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Brignone with a big 0.67 lead over Robinson after the first run. Also Robinson with a big lead over third placed Moltzan.

Samulesson fell on the last bend. His own fault. Strelow hangs on for bronze but how about that Krcmar last lap

Krcmar still keeps that 10 second lead over JTB. Hell, he's going after Strelow!

Krcmar vs JTB for the bronze? Oh, I have a bad feeling about this.

Jacquelin with some crazy fast shooting on the last one but France will still win with that penalty loop.

Giacomel with a penalty loop in the last prone

on penalty loop. Badacz barely avoids one 0+3.

lapped at half-distance

Our Beetle holds it on the second shoot as well. Czechia passed Slovakia and now Preuss overtakes Kuzmina on the climb.

Penalty loop for with rare TV time in 2nd before we tail off soon enough...

The problem with the old combined was it was skewed heavily into slalom speciallists for a while and the speed guys just threw in the towel. The whole alping skiing has turned into event speciallism except for guys at the very top (and the current #1 Odermatt doesn't do slaloms which makes him vastly different to Pinturault & Hirscher who came from tech to add speed events). Likewise Svindal didn't bother with combined since he didn't do slaloms. The days of KAA and Kjus were over and done with some time ago and FIS realized something had to be done. The parallel team events are not good enough, everyone knows one course is very likely to be better and the event can be manipulated by choice so having two athletes doing their preferred event in Team Combined makes most sense on paper IMO. I'm willing to give it a try going forward.

Ekaterina Alexandrova keeps rolling and takes out #1 seed Aryna Sabalenka in Doha R2 (in a third set TB of all things where she's historically very bad - 5 wins & 19 losses).

Venla Lehtonen is out with some heart issues. Apparently Sophie Chauveau was added to the team after winning the IBU Cup race in Rindaun.

And it's over. Eagles won 40-22 and blew up the Chiefs three-peat bid in spectacular fashion. Outside of Kansas & Missouri it's a very acceptable result

Half-time and Eagles lead 24-0

Time for Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans

Meanwhile Anastasia Potapova has won the Transylvania Open in Cluj for her third WTA title. 4-6 6-1 6-2 over Lucia Bronzetti in the final. Guess that divorce boosted her form this season (she won zero titles when married to Shevchenko).

That should do it. Ledecka could have won it if not that last section but she should still take a medal.

The first women's event in Lake Placid had to be rescheduled due to some strong winds after 14 jumpers and Nika Prevc won ahead of Kvandal & Loutitt. Pola Bełtowska had record 131 meters in the anulled round which only shows how much support the wind had

Looks like Gascon has self-sabotaged anyway after someone dug out the old tweets about George Floyd, Islam and whatever else. Yeah, a film about Mexico made by Europeans. What could possibly go wrong? I read Selena Gomez had to le-learn Spanish to even make it passable on-screen? I'd never suspect she forgot how to speak Spanish fluently

Sadly that won't have Liliana Lewińska reinstated for the Olympics (she was the one robbed at the expense of the Russian representing ). Nothing to see here anyway. Gymnastics is one of the last sports where you have judges openly manipulating the results and nobody really cares. Trikomiti should be banned for life but yeah, let's move on.

I'm OK with this podium. Macuga & Lie getting medals is a good story

Alexandrova has won the Linz title over Dayana Yastremska 6-2 3-6 7-5. She led 3-0 in the second set before losing NINE games in a row but still came back from 0-3 in the decider. Peak WTA action

Three in Top 20 and first career Top 10 for Kevin Bickner! Tschofenig picks up another win.

Ekaterina Alexandrova makes her third Linz final of her career and let's see if she can finally win it (lost to Camila Giorgi in 2018 and Jelena Ostapenko in 2024).