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McGrath with one mistake on the top and couldn't make enough time despite being 0,50 faster in the slalom alone. Only Meillard can deny Haaser the medal now...

Justin Murisier straddles the first gate

Insane twisty at the bottom! This will be a bloodbath for the speed skiers. And Schwarz blows it there too. Lost 0,40 and Pinturault is handed a gold medal most likely.

Odermatt & Paris skipped a gate on purpose in SG. Kilde, Kriechmayr & Crawford DNS in slalom... Pinturault vs Schwarz for the gold with only 0,06 between them. Battle for bronze pretty open with McGrath within striking distance to upset some odds. Strolz completely nowhere as he lost 2,48 in Super G and even finished behind one of the Szolloses

BP with a record income profit in 2022 Obviously the war in Ukraine has made this possible. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64544110

Apparently Guzik has picked up a minor knock so our mixed relay team will be lucky not to get lapped The squad is Żuk - Jakieła - Zawół - Nędza Kubiniec. France goes with Simon, Chevalier-Bouchet - QFM - Jacquelin so they mean business.

You don't have to pick all the races before Day 1?

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Mixed Relay Day 1 February 8th 2023 Austria Czech Republic Finland France x Germany x Italy Norway x Poland Slovenia Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United States Any Other Nation Women's Sprint Day 2 February 10th 2023 Lisa Theresa Hauser Marketa Davidova Julia Simon x Any Other French Athlete Denise Herrmann-Wick x Lisa Vittozzi Dorothea Wierer Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Paulina Batovska-Fialkova Anamarija Lampic Elvira Oeberg x Hanna Oeberg Linn Persson Any Other Athlete Men's Sprint Day 3 February 11th 2023 Michal Krcmar Emilien Jacquelin Quentin Fillon Maillet Benedikt Doll Roman Rees Tommaso Giacomel Johannes Thingnes Boe x Tarjei Boe Johannes Dale Sturla Holm Laegreid x Martin Ponsiluoma x Sebastian Samuelsson Any Other Athlete Women's Pursuit Day 4 February 12th 2023 Lisa Theresa Hauser Marketa Davidova Julia Simon x Any Other French Athlete Denise Herrmann-Wick Lisa Vittozzi Dorothea Wierer x Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Paulina Batovska-Fialkova Elvira Oeberg x Hanna Oeberg Linn Persson Any Other Athlete Men's Pursuit Day 4 February 12th 2023 Michal Krcmar Emilien Jacquelin Quentin Fillon Maillet x Benedikt Doll Roman Rees Tommaso Giacomel Johannes Thingnes Boe x Tarjei Boe Johannes Dale Sturla Holm Laegreid x Martin Ponsiluoma Sebastian Samuelsson Any Other Athlete Women's Individual Day 5 February 14th 2023 Lisa Theresa Hauser Marketa Davidova x Julia Simon Any Other French Athlete Denise Herrmann-Wick Lisa Vittozzi Dorothea Wierer Marte Olsbu Roeiseland x Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Paulina Batovska-Fialkova Elvira Oeberg x Hanna Oeberg Linn Persson Any Other Athlete Men's Individual Day 6 February 15th 2023 Michal Krcmar Emilien Jacquelin Quentin Fillon Maillet Benedikt Doll x Roman Rees Tommaso Giacomel Johannes Thingnes Boe x Tarjei Boe Johannes Dale Sturla Holm Laegreid Martin Ponsiluoma Sebastian Samuelsson Niklas Hartweg Any Other Athlete x Single Mixed Relay Day 7 February 16th 2023 Austria Czech Republic Finland France x Germany Italy x Norway x Poland Slovenia Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United States Any Other Nation Men's Relay Day 8 February 18th 2023 Austria Czech Republic Finland France x Germany x Italy Norway x Slovenia Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United States Any Other Nation Women's Relay Day 8 February 18th 2023 Austria Czech Republic Estonia Finland France x Germany x Italy Norway Slovenia Sweden x Switzerland Ukraine United States Any Other Nation Men's Mass Start Day 9 February 19th 2023 Michal Krcmar Fabien Claude Emilien Jacquelin Quentin Fillon Maillet Benedikt Doll x Roman Rees Tommaso Giacomel Johannes Thingnes Boe x Tarjei Boe Johannes Dale Sturla Holm Laegreid x Martin Ponsiluoma Sebastian Samuelsson Any Other Athlete Women's Mass Start Day 9 February 19th 2023 Lisa Theresa Hauser Marketa Davidova Julia Simon x Any Other French Athlete Denise Herrmann-Wick x Lisa Vittozzi Dorothea Wierer Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Paulina Batovska-Fialkova Elvira Oeberg x Hanna Oeberg Linn Persson Any Other Athlete [/hide]

Like I predicted it took Thurnbichler five minutes after the Willingen fiasco to announce that Kamil Stoch won't travel to Lake Placid. Jakub Wolny who is having a terrible season won't make the team either. Habdas & Pilch are back on instead.

Polish media report already that Jutta Leerdam won't take part in the Tomasz Mazowiecki World Cup in two weeks time We get Gronewoud, Nuis & Roest + some B team names instead.

The boycott will do nothing like it did nothing in 1984. Five minutes after the war ends France & Germany will resume doing business with Russia and everyone who potentially thought about the boycott will look like complete idiots. I've seen this movie before. The NATO bombings in 1999 have killed any hopes Serbia will support NATO for the next three-four generations so there is that.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's Alpine Combined Day 1 February 6th 2023 Any Austrian Athlete Federica Brignone x Sofia Goggia Any Other Italian Athlete Ragnhild Mowinckel Petra Vlhova Sara Hector Michelle Gisin Lara Gut-Behrami Wendy Holdener x Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Men's Alpine Combined Day 2 February 7th 2023 Vincent Kreichmayr Marco Schwarz x James Crawford Alexis Pinturault x Lucas Braathen Aleksander Aamodt Kilde Henrik Kristoffersen Loic Meillard x Marco Odermatt Any Other Swiss Athlete Any American Athlete Any Other Athlete Women's Super G Day 3 February 8th 2023 Cornelia Huetter Mirjam Puchner Ramona Siebenhofer Romane Miradoli Marta Bassino Federica Brignone Elena Curtoni x Sofia Goggia Ragnhild Mowinckel x Ilka Stuhec Lara Gut-Behrami x Corinne Suter Mikaela Shiffrin Any Other Athlete Men's Super G Day 4 February 9th 2023 Daniel Hemetsberger Vincent Kreichmayr x James Crawford Alexis Pinturault Any Other French Athlete Any German Athlete Dominik Paris Aleksander Aamodt Kilde x Gino Caviezel Loic Meillard Marco Odermatt x Stefan Rogentin Ryan Cochran-Siegle Any Other Athlete Women's Downhill Day 5 February 11th 2023 Cornelia Huetter Nina Ortlieb Mirjam Puchner Kira Weidle x Elena Curtoni Sofia Goggia x Ragnhild Mowinckel Ilka Stuhec Laura Gut-Behrami Corinne Suter Any Other Swiss Athlete Breezy Johnson Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Men's Downhill Day 6 February 12th 2023 Daniel Hemetsberger Vincent Kreichmayr x James Crawford Johan Clarey Romed Baumann Mattia Casse Dominik Paris Aleksander Aamodt Kilde x Niels Hintermann Marco Odermatt x Travis Ganong Ryan Cochran-Siegle Any Other Athlete Mixed Team Parallel Slalom Day 7 February 14th 2023 Austria x Canada Croatia France Germany Italy x Norway Slovakia Slovenia Sweden Switzerland x United States Any Other Nation Women's Parallel Slalom Day 8 February 15th 2023 Katharina Liensberger Valerie Grenier Tessa Worley Marta Bassino x Federica Brignone Ragnhild Mowinckel Maryna Gasienica-Daniel Alice Robinson Petra Vlhova x Sara Hector Laura Gut-Behrami Wendy Holdener Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Men's Parallel Slalom Day 8 February 15th 2023 Manuel Feller Marco Schwarz x Filip Zubcic Alexis Pinturault Alexander Schmid Lucas Braathen Henrik Kristoffersen Zan Kranjec Loic Meillard Marco Odermatt x Ramon Zenhaeusern x Tommy Ford Any Other Athlete Women's Giant Slalom Day 9 February 16th 2023 Any Austrian Athlete Valerie Grenier Tessa Worley Marta Bassino x Federica Brignone x Ragnhild Mowinckel Maryna Gasienica-Daniel Alice Robinson Petra Vlhova Ana Bucik Sara Hector Laura Gut-Behrami Wendy Holdener Paula Moltzan Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Men's Giant Slalom Day 10 February 17th 2023 Stefan Brennsteiner Manuel Feller Marco Schwarz Filip Zubcic Alexis Pinturault Alexander Schmid Lucas Braathen Henrik Kristoffersen Any Other Norwegian Athlete Zan Kranjec x Gino Caviezel Loic Meillard x Marco Odermatt x Tommy Ford Any Other Athlete Women's Slalom Day 11 February 18th 2023 Katharina Truppe Any Other Austrian Athlete Zrinka Ljutic x Leona Popovic Lena Duerr x Any Norwegian Athlete Petra Vlhova Ana Bucik Hanna Aronsson Elfman Sara Hector Anna Swenn-Larsson Wendy Holdener Paula Moltzan Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Men's Slalom Day 12 February 19th 2023 Manuel Feller x Marco Schwarz Clement Noel Alexis Pinturault Linus Strasser Dave Ryding Any Italian Athlete Lucas Braathen x Henrik Kristoffersen x Atle Lie McGrath Kristoffer Jakobsen Loic Meillard Daniel Yule Ramon Zenhaeusern Any Other Athlete [/hide]

Well, that was quick. Apparently Irving will be traded to Dallas Mavericks I know Doncic needed some help or else he'd be too exhausted come the playoffs but I'm not sure Irving has the right attitude to play the wingman role to anyone not named LeBron James

WTA 250 finals: Hua Hin Zhu Lin def. Lesia Tsurenko 6-4 6-4 Lyon Alycia Parks def. Caroline Garcia 7-6(7) 7-5 For both winners it's the first WTA title. Parks won two minor 125s last December (and she's become a true indoor hard speciallist since all three events were indoor hard).

Granerud wins by over 20 points from Kobayashi and Tande. Kubacki 17th, Lanisek 18th so the gap in World Cup is over 230 points now. Die Kuche ist almost gegessen as the Germans would say

Granerud keeps running hot and leads after the first round. Kubacki down in 20th...

Kamil Stoch failed to make it out of qualifying (51st place). I have a strange feeling he will skip Lake Placid next weekend...

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).

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...