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Yup, Vlhova wins. Holdener 2nd

Polish ES already says Holdener has no chance at winning

Holdener leads Kranjska Gora slalom after the first run but you just know she will blow it like always

Top 10 in Poland (Przeglad Sportowy Plebiscite) ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI (football) Anita Włodarczyk (hammer throw) Bartosz Zmarzlik (speedway) Dawid Tomala (race walking) Wojciech Nowicki (hammer throw) Maria Andrejczyk (javelin) Karol Zalewski, Natalia Kaczmarek, Justyna Święty-Ersetic, Kajetan Duszyński, Dariusz Kowaluk, Iga Baumgart-Witan, Małgorzata Hołub-Kowalik (mixed 4x400 relay athletics) Agnieszka Kobus-Zawojska, Marta Wieliczko, Maria Sajdak, Katarzyna Zillmann (rowing) Karolina Naja, Anna Puławska (spirint canoeing) Tadeusz Michalik (wrestling) Special Awards: Coach of the Year: Aleksander Matusiński (400 m athletics) Team of the Year: Grupa Azoty ZAKSA Kędzierzyn-Koźle (volleyball, CEV Champions League winner)

Marius Lindvik wins his first event of the season. R. Kobayashi with a poor 2nd round but still 4th and gains points over Geiger. Team competition tomorrow. Only 8 teams will probably enter since didn't bother to bring a fourth guy after Ammann left.

Yeah, I'm well aware of the Balkan diaspora in Australia but I assume the local politicians want to appease the Aboriginal voters more? I have no idea how the ethnicity numbers look like in the urban states (Victoria, Queensland or NSW).

There is a Chinese women hockey league? With Americans playing in there? I suppose they didn't have any visa issues?

Australian politicians can always throw Tennis Australia under the bus and Djokovic gets swept away in the process. Serbian fans don't vote in the Australian elections after all

Everyone knows Djokovic's lawyers will try to find a plausible excuse. Well, the first attempt kinda failed. Let's see what they come up with tomorrow

[hide] Preliminary Round January 9th - January 20th, 2022 24 Nations, 6 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nation from each Group + the 4 best 3rd-placed Nations will qualify for the Round of 16 Group A Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 9th 2022, h. 17:00 Cameroon 2 0 Burkina Faso January 9th 2022, h. 20:00 Ethiopia 0 1 Cape Verde January 13th 2022, h. 17:00 Cameroon 3 0 Ethiopia January 13th 2022, h. 20:00 Cape Verde 1 2 Burkina Faso January 17th 2022, h. 17:00 Cape Verde 0 2 Cameroon January 17th 2022, h. 17:00 Burkina Faso 2 1 Ethiopia Group B Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 10th 2022, h. 14:00 Senegal 2 0 Zimbabwe January 10th 2022, h. 17:00 Guinea 3 1 Malawi January 14th 2022, h. 14:00 Senegal 1 0 Guinea January 14th 2022, h. 17:00 Malawi 1 2 Zimbabwe January 18th 2022, h. 17:00 Malawi 0 3 Senegal January 18th 2022, h. 17:00 Zimbabwe 0 1 Guinea Group C Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 10th 2022, h. 17:00 Morocco 0 0 Ghana January 10th 2022, h. 20:00 Comoros 0 2 Gabon January 14th 2022, h. 17:00 Morocco 4 0 Comoros January 14th 2022, h. 20:00 Gabon 1 3 Ghana January 18th 2022, h. 20:00 Gabon 1 2 Morocco January 18th 2022, h. 20:00 Ghana 3 0 Comoros Group D Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 11th 2022, h. 17:00 Nigeria 2 2 Egypt January 11th 2022, h. 20:00 Sudan 0 1 Guinea-Bissau January 15th 2022, h. 17:00 Nigeria 3 0 Sudan January 15th 2022, h. 20:00 Guinea-Bissau 1 3 Egypt January 19th 2022, h. 20:00 Guinea-Bissau 1 3 Nigeria January 19th 2022, h. 20:00 Egypt 3 0 Sudan Group E Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 11th 2022, h. 14:00 Algeria 3 0 Sierra Leone January 12th 2022, h. 20:00 Equatorial Guinea 1 1 Ivory Coast January 16th 2022, h. 17:00 Ivory Coast 2 1 Sierra Leone January 16th 2022, h. 20:00 Algeria 3 0 Equatorial Guinea January 20th 2022, h. 17:00 Ivory Coast 1 2 Algeria January 20th 2022, h. 17:00 Sierra Leone 1 1 Equatorial Guinea Group F Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 12th 2022, h. 14:00 Tunisia 2 1 Mali January 12th 2022, h. 17:00 Mauritania 2 1 Gambia January 16th 2022, h. 14:00 Gambia 1 3 Mali January 16th 2022, h. 17:00 Tunisia 3 1 Mauritania January 20th 2022, h. 20:00 Gambia 0 3 Tunisia January 20th 2022, h. 20:00 Mali 2 1 Mauritania [/hide]

Hector in monster form. She could be unbeatable at the Olympics if she keeps this up. 6th place for Maryna Gasienica-Daniel (third time this season)

Gasienica-Daniel beating both Shiffrin & Vlhova in the same competition. That is quite incredible.

I've seen so many "good relations" in professional sports gone sour that I don't buy those stories anymore.

It's not like USA changed those trial quals in athletics over the years?

Sorry, ever since blaming a bad result on the gate pattern set by an American coach I lost all the trust in her words. That's the biggest piece of bullshit I heard while watching alpine skiing for 30 years. I literally had to check if this pattern wasn't set by US coach again

The slope is broken when she had bib 4? The results seems to indicate otherwise. We have a record group of bibs outside of Top 15 in Top 15 Run 1 - with zero DNF help.

He skied down to the finish so probably not-season ending scare. I suppose TV directors are guided to avoid replays if there is a possibility of a serious injury though.

Well, Shiffrin & Gut-Behrami have the COVID excuse (and Gut was really absent for much longer), I don't know what is Vlhova's excuse though? The course is holding up well, Goggia at +2,46 down might have a hard time to qualify.

It seems like her husband must be of Polish descent - Illinois where she comes from is full of Polish immigrants.

Maryna Gasienica-Daniel is back on the Kranjska Gora GS start-list.

Vanessa James is back competing for Canada? Geez, that's three countries she represented on international level now? And none of them dissolved like or

The movie was about the Civil War days anyway? Revisionism sounds good in theory but a black person winning an Oscar in 1940 in ANY category sounds more impressive than Poitier winning it in 1964 at the height of Martin Luther King popularity? That decision could be seen as political while there was zero political gain to award one for a black person in 1940 (USA wasn't even directly involved in WWII yet).

Hettie McDaniel won an Oscar in acting category 24 years before Poitier? Obviously he's not the first black person to win the Oscar for acting I find it strange in the gender equality reality of USA these days someone makes such an obvious error?

Amanda Anisimova is having the best week since January 2020 as she made the Melbourne Summer Set 2 Final. She's been working with Darren Cahill this week and suddenly she's had the best week in two years!

Ice Hockey is usually Top 3 Olympic sport for pre-milennial generations. When I was a kid there was a hockey game on CT1 or CT2 every weekend (since I live ca. 120 km from the Czech border I could get the Czech TV on my analog antena back then). The days when Peter Forsberg was supposed to be the new European Gretzky