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The second run will be curious given the course shape. Any of the Top 4 can still win gold tbh. Worley would need a huge charge in 5th.

Vlhova lost 0,5 seconds on mistakes. Shiffrin very passive too.

23 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

at the moment he's playing in the new Spring league (AAF) that started last week...

He's not playing in the AAF

Kyler Murray has announced he wants to be a NFL QB after all. Wonder what numbers he puts at the combine where he finally gets measured too (5'9" here we go).

Woman kicker Kareem Hunt has been signed by the Browns (by his old Chiefs GM Dorsey). He still hasn't been suspended but that's to be expected.

Nobody trains to be a good all-arounder anymore. People train to be elite in one event and they usually combine two to a very good degree and still only the best can be very good in three events (not anyone outside Shiffrin these days). All these short DHs give extra edge to technical skiers already who also profit from a much better shape of the slalom course anyway. Reversing Top 15 for the combined slalom would be the only way to cure this IMO but that hasn't happened.

12 minutes ago, szy123 said:

Hadalin is a talented guy. It was not only luck. He won gold in combined at 2016 junior WCh and silver a year before. I think there's bright future for him.

Jessica Depauli beat Shiffrin at the Junior Worlds too. These junior results subject to a massive scrutiny

Yep, once again 30th in the DH strikes jackpot. If he was 31st all his talent would be meaningless

Paris at leats went for it.... worst event of these champs by a country mile and good riddance Hadalin probably can't believe his luck

Caviezel had a podium chance but blew it at the bottom...

DH guys won't survive the bottom part. Just kill this event right now...

Schwarz even slower than Hadalin...

Pinturault only 0,24 ahead of Hadalin. No way this is good enough for gold...

@Olympian1010 Okay, since talking Iron Mountain in a biathlon thread makes no sense, I checked back and it turns out they held the Continental Cup there this weekend. The World Cup is set to return on 22nd/23rd February 2020.

Since the US nordic combined went downhill over the last decade I thought these hills are gonna die like Thunder Bay in Canada? Steamboat Springs is probably still running and I wonder about the Lake Placid Olympic complex? I saw some Continental Cup in Iron Mountain ca. 3-4 years ago but that seemed very odd. World Cup hardly travels outside Europe other than Japan and the second tier goes to USA?

Well, the alpine skiing rounds are held there before the actual European part starts. It's good that any biathlon competition is held in America even though that's like once every 5 seasons. However ski jumping World Cup is scheduled to return to Iron Mountain in two years time? I thought they demolished that hill ages ago?

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I'm so sick of the ton of (mostly Russian) people spurting their bullcrap on Twitter about how we should never again have these 'rotten overseas stages' because there's some cold trouble now.

Or the even worse reason I've seen: it's not convenient for European fans because of timezones  

 

Like you're even a real fan if you don't watch at 20:00 because you have to drink with your friends or whatever  

Yeah, Khanty-Mansiysk was usually the coldest venue in first place (sometimes Kontiolahti) and between them & Tyumen it's a rotten location in the middle of Siberian freeze too. Talk about pot calling kettle black...

All speed events shortened. This first week would have been all but forgotten save for Svindal & Vonn bowing out with medals. And now it's Shiffrin & Hirscher showtime coming up next

I just hope this medal doesn't change Vonn's mind again...

How many of them attended X Games though? Is this a case of Grand Slam vs Olympic gold in tennis? Plus several athletes usually take the post-Olympic season off or X Games actually still rule in this sport?

Polish media are milking Maliszewska's success and it's almost forgotten her older sister was projected to be a star in first place until a broken leg hijacked her career. Meanwhile Natalia was kicked off the national team in 2016 and stayed in the sport due to devoted people in her club over in Bialystok. Such BS is only possible in Polish sports

Bowe's winning margin is really impressive!

Zbigniew Brodka hints this could be his last international race. He didn't get a special bye from the State Fire Service this season and this probably won't change going forward so he doesn't see how he can continue being an elite skater anymore.

Dwain Chambers DQ in the 60m SF at National Indoors so his bid for Indoor Worlds is over.

7 hours ago, phelps said:

it took 4 starts, but finally they got away correctly...and Valcepina won her 2nd consevutive race over the 500m in the World Cup...and this time she did it at home, so...double satisfaction for her...

And Maliszewska clinches the 500m standings with 1 race to go. Now that Kowalczyk has retired from World Cup, Maliszewska gets the most coverage from winter sports' women - even more than the biathletes

Some justice for Sildaru after the slopestyle cancellation!

Germany didn't win any medals so obviously the level was trash

This event didn't get past the OlympicsFan approval rating

Due to Kinga Zbylut's illness the Poland women's relay will be a DNS.