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Hanna Oeberg with the fastest 2nd leg. Poland in 18th, 22 seconds behind Lithuania... we could be lapped given our men's struggles.

Herrmann & Innerhofer on the penalty loop.

Sure enough, Tomasz Sikora wasted no time in telling the audience about the Italian girls beef. He also suggests the handover will be "interesting"

Julia Simon one penalty loop, Kinga Zbylut two loops. We're out of Top 10 contention after the 1st shooting

Let's face it, if this car flips and hits the top of the wall like Greg Moore at Fontana 21 years ago the aeroscreen will be rendered useless

Thomas Dressen wins in Saalbach. Old school downhill track with zero technical sections and everyone gets bounced around on the bumps. Mauro Caviezel made one huge error on the bottom that cost him the win. Beat Feuz clinches the DH small globe with two races remaining.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Mixed Relay 2x6km + 2.7.5km Day 1 February 13th, 2020 Austria Czech Republic France x Germany Italy x Norway x Russia Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United States Any Other Nation Women's 7.5km Sprint Day 2 February 14th, 2020 Marketa Davidova Julia Simon Denise Herrmann Any other German Athlete Dorothea Wierer x Lisa Vittozzi Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Marte Olsbu Roeiseland x Tiril Eckhoff x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Any Polish Athlete Sverlana Mironova Paulina Fialkova Hanna Oeberg Any Other Swedish Athlete Any Other Athlete Men's 10km Sprint Day 3 February 15th, 2020 Julian Eberhard Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade x Quentin Fillon Maillet x Any Other French Athlete Benedikt Doll Johannes Kühn Any Other German Athlete Lukas Hofer Johannes Thingnes Boe x Tarjei Boe Any Other Norwegian Athlete Alexander Loginov Matvey Eliseev Any Other Athlete Women's 10km Pursuit Day 4 February 16th, 2020 Iryna Kryuko Kaisa Makarainen Justine Braisaz x Denise Herrmann x Franziska Preuss Dorothea Wierer Lisa Vittozzi Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Tiril Eckhoff x Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Any Other Norwegian Athlete Monika Hojnisz-Staręga Paulina Fialkova Hanna Oeberg Any Other Swedish Athlete Lena Häcki Any Other Athlete Men's 12.5km Pursuit Day 4 February 16th, 2020 Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade Quentin Fillon Maillet x Any Other French Athlete Benedikt Doll Johannes Kühn Any Other German Athlete Johannes Thingnes Boe x Tarjei Boe Any Other Norwegian Athlete Alexander Loginov x Matvey Eliseev Any Other Athlete Women's 15km Individual Day 5 February 18th, 2020 Julia Simon Justine Braisaz Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss Dorothea Wierer Lisa Vittozzi Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Tiril Eckhoff x Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Monika Hojnisz-Staręga x Larisa Kuklina Paulina Fialkova Hanna Oeberg x Any Other Swedish Athlete Yuliia Dzhima Any Other Athlete Men's 20km Individual Day 6 February 19th, 2020 Simon Eder Simon Desthieux x Martin Fourcade x Quentin Fillon Maillet Any Other French Athlete Benedikt Doll Any Other German Athlete Johannes Thingnes Boe x Tarjei Boe Any Other Norwegian Athlete Alexander Loginov Any Other Russian Athlete Benjamin Weger Any Other Athlete Mixed Single Relay 6km + 7.5km Day 7 February 20th, 2020 Austria Czech Republic Estonia France x Germany x Italy Norway x Russia Sweden Switzerland Ukraine United States Any Other Nation Women's 4x6km Relay Day 8 February 22th, 2020 Austria Belarus Czech Republic France x Germany Italy Norway x Poland Russia Slovakia Sweden x Switzerland Ukraine Any Other Nation Men's 4x7.5km Relay Day 8 February 22th, 2020 Austria Belarus Czech Republic France x Germany x Italy Norway x Russia Slovenia Sweden Switzerland Ukraine Any Other Nation Women's 12.5km Mass Start Day 9 February 23th, 2020 Iryna Kryuko Marketa Davidova Kaisa Makarainen Julia Simon Denise Herrmann Any Other German Athlete Dorothea Wierer x Lisa Vittozzi Marte Olsbu Roeiseland x Tiril Eckhoff x Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Any Other Norwegian Athlete Any Polish Athlete Paulina Fialkova Hanna Oeberg Any Other Swedish Athlete Any Other Athlete Men's 15km Mass Start Day 9 February 23th, 2020 Julian Eberhard Simon Eder Simon Desthieux Martin Fourcade x Quentin Fillon Maillet x Any Other French Athlete Benedikt Doll x Arnd Peiffer Any Other German Athlete Johannes Thingnes Boe Tarjei Boe Any Other Norwegian Athlete Alexander Loginov Any Other Russian Athlete Any Other Athlete [/hide]

Gewiss-Ballan? That's from cycling? I have no idea what are you talking about since I don't follow cycyling that much.

I didn't say that. I just made a comparison between FGJ & Arron you obviously disagree with. Whatever

I was watching live on TV when Christine Arron won the 1998 European Championships in 10,73 and even then it was already said this is the real women's WR

Polish mixed relay squad for tomorrow is Zbylut-Zuk-Guzik-Szczurek. We never used this particular line-up before Anterselva is of course the place where won it's only World Championship gold medal back in 1995 when a 21-year old student Tomasz Sikora won the individual event beating Jon Age Tyldum and Oleg Ryzhenkov. Tyldum went on to win the overall World Cup that season but was quickly overtaken by O.E. Bjoerndalen as Norway's team leader and retired at the age of 30 which I never really understood. Ryzhenkov and Vladimir Dratchev had easily the fastest ski speed on the day and would have won gold even with one miss. They missed 2 & 3 times respectively.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Doubles' Sprint Luge Day 1 February 14th, 2020 Tristan Walker/Justin Snith Toni Eggert/Sascha Benecken Robin Geueke/David Gamm Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt x Any Athletes from Italy Oskars Gudramovics/Peteris Kalnins Andris Sics/Juris Sics x Wojciech Chmielewski/Jakub Kowalewski Aleksandr Denisev/Vladislav Antonov x Vladislav Yuzhakov/Iurii Prokhorov Any Other Doubles Women's Sprint Luge Day 1 February 14th, 2020 Madeleine Egle Anna Berreiter Julia Taubitz x Andrea Voetter Any Athlete from Latvia Viktoriia Demchenko x Tatyana Ivanova x Ekaterina Katnikova Summer Britcher Emily Sweeney Any Other Athlete Men's Sprint Luge Day 1 February 14th, 2020 David Gleirscher x Wolfgang Kindl Jonas Mueller Felix Loch Johannes Ludwig Dominik Fischnaller Inars Kivlenieks Semen Pavlichenko x Roman Repilov x Tucker West Any Other Athlete Doubles Luge Day 2 February 15th, 2020 Tristan Walker/Justin Snith Toni Eggert/Sascha Benecken x Robin Geueke/David Gamm Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt Any Athletes from Italy Oskars Gudramovics/Peteris Kalnins Andris Sics/Juris Sics x Wojciech Chmielewski/Jakub Kowalewski Aleksandr Denisev/Vladislav Antonov x Vladislav Yuzhakov/Iurii Prokhorov Any Other Doubles Women's Singles Luge Day 2 February 15th, 2020 Madeleine Egle Anna Berreiter Julia Taubitz x Andrea Voetter Any Athlete from Latvia Viktoriia Demchenko x Tatyana Ivanova x Ekaterina Katnikova Summer Britcher Emily Sweeney Any Other Athlete Men's Singles Luge Day 3 February 16th, 2020 David Gleirscher Wolfgang Kindl Jonas Mueller Felix Loch Johannes Ludwig x Dominik Fischnaller Inars Kivlenieks Semen Pavlichenko x Roman Repilov x Tucker West Any Other Athlete Team Relay Luge Day 3 February 16th, 2020 Austria Canada Germany x Italy Latvia x Poland Russia x Slovakia United States Any Other Nation 2-Women Bobsleigh Day 4 February 22nd, 2020 An Vannieuwenhuyse Christine de Bruin Mariama Jamanka x Laura Nolte Stephanie Schneider x Mica McNeill Andreea Grecu Nadezhda Sergeeva Martina Fontanive Kaillie Humphries x Any Other Athlete 2-Men Bobsleigh Day 5 February 23rd, 2020 Justin Kripps x Romain Heinrich Francesco Friedrich x Richard Oelsner Nico Walther Brad Hall Oskars Kibermanis x Rudy Rinaldi Alexey Stulnev Michael Vogt Hunter Church Any Other Athlete Men's Skeleton Day 6 February 28th, 2020 Nathan Crumpton Any Athlete from China Alexander Gassner Axel Jungk Felix Keisinger Any Athlete from Great Britain Martins Dukurs x Tomass Dukurs Nikita Tregubov Alexander Tretiakov x Yun Sung-Bin x Any Other Athlete Women's Skeleton Day 7 February 29th, 2020 Janine Flock x Kim Meylemans Jane Channell Mirela Rahneva Anna Fernstaedtova Sophia Griebel Tina Hermann x Jacqueline Loelling x Elena Nikitina Marina Gilardoni Megan Henry Any Other Athlete 4-Men Bobsleigh Day 8 March 1st, 2020 Benjamin Maier Justin Kripps x Dominik Dvorak Francesco Friedrich x Johannes Lochner x Nico Walther Oskars Kibermanis Any Athlete from Russia Won Yun-Jong Michael Vogt Hunter Church Any Other Team Mixed Team Event Day 8 March 1st, 2020 Austria Canada x China Germany x Any Mixed-NOC Team Russia x United States Any Other Nation [/hide]

The name itself suggests it's a nationalistic party Hell, it's the Mother of all Irish Independence parties. The other two were basically formed by renegades from Sinn Fein.

Deffo not Gladiator. I feel like he was too young for that kind of role back then. 'Joker' for him reminds me of how Michael Keaton suddenly rose from the dead with 'Birdman'. It's a revival but for many of these 50 year olds I feel like their best acting was like 20 years ago. I'm a cinema noir fan going all the way back to Orson Welles' 'Third Man' I saw when I was a kid (obviously not in the 1940s ). L.A. Confidential remains the best of the modern movies from that genre. Joaquin Phoenix would be a better fit for Chris Hemsworth's role in 'Bad Times at El Royale' IMO.

I get a feeling Oscars are going to the mainstream actors for a while now. I remember back in the 90s there was always at least one winner whom I didn't know who that is. Now it's mainstream like hell. Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Renee Zellweger & Laura Dern is total rich are getting richer kind of stuff. Laura Dern was off the wall after Blue Velvet and Wild at Heart 30 years ago but man, even that kind of cinema noir is gone. Dare I say this very much changed after Di Caprio started to whore up his quest for Oscars. I'm really old school but 'Clay Pigeons' remains the best movie for Joaquin Phoenix & Vince Vaughn who has gone all mainstream few years ago too. "My name ain't Cowboy!"

1. Biathlon 2. Alpine Skiing 3. Ice Hockey 4. Short Track 5. Ski Jumping

Ofterschwang is basically a month away. I suppose she will return to action there.

Back with tennis, Beatriz Haddad Maia who got busted for ostarine & ligandrol has been given a 10 month ban backdated to 22 July 2019 (the day when she was originally suspended). So she can return on 22 May 2020

Polish judokas have underperformed greatly over the past 5 Olympics. Zagrodnik got screwed in London outright but other than that Krawczyk was what, 8 seconds from the final in Athens before a complete brain freeze and Katarzyna Kłys could never find her mojo when it really mattered. I never had much faith in Wilkomirski to begin with but it has to be said judo is probably the biggest Polish disappointement among Olympic sports in the XXI century (along with boxing but everyone wants to go pro there so the expectations are much lower).

Speaking of talents, what's the deal with Frida Karlsson's medical absence?

First podium ever for Lara Malsiner! Italian ski jumping has some life!

It's called tibial plateau in English Among others Vonn & Fenninger have had this injury as addition to ACL tear.

Left knee? She sat on it with full weight of her body before crashing out.

Thank God for John Murray

Ah, the legendary Krakow - Kosice bus trip worth 5 euros is ON???