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Yes, as NearPup points out, Whistler is basically only for elite jumpers with two hills K-95 and K-125. Those are not hills for pre-high school teenagers, beginners, semi-pro or whatever you call it. For comparison the 'Middle Krokiew' complex in Zakopane has five hills (K-95, K-64, K-37, K-23 and K-15). K-64 is for 15-16 year olds, K-37 is more for 13-14 year olds and the last two are for little kids. Poland has four K-64-ish hills and twelve K-37-ish hills in operation right now.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's 3000m Day 1 March 2nd 2023 Ivanie Blondin Valerie Maltais Isabelle Weidemann x Any Chinese Athlete Martina Sablikova Ayano Sato Nadezhda Morozova Joy Beune Antoinette Rijpma-De Jong Irene Schouten x Ragne Wiklund x Magdalena Czyszczon Any Other Athlete Men's 5000m Day 1 March 2nd 2023 Bart Swings x Graeme Fish Davide Ghiotto x Andrea Giovannini Ryosuke Tsuchiya Any Japanese Athlete Sander Eitrem Sigurd Henriksen Any Other Norwgian Athlete Jorrit Bergsma Marcel Bosker Patrick Roest x Any American Athlete Any Other Athlete Women's Team Sprint Day 1 March 2nd 2023 Canada x China Germany Japan x Kazakhstan Netherlands Poland United States x Any Other Nation Men's Team Sprint Day 1 March 2nd 2023 Canada x China Germany Kazakhstan Netherlands x Norway x Poland United States Any Other Nation Women's Team Pursuit Day 2 March 3rd 2023 Canada x China Germany Japan x Netherlands x Poland Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Men's Team Pursuit Day 2 March 3rd 2023 Canada Denmark Italy Japan Netherlands x Norway x South Korea United States x Any Other Nation Men's 500m Day 2 March 3rd 2023 Laurent Dubreuil x Christopher Fiola David Bosa Takuya Morimoto Wataru Morishige x Yuma Murakami x Dal Dal N'tab Hein Otterspeer Merijin Scheperkamp Any Polish Athlete Jun-ho Kim Jordan Stolz Any Other Athlete Women's 500m Day 2 March 3rd 2023 Vanessa Herzog x Any Canadian Athlete Any Chinese Athlete Kurumi Inagawa Konami Soga Miho Takagi Yekaterina Aydova Michelle de Jong Femke Kok Jutta Leerdam Min-sun Kim x Kimi Goetz Erin Jackson x Any Other Athlete Men's 1000m Day 3 March 4th 2023 Laurent Dubreuil x Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu Zhongyan Ning Marten Liiv David Bosa Ryota Kojima Kazuya Yamada Masaya Yamada Thomas Krol x Kjeld Nuis Hein Otterspeer x Haavard Holmefjord Lorentzen Damian Zurek Jordan Stolz Any Other Athlete Women's 1000m Day 3 March 4th 2023 Vanessa Herzog Ivanie Blondin Qishi Li Ellia Smeding Miho Takagi x Yekaterina Aydova Michelle de Jong Jutta Leerdam x Antoinette Rijpma-De Jong Karolina Bosiek Min-sun Kim Brittany Bowe Kimi Goetz x Erin Jackson Any Other Athlete Men's Mass Start Day 3 March 4th 2023 Gabriel Odor Bart Swings x Connor Howe Hayden Mayeur Any Danish Athlete Felix Maly Felix Rijhnen Andrea Giovannini x Peter Michael Jorrit Bergsma Harm Visser Jae Won Chung x Seung-hoon Lee Livio Wenger Ethan Cepuran Any Other Athlete Women's Mass Start Day 3 March 4th 2023 Sandrine Tas Ivanie Blondin x Valerie Maltais Binyu Yang Michelle Uhrig Laura Peveri Momoka Horkawa Sumire Kikuchi Marijke Groenewoud x Irene Schouten x Any Polish Athlete Ji-woo Park Any Swiss Athlete Mia Kilburg Any Other Athlete Men's 1500m Day 4 March 5th 2023 Bart Swings Connor Howe Tyson Langelaar Zhongyan Ning Taiyo Nonomura Kazuya Yamada Masaya Yamada Thomas Krol x Kjeld Nuis x Patrick Roest Allan Dahl Johansson Sander Eitrem Any Other Norwegian Athlete Jordan Stolz x Any Other Athlete Women's 1500m Day 4 March 5th 2023 Ivanie Blondin Beatrice Lamarche Mei Han Qishi Li Ayano Sato Miho Takagi Yekaterina Aydova Nadezhda Morozova x Marijke Groenewoud x Jutta Leerdam Antoinette Rijpma-De Jong x Ragne Wiklund Brittany Bowe Kimi Goetz Any Other Nation Men's 10000m Day 4 March 5th 2023 Bart Swings Ted-Jan Bloemen Graeme Fish Davide Ghiotto x Seitaro Ichinohe Ryosuke Tsuchiya Jorrit Bergsma x Patrick Roest x Sander Eitrem Sigurd Henriksen Casey Dawson Any Other Athlete Women's 5000m Day 4 March 5th 2023 Ivanie Blondin Isabelle Weidemann x Martina Sablikova x Ayano Sato Miho Takagi Nadezhda Morozova Ragne Wiklund Marijke Groenewoud Sanne in 't Hof Irene Schouten x Ragne Wiklund Magdalena Czyszczon Any Other Athlete [/hide]

Another disaster for the home nation Nika Prevc finished dead last but I reckon she was affected after her brother's fall earlier...

Just Fontaine - still the single World Cup goal scoring record holder (13 goals in 1958) - passed away at the age of 89.

Men's side is a little random since only Boyd-Clowes keeps soldiering on a reasonable level but there's nothing random about Loutitt and Strate. And they had Taylor Heinrich before who sadly was totally on her own in the early 2010s and I believe she had to find a real-time job sooner rather than later.

@NearPup Yes, Polish coach Kazimierz Bafia is involved in training Canadian kids & teenagers for decades now, he has coached basically every Canadian ski jumper at some point due to lack of domestic resources and one might argue without him there would be zero Canadian ski jumpers even at FIS Cup level right now. Ski jumping is like track cycling, you have to have facilities to be any good and live nearby them as well. Or move into another country like Canadians do living in Slovenia...

Best result for ski jumping in years, I always cheer for Westman and Canada to shake up the order, I picked Loutitt for bronze on NH IIRC, I didn't expect she could win gold here against the Althaus/Pinkelnig might but she wins LH gold by over 10 points

She's DOOOOONEEEEE ITTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Alexandria Loutitt is World Champion!!!

Lundby prevents the gold sweep for Althaus! Only Loutitt to go...

It's been a gate dancing farse again, let's see if Loutitt embraces mentally this position as she will be the last to jump. Hopefully she does

Alexandria Loutitt 134.5 from lower gate than Lundby and they share the lead...

Maren Lundby 139.5 from a lower gate in Round 1. Hand down on snow but the Slovenian judge of all didn't see it and gave 16,5 pts

Gavin Lux has torn ACL running to third base yesterday and is out for the season. So much for his big chance at SS for Dodgers...

Jurickson Profar will play for

I guess US bookies will have some bets on which game ends on a walk-off pitch clock violation first already? Royals vs Tigers would be a good idea

Justyna Kowalczyk gave Skinder access to her coaching "know how" and training methods as assistant to Veretelny which resulted in her getting great results as a teenager. But when Veretelny was let go Kowalczyk left with him and moved to biathlon which resulted in Skinder's results plateau in the last couple of seasons. Instead of being a sprinting Top 20 regular she struggles to make the QF so it's like two steps back and I feel this talent will be wasted. While Sylwia Jaskowiec was ruined by injuries before, Skinder had better perspectives from a younger age but it's not looking good right now...

Jaque Mourao finished just behind Skinder and Kaleta which tells you more about the state of Polish cross country than anything else. 30th place for Federica Sanfilippo

WTA stays in Mexico for Monterrey 250 (also another 250 in Austin) and random trivia for @hckošice Marie Bouzkova & Anna Karolina Schmiedlova meet for the 3rd time in WTA MD and all three matches were played in Mexico

Camila Giorgi wins Merida 250 beating Rebecca Peterson 7-6(3) 1-6 6-2 in the final

Fencing is almost like ski jumping. You have an impression only like 6-7 countries are good at it but those who are seem unbeatable. At least we don't have the old Italy vs Hungary two-man show

17.5 for a horrendous landing wobble for Bjoerseth Klimec barely avoided a fall but Slovenia will have to settle for bronze most likely...

Hubert Hurkacz wins Marseille 250 over Benjamin Bonzi 6-3 7-6(4) in the final. That is ATP title #6 for Hurkacz

Peterson was down 0-4 in the final set and won six games in a row. Peak WTA. Camila Giorgi beats Katerina Siniakova 7-5 7-6(2) to complete the final line-up!

@JoshWe have a special thread for ATP results too

Snow in February is nothing, even in California. It snowed once in Nazareth, PA in April