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4 hours ago, rybak said:

Sadly Konrad Bukowiecki and Ewa Swoboda will not take part in starting tomorrow IEC, Bukowiecki due to foot injury which he gets yesterday and defending champion Swoboda due to positive covid-19 test, and yet two days ago her test was negative... 

Malwina Kopron said Swoboda got infected in Spala from one of the training athletes that don't take part in indoor sports.

Second positive test for Swoboda. She's out 100%.

Meanwhile Malgorzata Holub is pulled from the 400m individual races and won't be replaced by anyone leaving Swiety-Ersetic as the lone entry. Then what's the point of having SIX 400m runners if there only will be a relay final contested

Yep, can't blame anyone for being smarter than everyone else. If Latvia can convince Baiba Bendika to help them with FIS points (and 10k was in freestyle) then it's understandable Lithuania fields a relay team when they can - even if they probably finish dead last anyway.

Maren Lundby wins gold.

Sara Takanashi silver, Nika Kriznar bronze.

Big favorite Marita Kramer blew the second jump and finishes 4th.

It's Norway. They will be allowed to compete

26 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

I’ve told this story before, but about a decade back most commentators did not realise that the Kaisa Mäkäräinen who competed on the Biathlon Tour & the Kaisa Maekaeraeinin who competed on the Cross Country Tour were the same person.

Yeah, I remember that one, IBU used the Finnish umlauts or whatever that's called and FIS used the "ae" anglicized versions. There was also the infamous Jarkko Maeaettae in ski jumping

pushes off the podium

Just now, RobtheAggie said:

Too bad.  Will she ski for Denmark in the Olympics?

Obviously. Greenland & Faroe Islands aren't members of IOC

Baiba Bendika finished 35th

3 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Everyone else knocked flat, Johaug barely breathing hard.

Must be a new lipstick?

Looks like another Johaug-Karlsson-Andersson 1-2-3.

I wonder how long will Baserga be kept away from the World Cup? Even Cadurisch made her debut at a younger age. For someone labelled as a big talent for years, Baserga is being held back a lot.

55 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Okay and the fact that nobody will retire anytime soon is bad because? Also impressive that you know about the future planning of all of those women.

It's not about retirement, it's about lack of competition. The fact Riegler, Pommegger, or Fischnaller are still active and in contention for medals at age 40+ tells me in ten years time Joerg and Hofmeister will be in the same bout. Hell, Dujmovits took two years off and she's back on the WC podum like she never retired to begin with.

The youth charge happens in other aspects of freestyle skiing, slopestyle, big air and all those events. Parallel slalom has to have the highest average age of competitors involved. This is like the geriatric home for seniors. And since those bad Russians are the only ones with some fresh talent this event will be willified by FIS and IOC for a little while yet.

3 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Yes, the two German grandmas Ramona Hofmeister (born in 1996, first in World Cup) and Cheyenne Loch (born in 1994, 3rd in World Cup) are about to retire as well.

I just made a point that nobody will retire anytime soon. Joerg has like 10 years on the tour left and Hofmeister & Loch probably 15.

31 minutes ago, hckošice said:

First 200 Thousand doses landed today in the Košice Airport, in total SVK bought 2 million doses

 

 

let's see what Brussels will say about this initiative ...

 

 

If the situation in Slovakia as bad as everyone says I wouldn't give a fuck what EU says about this. Either save lives or admit coronavirus is indeed a political problem. Ursula van der Leyen has looked incompetent enough already as the delays in vaccine transfers are linked directly to her purchase "strategy" last summer.

This parallel snowaboard is totally low-hanging fruit, Joerg & Dujmovits in the mid-30s, Riegler in her late 40s. It's hilarious that the much-maligned Russia is one nation that actually has found a new talent. Everyone else is set to die on the old name hill

Same for the men, two youngest prospects come from Russia, the rest is basically over 30 yo, Fischnaller and Prommegger probably won't retire before they hit 50 at this rate and why should they. There is zero competition in this sport.

19 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Okay ... you were suspiciously active in this thread for someone who doesn’t care. I have no problem with Zyla winning the gold medal, I feel like he deserved it towards the end of his career after being a journeyman for most of it. Also always liked his „retarding“ around, what do you feed that guy?

Piotr Zyla has a new - much younger - girlfriend these days. He left his wife & kids for her. So he took the "retarding" into a whole new level. Guess a young mistress can do wonders to a man's confidence!

Just now, OlympicsFan said:

Must hurt ...

Is Poland still ahead of Germany in the medal table? 

Also first the prediction was no gold and now it is not any more golds ...

Please make predictions like that, you seem to bring luck to Germany. 

Neah, Poland never stood a chance for a mixed medal so I don't care. I take Zyla beating Geiger in the normal hill event every single day

1 minute ago, Federer91 said:

The team sprint in NC is coming 

Oftebro is looking better than any of the Germans at these Champs. I don't see how Norway doesn't win that one

Germany wins by 5,2 points. Probably their only gold medal at these Championships

3 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

According to your logic this wouldn’t be a surprise ... since Germany won the last 3 mixed events at worlds. 

I know my logic better than you do. Please inform yourself next time before clowning around. Thanks!

Fluke alert! Germany leads after Round 1 by 4,9 pts over Norway.

Ema Klinec blew the women's team event gold and now probably blew the mixed medal chances as well

Romania won't finish last as they beat USA by 7 points

22 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

I think the other nations could make a change. If all the nations except Norway and Russia boycott the competitions until Norway/Russia are banned, then we could see a change. Obviously Russia and Norway are very important, but I think all the other nations combined and their tv money is more important. Sadly the national federations also have no backbone.

No way someone bullies Norway into any changes. They invest more money into cross-country than everyone else combined save for Sweden. It's like trying to ban China in table tennis or Canada in curling. It's just NOT gonna happen

22 minutes ago, phelps said:

Marion Rolland also won a downhill world championship gold medal (Schladming 2013)...

Yes, I mentioned Rolland on the previous page  I suppose more people remember her best from the unceremonial exit three seconds into the Vancouver OG downhill

1 minute ago, OlympicsFan said:

Nonsense. The combination of Lanisek, the girl who won a medal in sprint and this medal in team sprint is a far bigger fluke. A medal in women’s ski jumping was not a shock, but the other 3 medals were surprising to say the least. Also crazy that Slovenia has 2 medals in women’s cross country while Russia/Finland have 0 and Norway also only has 2.

You probably don't follow cross country much? Lampic has 6 World Cup podiums to her name which is quite a lot given how deep Norway and Sweden are in women's sprint. Just because you seemingly don't pay attention to anyone beside Norway, Sweden and Germany it doesn't mean it's always a fluke. Besides Slovenia also won a silver medal in Seefeld in this event which you probably don't realize either