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All Japanese podium in the second women's event. Yuki Ito takes the win.

Nasty fall for Jenny Rautionaho while Maren Lundby also fell after a very moderate effort. Rautionaho despite missing in the 2nd round still finished ahead of Eilers who had two jumps

A new Slafkovsky is on the way... Victoria Azarenka (dem yellow fluffy balls player) and her son at the All-Star game... Jari Kurri jersey sighting too

Team Poland. If we get one Top 20 finish that was be a good result

Morgan Lake beats Johnson-Thompson's NT with 1.99 in Hustopece of all places...

Pia Skrzyszowska 7.78 PB in Orlen Cup. Only 0,01 off Zofia Bielczyk's 43-year old NR

It's Willingen. 150m is moderate here these days. Yuki Ito had 154 meters in training last year which remains the longest official jump by a woman (though not a hill record since it was set in training).

3 hours ago, Dragon said:

Think there was a downhill race in the 80s or 90s where the TV cameras had stopped recording and gone home before someone with a start number in the 60s came down in 2nd place.

I remember Josef Strobl winning Val d'Isere downhill with bib #61 in 1994. He won one of the training runs and Eurosport stayed with the live coverage until he was on start and he promptly won the race

The situation you refer to was probably Katja Koren winning Flachau Super G with bib #66 in 1993. I don't remeber seeing that live on TV. One year later Koren won Olympic bronze in slalom with bib #33.

Or maybe Markus Foser winning Val Gardena downhill with bib #66 in 1993?

Four Ekstraklasa games so far this weekend:

Game 1: called off due to snow

Game 2: kick-off delayed by one hour due to snow

Game 3: no problems

Game 4: interrupted after 30 mins due to snow. About to resume soon if anyone can see anything on TV...

15 hours ago, owenp_23 said:

1. No i don't

2. What terrible things has Fargo done to you?

It's probably the only city in either Dakota a casual person has heard of

Well, I've heard of Sioux Falls too but that's about it

Noel blows it. Zehnhausern wins, Ginnis 2nd!

Also 9th place for Samuel Kolega

Kristoffersen straddles, Yule misses by 0,04 and that's a podium for Greece

Top 5 for Ginnis now... Kristoffersen next with 1,13 in hand...

Top 10 for AJ Ginnis in Chamonix guaranteed...

Meanwhile apparently it's -30 deg Celsius in Lake Placid this weekend. Could be the coldest return in ski jumping history next week

So apparently Kyrie Irving has requested a trade from Brooklyn Nets? This clownshow on wheels keeps delivering again

WTA 250 Semi-Finals this weekend:

Hua Hin

Bianca Andreescu vs Lesia Tsurenko

Zhu Lin vs Wang Xinyu

Lyon

Caroline Garcia vs Maria Camila Osorio Serrano

Maryna Zanevska vs Alycia Parks

1 minute ago, phelps said:

no news...which is great news, actually...

 

however, all the team is supposed to go to France tomorrow (the first race is already on Monday, women's Super-G)...

Women's Super G is on Wednesday Monday & Tuesday are for the combined events

Men still have the World Cup slalom in Chamonix tomorrow. I assume if the weather is good there then it's the same in Meribel/Courchevel since the distance is ca. 120 km?

43 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Was it on Q?  Thought it was in the Mixed Team and that was the point they called the whole day off as being too dangerous.

Yeah my bad, it was in the Mixed event. Quals were postponed due to high wind. The second trial round was called off after 20 jumps earlier.

Major snow here as well. Even one football match was postponed and the next one is delayed by an hour.

Timi Zajc jumped 161.5 meters in Willingen qualifying but fell on landing. The entire Q was postponed until tomorrow.

Willingen is the biggest non-flying large hill on the World Cup. Official record is 153.0 meters.

Team Poland

Maryna Gąsienica-Daniel

Magdalena Łuczak

Zuzanna Czapska

Paweł Pyjas

Piotr Habdas

Michał Jasiczek

Predicted medals: ZERO

Number of medals Poland has ever won in Alpine World Champs: TWO

Best men's result: silver medal (Andrzej Bachleda, 1974 St. Moritz combined)

Best women's result: 4th place (Dorota Tlałka, Schladming 1982 slalom)

8 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Polish Sports Minister is hyping up a statement to be made by around 40 NOCs sometime in the near future saying that they don’t support the participation of BLR/RUS. Assuming that actually happens, it would be quite the fracture in the Olympic Movement (again, assuming that actually happens and it’s not just postering on his part.)

 

Link: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230202-poland-expects-40-nations-to-oppose-russian-athletes-at-olympics

Ah yes, the Law & Justice ministers getting some love from 'democratic' entries all of the sudden

I've said this before, Poland will NOT boycott the 2024 SOG even if Russia/Belarus athletes compete as neutrals. This is a weak bluff with jack high. Everyone here knows it and no Polish politician will die on this hill when the chips are down. The intense backlash over the 1984 boycott that ultimately led to nothing is still very much alive in Polish memory.

21 minutes ago, rafalgorka said:

I wonder what sports / events are most possible rivalry for medals between RUS&BLR and UKR assuming all NOCs competing in Paris???

 

 

Wrestling, judo, boxing, shooting to name some of the most obvious ones...

Canada had better chances in the women's event which was destined to be a two-woman race

Gold for Alexandria Loutitt, silver for Nika Prevc. Best of the rest was Julia Muehlbacher.