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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

I bet on the pizza

If Almaty was given the WOG none of the current prostests would have happened IMO. Hell, Nazarbiev would still be the President and would delay all the backlash until after the Games. Anyway, it's another PR win for China as suddenly they can point to other countries having major internal issues. And obviously the liberal democracy lobbyists won't do anything about people shot dead in Kazakhstan. This country isn't important enough to fight a political battle over it after all

For lying to the FBI

Australia is a mess. Their hard lockdowns measures look more desperate & unsuccessful the longer the pandemic lasts (and it will last for some years yet IMO). Meanwhile French sport minister says French Open will allow unvaccinated players (including Djokovic himself of course) https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/33011964/novak-djokovic-allowed-play-french-open-even-unvaccinated-france-sports-minister

I've been watching alpine skiing since Saalbach WC in 1991 and I don't give a damn about the team event. I've given up on the mostly unfair parallel races in general.

He will be available soon I won't be surprised if Poland fires him even before they leave China. We're set for the worst ski jumping Olympics since Nagano

Czech Republic still without a point in World Cup this season

Nobody knows how many 'others' were there and what are their names. It could all be a lie not to give an impression they bend the rules for ONE person. George Orwell is having a field day in his grave

Probably nobody cares anymore

Yeah, vs Radwanska in AO 2013 QF. Her English back then wasn't exactly sharp either.

The women's qualifying is basically done since Sapporo & Zao won't be replaced. Therefore this nation list should be more or less official. The places are not for specific names but it's easy to guess Daniela Haralambie & Frida Westman will be the and nominations. Nicole Konderla & Kinga Rajda should be the two selections.