Monzanator

Julia Simon 9/10 and she has to hassle to secure the win but still probable.

The shooting in women's sprint is way worse than men's

CBA has been approved. Season will start on April 7th.

https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-mlbpa-agree-to-cba

PSG found a new way to blow a commanding lead again

Team POLAND

Women

60 m

Pia Skrzyszowska (KS AZS AWF Warszawa)
Ewa Swoboda (AZS AWF Katowice)

400 m, 4x400 m

Natalia Kaczmarek (KS AZS AWF Wrocław)
Anna Kiełbasińska (SKLA Sopot)
Justyna Święty-Ersetic (AZS AWF Katowice)

800 m

Angelika Cichocka (SKLA Sopot)

60 m hurdles

Klaudia Wojtunik (AZS Łódź)

Pentathlon

Adrianna Sułek (AZS UMCS Lublin)

4x400 m

Iga Baumgart-Witan (BKS Bydgoszcz)
Kinga Gacka (BKS Bydgoszcz)
Aleksandra Gaworska (AZS AWF Kraków)

Men

60 m

Adrian Brzeziński (MKL Toruń)
Przemysław Słowikowski (MKL Szczecin)

400 m, 4x400 m

Kajetan Duszyński (AZS Łódź)

1500 m

Michał Rozmys (UKS Barnim Goleniów)

60 m hurdles

Damian Czykier (KS Podlasie Białystok)
Jakub Szymański (SKLA Sopot)

Shot Put

Konrad Bukowiecki (AZS UWM Olsztyn)
Michał Haratyk (KS Sprint Bielsko-Biała)

High Jump

Norbert Kobielski (MKS Inowrocław)

4x400 m

Patryk Grzegorzewicz (MKS-SMS Vitoria Racibórz)
Maksymilian Klepacki (KS Podlasie Białystok)
Jacek Majewski (AZS AWF Katowice)
Mateusz Rzeźniczak (RKS Łódź)
Tymoteusz Zimny (OŚ AZS Poznań)

Adam Kszczot will be absent after all following another U-turn over the second vaccine jab. He claims he's feeling weak after the jab and decided to miss the IWC and end his career right there.

8 hours ago, RobtheAggie said:

I love the hard hill at the beginning.  

Otepaa always has a hilly course but the range has an easier descent which led to many clear shoots.

Luca Del Bel Belluz is a real name?

I actually watched this thing back in Albertville. I think it was called "artistic skiing" back then. I haven't heard of that sport pretty much since. Adding aerials to the official programme over this one was the right choice IMO.

And they brought in Kevin Magnussen whom they dumped after 2020 season to begin with. I get they chose experience over Pietro Fittipaldi's money but still this is a sideways move at best.

Enea Bastianini won the season opener in Losail - his first MotoGP victory. It looks like the 2021 Ducati is way better than the 2022 bike. Bagnaia crashed out and took out Martin while Miller retired with technical issues.

@Makedonas Polish 400m NR is still Irena Szewinska's old WR from Montreal OG

I hope Belibasaki still has fond memories from that EC, that was a truly unexpected medal for Greece

1 hour ago, Shiffrin said:

Happy for McGrath, but yet another completely random result. I’ve never seen a season completely full of unexpected winners. At least Strolz looks like he’s here to stay and Norwegian BFFs are both vastly talented and were going to the top sooner rather than later anyway.

 

I wonder what the lowest amount of points for winning a slalom globe is, considering we had 9 races now and Kristoffersen leads by 48 points at “measly” 371.

Ivica Kostelic - 478 points in 2010/11 season (ten races). It was the only time the slalom globe was won with a score below 500 points (since the 92/93 season when 100 points for the win was introduced). So even if Kristoffersen wins in Courchevel, this will be a new "record"

43 minutes ago, dcro said:

Zrinka Ljutić is the slalom champion.

 

She is now invited for the WC finals, which is awesome.

This is very curious, Polish ES commentator Marcin Szafranski was raving about Ljutic during the WOG and said he thinks this girl can become a real superstar and I said to myself are we having another Ana Jelusic hype talk here but maybe he was a little right about her?

22 minutes ago, LDOG said:

They also lost 5-0 to Spain so not so sure. 

 

Anyway, it's just one match, at home, not against a top opponent... anything is possible.

Yeah, that was the third group game when the opponents finally scored in skittles. The actual playing style was terrible, that team was never supposed to even win one game.

Hah! Poland always has issues vs Scandinavian teams. Sweden has been our bogey opponent for years, first of all in the 1990 WC qualifying match which we supposedly threw away on purpose (a draw would be enough for England to qualify on goal difference ahead of Sweden). It was shortly after the communism fell and players were still looking to get any hardware income.

We last beat Sweden in a friendly game in 1977

This is the WC qualifying match from October 1989. A handball on the goal line (at 2:18) wasn't penalised with a red card back then

3 minutes ago, Belle said:

Haha you said this just as Lewandowski did a hat trick in Champions League. I’m not optimistic about Sweden’s chances even IF we beat Czech Republic. 

Bayern is slightly different level. Under Michniewicz Lewandowski might as well run around the midfield circle 95% of the time. We lived through this when Fornalik was our head coach in the 2014 WC qualifying Mateusz Klich will be suspended for the SWE/CZE game.

23 minutes ago, Belle said:

Swedish Football Federation is not happy about this decision. 

 

But it’s a strange situation. Whatever decision FIFA takes it will be always be complaining about it. 

We got a new head coach who is a complete "park the bus" guy. Playing Poland might be the easier part of the double if you can hold off Lewandowski. I mean we played Sweden at the Euros not so long ago

When Michniewicz was the coach of our U-21 team in Euro qualifying we drew with Faroe Islands twice(!) but in the finals we beat Belgium and Italy. His park the bus tactics always does well vs better teams

FIFA made it official. Poland gets a bye into the playoffs final where they play the winner of Sweden vs Czech Republic

The 2022 league year starts on March 16th but the first bomb just dropped: Seattle Seahawks traded QB Russell Wilson to Denver Broncos for QB Drew Lock and multiple 1st round picks. AFC West just got helluva more difficult.

Aaron Rodgers signed a new 4-year deal with Green Bay Packers to quash rumours about him leaving Wisconsin (it was never reasonable to think he leaves a weak NFC North to go to Denver or Pittsburgh Steelers).

Otepaa was always Justyna Kowalczyk's favorite track so I wonder if they cut down on the uphill sections for biathlon?

Team Poland will skip the Oslo finale and stage the national champs in Duszniki-Zdroj instead. It's been a terrible season all around so no need to extend the pain beyond Otepaa.

Magdalena Gwizdon has been drafted into the World Cup team for Otepaa. It will be her 27th active season on the World Cup (one more than O.E. Bjoerndalen).

Daiki Ito (ski jumping) will retire at the end of the season.

Justyna Swiety-Ersetic 51,04 NR during Polish Indoor championships today.

Some news in the Polish media that Washington Capitals confiscated Ukrainian flags that fans wanted to bring to the arena? I suppose Ovechkin's status means the Capitals will pretend nothing is happening out there in the world?

Nilsson goes 3rd!

Stina Nilsson 9/10 and looking at PB. 10/10 and she'd probably won it.

Either Hanna Oeberg cross shoot at the wrong range or the graphics is wrong?