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We're going at ECh What a suprise!

Poland is leading against Portugal 3:0 after lost first match 0:1. What is happening?

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There is a limit of competitors from one country that can participate so Slovak federation only need to give coach instructions who he can or can not put on the start. I don't know what is the limit for Slovak women but it's not 9, that's for sure.

Agree but they have Kuzmina so...

I would agree about this "pure luck" if rules of making new ranking was established before first of tournaments where teams could get points, not after last one

Not exactly, I'm affraid. There are no details about costs of building, only one big price for each big centre. Cost of freestyle and snowboarding park is "only" 16,7 million $, but it is not cost of building it, just improvment. What was improve? Almost everything or maybe just infrastructure (more parking slots or better capacity)? No idea. And let's not forget that in Vancouver there was 5 from 7 venues that we need today (there was no slopestyle and big air). I wanted to compare this sum with two most expensive venues, as I assumed - ski jumping hill and sliding track. Unfortunately couldn't find cost of hill because there was only cost of biathlon/cross-country/ski jumping/nordic combined centre, which is 119,7 million $ for building it (not improve). In turn whole sliding centre cost 104,9 million $, also build with whole infrastructure of course. Couldn't find any cost of building venues in Sochi and SLC documents (maybe I just don't know where to look ) and don't speak Italian so couldn't check Torino so in this point my searching is over. Summarizing. I think I am convinced that building freestyle/snowboarding centre is cheaper than sliding track or ski jumping hill but still not sure how big is the difference.

Two of them never get points even in FIS cup, so there is quite big chance for that, I'm affraid. Jonathan Learoyd was best French in last year World Cup

I don't know about that cheap part. I honestly have no idea how costs of building venues for snowboarding and freestyle skiing looks like in compare with for example luge track, but I know that you have to build venues for: slopestyle, halfpipe, cross, big air, moguls, aerials and parallel slalom (well, maybe last thing can be the same venue as for slalom in alpine skiing, I don't know). Every single one of them is definetly cheaper than the hill for ski jumping but all together, I don't know. By the way, it isn't so strange that so many countries are getting medals in this two events if they are practically six different events (slopestyle and halfpipe have a lot in common)

You're right. I wrote my answer in a hurry and forgot about KS Warszowice.

I don't know exact number but there are at least 15 clubs, all in big cities. Maybe there are some more but if so it's not a much larger number.

https://chronorace.blob.core.windows.net/webresources/20181104_urban/bmx_me_half_results.pdf

What a beautiful country. Except men's part of it.

I'm wondering. In what kind of uniform are Scottish women playing?

And in skirts in female edition. Don't forget about the skirts!

Right, right, and artificial luge is almost the same thing as natural

Where and when did you see a field hockey match on grass last time?

Well, it can't be much worst

I wouldn't say it's a serious problem. It's just that Spain doesn't rocognize of Kosovo. This case with Kosovo is very strange. Personally I don't have problems with this country, I believe that their citizens know best which country they live in and I don't understand why foreign country will of keeping or not diplomatic relations with it should be decisive, but there is some regulation in IOC, I believe, that future member should have this relations with most countries of the world. Kosovo is recognize only by half of the world so this kind of situation will happen, probably.

That's very sad I was watching first period (couldn't watch whole match) and puck sometimes was moving in strange direction but I didn't expect that we can't prepare ice correctly to play whole 60 minutes. Not so long time ago we host WCh regularly (of course not elite, but still...). Rest of the match will be played tomorrow. Unfortunately I can't find any information about time for rest of the matches. Maybe tournament will be postponed and finish at Monday (strange thing, but it's holiday in Poland this year)? It's all chaos. It's even sadder if you think that this is tournament in the occasion of 100th anniversary of the restoration of Poland's sovereignty. And about Polish hockey players. I don't want go into details, because it's more complicated. In short it looks like that: players want money for past matches, federation don't want to pay the whole amount - they claim that promise of payments was whim of ex-presidents, not idea of federation itself

Well, this girls are only 17-18 years old, except Warło (21 yo) and Łętocha (24 yo) Kowalczyk, except being an assistant coach (coach himself is her old trainer Aleksandr Wierietielnyj), will start but not in WC. She decided to compete in ski marathons. Maybe she'll start at WCh in relay.

Of course they are! Vehicle won't go forward if driver won't turn gas on

Maybe try ice speedway? Competitors also drive around sitting on two-wheels vehicles. The only different is that vehicles are making "broom-broom" noise

She probably lives in USA from years like most of Caribbean sprinters P.S. Please, don't say I didn't understand your irony again

Let's hope they will announce this rules Besides we know which tournaments will count (if Przedpelski is right) but we don't know how many points will be for each of them. It also can be changed.