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A real slaughterhouse in Run 2. I lost track how many big names made mistakes. Zrinka Ljutic wins by 1.26 seconds though. Swenn Larsson blew a podium away and Holdener went out after like 10 seconds. Shiffrin with a messy run and down to 10th. Marta Rossetti likely blew a strong podium bid from 20th after Run 1. She was 0.85 up on Aronsson before going out with 15 seconds of the course left. Aronsson finished 0.86 behind Sara Hector in 2nd place.

Shiffrin returns in Courchevel SL tonight. Bib #6. Nina Ortlieb is out with another serious injury suffered in Ga-Pa, this time a broken leg. Idk how long she keeps going? This will be her 23rd surgery already.

Reported list of skaters & coaches on board the plane: Andrew Torgashev, Katie McBeth, Daniil Parkman, Christina Carreira, Anthony Ponomarenko, Alexey Shchepetov, Artem Markelov, Anton Spiridonov, Danila Savelyev, Evgenia Shishkova, Vadim Naumov, Inna Volyanskaya, Spencer Lane, Gina Khan, Franco Aparicio, Everly Livingston, Alydia Livingston, Sean Kay & Angela Yang.

Evgenia Shishkova & Vadim Naumov (1994 World Champions in pairs) very likely were killed in the American Airlines collision with US Army helicopter in Washington last night.

I know Norway is heavily cutting finances in ski jumping so presumably there is some economical shift in sports over there but it would be insane to have the likes of JTB or Riiber compete for Qatar or any other petroleum country now

It's simple. In shooting it's possible to have the same athletes compete in multiple events (air rifle + 3 pos being the obvious one) but rapid fire pistol is for "one event speciallists" so by cutting down this event you actually remove more quotas by design. Promoting "multi event" athletes in multi event sports lowers the quota by default. It's no different when gymnastics promoted OG qualifying through all-around which hosed single apparatus speciallists who could only make it as reigning world champions (and why Leszek Blanik didn't compete in Athens 2004 and only qualified for Beijing 2008 because he won WCh gold in 2007).

This is just sailing deja vu. IOC will do anything to cut down the athletes quota on the less popular sports. Sailing & shooting have a long history but they're just not trendy enough these days to survive the purge in some capacity. Yeah, it sucks...

No surprises in conference championship games so we have another Chiefs vs Eagles Super Bowl (happened two years ago too). The main difference is Eagles have Saquon Barkley this time...

We're circling the drain both on & off the field now

Not much to say about the men's final. Sinner beat Zverev in straight sets

Did France protest the Jacquelin's fall vs JTB in Hochflizen? If not then maybe Norway didn't want to come out as the moaning toddler here

Right. Weronika Nowakowska said it's one of the strongest cases for a potential DQ she has seen. with a great 7th place ahead of B or C team.

Four Italians in Top 6 of women's SG in Ga-Pa but only one on the podium

James Crawford takes the lead like everyone expected

Madison Keys wins the women's final 6-3 2-6 7-5!!! Well done and a great redemption after that USO 2017 final no-show.

Von Allmen rolls the curtains off the final jump but he was behind the clock anyway.

Schieder taking the scenic route in the Traverse

Sabalenka wins set two 6-2...

Keys takes the first set 6-3. Sabalenka's serve is really bad so far. Just a reminder Keys lead Sabalenka 6-0 5-3 in USO 2023 semi-final and lost that one...

Women's singles final has started. Double break lead for Madison Keys in the first set...

Well done and

Felix Monsen gets 10th with bib #39 in Kitzbuehel Super G but Zlatan Ibrahimovic is in the restaurant with his wife already @Belle

Upset of the tournament was Siegemund over Zheng in R2 hands down. Siegemund barely squeaked by Baptiste in R1 and won a total of 3 games vs Pavlyuchenkova in R3.

Match of the tournament in the other SF and Madison Keys beats Iga Świątek 5-7 6-1 7-6(8) to make her second ever GS final.

Btw, Marcin Szafrański said on Polish ES that Petra Vlhova will miss the World Champs due to the knee recovery. I know the news on her return has been slow which suggests there's nothing positive to report in reality? @hckošice