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Two misses for Persson and Oeberg. Simon 10/10 and into second... Arnekleiv 10/10 and up to third!

Wu Yibing becomes the first Chinese male player to make ATP level tournament final in the Open Era. He plays John Isner in Dallas tonight.

Nico Gauer lost both skis in a crash. Oh well, at least it wil make the family video...

Miha Hrobat gets Top 10 with barely 0,2 off the podium. There is still chance for those Liechtensteiners!

I want out for 10 mins after Seger's DNF and they still haven't resumed the race?

1 minute ago, hckošice said:

looks another 4th for

Declined! Schwarz misses the podium by 0.04!

Cameron Alexander with the upset medal run

Kilde into silver 0.48 secs behind. Well, that's 1-2 kinda all set. Let's see if Schwarz can sneak in for the bronze?

2 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Conditions looks improving, good news for the Latvians

Or the Liechtensteiners

Odermatt puts down the hammer. 1.09 ahead of Schieder

Could be too much even for Kilde...

Schieder with a couple of wide turns in the second half of the course but Kriechmayr with a mistake and 0.07 slower.

Maze & Marsaglia are truly the Abbott & Costello of TV expertise

But I remember Barbara Merlin on Rai Sport so thankfully I don't understand much Italian

The new season is less than three weeks away!

Some presentation pics, looks like more black paint on some cars in 2023:

Williams

Alfa Romeo

Haas

AlphaTauri

@OlympicsFanNorway always had great skiers but their shooting was usually off. And their best shooter of the 90s/00s happened to be the slowest skier (Hanevold) so that didn't quite work either. Now they figured out the shooting and their skiing remains as good as it was.

I do wonder if the 2010s expansion of cross country sprints has switched more of the domestic endurance talent into biathlon from an earlier age though?

WTA finals this week are set:

Abu Dhabi 500:

Belinda Bencic vs Liudmila Samsonova

Linz 250:

Petra Martic vs Anastasia Potapova

Maria Sakkari fell to 7-20 in WTA semi-finals by losing to Martic 6-3 3-6 4-6 @Makedonas

Ahonen's record run only ended because he skipped Kulm ski flying round. After that he won in Titisee-Neustadt for one more podium that officially doesn't count in the streak.

Lisa Vittozzi DNS in pursuit due to illness...

Femke Bol 49.96 in Metz.

Only the 4th woman in history to run under 50 secs indoors (after Kratochvilova in 1982, Kocembova in 1984 and Nazarova in 2004).

11 minutes ago, rafalgorka said:

Source?

Berliner Zeitung, Washington Post etc. The head of CIA's "secret mission" in January had this purpose but it failed so Biden had to force Germany to approve the tanks shipment against previous statements.

https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesellschaft/bericht-us-praesident-joe-biden-bot-wladimir-putin-20-prozent-der-ukraine-im-gegenzug-fuer-frieden-an-li.313482

It's been leaked that Biden tried to negotiate "peace for land" and sell Ukraine short back in January but got rejected by Russia which forced the Leopard tanks move. Precious time was wasted but USA still views China as the main enemy so let's don't kid ourselves Biden wants this war to end anytime soon. They want Russia to bleed out now that "peace at all costs" has been rejected. I don't need any explanations on the matter whatsoever...

12 minutes ago, rafalgorka said:

I wonder if it ever happened at the OLYMPICS.

 

4 athletes per NOC able to participate in an event

 

and they finished 1-2-3-4

It happened in Nordic Combined twice

In biathlon and had four men in top six before but only one medal each time

Some bad skiing by Strolia. He's behind Guńka with the same number of misses...

Dale misses the medal by 3.7 secs.

Pidruchnyi finishes ahead of VSC but sadly Tarjei will push him off the podium

Tarjei Boe 10/10 and we're looking at Norway 1-2-3-4