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Maja Chwalińska upsets Katerina Siniakova 6-0 7-5! Ons Jabeur, Alison Riske & Lesia Tsurenko also won R1 matches so far.

Barely an hour played and we have the first rain delay Maja Chwalinska shockingly won the first set 6-0 vs Siniakova...

[hide] Women's Tournament Quarterfinals June 28th, 2022 8 Nations, the 4 winning Nations will qualify for the Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 28th 2022, h. 13:00 Italy 2 France June 28th 2022, h. 16:00 United States 4 Spain June 28th 2022, h. 19:30 Australia 5 Hungary June 28th 2022, h. 21:00 Greece 1 Netherlands [/hide]

[hide] Men's Tournament Playoffs June 27th, 2022 8 Nations, the 4 winning Nations will qualify for the Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 27th 2022, h. 14:00 Montenegro 9 Japan June 27th 2022, h. 15:30 Georgia 5 Croatia June 27th 2022, h. 17:00 Italy 8 Australia June 27th 2022, h. 18:30 South Africa 15 United States [/hide]

Germany and Austria are like the only two nations that seem to care about NC. Norway still has success due to the number of cross country skiers available so there will always be someone breaking through. However in the last 10-15 years cc skiers who don't have enough success in the sport either choose switching to biathlon or retirement outright. NC as the back-up option became less popular. Finland has declined in cross country in general and likewise Italy. One might argue the rise of freestyle skiing has contributed to that since both these nations are doing pretty well there. USA has completely tailed off, women's ski jumping is nowhere compared to their dominance from late 00s and early 10s. Men's SJ was poor for ages but at least they had the NC success until recently. Once again you might say the freestyle skiing has drained the talent pool given how technical and expensive the ski jumping part of the sport is. Czech Republic & Poland are too poor to offer a replacement level. Hell, Czech Republic's ski jumping has regressed badly and nobody, I mean nobody cares about NC in Poland. When we entered a relay that finished 8th in Seefeld WCh there was hope the sport might be revived but our federation quickly buried it and kept all the money in ski jumping like they do for the last 20 years. It spelled the funeral of any NC hopes we have.

Wasick was kinda expected to win a medal but Masiuk not so much!

Synchronized skating? They got rid of the compulsory figures years ago to push for this crap? Gotta love all the talk about luge & their quotas. At the end of the day it will still be Germany winning all the golds so by the hell bother? There's always the more exciting competition which nation finishes highest among those without an operation track. Poland always aims for the podium in that event!

[hide] Women's Tournament Playoffs June 26th, 2022 8 Nations, the 4 winning Nations will qualify for the Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 26th 2022, h. 14:00 Canada 5 Netherlands June 26th 2022, h. 17:00 New Zealand 6 France June 26th 2022, h. 17:00 Kazakhstan 9 Spain June 26th 2022, h. 18:30 Hungary 12 Argentina [/hide]

What else do you expect from a country where the same two parties are holding power for 160 years? And they keep telling us it's the best democracy in the world. Talk to the hand

It's not 1998 anymore. Snowboard parallel events are viewed as boring and outdated these days. If not for Ledecka that would be a total marketing no-show. Bach wants Germany to win the medal classification so he won't gift a free gold medal to Norway on his watch Especially that mixed skeleton and luge W doubles are semingly gifts for two Germany golds instead.

A new event in luge. Just so Germany can win 12 golds on this track? Getting rid of alpine skiing mixed event is common sense. Everyone knows this event is decided on lane choice and doesn't have anything to do with sporting competition.

Teenagers getting pregnant is a global theme. School mass shootings is almost endemic to USA and their crazy gun culture (and holding on to laws from 1791 ). If Americans want to live in 18th century reality then it makes sense sexual education gets removed from schools as well

didn't finish 4th in men's 100m Fly

Who says anything about reliability? Teenagers getting pregnant is old news.

Wasick 24,11 in 50m free SF. Maybe we can get a medal here?

Sex education in schools? Kinda outdated idea when teenagers can find all the information and then some online?

Ukraine won't join EU for the next 20 years either.

US Supreme Court strikes down Roe vs Wade from 1973. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61928898

They did not. They're only approved as "candidate for membership". This period may last 20+ years. Turkey has EU candidate status since 1999

Women's draw is out. No sweat for Iga Swiatek in the first week, a good draw for her. Men's draw:

Oakland Athletics gave up two runs on two wild pitches with two outs in the ninth to lose to the Mariners 1-2. That's borderline losing on purpose but A's are aiming for the worst record of the season at this rate. Frankie Montas had a no-hitter going into the eight and he's their #1 trade candidate to complete the roster blow out.

No volleyball but summer ski jumping is still in Obviously there is (beach) handball as probably the most European-dominated team sport in the world

Jeremy Sochan was drafted 9th overall by the San Antonio Spurs!

The last Olympic high jump champion who used the straddle technique Juri Tarmak passed away at the age of 75.

Milak 1:50.34 WR in 200m Butterfly.