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It's running faster now! @Sindo

Vittozzi wins. Magnusson 2nd. Kirkeeide 3rd despite three misses. JBB & E.Oeberg also passed Bened late. Ermits 20/20 and takes 8th place!

Vittozzi vs Magnusson will ski it out. Jeanmonnot bottled it with two misses...

Three-way last shooting for the win in women's pursuit...

Aicher crashes out of the Super G on a small roller. Amateur error. Robinson leads Miradoli, Goggia and Vonn.

Yeah, Norway is still reeling from the cheating scandal, Austrians ain't that dominant but Kraft is back as their #1 and Germany's best two jumpers are a complete surprise while Geiger and Wellinger are terrible. Obviously Poland sucks except Tomasiak. We actually ditched the stupid WOG qual system counting points from 2024 Summer GP onwards but it's kinda clear we might only send 3 jumpers to Cortina (the system had 3 qualified on these points plus one coach choice which would have been Tomasiak most likely alas that's all gone south in five weeks). Right now it looks like Tomasiak & Stoch will be chosen plus a tortoise race between Zyla, Kot and ???). Wąsek is nowhere compared to last season, Kubacki is a potato sack and Zniszczol who so wanted Thurnbichler out is hilariously bad and most Polish fans enjoy his karma downfall.

Yes

Yes, Semirunniy is out of Olympics 5000 due to the Division A being favored and he only started in B last season so was facing an uphill battle. We are truly looking at no medals in Cortina (no surprise) and it would be almost fitting since Cortina 1956 gave us our first ever WOG medal.

It's not even Four Hills and Zografski has set his PB for World Cup points already! His previous best season was 2012/13

So Marc Brys has been fired as manager but refused to accept it and called up his own squad and there are two squads for the tournament?

Aicher takes the lead by 0.24!

Vonn still goes faster than Goggia by 0.05...

Kink and Leinamo in synchro tumble on the corner.

Bened only missed Baserga by 0.4 with Jeanmonnot still to come.

Brignone is the oldest female World Cup winner at 34 years & 8 months (La Thuile Super G last season) so Vonn will beat that record by 6 years & 6 months Magdalena Egger goes 2nd out of nowhere...

Vonn still owns the gliding & speed courses

Yeah, a complete failure all around. Only two individual quotas for men and two for women + mixed relay. Cortina looks like a big fat zero in the medal table tbh.

They have a serious technical issue this year - no 5 seconds beeper and Ashley Hugill just got hosed by it.

FIFA will most likely remain FIFA though. This trend of 'World Whatever' is downright stupid and laughable.

So they can take part in Cortina WOG if they qualify?

It's all hogwash especially in the short attention span generation. Like nobody cares about Free Tibet anymore either. Free Palestine will last a lot longer due to Saudi Arabia becoming a sponsorship force in sports. Israel is too weak in soccer to qualify from UEFA zone. The only time they qualified was from the Asian zone and they only beat Australia & New Zealand who were complete nobodies in the 1960s. No such luck in the 60 years since.

Ah, yes but that's not how pro athletes are taught in North America these days? Shut up & dribble is xenophobic, racist or whatever? The hypocrisy of some of these policies were exposed during 2022 World Cup already where the Saudis played it smart and waved their own "Free Palestine' slogans. Forget LGBT rights for a moment, how many 'Free Palestine' flags will be waved in 2026? Or will those be confiscated by default? Somehow I feel this won't be met with similar backlash when China clamped down on 'Free Tibet' in 2008 OG. Saudi Arabia is more important to global markets than Iran & Egypt

Wisła Płock just assumed 1st position after five consecutive draws. Must be first time ever a team on a five match winless streak actually moves up to league top.

The problem is, the World Cup is not a local event. Overall it's another storm in a teacup. LGBT rights in Muslim countries won't change a damn inch becuse of one soccer match in Seattle

Ah yes, 9x in Top 10. Just a perfect reminder why I stopped watching cross country except the Olympics. Looks like I won't be coming back anytime soon.