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Coming back from torn ACL Jaqueline Cristian has gone down to ITF level after some bad losses in WTA and today she won the Trnava 60K tournamenent 7-6 7-6 in the final over Oceane Dodin. Earlier this weeks Cristian saved 7 match points vs Clara Tauson in R2

Two 250 finals on Sunday:

Monterrey (Mexico)

Caroline Garcia vs Donna Vekic

Austin, Texas

Marta Kostyuk vs Varvara Gracheva

The second one could be high drama given Kostyuk's vocal stance against Russian players, probably only a raquet tap here and no handshake. Both going for their first WTA title which adds more fuel...

Ceccarelli wins it! Jacobs 2nd. Prescod was left in the blocks like nuts...

Tugba Danismaz wins women's TJ with 14.31.

Dovile Kilty is definitely the better looking half of the family

Predictable women's 400 podium, Bol wins ahead of Klaver and Kielbasinska.

Warholm wins 400 but Watrin 45.44 NR and almost got him at the line...

wins team event! silver and bronze.

beats by 1.4 pts to finish 4th but I can almost hear the media moaning about this result

Muir wins 1500, Bobocea held on to silver after leading the pack for 1200 meters and Ennaoui gets bronze!

Last round of men's team event to go. Slovenia leads by 10 points. Austria & Norway in battle for silver. Poland 17 points off the podium...

Gajanova 2:01.70 NR in 800 SF but 6th place.

Hammer time for Leerdam. Over a second faster than de Jong!

De Jong takes the lead as Takagi run out of gas in the final straight. Last pair to go...

I see naturalised some Dutch guy? And he beats Kjeld Nuis?

Leerdam in the last pair with Goetz. I guess that was planned.

Karolina Bosiek in pair with Brittany Bowe. Top 12 is maybe possible?

Shoutout to Masako Ishida in 12th at the age of 42

Kajsa Vickhoff Lie wins the downhill in Kvitfjell.

24 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I do agree a trip to North America should be either the first or last part of the season, both are fine of course, but the 'Aspen is a snob ski resort so I don't like it anyway' is entirely irrelevant to that discussion of course  

 

Lake Louise being killed off is a crime by itself.

I would have blasted the idea of US races in March even if it wasn't in Aspen, this makes no sense whatsoever. Same thing that happens in biathlon when those Soldier Hollow/Canmore races have second-rate field or Sapporo in ski jumping (this season joined by Lake Placid). It's not because athletes dislike the venue, it's because it's bang in the middle of the season and adds unneccesary travel.

5 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

It is called the “world cup,” no?

So I said put North American races in the first week of December, don't throw them in March and expand the carbon footprint by flying across the Atlantic back & forth. I'm shocked the usual eco lobbyists haven't blasted that idea yet? I assume you don't like Lake Louise on the World Cup and justify it getting kicked out so we can get Aspen in March instead. Women's calendar is basically ideal, Are/Kvitfjell before Soldeu but the men's is total nonsense. This ain't the 80s when we had World Cup in Japan in March. That is no longer sustainable by modern business.

3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Not like St Moritz or Davos or Chamonix are not luxury ski resorts for snobs, and those aren't reasons not to have World Cup events in winter sports there. In other words: not really a relevant thing, yesterday was more of an unfortunate thing than anything else - and still better than what we've seen in all of Central Europe this season in terms of having some white snakey thing through the otherwise green landscapes.

Yeah, but those places are in relative close proximity while you're asking athletes to travel to USA in the first week of March when most of them are tired physically and mentally at this stage of the season and then they have to to go back for World Cup finals to Europe again. From a logistics point of view it makes no sense whatsoever. Staging North American races in the first half of December makes all the sense but you tell me why Lake Louise needs to be killed off which creates a bad hole in the calendar if the Zermatt races keep getting cancelled because of lack of snow. Are and Kvitfjell have enough northern latitude they can fill the March dates each season, nobody is asking for Central Europe to host World Cup in March.

Simon Ehammer 3x NM in heptathlon long jump

Aspen is a luxury ski resorts for snobs tbh. Whomever thought getting it back to World Cup in March is insane. But yeah, they are cutting off Lake Louise in December so they desperately want to shift North American section somehwere. This proved to be a total disaster this season...

Might as well stick to Are or Soldeu for March events. Kvitfjell is a natural for years given it's northern location.

Kambundji wins with ease 7.00 CR. Silver for Swoboda. Neita bronze.

Sułek crying on Polish TV... not all super happy with silver