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First careers 11 points for Hektor Kapustík and yes first  M WC points since 2005  Well done Hektor !
 
His sister yesterday & today won first ever W WC points.
 
A weekend of history for the nonexistant slovak ski jumping. I am really happy that I had the chance to see it. I remember Mesík farewells in Vancouver and then came the looooong years of sorrowful emptility until arrived the young Kapustík siblings
 
Wish both will qualify to the Olympics, that would be amazing

That would be so Slovak 
 
Must double check it, but I think he was already safe by making the first round anyway

Barring any eventual DSQ  just achieved its frist historic point(s) in Women´s Ski Jumping WC

As someone from Bratislava, let me take a look at your username. 

The fact is, any country can simply refuse to build a certain stadium or track, depending on the popularity of the sport. The hosting nation has to make sacrifices if they are keen on hosting the Olympics. If no country is willing to build the necessary infrastructure, it will be difficult to find a suitable host.

It would make perfect sense for Germany to host the Olympics soon. Their infrastructure in general is pretty good.

Actually, we submitted a bid for the 2006 Olympics, which we eventually didn't really expand on. The 2022 Polish bid also included some events in Slovakia.

I still think it's crazy that countries get to host the Olympics after only six years have passed since the last event. Not saying it's bad, but it's interesting to look at.  

English is a language rich in crude idioms :D

Hi all.  Wanted to share my schedule spreadsheet, with the important caveat that this is most useful for Americans trying to figure out when events will be televised.  But could be a useful resource to others here.
 
There are 2 tabs at the front with the full event schedule.  Similar to the schhedules here, 1 of the tabs is sorted by day and time.  The other is sorted by sport.
 
After that are day by day grids so you can see what's going on at any given time on a particular day.
 
And there are tabs going sport by sport if you wanted to see what time there is speed skating each day.  Combined multiple sports into a tab where I could (i.e. the sliding sports), but it has all 4 sheets of curling and both hockey venues.
 
Like I said, this is more for the benefit of folks in the United States and I know there are only a few here.  But for the rest, feel free to use this as a resource for start and end times for events and some individual events within the larger session.
 
https://t.co/Mrpc88Q1bb

Exactly. The locker rooms are a matter of a few days, that's not a big deal. 

I'm definitely not happy about those three from Russia. It's an embarrassment.
 
Not including Chromiak is surprising, I'm waiting for him to get called up to the NHL very soon. I think reaching the quarterfinals will be quite an achievement, anything more than that would be a dream.

Gajan is a pleasant surprise!

2)
 
Yeah Stachowiak and Samanski are regular AHLers, not sure why the official sites list them as NHLers considering they never played a single match in the league
 

"Denis Salagaev, senior coach of the Russian national team in parallel disciplines, announced that four key snowboarders—Alexandra Parshin, Igor Sluyev, Sofia Nadyrsina, and Yana Ulyanova—had been denied neutral status by the FIS. The reason given was violations of anti-doping rules."
 
 

Poland's third woman has results very close to the Slovak girls, maybe a bit better with some national bias , and the Olympic Games might serve as farewell to her career.
I can't promise anything but don't lose hope.

So at least one of them falling towards us is possible.

It's the continuation of the previously awarded 48 quotas. Who can reject some of them? The foremost suspect in ski jumping -  one of their three, just to compete in the mixed team as only Josephine Pagnier is competitive. The next one is your neighbor  - only 2 compete at the World Cup level, Karolina Indrackova got pregnant this summer and Veronika Jencova just started to train after the knee injury. In my opinion, the third country to go down from three to two ski jumpers might be  - Alexandria Loutit is injured and Natalie Eilers is far from qualifying for the World Cup events. It's getting trickier now. Maybe  one place down if they decide it's not worth to complete the mixed team? I doubt that either  or  decides not use all four spots each but I wouldn't be surprised if they did, to be honest.

35th Athlete and 6th sport has been added to Team Slovensko today.
 

 
Viktória Čerňanská succeded to qualify to her 2nd careers Olympics after her debut in Beijing 2022.
 
Just like in China the 26 years old Youth Olympic silver medalist will start again in the W Monobob and try to improve her 17th place from 4 years ago.
 
Team (Updated as of 5th January 2026)
35 Athletes (27 M + 8 W)
 
 

as I wrote, it's on pay-tv, so it won't be easy to extract videos from their broadcast
but I'll try to record my tv with my phone and then make some screenshots/videos from that
 
I don't know what's gonna come out, but we'll see next weekend 

no recent news, we're all waiting for this weekend to know how the situation actually is 
 
however, not expecting Italian media to say a single word about it (just like they didn't say anything about the opening of the other venues here in Milan)
 
for our media, the only existing wintersports are alpine skiing and figure skating (sometimes they also talk of cross-country skiing, but only in memory of the past success, not because of daily action)
 
ice and field hockey are basically unknown to our media, I think they're the 2 most forgotten sports in the Country pound for pound

Merry Christmas to all of you who are celebrating the holidays here on Totallympics! Hope it is a good one  

Mery Christmas (and Happy Holidays if you do not celebrate it) to you and your beloved ones 🎄

Merry Christmas to you all. Yes in Sweden  the big day is today December 24, Christmas Eve. 

Makes sense. Several other athletes won't be present that much in January either.