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Hammer time for Leerdam. Over a second faster than de Jong!

De Jong takes the lead as Takagi run out of gas in the final straight. Last pair to go...

I see naturalised some Dutch guy? And he beats Kjeld Nuis?

Leerdam in the last pair with Goetz. I guess that was planned. Karolina Bosiek in pair with Brittany Bowe. Top 12 is maybe possible?

Shoutout to Masako Ishida in 12th at the age of 42

Kajsa Vickhoff Lie wins the downhill in Kvitfjell.

I would have blasted the idea of US races in March even if it wasn't in Aspen, this makes no sense whatsoever. Same thing that happens in biathlon when those Soldier Hollow/Canmore races have second-rate field or Sapporo in ski jumping (this season joined by Lake Placid). It's not because athletes dislike the venue, it's because it's bang in the middle of the season and adds unneccesary travel.

So I said put North American races in the first week of December, don't throw them in March and expand the carbon footprint by flying across the Atlantic back & forth. I'm shocked the usual eco lobbyists haven't blasted that idea yet? I assume you don't like Lake Louise on the World Cup and justify it getting kicked out so we can get Aspen in March instead. Women's calendar is basically ideal, Are/Kvitfjell before Soldeu but the men's is total nonsense. This ain't the 80s when we had World Cup in Japan in March. That is no longer sustainable by modern business.

Yeah, but those places are in relative close proximity while you're asking athletes to travel to USA in the first week of March when most of them are tired physically and mentally at this stage of the season and then they have to to go back for World Cup finals to Europe again. From a logistics point of view it makes no sense whatsoever. Staging North American races in the first half of December makes all the sense but you tell me why Lake Louise needs to be killed off which creates a bad hole in the calendar if the Zermatt races keep getting cancelled because of lack of snow. Are and Kvitfjell have enough northern latitude they can fill the March dates each season, nobody is asking for Central Europe to host World Cup in March.

Simon Ehammer 3x NM in heptathlon long jump

Aspen is a luxury ski resorts for snobs tbh. Whomever thought getting it back to World Cup in March is insane. But yeah, they are cutting off Lake Louise in December so they desperately want to shift North American section somehwere. This proved to be a total disaster this season... Might as well stick to Are or Soldeu for March events. Kvitfjell is a natural for years given it's northern location.

Kambundji wins with ease 7.00 CR. Silver for Swoboda. Neita bronze.

Sułek crying on Polish TV... not all super happy with silver

Timi Zajc rescues the home pride with 137.0 meters in Round 2 and wins gold medal Ryoyu Kobayashi with a poor second round effort but hangs on to silver. Kubacki with bronze

5,014 points for Sułek but Thiam 5,055 WR. Amazing.

Adrianna Sułek with some major turbo... Two results over 5,000 points?

It was Gourley who shoved Mills down I suppose there will be no protest after this one

Ingebrigtsen wins 3:33.95 CR.

One of the down on the first lap of 1500.

Kobayashi, Zajc & Granerud Top 3 after first round but the wind/gate compensation is running wild again...

Kokoshko steals bronze in the last round. 21.84 NR.

Leonardo Fabbri going for the elusive X X X X X X in shot put

Femke Bol does interview with TVP Sport. Whoa. We never interview foreign athletes in the mixed zone

And that's only 5th place for Jaeger despite the lunge/fall. Two Czechs in the final.