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Kowalczyk's coach was from Kazakhstan and yeah, that's the old Soviet school. Her training was very harsh and nobody in Poland could keep up so she was a one-athlete team for majority of her career. Some footballers saw her training in Tatra mountains in the summer and she was running up the hill with a tire attached to her waist with a rope. That's proper Soviet methods or what. The sponsors were not there even after the bronze she won at 2006 OG, remember this was when our ski jumping was still at peak of popularity and Apoloniusz Tajner became the head of Skiing Association which made every other winter sport even less relevant. Kowalczyk only got some serious sponsorship (Orlen, PKO Bank, car manufacturers) after Liberec WC 2009. In late 2000s she still travelled around Europe in a van with coach and two classic skis waxers from Estonia (Are Mets & Peep Koidu) that were the key part of the success (and many other feds wanted to buy them out but they stayed with her). She had different waxers for freestyle skis later on.

Geiger's suit was suspicious as hell based on landing stills that can be found on twitter. Thankfully he didn't win a medal

Due to lack of NH events during World Cup this one is always bound to throw a surprise. Lindvik basically did nothing all season and the Norwegian ski jumping has struggled with all the funding issues but here they are with old on home turf. One bronze is bad for Austria but I'm convinced they'll bounce back on LH

There are actually two Molls hehe. The twin sister jumped "only" 4.81 in the same event

Maximilian Ortner was chosen over veteran Michael Hayboeck for the last spot in the NH competition. will field 5 men since Piotr Żyła is the defending champion.

Vonn had a podium shot but one bad turn and over a second lost

Gut-Behrami with one line error/gamble that she corrected in the next three turns and only 0.06 behind Brignone. A let off...

Many mistakes in the women's Super G in Kvitfjell. Only 3 of the first nine skiers didn't make a big error or DNF outright. Goggia with a shaky run but only 0.09 behind Brignone.

Amanda Moll with a new NCAA pole vault record in Indianapolis (4.91). That's 8th best all-time and ties Stefanidi & Kennedy's PB

in 7th place after the 1st round of the women's NH team competition only managed to beat but we fielded a nordic combined girl just to have a team and she jumped whooping 57.5 meters

Nika Prevc wins the NH gold so no real surprise here

Justyna Święty-Ersetic beat Natalia Kaczmarek in the 400m Polish nationals final alas Natalia had a pause this month due to a hamstring injury and she generally dislikes running indoors. It's debatable if she competes at IEC.

That's World Cup win #100 for Shiffrin! Obviously it was only a matter of time and she managed to accomplish this before her 30th birthday next month.

Helena Oeberg promptly finished 30th and last. Probably the only race in history where siblings finished 1st and last

Elvira breaks her personal WCh curse to take gold! Michelon & Kirkeeide for the minor medals. Richard 4th and Tdorova with a great 5th place.

Elvira Oeberg holds her nerve on the last shoot!

even lost to but nobody expected miracles. TVP Sport crew said their view at the range was obscured by a giant flag

Kamil Stoch wasn't selected for the upcoming Nordic Skiing World Championships in Trondheim

Yes, winning ATP title at age 18 is extremely rare to say the very least so it will be very interesting where he goes from here

Another gold for as Loic Meillard wins the slalom ahead of McGrath & Strasser. Noel went out from the lead after 1st run but he was losing time to Meillard anyway so would have been second or third at best IMO.

Marco Schwarz lasted 8 seconds

Vinatzer all over the place since gate five and dead last

Noel & Meillard with some daylight ahead of the rest in run one. Jakobsen lasted 15 seconds as the first DNF.

Since Sara 'Tortellini' Errani was mentioned in the doping thread might as well say she & Paolini won the Doha doubles title on MP #7 after an underhand serve was returned long. No wonder the returner collapsed on her knees after that one...

Lindvik showed up for some good result again?