Monzanator

The South American Women's Under-17 Championship is underway here in Uruguay.
 
I attended the Uruguay vs Chile match, here's my photos.

Some idiot cuffed himself to the goal post during Everton vs Newcastle
 
Hardware in use...
 

 

Singapore bidding for WCH? Another destination for these Kenyan & Ethiopian middle-distance runners to acquire new citizenship?

In 1995 they were jumping next to World Trade Center
 

 

Women's SF in Indian Wells are set:
 
Halep vs Swiatek and Badosa vs Sakkari

Some idiot cuffed himself to the goal post during Everton vs Newcastle
 
Hardware in use...
 

 

Sadly WA aka IAAF treated the field events like a pariah for years. They finally found an official excuse to disregard those events even more now.

Polish National Championships began in Duszniki-Zdroj yesterday.
 
Individiual Top 3 (45 secs penalty)
Women: 1. Kamila Cichon, 2. Monika Hojnisz-Starega, 3. Anna Maka
 
Men: 1. Wojciech Filip, 2. Jan Gunka, 3. Grzegorz Guzik.
 
Sprint races from today:
 

 

 

From what I know they have different personalities and they've never been very close, but the main reasons why they are not friends are:
 - in 2014 when Halep played her first GS final against Sharapova, Cirstea did not sent a goodluck message to Halep because "I'm not in Romania", according to Cirstea's explanations at that time
 - in 2017, after Halep lost her 2nd GS Final against Ostapenko, Cirstea became one of the best friends of Ostapenko
 - also in 2017 when Halep became no. 1 WTA, Cirstea did not congratulate Halep. Reason? "I was too busy, my schedule is too busy and I did not have time for this"

 
Sure, all these reasons are hilarious but it's obvious that Cirstea is somehow jealous for Halep achievement.
 
Anyway I like both of them and I'm proud of them for what they doing for Romania (they are 2 of the few Romanians who represent Romania at high level in sport). The big advantage of this match is that we have a player in next round

Simon Desthieux (Biathlon, ) 

Sadly WA aka IAAF treated the field events like a pariah for years. They finally found an official excuse to disregard those events even more now.

Spela Rogelj (ski jumping)

Tomorrow  Halep - Cirstea in Indian Wells. Can't wait to see this

Btw.  Anna Kiełbasińska just posted on her instagram news that she isn't going to Belgrade due to positive covid test  

Team POLAND
 
 
Women
 
60 m
 
Pia Skrzyszowska (KS AZS AWF Warszawa)
Ewa Swoboda (AZS AWF Katowice)
 
400 m, 4x400 m
 
Natalia Kaczmarek (KS AZS AWF Wrocław)
Anna Kiełbasińska (SKLA Sopot)
Justyna Święty-Ersetic (AZS AWF Katowice)
 
800 m
 
Angelika Cichocka (SKLA Sopot)
 
60 m hurdles
 
Klaudia Wojtunik (AZS Łódź)
 
Pentathlon
 
Adrianna Sułek (AZS UMCS Lublin)
 
4x400 m
 
Iga Baumgart-Witan (BKS Bydgoszcz)
Kinga Gacka (BKS Bydgoszcz)
Aleksandra Gaworska (AZS AWF Kraków)
 
Men
 
60 m
 
Adrian Brzeziński (MKL Toruń)
Przemysław Słowikowski (MKL Szczecin)
 
400 m, 4x400 m
 
Kajetan Duszyński (AZS Łódź)
 
1500 m
 
Michał Rozmys (UKS Barnim Goleniów)
 
60 m hurdles
 
Damian Czykier (KS Podlasie Białystok)
Jakub Szymański (SKLA Sopot)
 
Shot Put
 
Konrad Bukowiecki (AZS UWM Olsztyn)
Michał Haratyk (KS Sprint Bielsko-Biała)
 
High Jump
 
Norbert Kobielski (MKS Inowrocław)
 
4x400 m
 
Patryk Grzegorzewicz (MKS-SMS Vitoria Racibórz)
Maksymilian Klepacki (KS Podlasie Białystok)
Jacek Majewski (AZS AWF Katowice)
Mateusz Rzeźniczak (RKS Łódź)
Tymoteusz Zimny (OŚ AZS Poznań)
 
 
Adam Kszczot will be absent after all following another U-turn over the second vaccine jab. He claims he's feeling weak after the jab and decided to miss the IWC and end his career right there.

And that was the last time we saw Magdalena Gwizdon in World Cup
 
Here are the results from her first ever WC start in December 1995:
 
https://www.biathlon.com.ua/en/results/id-2646-ostersund-1995-1996-sprint-7.5-km-zhenshtini
 
Today's winner Julia Simon wasn't even born yet when Gwizdon made her debut.
 
 

And that was the last time we saw Magdalena Gwizdon in World Cup
 
Here are the results from her first ever WC start in December 1995:
 
https://www.biathlon.com.ua/en/results/id-2646-ostersund-1995-1996-sprint-7.5-km-zhenshtini
 
Today's winner Julia Simon wasn't even born yet when Gwizdon made her debut.
 
 

And that was the last time we saw Magdalena Gwizdon in World Cup
 
Here are the results from her first ever WC start in December 1995:
 
https://www.biathlon.com.ua/en/results/id-2646-ostersund-1995-1996-sprint-7.5-km-zhenshtini
 
Today's winner Julia Simon wasn't even born yet when Gwizdon made her debut.
 
 

Home advantage worked out for Vytautas Strolia, with 0+0, looking like another possible top 10 performance 

Sportsnet´s NHL Draft Prospect March version looks incredibly from view, I fear this is too nice to be true
 
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/sportsnets-2022-nhl-draft-prospect-rankings-march-edition/
 
3 Slovaks in the 1st round, Slaf in 2nd place and Šimon Nemec in top 5...yeah, where can I sign ?

Daiki Ito (ski jumping) will retire at the end of the season.

@Monzanator Sorry, for some reason I thought she had both but now I double checked and saw that she only has the indoor NR for Poland 
 
And I'm sure Belibasaki does have fond memories. She often posts about it on Instagram. It's too bad that she only really had one season as a 400m runner, but it's better than nothing. I remember watching her race with my uncle who died a few months later...
 
It was a really important Championships for Greece at a time when our country was destroyed by fires. We won 6 medals in Berlin (three of them gold), which was by far the most we had won in many many years. And the Greek 1-2 in the women's pole vault was also very special and memorable 
 
However I think the biggest surprise was Tsiamis bronze in the men's triple jump, after many years of disappointments he finally won his first medal when we least expected it, at age 36! (He is retiring later this year so I'll post about him when the time comes )

@Makedonas Polish 400m NR is still Irena Szewinska's old WR from Montreal OG
 
I hope Belibasaki still has fond memories from that EC, that was a truly unexpected medal for Greece