Wumo

With your daily post frequency, many athletes are in danger.

Well to be honest, it's mostly heywoodu's live comments which sometimes backfires the athletes competing.

Oh well, I hope Sacoor has enjoyed his career so far because he has now been hit by the infamous Totallympics curse/jinx.

He's a 21 year-old-man. What else would you expect him to do in his spare time? At least he's honest. One of Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen hobbies is "entertaining my girlfriend".

Are you sure? There could come a tsunami flooding in from all the sea surrounding Nove Mesto and hitting only J. Boe.

First top 10 for Stefan Hadalin in WC. https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=AL&seasoncode=&competitorid=165208&type=result&categorycode=WC&sort=&place=&disciplinecode=&position=31&limit=100

I thought it was named "Team Borlée with a random dude beacuse we don't have another brother to replace him".

When you are ranked number 488 in slalom and have 31.02 FIS points, you get a high starting number. https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=AL&competitorid=35276&type=fispoints

Is the season of joy, family and love. You may live in a place where the days are short and the weather is dark and gloomy at moment. So to cheer you're all up, I will bring some metal to everyone as a gift to find your inner metal Christmas spirit.

Meng with her first top 10 result in the IBU Cup.

Good result for Tom Lahaye-Goffart in the individual in Obertilliach. His first 20/20 in his career. I wonder how many Belgian biathletes before him have shot a perfect 20/20 in the IBU Cup or World Cup?

When I saw Christmas lights/bulbs on Totallympics

She's back. https://www.deutscherskiverband.de/detail_news_de,1070,1363047,detail.html

An idea could be to hold Tour De Ski every year. Years with Olympics and WCH, TDS is held in the end of the season in March with 7 stages. In Non-Olympic and non-WCH years, TDS is 11 stages. Sprint is a big part of cross-country skiing in my opinion, so 4 stages out of 11 is not too many. Sprints also bring variation to the many individual and mass starts, and in a long stage tour you would like to see a more "complete" skier to win overall. Sprint stages also make an opportunity for smaller destinations to hold a stage in Tour De Ski (example Liechtenstein).

In the recent days, there have been many articles about the future of Tour De Ski on Swedish and Norwegian sport sites. Kalla and Ebba Anderson have already announced they will not start in this year’s TDS. In Norway, Johaug is also quitting this year’s edition to focus on the WCH in Seefeld. Martin Johnsrud Sundby has been quite vocal about the many top skiers who choose not to participate in TDS. He means that it heards the integrity of the Cross-Country World Cup, if so many top skiers choose not to participate in one of the biggest events of the World Cup. All of this has made me think of solutions that could make Tour De Ski more relevant for the top skiers in the Cross-Country World Cup. My first suggestion would be to place TDS in the end of the season (in March). TDS will be held every year, maybe with the exception in an Olympic year, after a WCH where many skiers are most focused on this event. The Nordic Ski World Championship could be held in the beginning of February, which would give the skiers some rest before TDS in March. The structure of the TDS will remain the same (7 stages over 8/9 days). The idea of putting TDS in the end of the World Cup season is to have an incentive for most skiers in the WC to participate because the points are so many that it is still possible to win the Overall WC, if a skier wins TDS. My second suggestion is more radical. TDS will only be held every fourth year, all non-Olympic and non-WCH years, which thereby will create more focus on TDS. In my suggestion, I would reconstruct TDS. TDS will be held over 15-16 days, with 10-11 stages. How a Tour De Ski could be constructed: 5 or 6 destinations 4 Sprint stages 2 freestyle and 2 classic for each gender. 3 Individual stages Women: 10km F, 5km F, 5km C Men: 15km F, 10km F, 10km C 2/3 “Mass start” stages 1 Skiathlon Men: 30km (15km F/15km C) Women: 15km (7.5km F/7.5km C) Mass start/s Women: 15km C, (10km F) Men: 30km C, (20km F) 1 Pursuit stage The alpine stage in freestyle for both men and women. This makes a total of 10-11 stages over 15-16 days. The style of the individual stages and mass starts can be switched every fourth year. Skiathlon can also be switched, where they start in freestyle in one year and classic in another year. The TDS can be held outside of Europe. I haven't giving the point system much thought. I would keep the same overall point distribution. More bonus points could be put into more stages. At the moment TDS have more pursuit stages, personally I'm not a big fan. Pursuit is a great format for viewers when a competition is going to be decided because it's clear who is the winner. In the middle of a stage tour I feel it doesn't add any more excitement, but this is of course my own personal opinion.

Bye Bye, Mourinho.

Note to myself. Never use the club names from Google, only the names from UEFA's draw are accepted.

The draw for R32: Plzen - Dinamo Zagreb Club Brugge - Salzburg Rapid Wien - Internazionale Slavia Praha - Genk Krasnador - Leverkusen Zürich - Napoli Malmö - Chelsea Shakhtar Donetsk - Frankfurt Celtic - Valencia Rennes - Betis Olympiacos - Dynamo Kyiv Lazio - Sevilla Fenerbache - Zenit Sporting - Villareal BATE - Arsenal Galatasaray - Benfica

What a surprise. A person from the Netherlands who doesn't cheer for/support any Spanish clubs. (*cough*...history...)

The draw for R16: Schalke - Manchester City Atlético Madrid - Juventus Manchester United - PSG Tottenham - Borussia Dortmund Lyon - Barcelona Roma - Porto Ajax - Real Madrid Liverpool - Bayern München

Chicago Bears is back in the play-off for the first time since 2010. Chicago won their first NFC North Division title in 8 years by beating Green Bay Packers, 24-17, at home.

Also where is Neagu? Or Nze Minko? And MVP at this tournament, Vyakhireva? Here is our Danish handball expert Trine Nielsen's All-Star team:

Hirscher wins by a "small" margin of 2.53 seconds.

England was so polite to take the beatings for you.

England 1-14 in the last two games. Ouch! Third World cup in a row England becomes 4th.