd, 2019 Participants 13 Gold OlympicsFan Silver Dunadan Bronze Federer91 Instructions In order to post your predictions, you have to do the following: Select with your mouse specified content of the Post named Prediction Contest Design Copy the selected content Go to Reply Box at the end of the Page, click on "Reply to this topic" Paste the copied content (When information "You have pasted content with formatting" appears at the end of the Reply Box, ignore it, it will disappear eventually. DO NOT click on "Remove formatting" under any circumstances) Once you have specified content in new Post, start making your predictions according to the Rules To post your predictions, click on "Submit Reply" button Rules Erase "Yes" or "No", depending on what your answer for each single bet will be. If you want to answer a bet with "Yes", you have to erase the word "No", leaving only "Yes" as your answer. Overwrite the "X" with a number between 1 and 10. Those will be the points you distribute for a specific bet. If you win a bet, you will win the amount of points you gave for that bet, but be careful, if you lose the bet, the amount of points you gave that bet will be taken away from your overall points in this contest. You can't leave out a bet. All bets must be given minimum 1 point. 10 points per bet are the maximum. Example "Norway will win gold in both Men's and Women's Individual Sprint" [YES - 4] - If you choose “Yes” and Norway wins gold in both Men's and Women's Individual Sprint, you will win the bet and get - 4 points. - If Norway doesn’t win while you said "Yes", you’ll lose the bet and points - 4 points lost. - If you choose "No" and Norway wins gold in both Men's and Women's Individual Sprint,, you will lose the bet - 4 points lost. - If Norway doesn't win and you said "No", you will win the bet and points - 4 points won. You have a total of 200 points to distribute for all 56 bets. You don't have to use all 200 points if you don't want to, but you can't go above 200 for all 56 bets. Use your points wisely. The user with the highest amount of points at the end of the Championship will be declared the winner. Should there be more than one user with the same amount of points, the first priority will be the amount of bets won, then the highest scores won in those same bets. If a bet is already decided before the start of the WCH (due to injury of an athlete) that bet will be eliminated from the contest and all users will be asked to re-distribute the points they invested in this bet, if an injury of an athlete happen under 24 hours before the deadline, February 20th, h. 12:30 (GMT +1), or during the WCH, the bet will count. If an user is unable to edit his/her post before the start of the Championship, then those points will be lost for the final count. You can only enter the contest before the start of the Championship. February 20th, h. 12:30 (GMT +1), will be considered the deadline. You can’t enter the contest after that and you can't edit your posts after that. Every contestant MUST HIDE their own predictions. To do that, you only have to delete the space between the bracket "[" and the text "hide" in "[ hide]" at the beginning of the prediction post. Do the same with "[ /hide]" at the end of the prediction post. The hidden content will appear to other users as follows: If you have any comments, thoughts or questions concerning this bet contest, problems with format, editing, questions etc... you can contact me, the contest manager, via Personal Message. Hopefully many of you will participate in this contest. The final words from me will be, good luck to all participants!

I can help with the lists for Nordic Combined and Ski Jumping. I can also help with the lists for Cross-country skiing if necessary.

Ikea apologises after leaving New Zealand off a map. https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-47171599 Poor @Wanderer Wait! If New Zealand is not a country, according to Ikea, where did they shoot "The Lord of the Rings" movies then?

Vonn asked FIS if she could compete with the men and they refused. Then suddenly, Hadalin randomly pops up in the result list in the Women's Alpine Combined at the WCH. That is rude, FIS!

The start has also been moved down to the Super-G start. Good news for Holdener and Vlhova chances.

According to the weather forecasts I can find, Saturday will be the coldest day with a temperature around -21°. Sunday it wil be around -16°. Maybe IBU and the organisers know more about the weather situation than I do.

According to a Norwegian sport site, The defending Olympic champion in Skiathlon, Simen Hegstad Krueger, will be dropped for the distance at the WCH. It will likely be these four skiers who will start in Skiathlon for Norway; Johannes Klaebo, Martin Johnsrud Sundby, Sjur Roethe and Emil Iversen.

37 medals for Pays-Bas/Netherlands is a bit optimistic. Netherlands has never won more than 25 medals at an OG (2000 Sydney). Is Netherlands really good at all the new mixed events?

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's Super-G Day 1 February 5th, 2019 Nicole Schmidhofer x Ramona Siebenhofer Stephanie Venier Ester Ledecka Viktoria Rebensburg Federica Brignone Sofia Goggia x Tina Weirather Ragnhild Mowinckel Ilka Stuhec Lara Gut-Behrami Lindsey Vonn Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Men's Super-G Day 2 February 6th, 2019 Vincent Kriechmayr x Matthias Mayer Hannes Reichelt Johan Clarey Josef Ferstl Christoph Innerhofer Dominik Paris x Kjetil Jansrud Alexander Aamodt Kilde Axel Lund Svindal Mauro Caviezel Beat Feuz x Any Other Athlete Women's Alpine Combined Day 3 February 8th, 2019 Ricarda Haaser x Ramona Siebenhofer Any Athlete from Canada Any Athlete from France Marta Basino Federica Brignone Ragnhild Mowinckel Ana Bucik Ilka Stuhec Wendy Holdener x Petra Vlhova Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Men's Downhill Day 4 February 9th, 2019 Vincent Kriechmayr x Matthias Mayer Hannes Reichelt Johan Clarey Adrien Theaux Josef Ferstl Christoph Innerhofer Dominik Paris x Alexander Aamodt Kilde Kjetil Jansrud Axel Lund Svindal Mauro Caviezel Beat Feuz x Bryce Bennett Any Other Athlete Women's Downhill Day 5 February 10th, 2019 Nicole Schmidhofer x Ramona Siebenhofer x Stephanie Venier Romane Miradoli Kira Weidle Viktoria Rebensburg Nicol Delago Nadia Fanchini Sofia Goggia x Tina Weirather Ilka Stuhec Corinne Suter Lara Gut-Behrami Lindsey Vonn Any Other Athlete Men's Alpine Combined Day 6 February 11th, 2019 Romed Baumann Marcel Hirscher Vincent Kriechmayr Marco Schwarz x Alexis Pinturault x :FRA Victor Muffat-Jeandet x :ITA Dominik Paris :NOR Alexander Aamodt Kilde :NOR Kjetil Jansrud Pavel Trikichev :SUI Mauro Caviezel :SUI Luca Aerni :USA Ted Ligety :WHT Any Other Athlete Mixed Team Event Day 7 February 12th, 2019 :AUT Austria :CAN Canada :FRA France x :GER Germany :ITA Italy :NOR Norway :SVK Slovakia :SLO Slovenia Sweden x :SUI Switzerland x :USA United States :WHT Any Other Nation Women's Giant Slalom Day 8 February 14th, 2019 :AUT Any Athlete from Austria :FRA Tessa Worley x :GER Viktoria Rebensburg :ITA Federica Brignone x :ITA Marta Bassino :NOR Ragnhild Mowinckel :SVK Petra Vlhova :SLO Meta Hrovat Frida Hansdotter :SUI Wendy Holdener :SUI Lara Gut-Behrami :USA Mikaela Shiffrin x :WHT Any Other Athlete Men's Giant Slalom Day 9 February 15th, 2019 :AUT Manuel Feller :AUT Marcel Hirscher x :FRA Mathieu Faivre :FRA Thomas Fanara :FRA Alexis Pinturault x :GER Stefan Luitz :NOR Henrik Kristoffersen x :NOR Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen :SLO Zan Kranjec Mats Olsson :SUI Loic Meillard :USA Tommy Ford :WHT Any Other Athlete Women's Slalom Day 10 February 16th, 2019 :AUT Katharina Liensberger :AUT Bernadette Schild :AUT Katharina Truppe :CAN Erin Mielzynski :GER Christina Geiger :ITA Irene Curtoni :SVK Petra Vlhova x Frida Hansdotter Anna Swenn Larsson :SUI Wendy Holdener x :USA Mikaela Shiffrin x :WHT Any Other Athlete Men's Slalom Day 11 February 17th, 2019 :AUT Manuel Feller :AUT Marcel Hirscher x :AUT Michael Matt :AUT Marco Schwarz :FRA Clement Noel x :FRA Alexis Pinturault x Dave Ryding :GER Felix Neureuther :NOR Henrik Kristoffersen Andre Myhrer :SUI Daniel Yule :SUI Ramon Zehnhaeusern :WHT Any Other Athlete [/hide]