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Horvat wins 800m Heat 2. Gajanova in 2nd place and makes the SF @hckošice

Stylish entourage in the men's shot put

De Smet out in the final heat

1-2-3-4 again. Yawn.

Doherty 18th @RobtheAggie and Zakhna 19th with some noticeable results.

PB for Kresimir Crnkovic in 31st.

Tomasz Jakieła 2/10 and last place. That truly takes the cake

Borkowski wins the second heat. Ordonez out.

Men's 800m heats have started...

Stvrtecky 5/10... so much for home advantage. Jakieła missed all five in the prone

Rene Zakhna 10/10 and could get some points...

JTB 10/10 and this one is over...

TV time for Michal Sima at the start  @hckošice

Men's sprint in Nove Mesto has started. JTB with bib #2 so it could be settled early again

@hckošiceApparently Martin Mesik wants to kick out the ski jumping fed boss over not selecting any Slovakians for the Planica WCh and lying about consulting with him about it. Mesik will inquiry with the Ministry of Sport

https://www.skijumping.pl/wiadomosci/33272/klamstwa-i-zgrzyty-mistrzostwa-w-planicy-bez-slowakow/

Yes, as NearPup points out, Whistler is basically only for elite jumpers with two hills K-95 and K-125. Those are not hills for pre-high school teenagers, beginners, semi-pro or whatever you call it.

For comparison the 'Middle Krokiew' complex in Zakopane has five hills (K-95, K-64, K-37, K-23 and K-15). K-64 is for 15-16 year olds, K-37 is more for 13-14 year olds and the last two are for little kids. Poland has four K-64-ish hills and twelve K-37-ish hills in operation right now.

Another disaster for the home nation Nika Prevc finished dead last but I reckon she was affected after her brother's fall earlier...

Just Fontaine - still the single World Cup goal scoring record holder (13 goals in 1958) - passed away at the age of 89.

3 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

By God Watson, Canada can fly!   First ever medal at WC, men or women. Imagine, that random Olympic medal being the turning point for these and upcoming successes.  

Men's side is a little random since only Boyd-Clowes keeps soldiering on a reasonable level but there's nothing random about Loutitt and Strate. And they had Taylor Heinrich before who sadly was totally on her own in the early 2010s and I believe she had to find a real-time job sooner rather than later.

@NearPup Yes, Polish coach Kazimierz Bafia is involved in training Canadian kids & teenagers for decades now, he has coached basically every Canadian ski jumper at some point due to lack of domestic resources and one might argue without him there would be zero Canadian ski jumpers even at FIS Cup level right now. Ski jumping is like track cycling, you have to have facilities to be any good and live nearby them as well. Or move into another country like Canadians do living in Slovenia...

Best result for ski jumping in years, I always cheer for Westman and Canada to shake up the order, I picked Loutitt for bronze on NH IIRC, I didn't expect she could win gold here against the Althaus/Pinkelnig might but she wins LH gold by over 10 points

She's DOOOOONEEEEE ITTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Alexandria Loutitt is World Champion!!!

Lundby prevents the gold sweep for Althaus! Only Loutitt to go...

It's been a gate dancing farse again, let's see if Loutitt embraces mentally this position as she will be the last to jump. Hopefully she does

Alexandria Loutitt 134.5 from lower gate than Lundby and they share the lead...

Maren Lundby 139.5 from a lower gate in Round 1. Hand down on snow but the Slovenian judge of all didn't see it and gave 16,5 pts

Gavin Lux has torn ACL running to third base yesterday and is out for the season. So much for his big chance at SS for Dodgers...