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After one run in women’s doubles (luge), we have a clear favourite for gold. Surprise surprise …not , it’s Italy. Alexandra Overstolz/Katharine Koefler with a huge lead of almost half a second over the rest of the field (47.975). Marie Riedl/Nina Lerch are currently in second (48.535), with their sisters Lina Riedl/Anna Lerch currently in third (48.687). A bit further back in 4th, but not completely out of reach of the medals, are Sarah Pflaume/Lara Peterseim (48.802)

By the way, in case you’re wondering why Sandra Naeslund withdrew from her semifinal, she apparently got “a slap on her knee” during the heats, and chose to get it examined rather than competing in further races.

After a very disappointing 15th in moguls yesterday at the Val St. Come WC, Mik is back on the podium today in dual moguls, and it’s a gold!

Dual Moguls WC Val St. Come | Val St. Come, Quebec, Canada Men Gold- Mikael Kingsbury Silver- Filip Gravenfors Bronze- Matt Graham Women Gold- Jakara Anthony Silver- Jaelin Kauf Bronze- Olivia Giaccio Full Results

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After round one of men’s singles (luge), a tight gap between current leader Paul Socher (46.226), and current second ranked athlete Leon Hasselrieder (46.294) who are likely to be battling it out for gold and silver. Looks like it’s going to be a three horse race for bronze, Philipp Brunner is in prime position in 3rd (46.653) , with Edvards Markitans in 4th (46.809), and Johannes Scharnagl in 5th (46.815)

Ski Cross WC Nakiska | Nakiska, Alberta, Canada Men Gold- Reece Howden Silver- Terence Tchiknavorian Bronze- Alex Fiva Women Gold- Hannah Schmidt Silver- Marielle Thompson Bronze- Fanny Smith Full Results

“Big Rig” Reece Howden follows that up with another gold!

Ice Cross World Championships (WC) Winterleiten | Winterleiten, Austria Men Gold- Łukasz Korzestański Silver- Robin Worling Bronze- Mirko Lahti Women Gold- Veronika Windisch Silver- Justīne Zonne Bronze- Amandine Condroyer

Gold and silver for Hannah Schmidt and Marielle Thompson at the Nakiska ski cross WC!

Gold and silver for Hannah Schmidt and Marielle Thompson at the Nakiska WC Edit: And another gold for Reece Howden! After the first few heats with Canadians medal contenders dropping out like flies (might be over exaggerating), thought it was going to be “one of those days” but I guess I was proven wrong.

WTT Contender Doha | Doha, Qatar Men’s Singles Gold- Timo Boll (he just never ages, how is he still winning titles at 42 years old ) Silver- Tomokazu Harimoto Bronze- Lin Yun-Ju Bronze- Shunsuke Togami Women’s Singles Gold- Jeon Jihee Silver- Shin Yubin Bronze- Orawan Paranang Bronze- Dina Meshref Men’s Doubles Gold- Lee Sang-Su/Lim Jonghoon Silver- Lam Siu-Hang/Ho Hwang-Kit Bronze- Martin Allegro/Adrian Rassenfosse Bronze- Jang Woo-Jin/An Jaehyun Women’s Doubles Gold- Jeon Jihee/Shin Yubin Silver- Annette Kaufmann/Sabine Winter Bronze- Ayhika Mukherjee/Sutirtha Mukherjee Bronze- Suthasni Sawettabut/Orawan Paranang Mixed Doubles Gold- Wang Chuqin/Sun Yingsha Silver- Lin Gaoyuan/Wang Mangyu Bronze- Doo Hoi-Kem/Wong Chun-Ting Bronze- Shin Yubin/Lim Jonghoon Full Results

And another podium Abigail Strate and Alexandria Loutitt join forces to win silver in women’s super hill at the Zao WC!

Liam Brearley and Cam Spalding win gold and bronze in men’s slopestyle at the Laax WC! First career WC win for Brearley.

Halfpipe WC Laax | Laax, Switzerland Men Gold- Scotty James (94.00) Silver- Valentino Guseli (92.25) Bronze- Ruka Hirano (90.00) Women Gold- Mitsuki Ono (81.75) Silver- Bea Kim (77.50) Bronze- Ruki Tomika (60.50) Full Results

Slopestyle WC Laax | Laax, Switzerland Men Gold- Liam Brearley (89.93) Silver- Ryoma Kimata (85.31) Bronze- Cameron Spalding (83.90) Nice 4th for Francis Jobin as well, I believe it’s a career best WC result for him Women Gold- Julia Marino (83.08) Silver- Annika Morgan (80.75) Bronze- Anna Gasser (75.93) Full Results

Another bad day at a home-WC, with both Drury and Schmidt (overall WC leader) out in the men’s 1/8 finals in Nakiska

Women’s and Men’s VNL matches have been released: https://en.volleyballworld.com/volleyball/competitions/volleyball-nations-league/schedule/#fromDate=2024-05-13

Parallel Slalom WC Pamporovo | Pamporovo, Bulgaria Men Gold- Daniele Bagozza Silver- Edwin Coratti Bronze- Radoslav Yankov Women Gold- Ester Ledecka Silver- Ramona Hofmeister Bronze- Miki Tsubaki Full Results

Women’s and Men’s VNL matches have been released: https://en.volleyballworld.com/volleyball/competitions/volleyball-nations-league/schedule/#fromDate=2024-05-13

16-0 over after 5 ends of curling. Ouch. Really hope they can score at least one before the match ends.

wins their first medal, with Anthony Shelly grabbing silver in boy’s snowboard cross

Somewhat of a surprising result in girl’s snowboard cross, as Lea Casta (who’s a regular on the WC circuit) only wins bronze Noemie Wiedmer with Switzerland’s first gold (and overall) medal of the games.

Moguls WC Val St Come | Val St. Come, Quebec, Canada Men Gold- Walter Wallbert (84.92) Silver- Elliot Vaillancourt (82.37) Bronze- Filip Gravenfors (77.70) Women Gold- Jakara Anthony (82.01) Silver- Jaelin Kauf (74.87) Bronze- Hinako Tomitaka (74.19) Surprise medal for Vaillancourt (2nd career WC medal, both silvers), but otherwise a pretty sh*tty day for Canadians. Full Results