Josh

Salt Lake 2021/22, in the women's 500m

Are you happy for Italian results in ANY sport???

Schulting with her first career WC podium in speed skating, with silver in the 2nd 500m!

Stage 1 in Ruka (FIN)
 
Men´s Sprint Classical:
 
1. Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo 
2. Erik Valnes 
3. Lauri Vuorinen 
 
Full Final Result HERE

Schulting with her first career WC podium in speed skating, with silver in the 2nd 500m!

That's a really, really old rule in FIS Big Air - the two counting jumps must be of a different direction (depending on the competition, either clockwise / counterclockwise or having every variation of forward/switch or goofy/regular and clockwise/anticlockwise/straight count as a unique direction).
 
That is what the A, B and sometimes C on the result list refer to - not which direction (sadly that's not listed), but whether the jump is a repeated direction or not.

Luge WC Eberspächer Lillehammer | Lillehammer, Norway
 
Women’s Singles
Gold-  Julia Taubitz (1:33.898)    
Silver-  Emily Sweeney (1:33.990)
Bronze-  Lisa Schulte (1:34.050)
 
Women’s Doubles
Gold-  Chevonne Chelsea Forgan/Sophia Kirkby (1:34.929)
Silver-  Jessica Degenhardt/Cheyenne Rosenthal (1:34.946)
Bronze-  Marta Robezniece/Kitija Bogdanova (1:35.419)
 
Men’s Doubles
Gold-  Toni Eggert/Florian Mueller (1:33.846)
Silver-  Martins Bots/Roberts Plume (1:33.978)
Bronze-  Thomas Steu/Wolfgang Kindl (1:34.070)
 
Full Results

Moguls WC Ruka | Ruka, Finland  
 
Women
Gold-  Perrine Laffont (81.13)
Silver-  Jakara Anthony (80.00)
Bronze-  Olivia Giacco (76.95)
 
Laffont victorious in her return to competition, after taking a break last season!  Maia Schwinghammer with a career best moguls finish in 4th 
 
Men
Gold-  Mikael Kingsbury (83.90) 
Silver-  Walter Wallberg (81.14)
Bronze-  Ikuma Horishima (80.51)
 
Kingsbury now with his 100th career victory! (thanks @Gianlu33 for the stat) 
 
Full Results

Too many to write them down just like that. But i will try to make a list in a few days time. A really good idea for a new thread, Josh.

Mikael Kingsbury with WC victory #91, really starting to close in on 100, with gold in moguls at the Ruka WC!
 
Edit: Also, a 4th for Maia Schwinghammer. Best ever WC result in moguls for her. 

I’ll start first;
 
Obviously,  @brunamoura in cross country skiing if she qualifies  (no pressure) 
 
and  Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo.
 
Curling:  Team Hasselborg and Team Edin,  Kaldvee/Lill, and to a lesser extent  Team Fujisawa and  Team Schwaller
Ice Hockey:  Elias Pettersson/Elias Lindholm,  Pius Suter,  Arturs Silovs/Teddy Blueger, whichever Canucks are on  United States’ men’s team,  Filip Hronek and  Finland’s men’s team if Lankinen can keep up his good play (Even though he’s probably going to get traded from the Canucks after this season, he prefers being on a team where he can get more starts than more money. Still I have a soft spot for him)
Alpine Skiing:  Marco Odermatt,  Aleksandr Aamodt Kilde,  AJ Ginnis, and to a slightly lesser extent  Johannes Strolz
Freestyle Skiing:  Jakara Anthony,  Birk Ruud,  Sina Sigenthaler,  Ryan Regez,  Kelly Sildaru (for more reasons than one),  Eileen Gu
Snowboarding:  Leon Ulbricht,  Marcus Kleveland,  Anna Gasser,  Benjamin Karl,  Zoi Sadowski-Synnott
Ski Mountaineering:  Oriol Cardona Coll and that’s it for now… 
Speed Skating:  Jutta Leerdam,  Jordan Stolz,  Marten Liiv,  Bart Swings
Luge:  Thomas Steu/Wolfgang Kindl,  Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt
 
From a Canadian perspective, I’m rooting for our men’s hockey team above all. Then, our curling teams, especially Team Homan if she wins Olympic Trials. Then Max Parrot, Mikael Kingsbury, Eliot Grondin, William Dandjinou, our women’s hockey team, and our ski cross squad. But really I’ll be rooting for all of our athletes. 
 
I like Hammerle, but I’ll be rooting against him at the Olympics 

Moguls WC Ruka | Ruka, Finland  
 
Women
Gold-  Perrine Laffont (81.13)
Silver-  Jakara Anthony (80.00)
Bronze-  Olivia Giacco (76.95)
 
Laffont victorious in her return to competition, after taking a break last season!  Maia Schwinghammer with a career best moguls finish in 4th 
 
Men
Gold-  Mikael Kingsbury (83.90) 
Silver-  Walter Wallberg (81.14)
Bronze-  Ikuma Horishima (80.51)
 
Kingsbury now with his 100th career victory! (thanks @Gianlu33 for the stat) 
 
Full Results

I’ll start first;
 
Obviously,  @brunamoura in cross country skiing if she qualifies  (no pressure) 
 
and  Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo.
 
Curling:  Team Hasselborg and Team Edin,  Kaldvee/Lill, and to a lesser extent  Team Fujisawa and  Team Schwaller
Ice Hockey:  Elias Pettersson/Elias Lindholm,  Pius Suter,  Arturs Silovs/Teddy Blueger, whichever Canucks are on  United States’ men’s team,  Filip Hronek and  Finland’s men’s team if Lankinen can keep up his good play (Even though he’s probably going to get traded from the Canucks after this season, he prefers being on a team where he can get more starts than more money. Still I have a soft spot for him)
Alpine Skiing:  Marco Odermatt,  Aleksandr Aamodt Kilde,  AJ Ginnis, and to a slightly lesser extent  Johannes Strolz
Freestyle Skiing:  Jakara Anthony,  Birk Ruud,  Sina Sigenthaler,  Ryan Regez,  Kelly Sildaru (for more reasons than one),  Eileen Gu
Snowboarding:  Leon Ulbricht,  Marcus Kleveland,  Anna Gasser,  Benjamin Karl,  Zoi Sadowski-Synnott
Ski Mountaineering:  Oriol Cardona Coll and that’s it for now… 
Speed Skating:  Jutta Leerdam,  Jordan Stolz,  Marten Liiv,  Bart Swings
Luge:  Thomas Steu/Wolfgang Kindl,  Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt
 
From a Canadian perspective, I’m rooting for our men’s hockey team above all. Then, our curling teams, especially Team Homan if she wins Olympic Trials. Then Max Parrot, Mikael Kingsbury, Eliot Grondin, William Dandjinou, our women’s hockey team, and our ski cross squad. But really I’ll be rooting for all of our athletes. 
 
I like Hammerle, but I’ll be rooting against him at the Olympics 

Decided to start a thread on this early, and get some discussion 
 
When I mean athletes, I mean athletes from other countries mainly… but ones that represent your country work too 

Not really working, cross-country has that in order a lot better than alpine skiing  
 
Nowadays if you're able to get 300 FIS points, you're certainly able to ski a decent race at least. The athletes you might see at world championships, where some of them might be in one of their first ever races on snow and they are still learning basic technique, definitely won't be able to get 300 points or better.
 
 

I met JT Miller and Conor Garland of the  yesterday, it was an incredible experience 

World Cup kicked off with a couple mixed relays

Single mixed wasn't pretty. Lunder and Pletz paired up and finished 20th. Both really struggled shooting the first time around, and were battling for dead last... but did improve the second half and picked up 4 spots

Surprisingly good showing for the full mixed relay considering I think this was the first ever WC race for three of them, managed not to get lapped and finished 16th. During Moser's leg they got up to about 12th briefly.

Runnals interestingly did not compete.

Ski times continue to be an issue pretty much across the board, but such is our fate it seems

Mikael Kingsbury with WC victory #91, really starting to close in on 100, with gold in moguls at the Ruka WC!
 
Edit: Also, a 4th for Maia Schwinghammer. Best ever WC result in moguls for her. 

Mikael Kingsbury with WC victory #91, really starting to close in on 100, with gold in moguls at the Ruka WC!
 
Edit: Also, a 4th for Maia Schwinghammer. Best ever WC result in moguls for her. 

Mikael Kingsbury with WC victory #91, really starting to close in on 100, with gold in moguls at the Ruka WC!
 
Edit: Also, a 4th for Maia Schwinghammer. Best ever WC result in moguls for her. 

Parallel Giant Slalom WC Mylin | Mylin, China 
 
Men
Gold-  Edwin Coratti
Silver-  Kim Sangkyum
Bronze-  Lee Sangho
 
Women
Gold-  Ester Ledecka
Silver-  Aleksandra Krol-Walas
Bronze-  Miki Tsubaki
 
Full Results

It's generally just called the skiathlon, so having a 'X km and X km' in the title is a bit confusing. The point is that the race is cut into two halves, one is done in the classic technique, the other in the freestyle (skating technique), so in this case it's a 20km race  

That was the same for me.
And it's obviously too early, just for fun.
Now it's more like predictions for 2024/2025 winter sports World Championships than 2026 olympics actually...
 
And still - it was done before 24/25 world cup events in some sports started (e.g. nordic combined, downhill and super-G in alpine, skicross etc...)
 
so it will have to be updated for sure...

Day 1
 
A lot of these predictions are what I’m hoping for, honestly 
 
Speed Skating - Women’s 3000m
Gold-  Ragne Wiklund
Silver-  Ivanie Blondin
Bronze-  Joy Beune
 
Snowboard - Men’s Big Air
Gold-  Taiga Hasegawa
Silver-  Marcus Kleveland
Bronze-  Red Gerard
 
Alpine Skiing - Men’s Downhill
Gold-  Marco Odermatt
Silver-  Aleksandr Aamodt Kilde
Bronze-  Andreas Sander
 
Ski Jumping - Women’s Normal Hill Individual
Gold-  Eva Pinkelnig
Silver-  Sara Takanashi
Bronze-  Nika Prevc
 
Cross Country Skiing - Women’s 10km and 10km Skiathlon (Confused on the format and favourites… might not be the best of guesses) @heywoodu does this look fine? 
Gold-  Jessie Diggins
Silver-  Frida Karlsson
Bronze-  Krista Parmakoski
 
 1-2-0
 1-1-0
 1-0-1
 1-0-0
 1-0-0
 0-1-0
 0-1-0
 0-0-1
 0-0-1
 0-0-1
 0-0-1

day 15
 
103. SPEED SKATING - M Mass Start
 
1. Andrea Giovannini ITA
2. Bart Swings BEL
3. Timothy Loubineaud FRA
 
104. SPEED SKATING - W Mass Start
 
1. Marijke Groenewoud NED
2. Ivanie Blondin CAN
3. Mia Manganello USA
 
105. FREESTYLE SKIING - Mixed Team Aerials
 
1. United States
2. China
3. Canada
 
106. FREESTYLE SKIING - M Ski Cross
 
1. David Mobaerg SWE
2. Alex Fiva SUI
3. Reece Howden CAN
 
107. FREESTYLE SKIING - W Freestyle Halfpipe
 
1. Eileen Gu CHN
2. Zoe Atkin GBR
3. Amy Fraser CAN
 
108. SKI MOUNTAINEERING - Mixed Relay
 
1. France
2. Switzerland
3. Spain
 
109. CURLING - M Tournament
 
1. Great Britain
2. Sweden
3. Canada
 
110. BOBSLEIGH - W Two

1. Laura Nolte GER
2. Lisa Buckwitz GER
3. Kim Kalicki GER
 
111. BIATHLON - W 12.5km Mass Start
 
1. Lou Jeanmonnot FRA
2. Elvira Oeberg SWE
3. Justine Braisaz-Bouchet FRA
 
Lisa Vittozzi ITA close 4th
 
112. CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING - M 50km Mass Start Classic
 
1. Iivo Niskanen FIN
2. Martin Loewstroem Nyenget NOR
3. Harald Oestberg Amundsen NOR
 
CURLING W bronze match
 
beats
 
final on day 16: vs
 
ICE HOCKEY M bronze match
 
beats - a match for the ages