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Calendar for 2022/23 season is out. They rejected all the new ideas after all, parallels are almost gone and no combined of any sort.
 
Big change is the addition of North American rounds after the World Championships for men as women will race in Kvitfjell instead.
 
Maribor is out like previously reported.
 
https://www.fis-ski.com/en/international-ski-federation/news-multimedia/news-2022/decisions-of-the-53rd-international-ski-congress
 
@hckošiceSki Association of Slovakia is the new name of Slovakia Ski Association
 
 
Women

22.10 Sölden GS
05.11 Zermatt-Cervinia DH
06.11 Zermatt-Cervinia DH
12.11 Lech/Zuers PAR Night event
19.11 Levi SL
20.11 Levi SL
26.11 Killington GS
27.11 Killington SL
02.12 Lake Louise DH
03.12 Lake Louise DH
04.12 Lake Louise SG
10.12 Sestriere GS
11.12 Sestriere SL
16.12 St. Moritz DH
17.12 St. Moritz DH
18.12 St. Moritz SG
28.12 Semmering GS
29.12 Semmering SL
04.01 Zagreb SL Night event
05.01 Zagreb SL Night event
07.01 Kranjska Gora GS
08.01 Kranjska Gora GS
10.01 Flachau SL Night event
14.01 St. Anton DH
15.01 St. Anton SG
20.01 Cortina d’Ampezzo SG
21.01 Cortina d’Ampezzo DH
22.01 Cortina d’Ampezzo SG
24.01 Kronplatz GS
28.01 Spindleruv Mlyn GS
29.01 Spindleruv Mlyn SL

06-19.02 WSC Courchevel Méribel

25.02 Crans Montana DH
26.02 Crans Montana SG
04.03 Kvitfjell DH
05.03 Kvitfjell SG
10.03 Åre DH
11.03 Åre SG

13-19.03 Soldeu Finals

Men

23.10 Sölden GS
29.10 Zermatt-Cervinia DH
30.10 Zermatt-Cervinia DH
13.11 Lech/Zuers PAR Night event
26.11 Lake Louise DH
27.11 Lake Louise SG
02.12 Beaver Creek SH
03.12 Beaver Creek SG
04.12 Beaver Creek SG
10.12 Val d’Isère GS
11.12 Val d’Isère SL
16.12 Val Gardena SG
17.12 Val Gardena SH
18.12 Alta Badia GS
19.12 Alta Badia GS
22.12 Madonna di Camp. SL Night Event
28.12 Bormio DH
29.12 Bormio SG
04.01 Garmisch-Partenkirchen SL Night Event
07.01 Adelboden GS
08.01 Adelboden SL
13.01 Wengen SG
14.01 Wengen DH
15.01 Wengen SL
20.01 Kitzbühel DH
21.01 Kitzbühel DH
22.01 Kitzbühel SL
24.01 Schladming SL Night Event
28.01 Garmisch-Partenkirchen DH
29.01 Garmisch-Partenkirchen GS
04.02 Chamonix SL

06-19.02 WSC Courchevel Méribel

25.02 Palisades Tahoe GS
26.02 Palisades Tahoe SL
03.03 Aspen SG
04.03 Aspen DH
05.03 Aspen DH
11.03 Kranjska Gora GS
12.03 Kranjska Gora GS

13-19.03 Soldeu Finals

Hah! And I wanted to wait until December until the new names updates

I tuned in with Slovakia up 1-0 and turned off at 5-0. Does it count?

Power Rankings
 
24th May 2022
 
Get ready to bite your fingernails! The quarter-finals are next, and the host Finns – who have allowed the tournament’s fewest goals by far – are sitting pretty in first place in our sixth Power Rankings of the 2022 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship. The unbeaten Swiss, coming off a hard-fought 4-3 shootout win over Germany, are second, while Sweden holds down third place.   1 FIN Fun fact: the word “Tampere” has “team” in it 2 SUI From the first shift, we’ll devalue their currency 3 SWE Kneel before Nylander! 4 GER When Plachta kneels, it makes highlight reels 5 CAN The “Workhorse from Whitehorse” is a stud 6 CZE Us: Lose to Finland. Slovakia: Hold my beer 7 USA Last won gold the year Larry King was born 8 SVK Which Nordic nation will we beat 7-1 next ? 9 DEN Duckly laid an egg 10 LAT Finland? In 2023...Team Latfinvia! You down? 11 AUT No more Sound of Music jokes now, ja? 12 FRA Canada made us dance to “Mambo No. 5” 13 NOR Bjorn Daehlie is not impressed 14 KAZ It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish 14th 15 ITA Two words: “Euro 2020” 16 GBR “I Am Sixteen, Going On Seventeen”   Click  12th May 15th May 17th May 19th May 22nd May to check out the previous editions of the Power Rankings.

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Obstacle course? My lord this is some bad shit. Guess the urban events are being sold as the new future. What a load of croc. Just kill this sport already. I have a feeling it will die within the next five years anyway. Rope swing? American Gladiators had more innovation 30 years ago than this shit.

Thomas Ulsrud, olympic silver medalist 2010 and world champion 2014 as skip for the norwegian curling team died at the age of 50.

Aliaksandra Sasnovich takes out Emma Raducanu in three sets in R2 so a bit of a payback for the Wimbledon ban

Aliaksandra Sasnovich takes out Emma Raducanu in three sets in R2 so a bit of a payback for the Wimbledon ban

Aliaksandra Sasnovich takes out Emma Raducanu in three sets in R2 so a bit of a payback for the Wimbledon ban

Jo-Willie Tsonga played his final match and had a very emotional ceremony afterwards. The French really did a good job in making this a proper send-off to one of their best in the new century. He has never been one, that i was fond of in his best years, but i have to admit the tribute video they showed got me a bit choked up. Almost all of that second tier of players that supplemented the Big 3 (or 4, if you'd like) for close to a decade are now retired. Nalbandian, Davydenko, Soderling in the beginning and then Tsonga, Berdych, Ferrer, Del Potro and Wawrinka in the second wave. Only one left is Stan the Man, but for how long.

Due to the World Cup in Qatar the new season will start on November 6th in Wisla and for the first time ever the competition will be held on plastic run-offs which is standard for the summer events. The season will close on April 2nd which makes it the longest ski jumping season ever. Pretty expendable in a sport where only 10 nations compete on a reasonable basis and some of them are semi-professional to say the very least.
 
Also Vladimir Zografski has moved to Poland full-time (his wife is Polish).

Complete meltdown of in the last 10 minutes
 
Relegated

@hckošiceSlovakian derby going into the third set. Kucova served to win in two but lost in TB. 2 hours & 20 minutes for two sets. Should be over three hours unless someone runs out of gas next.

Rebecca Sramkova enters the MD as lucky loser after Rebecca Peterson WD. Sramkova lost to Linda Noskova in the last round of quals otherwise. She will be a total outsider vs Darya Kasatkina tomorrow.

Yeah, pretty much this. She also has USO 4th round and Chicago 500 victory. She's pretty much had three good tournaments in the last 10 months

Power Rankings
 
22nd May 2022
 
The drama continues! With six consecutive wins, Switzerland parlays its perfect record into top spot in our fifth Power Rankings of the 2022 Worlds. Host Finland sits second after back-to-back shutouts against Great Britain and Austria. And the Swedes are in third place after hammering Norway.   1 SUI Ambuhl looks great for 121 2 FIN Olkinuora > Great Wall of China 3 SWE Norway shadowed Pettersson, not Peterson 4 CAN We lost the battle, but not the Spengler Cup 5 USA He is a Gaudette among men 6 GER When you allow four goals a game, you feel shame 7 CZE Living our best group stage life 8 DEN Blichfeld strokes his cat and plots world domination 9 SVK Goal-scorer: 17. Coach: 71. Hockey is life! 10 LAT Beating the Brits felt very empowering 11 FRA Fun fact: Jeanne Calment lived to 122 12 NOR The linesman didn’t use a distinct kicking motion! 13 AUT Mozart did not write Eine Kleine Quarter-Final 14 ITA Dante’s Inferno is about Division I 15 KAZ Sounds like a helluva poem 16 GBR If it’s not hurting, it’s not twerking   Click 12th May 15th May 17th May 19th May to check out the previous editions of the Power Rankings.

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Magda Linette takes out the in-form Ons Jabeur in the first round!

It's a complete travesty of the voting system. EBU openly claims they can rig the voting whichever way they want to if only some songs that were supposed to be unpopular receive too many votes from certain countries that can be deemed "illegal". What an absolute joke that is. I guess EBU really wanted Great Britain to win? Sorry, they have to rig the votes a little more next year

Six countries (Azerbaijan, Georgia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania & San Marino) had their jury votes annulled and EBU gave those points based on some mysterious voting patterns. Azerbaijan & Georgia jury wanted to give 12 points to Ukraine and EBU gave those 12 points to Great Britain I mean the voting is rigged by EBU and they are even gloating about it? How long until this nonsense continues?

Well, there were no 4th places in this tournament

And Gabrielė Stonkutė done it! She's the first Lithuanian world champion!

Stonkute upsets the Turkish favorite in the other semi-final
 
vs light heavyweight final. Party like it's 1569

Interesting how they can find TV time for women to race longer, while they can find no such thing for the interval races.

Power Rankings
 
17th May 2022
 
Talk about the True North strong and free. After thumping Slovakia 5-1 for a third straight win, the defending champion Canadians move into first place in our third edition of the Power Rankings. Host Finland is right behind them in second place, following a dominant victory over the Americans. Meanwhile, Sweden retains third place after demolishing Great Britain.   1 CAN Dubois uses his belly like an all-star 2 FIN Before games, we blast the old Nokia ringtone 3 SWE When we scored 13 seconds in, Sundin felt a nice tingle 4 SUI Like Colorado, but with better mountains 5 USA Minnesota: 5.7 million. Finland: 5.5 million 6 GER Pfoderl is pfreaking pfantastic! 7 DEN Bow down to Bau now 8 AUT Czech this out! That’s how ya get off the schneid! 9 LAT We ain’t no monarchy, but Elvis is the king 10 SVK Thou shalt not high-stick a fellow #44 11 FRA Camus said: “We gotta get pucks deep” 12 CZE Our pre-game meal lacked Pasta 13 NOR Why you Hoff to be mad? 14 GBR As a hockey nation, we’re good at making tea 15 ITA We didn’t fiddle, but Rome still burned 16 KAZ Can we play Canada in Hameenlinna? #1998WJChumor  
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Still the smoke & mirrors show? Just announce Salt Lake City and stop the "bidding" nonsense