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Thanks to PZB I don't have to write the names myself

No play on Thursday in the three events since some hotel worker tested positive and 600 players & staff have to take additional tests. Sigh... https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/55904746

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's Alpine Combined Day 1 February 8th, 2021 Franziska Gritsch Ramona Siebenhofer Ricarda Haaser Marie-Michele Gagnon Ester Ledecka Marta Bassino Federica Brignone Elena Curtoni Ragnhild Mowinckel Petra Vlhova x Michelle Gisin x Lara Gut-Behrami Wendy Holdener x Mikaela Shiffrin Any Other Athlete Women's Super-G Day 2 February 9th, 2021 Tamara Tippler x Any Other Austrian Athlete Marie-Michele Gagnon Ester Ledecka x Marta Bassino Federica Brignone Kajsa Vickhoff Lie Petra Vlhova Ilka Stuhec Michelle Gisin Lara Gut-Behrami x Priska Nufer Corinne Suter Any American Athlete Any Other Athlete Men's Super-G Day 2 February 9th, 2021 Vincent Kreichmayr x Matthias Mayer x Any Other Austrian Athlete Alexis Pinturault Andreas Sander Christof Innerhofer Dominik Paris Kjetil Jansrud Beat Feuz Marco Odermatt x Ryan Cochran-Siegle Travis Ganong Any Other Athlete Men's Alpine Combined Day 3 February 10th, 2021 Vincent Kreichmayr Matthias Mayer Marco Schwarz x Victor Muffat-Jeandet x Alexis Pinturault x Any Italian Athlete Kjetil Jansrud Luca Aerni Loic Meillard Justin Murisier Ryan Cochran-Siegle Any Other Athlete Women's Downhill Day 4 February 13th, 2021 Tamara Tippler Any Other Austrian Athlete Ester Ledecka Kira Weidle Elena Curtoni Laura Pirovano Kajsa Vickhoff Lie Ilka Stuhec Michelle Gisin Lara Gut-Behrami x Corinne Suter x Breezy Johnson x Any Other Athlete Men's Downhill Day 5 February 14th, 2021 Vincent Kreichmayr Matthias Mayer x Otmar Striedinger Johan Clarey x Romed Baumann Andreas Sander Christof Innerhofer Dominik Paris Kjetil Jansrud Martin Cater Beat Feuz x Carlo Janka Ryan Cochran-Siegle Travis Ganong Any Other Athlete Women's Parallel GS Day 6 February 16th, 2021 Franziska Gritsch Elisa Moerzinger Katharina Truppe Any French Athlete Marta Bassino Federica Brignone Kristin Lysdahl Thea Louise Stjernesund Petra Vlhova x Any Slovenian Athlete Sara Hector Lara Gut-Behrami Wendy Holdener x Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Men's Parallel GS Day 6 February 16th, 2021 Fabian Gstrein Roland Leitinger Filip Zubcic Alexis Pinturault x Stefan Luitz Alexander Schmid x Henrik Kristoffersen x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Zan Kranjec Semyel Bissig Gino Caviezel Any Other Swiss Athlete Any Other Athlete Mixed Team Parallel Event Day 7 February 17th, 2021 Austria France x Germany Italy x Norway Slovakia Slovenia Sweden Switzerland x United States Any Other Nation Women's Giant Slalom Day 8 February 18th, 2021 Katharina Liensberger Any Other Austrian Athlete Tessa Worley x Marta Bassino x Federica Brignone Alice Robinson Mina Fuerst Holtmann Petra Vlhova Meta Hrovat Sara Hector Michelle Gisin Lara Gut-Behrami Wendy Holdener Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Men's Giant Slalom Day 9 February 19th, 2021 Roland Leitinger Marco Schwarz Filip Zubcic x Alexis Pinturault x Any Other French Athlete Alexander Schmid Luca De Aliprandini Henrik Kristoffersen Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen Zan Kranjec Loic Meillard Justin Murisier Marco Odermatt x Any Other Athlete Women's Slalom Day 10 February 20th, 2021 Katharina Liensberger x Chiara Mair Katharina Truppe Any Canadian Athlete Martina Dubovska Lena Duerr Irene Curtoni Kristin Lysdahl Any Other Norwegian Athlete Petra Vlhova Michelle Gisin x Wendy Holdener Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Men's Slalom Day 11 February 21st, 2021 Manuel Feller Michael Matt Marco Schwarz x Clement Noel x Alexis Pinturault Linus Strasser Dave Ryding Alex Vinatzer Henrik Kristoffersen Sebastian Foss-Solevaag Loic Meillard Ramon Zenhaeusern x Any Other Swiss Athlete Any Other Athlete [/hide]

The Guardian is a left-wing newspaper but probably more supporting Lib Dems than Labour Party these days. They absolutely roasted Jeremy Corbyn for his Labour leadership. And they had the courage to admit they were completely fooled by the WikiLeaks which was once seen as the new oracle for all the liberal supporters. I see The Guardian as #1 source to find out what the liberals are getting excited about I've given up on Newsweek and CNN

The pendulum will eventually swing the other way. It always does. Rupert Murdoch's style of journalism is very much on top right now but journalism as a whole isn't as impactful as it once was. People don't need to buy a newspaper to find out what's going on in the world. Clickbaiting is the new black. Time is money, you don't waste time on double-checking your sources because 150 other journalists will beat you to the punch and post a story that gets gazillion likes & retweets in like 10 minutes. This is how modern journalism looks like.

WWI wiped out the monarchies and it was trendy to support the left-wing & sociallism in the 1920s & 30s. British Empire send China into a terrible spiral after the opium wars which resulted in their own monarchy collapsing even before WWI. Underestimating the power of China became one of the biggest errors of the entire Democratic world and now it's too late to stop them. I fully expect China to be #1 global economy within the next 15-20 years now that USA is busy with internal political problems as well.

I suppose this is the Western democracies excuse for failing to support Chang Kai-shek to begin with? Because that was even a bigger error than what later happened in Vietnam. Actually you're wrong on the Stalin loyalists, his most ardent supporters were actually the first to go. Stalin was always afraid of his peers to become too powerful and that's why he had them killed. Only people with zero personal ambitions or outright stupid survived the purge (Kalinin, Mikoyan, Budionny who has been widely considered as the least adept of the original Soviet Marshals).

Bianca Andreescu has withdrawn from the Grampians tournament. This is literally entering the drama lama levels.

USA has a history of such actions, like when they sided with France and pushed Ho Chi Minh straight into China & USSR's arms. That proved to be a total disaster Meanwhile the Oval Office has bigger problems than Myanmar. Kamala Harris is under fire for wearing Dolce & Gabbana clothes. Ah, the wealthy people's problems! https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2021/feb/02/kamala-harris-criticized-wearing-controversial-label-dolce-gabbana

Never. Myanmar has nothing that would interest USA and all Western democracies. It was only useful for the British Empire due to being a passage between China and India for trade purposes. That's no longer important. This place became equally as irrelevant as Cape Verde when the slavery trade from Western Africa collapsed.

Ryszard Szurkowski - the most famous Polish cyclist in history - passed away at the age of 75 today. Double Olympic TTT silver medallist, 1973 amateur World Champion & 4 time winner of the Peace Race.

Matthew Stafford got traded to LA Rams while Jared Goff has been send to Detroit Lions in a straight QB swap. Lions also get two future first round picks from the Rams. That means Rams won't have a first round pick since they selected Goff first overall in 2017. That will be five straight seasons w/o it. It's almost NBA-like devaluation of the draft but Rams have the luxury of Sean McVey and Aaron Donald in the building. Then again, they whiffed on the QB as Goff looks completely lost without McVey in his ear.

Fractured tibia for Goggia. No surgery required but six weeks on the hook. Obviously season is over

Well, Jimmie Johnson looked slooooow out there tbh. I fear his IndyCar tenure will be a total disaster now.

#10 Acura wins (Albuquerque/Castroneves/Rossi/R.Taylor). Terrible TV direction who missed the late change for 2nd place (#48 Cadillac passed #55 Mazda).

The Dutch curse strikes! Though Chip Ganassi losing the race in such fashion is not a bad thing

Well, auto racing is too expensive for FIA and IMSA to keep the different regs stance for the sake of local purity. The pandemic hit will only speed up the ineviteable process. It hope it works better than DTM adopting the Super GT regs and still ending up on the floor (which basically mirrored their mid 90s demise).

Audi ditched Formula E (funny how that is viewed second-rate now that it has lost the "new age" aura) and confirmed they will be back at LeMans in 2022. If they really wanted to build a DPi that would be a true swing for the fences!

Racing Team Nederland... in yellow & black Maybe sponsored by Vitesse Arnhem? Btw, this is the same Jumbo as Jumbo-Visma? Guess they have some money to spend?

@Olympian1010 I believe heywood is more of a Rinus fan than van der Zande. Besides Chip Ganassi isn't that of a fan favorite to begin with

I know that. Tell that to IMSA though. Ligier & Oreca should be in LMP2 and LMP3 should be scraped alltogether IMO. Bad news for @heywoodu #29 Racing Nederland is out and Rinus VeeKay didn't even turn a single lap. They crashed on the oil laid by #20 and suffered terminal gearbox problem.

LMP3 is the new PC. Meh. Endurance racing doesn't need a "junior" class like that. It's just field filler whom nobody really cares about. Ligier should take the battle to Oreca in LMP2 and now it looks like both can dominate each class without much competition.

Well, our biathlon fed twitter feed remains on top as usual

The course was terrible, couldn't hold up at all. Doesn't bode well for tomorrow. Lara Gut seems to gave gotten to her best form from 5-6 years ago. She owns the Super G this season. Don't know what's up with Corinne Suter? MM Gagnon finally back on the podium, I thought that won't happen again. Also good to see KV Lie not choking on race day for a change. Probably because it wasn't a downhill

The first hour was total amateur clown show. Do these guys realize the race lasts 24 hours?