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wins 29-25!

wins by 63 points. should easily improve at WOG when they draft R. Kobayashi & Takanashi. Austria needs a better 2nd male since Kraft is not at the best level. Norway has issue with the second woman, Bjoerseth is having a mediocre season. And Germany also needs a better second woman, Juliane Seyfarth might stick to her Playboy look as top achievement!

leads the mixed at half-distance by a large margin. The Olympic mixed will be held on normal hill which is the only hope for countries like and but can always be in the mix since they have a B-team in Willingen.

5 days - 5 steps from Wotherspoon?

With no NHL players this feels like gold to lose. probably the biggest threat indeed.

Women start from higher gates than men but Yuki Ito reached 154 meters in training today. Silje Opseth had 152,5. For those who don't follow ski jumping much, Willingen is the biggest large hill on the World Cup. Here's the list of 150 meters jumps in Willingen:

Mikael Kingsbury - moguls Francesco Friedrich - two man bob Men's cross country 4x10 km Relay Women's cross country Team Sprint Ester Ledecka - snowboard PGS

Natalia Czerwonka & Magdalena Czyszczon (speed skating) tested positive after arriving in Beijing (no sympthoms). Also two biathlon coaches tested positive

Some crazy shit in vs . Ecuador had the goalkeeper send off after 15 minutes and Brazilian GK Allison was shown red card twice only to have them both rescinded on VAR (one was changed to yellow). Brazil had another player send off after 20 minutes anyway and VAR rescinded penalty for Ecuador. Game finished 1-1

[hide] Main Round February 3rd - February 8th, 2022 10 Nations, Every Nation from Group A and the the 1st, 2nd and 3rd-Placed Nations from Group B will qualify for the Quarterfinals Group A Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 3rd 2022, h. 12:10 Switzerland 4 Canada February 3rd 2022, h. 21:10 Finland 4 United States February 4th 2022, h. 12:10 ROC 2 Switzerland February 5th 2022, h. 12:10 Canada 3 Finland February 5th 2022, h. 21:10 United States 5 ROC February 6th 2022, h. 21:10 Switzerland 3 United States February 7th 2022, h. 12:10 Canada 3 ROC February 7th 2022, h. 21:10 Finland 4 Switzerland February 8th 2022, h. 12:10 United States 2 Canada February 8th 2022, h. 21:10 ROC 3 Finland Group B Date & Time (GMT +8) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 3rd 2022, h. 12:10 China 12 Czech Republic February 3rd 2022, h. 16:40 Japan 3 Sweden February 4th 2022, h. 12:10 Denmark 10 China February 5th 2022, h. 16:40 Denmark 1 Japan February 5th 2022, h. 16:40 Czech Republic 2 Sweden February 6th 2022, h. 16:40 China 9 Japan February 7th 2022, h. 16:40 Czech Republic 4 Denmark February 7th 2022, h. 21:10 Sweden 12 China February 8th 2022, h. 16:40 Japan 3 Czech Republic February 8th 2022, h. 21:10 Sweden 1 Denmark Top 3 Place 1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Nation [/hide]

In case someone needs a mixed team OG preview, Willingen will stage a mixed event tomorrow

Piotr Zyla tested negative both yesterday & today so things appear to be back to normal.

Ben Roethlisberger formally announced his retirement. Everyone expected that to happen. Some coaching news, Nathaniel Hackett is the new Broncos HC. I wonder if this was done to lure Aaron Rodgers?

Ranomi Kromowidjojo (3x Olympic Champion in swimming).

[hide] Knockout Round January 23rd - February 6th, 2022 8 Nations, the Winners of each Quarterfinal qualify for the Semifinals Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 29th 2022, h. 17:00 Gambia 0 2 Cameroon January 29th 2022, h. 20:00 Burkina Faso 0 1 Tunisia January 30th 2022, h. 17:00 Egypt 1 1 Morocco January 30th 2022, h. 20:00 Senegal 1 0 Equatorial Guinea [/hide]

Well, hockey is popular in Europe but not THAT popular like in Canada so when we build arenas here we don't consider whether it suits hockey audience the most

Literally NOBODY in Poland builds an arena for hockey alone. It doesn't make any sense. The multi-purpose arena (cap. 11,500) nearest to where I live: Hockey: Tennis: Volleyball:

Sure enough, FAA blows a two set lead and falls to Medvedev Iga Swiatek will play Danielle Collins in the second women's SF. However it feels like Barty vs Keys is the premature final. Sliding on hard court? On MP no less? Who needs Clijsters doing splits?

@heywoodu is likely correct. I checked info on our ski jumping site from yesterday. It's five days prior to arrival with two negative tests in a space of 24 hours. Polish ski jumpers are set to leave for China on 31st January (Monday) so Zyla literally has to test negative today to make that flight.

Given the Piotr Zyla updates in ski jumping, China requires a negative test at least 5 days prior to arrival? Unless Weng is in China already (probably not)?

Kristoffer Jakobsen crashes out on gate three. Are U kidding me? Strasser wins.

This is apparently the official TV intro for the games:

There is some Slovak tourism adverts on Polish TV too but I don't remember Vlhova starring in them Or maybe they had new ones?

Apparently vs kicks off in 45 minutes @hckošice

Well, Rodes 3 seconds off the pace (probably doesn't care anymore) and Vidovic lasted like 10 gates. It seems like is crawling towards the Olympics