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Women's SF in Indian Wells are set:

Halep vs Swiatek and Badosa vs Sakkari

14 minutes were added on. Everton scored in 99th minute to win 1-0.

Some idiot cuffed himself to the goal post during Everton vs Newcastle

Hardware in use...

Daniele Orsato has been chosen as referee for the vs / playoff final.

Singapore bidding for WCH? Another destination for these Kenyan & Ethiopian middle-distance runners to acquire new citizenship?

Morning session starts at 9:30 CET am tomorrow

Polish National Championships began in Duszniki-Zdroj yesterday.

Individiual Top 3 (45 secs penalty)

Women: 1. Kamila Cichon, 2. Monika Hojnisz-Starega, 3. Anna Maka

Men: 1. Wojciech Filip, 2. Jan Gunka, 3. Grzegorz Guzik.

Sprint races from today:

Sebastian Vettel tested positive for COVID so Nico Hulkenberg will replace him in the Bahrain GP this weekend.

Mowinckel wins the Super G ahead of Shiffrin who wins the overall World Cup even before the two technical races.

For statistical purpose, Halep won 61 64

Shiffrin winning the DH is a mild surprise and gives her a big boost in the overall.

And still no Johannes Dale? Talk about burning out fast

30 minutes ago, stepansevs said:

I hate that IAAF cancelled qualification in field events

It is not fair that only 12 athletes in High jump but 35 athletes in run events (3000m, 400m)...

 

Run run run

Sadly WA aka IAAF treated the field events like a pariah for years. They finally found an official excuse to disregard those events even more now.

Russia & Belarus have been defaulted from BJK aka Fed Cup matches so Australia & Belgium qualify for the finals (the former replaces Russia which had a direct entry as defending champion). This also means the scheduled Australia vs Slovakia tie won't be played and Slovakia has qualified to the finals too @hckošice

Spela Rogelj (ski jumping)

First WTA match between two best Romanian players of the last decade since 2010! If Cirstea wins she will actually jump Halep in the rankings?

Alexander Pointner was quoted as telling the German media that he was in contact with Polish federation over a head coaching job. So it's basically official we are looking for a new coach and Michal Dolezal will be fired.

Meanwhile the Slovenian women's HC Zoran Zupancic is leaving his post so that ought to suggest he might be in line for a better job.

Marius Lindvik is the sky flying World Champion. Timi Zajc moves into silver after Stefan Kraft had a poor last jump.

Lena Duerr blows another 1st run lead. Liensberger wins.

18 hours ago, hckošice said:

ouch, hard crash for Wendy Holdener

She DNS in the slalom today.

Meanwhile Joan Verdu will get a Top 20 finish in Kranjska Gora GS.

And that was the last time we saw Magdalena Gwizdon in World Cup

Here are the results from her first ever WC start in December 1995:

https://www.biathlon.com.ua/en/results/id-2646-ostersund-1995-1996-sprint-7.5-km-zhenshtini

Today's winner Julia Simon wasn't even born yet when Gwizdon made her debut.

Knotten down in 3rd. She lost 24 seconds to Simon on the last lap.

Knotten 10/10 and 11 secs ahead of Simon after the second shoot but I don't see her keeping that advantage.

Simon beats Voigt by 11 seconds in the end. That should be the win.