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Canada stopped being good at curling? Or just some shaky junior selection criteria?

Mahuchikh clearns 1.91 with her only attempt left. Upset avoided...

Michał Haratyk bombs out in shot put quals

Karmen Bruus avoids going out at 1.87 in HJ. Mahuchikh & Vallortigara with two failures so far...

Horvat wins 800m Heat 2. Gajanova in 2nd place and makes the SF @hckošice

Stylish entourage in the men's shot put

De Smet out in the final heat

1-2-3-4 again. Yawn. Doherty 18th @RobtheAggie and Zakhna 19th with some noticeable results. PB for Kresimir Crnkovic in 31st.

Tomasz Jakieła 2/10 and last place. That truly takes the cake

Borkowski wins the second heat. Ordonez out.

Men's 800m heats have started...

Stvrtecky 5/10... so much for home advantage. Jakieła missed all five in the prone

Rene Zakhna 10/10 and could get some points...

JTB 10/10 and this one is over... TV time for Michal Sima at the start @hckošice

Men's sprint in Nove Mesto has started. JTB with bib #2 so it could be settled early again

@hckošiceApparently Martin Mesik wants to kick out the ski jumping fed boss over not selecting any Slovakians for the Planica WCh and lying about consulting with him about it. Mesik will inquiry with the Ministry of Sport https://www.skijumping.pl/wiadomosci/33272/klamstwa-i-zgrzyty-mistrzostwa-w-planicy-bez-slowakow/

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...