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Olsbu - Eckhoff - Sola 1-2-3.

Bye Herrmann 1/5 and took ages on the range. Olsbu with 52 secs. lead. Sola 2/5 but lost only two places.

Herrmann 34th to 3rd thanks to 10/10 so far. This will be a crapshoot right until the very end.

Ida Lien DNS with bib #9?

This isn't a Hollywood movie. Vlhova needs to score 5 points in two races to win the overall She can do a random training run and win the overall by total default. The Lenzerheide weather did her all the favors and killed all the excitement. If scoring 5 points in two races is pressure for you then I'm sorry, nobody is going to believe that

What pressure? DH and SG being cancelled removed ALL the overall globe pressure. Vlhova will win it by default.

At this rate Liensberger will win the slalom globe. Shiffrin way back and Vlhova totally choked that 1,84 back. If we had the DH and SG I think Gut would have won the overall.

It seems like Herrmann's age begins to show up in the latter stages of the season now. Preuss was consistently faster than her in Nove Mesto already. Admittedly Todorova has less in her legs due to Bulgarians missing one round with covid restrictions in December but it's still impressive to see her in Top 10.

It's not THAT simple, Todorova was never considered a good skier IIRC. She shot 10/10 in Nove Mesto sprint last season and finished 1:45 Min behind Herrmann who also shot 10/10. Eckhoff shot 8/10 and was still 34 secs. quicker than Todorova. Hell, Regina Oja and Merkushyna has faster skiing time back then, hardly world beaters in terms of speed. Today she finished roughly 45 secs ahead of Herrmann who shot 8/10 so probably would have finished fairly equal to each other if Herrmann shot clear. So in a matter of 12 months Todorova has gained well over 1:30 minutes to Herrmann' skiing time which is quite impressive.

Top 13 covered by 30 seconds. Could be an interesting pursuit for a change. Career-best 8th place for Todorova.

Ekchoff wins by 2,5 secs. But this will be very tight in the pursuit. Todorova still on course for a Top 10.

Really fast skiing from Hanna Sola but only 8/10. Another chance for victory wasted for Tandrevold who even lost time to Wierer on the last loop.

Finally something respectable from Milena Todorova 10/10.

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In case anyone still gives a fuck, there's more fog with the Super G start delayed by 60 minutes already. I don't care how much money Lenzerheide pays I hope it NEVER hosts the World Cup finals ever again. This is right up there with 2011 bullshit where they cancelled four individual events but staged the meaningless Team Event.

@hckošice Sorry, you're fighting a lost war. The comment "Gut should do slaloms" is a perfect example. Brignone does slaloms and it doesn't help her whatsover. It's better to be very good at three events and DNS the fourth rather than very good at one and serviceable at three others. Marcel Hirscher proved that for years already, he never needed to enter downhills bc he didn't need to. Hell, he even struggled at parallel events a lot too. So, whatever was good for Hirscher suddenly isn't good enough for Gut? That's pure nonsense.

But there is only one person who does all four events and that is Vlhova. Even Shiffrin skips speed races on purpose. So what's the point of finding the best all-arounder when there is only ONE all-arounder to begin with? And quite frankly Vlhova as an all-arounder is light years below Janica Kostelic, Tina Maze, Pernilla Wiberg, hell, even Martina Ertl had more all-around success IMO.

Another total disaster at Lenzerheide. Probably not gonna watch any of the rest of events this weekend. Just cancel it all and hand the globes over to Pinturault and Vlhova and fuck off. It's obvious the tech skiers have a tremendous advantage for the overall over speed speciallists so no, @hckošice is totally wrong here. But since he's biased then it's obvious he won't admit it

This season has truly been underwhelming IMO. Just cancel the damn finals and let's move on! This could be as bad when Lenzerheide cancelled the Vonn vs Riesch showdown for the overall to hold the meaningless team event in 2011 It's obvious Lenzerheide is a very bad idea to host World Cup finals.

We all know 2032 host will be Brisbane. Just cut the bullshit. Four years of artificial crap. Hail to the transparency!

1. / (it's the same melody by Alexander Alexandrov after all). 2. 3. The latter two I'm probably heavily influenced by watching football for almost 40 years

Golf just isn't a global sport on the highest scale. The 25th best US player is still better than the best player from like 95% of golf countries. No to mention independent Scotland and England teams can't compete at the Olympics which shrinks the best European nation by default. It's even less competitive for the women where South Korea dominates all, USA is a distant second but still way ahead of everyone else. The one-offs like Lydia Ko don't move the needle. LET is just a glorified second league. It's like those NCAA amateur teams competing for USA at the Olympics when NBA or NHL couldn't field their players as professionals.

Barack Obama washed the US hands on purpose and Russia waltzed right in to test their weapons. It was a freebie PR victory for the comrades. I bet those El-Assad & co. travel bans & asset freezes are sooo important right now Nobody gives a damn about that...

China has won the weighlifting OG medal table the last five times... IOC is NOT removing one of China's strong holds under no condition. Same applies to diving which I imagine is one of the least popular events during the Olympics. USA might have given up on boxing since everyone goes pro early but it's still huge in former USSR and Cuba. Since they added women's boxing to OG it's not really going away esp. it's one of the traditional sports which is backed by major international players. Tennis and golf are the two most expendable ones since Olympic gold medal isn't the highest achievement in any of the two sports.

Not gonna happen in Germany anytime soon IMO. GaPa and Munich residents rejected the OG idea back in 2013 already. https://www.dw.com/en/voters-deliver-resounding-no-to-munich-2022-winter-olympics-bid/a-17217461 The only reasonable back-up option would be Oberhof since they have both the luge track & biathlon arena in place but I feel like the small Lillehammer-like venues for OG hosts are no longer desireable and viable at the same time. That belongs to the Dolby Surround 90s era but not in the 5K era of today anymore. Finland became a mere also-run in a lot of winter sports, ski jumping has belly flopped in the last decade, cross country is second-tier even compared to Sweden let alone Norway and if your two best disciplines historically are struggling so badly what's the point of even bidding for the OG?