Dennis

Basically that means the long gap between medals was all Queen Elizabeth's fault. Queen from 1952 to 2022...

@brunamoura @heywoodu CONGRATULATIONS!!! We are so happy for you!!!

Wow  

Men's Slalom
Final Results   Henrik KRISTOFFERSEN 1:39.50 (47.84+51.66)   AJ GINNIS 1:39.70 (47.06+52.64)   Alex VINATZER 1:39.88 (47.37+52.51) Full Final Result HERE

Just to say what a remarkable achievement this was...

Over to you @heywoodu

Yo, dudes! We are snowboarding powerhouse heh!

Quotas for the World Championships that start on March 2nd:
 
Country 500m  1.000m  1.500m  5.000m  10.000m  Team Sprint Team Pursuit Mass Start 500m 1.000m  1.500m  3.000m 5.000m Team Sprint Team Pursuit Mass Start
3 3 3 3 2 1 1 2 3 3 3 3 2 1 1 2 3 3 3 3 2   1 2 3 3 3 3 2 1 1 2 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 3 3 2 1 1 2 2 2 3 2 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 1   1 1 2 2 1 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2   1 1 1 3 2     1     3 2 3 2   1 1 2 3 2       1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 2   2 1 1   1   2   1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3   1 1       2 3 2           2 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 2               1 1   1 1       1 2 2 2 1 1 1       1 1 1 1     1   1 1 1       1               1   1 1 1       2     1         1 1 1 1             1             1 1 1         1                       1 1     1             1 2                 1 1                             1 1                                   1       1                                               1               1                  Claudia Pechstein won a quota on the women's 5.000m and women's mass start. Not bad for someone who won bronze at the Olympic Games in Albertville 1992, 31 years ago. 

Quotas for the World Championships that start on March 2nd:
 
Country 500m  1.000m  1.500m  5.000m  10.000m  Team Sprint Team Pursuit Mass Start 500m 1.000m  1.500m  3.000m 5.000m Team Sprint Team Pursuit Mass Start
3 3 3 3 2 1 1 2 3 3 3 3 2 1 1 2 3 3 3 3 2   1 2 3 3 3 3 2 1 1 2 3 3 3 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 3 3 2 1 1 2 2 2 3 2 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 1   1 1 2 2 1 3 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2   1 1 1 3 2     1     3 2 3 2   1 1 2 3 2       1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 2   2 1 1   1   2   1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3   1 1       2 3 2           2 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 2               1 1   1 1       1 2 2 2 1 1 1       1 1 1 1     1   1 1 1       1               1   1 1 1       2     1         1 1 1 1             1             1 1 1         1                       1 1     1             1 2                 1 1                             1 1                                   1       1                                               1               1                  Claudia Pechstein won a quota on the women's 5.000m and women's mass start. Not bad for someone who won bronze at the Olympic Games in Albertville 1992, 31 years ago. 

So much looking forward to race!!!
 
And... It seems like finding someone to prepare my skis won't be a problem as this time FIS will provide a "neutral support" for small teams with specialized staff preparing our skis 😱😍 *(just heard it from Jaque)
 
Vamos!!! 🚀🚀

Our very own @brunamoura has arrived in Slovenia today, where she'll make her comeback after surviving the car crash on the way to the Olympics a year ago. Bit of a tense morning, because she had to go by a transfer arranged through GetTransfer, again, just like she was more or less forced to do last year due to the circumstances (this time the Brazilian van was full with the rest of the Brazilian athletes and a few non-Brazilians, so there was no space anymore). The reason for that being a tense thing of course being how it went so very wrong last year, so stepping into a hired taxi van was understandably a bit of a....tense moment.
 
Luckily this time, as logic would of course expect, nothing happened and she arrived safely in Slovenia, all good!  
 
Next up: try to find someone to wax the ski's these days, light trainings to keep the shape and get the energy level to competition level and then on Wednesday, it's the big moment...the 5k freestyle! Vamos  

She's here now for the final World Cup 

Today the World Cup Final started. Here are the final World Cup standings for this season for the following distances:

Men's 1.500m:
 Kjeld Nuis (276 points)  Connor Howe (254 points)  Jordan Stolz (236 points)  Wesly Dijs (234 points)  Sander Eitrem (216 points) Women's 500m:
 Min-Sum Kim (354 points)  Vanessa Herzog (301 points)  Erin Jackson (241 points)  Jutta Leerdam (238 points)  Kimi Goetz (224 points) Women's long distances (3.000m / 5.000m):
 Ragne Wiklund (342 points)  Isabelle Weidemann (251 points)  Joy Beune (251 points)  Ivanie Blondin (241 points)  Martina Sáblíková (224 points) Men's team sprint:
 the Netherlands (156 points)  Canada (144 points)  Norway (140 points)  Poland (137 points)  China (136 points) First ever world cup overall on the long distances for a Norwegian woman!
 
Min-Sun Kim almost had the perfect record winning the first 5 world cups over 500m, but finishing 2nd today behind Herzog. Still an incredible season for her so far.
 
Tomorrow the final races in the women's 1.500m, the men's 500m, the men's 5.000m (as part of the long distances World Cup over 5k/10k) and the women's team sprint.
On Sunday, the 1.000m for men and women will be contested as well as the mass starts for both genders.

On the final day of the Junior World Championships in  Inzell, there were only the team events and the mass start left.
 
Here are the results:
 
Event Team Sprint Girls Team Sprint Boys Team Pursuit Girls Team Pursuit Boys Mass Start Girls Mass Start Boys Gold          Angel Daleman  Lukáš Steklý Silver          Chloé Hoogendoorn Daniel Hall  Bronze          Yuna Jeong  Jordan Stolz The Dutch girls won the team pursuit with a 8.7 second lead over the USA, in a time that was faster than the US team that won bronze in the senior World Cup this weekend (although Inzell is a way faster track).
 
Daleman was part of the team sprint and team pursuit team, securing 3 gold medals in one day and 5 World titles overall this tournament, with one silver and bronze medal added to the mix as well.  
 
Surprising win for Steklý in the mass start.  I think he's the first Czech boy to win a world title. He managed to escape with Hall during the race and was slightly faster than the Canadian in the sprint, after he also outsprinted the rest in the semis as well. Stolz (USA), Sasaki (JPN) and Norberg (SWE) fought for bronze. Two Swedish skaters finished in the top 10, as Sebastian Forsmark also finished in the top 10 by taking points in the intermediate sprints. Last week, Kasper Norberg also secured the win in the final Junior World Cup standings on the mass start.
 
China just missed out on a medal on multiple occasions, despite ranking high in the Junior World Cups this season. However, skaters from 10 different countries won at least one medal on this final day in a tournament where literally all the top juniors were present, so that's a good result. 

Today's results of the Junior World Championships in  Inzell:
 
The 1.000m had clear winners:  15 year old Angel Daleman taking her second title by winning the girls' 1.000m (1:16,29) in front of  Alina Dauranova (+1.47) and  Greta Myers (+1.53), while  Jordan Stolz went 3/3 with his third gold medal of the Championships in 1:08.28 in front of  Tim Prins (+1.57) and  Issa Gunji (+2.02).
 
The longest distance on the girls' side (3.000m) was comfortably won by  Momoka Horikawa (4:04.72) in front of  Jade Groenewoud (+6.97) and  Angel Daleman (+7.03) who won her 4th medal of the tournament. On the men's side,  Sigurd Henriksen prolongated his title on the 5.000m (6:15.30), a landslide in front of  Remco Stam (+10.80) and  Jordan Stolz (+12.38) also winning his 4th medal (3x gold, 1x bronze). 
 
To no one's surprise  Jordan Stolz (1-1-1-3) won the allround title with a 4.308 point gap to the runner-up, which must be the biggest gap ever.  Hojun Yang won silver (9-3-4-9) and  Tim Prins won bronze (3-7-2-25). On the women's side, the gap was smaller, but  Angel Daleman won the gold (2-1-1-3), 2.266 points in front of  Greta Myers (5-3-3-6) and  Jade Groenewoud (17-2-6-2).
 
Shout out to  Jeannine Rosner who finished 5th on the 1.500m and 3.000m as a 15-year old. Looks like Herzog might have a compatriot who has the talent to follow in her footsteps.
 
Curious to see what  Angel Daleman will do as she will be a junior for the next three seasons and is also a world-class junior in short track speed skating.

Today's results of the Junior World Championships in  Inzell:
 
The 1.000m had clear winners:  15 year old Angel Daleman taking her second title by winning the girls' 1.000m (1:16,29) in front of  Alina Dauranova (+1.47) and  Greta Myers (+1.53), while  Jordan Stolz went 3/3 with his third gold medal of the Championships in 1:08.28 in front of  Tim Prins (+1.57) and  Issa Gunji (+2.02).
 
The longest distance on the girls' side (3.000m) was comfortably won by  Momoka Horikawa (4:04.72) in front of  Jade Groenewoud (+6.97) and  Angel Daleman (+7.03) who won her 4th medal of the tournament. On the men's side,  Sigurd Henriksen prolongated his title on the 5.000m (6:15.30), a landslide in front of  Remco Stam (+10.80) and  Jordan Stolz (+12.38) also winning his 4th medal (3x gold, 1x bronze). 
 
To no one's surprise  Jordan Stolz (1-1-1-3) won the allround title with a 4.308 point gap to the runner-up, which must be the biggest gap ever.  Hojun Yang won silver (9-3-4-9) and  Tim Prins won bronze (3-7-2-25). On the women's side, the gap was smaller, but  Angel Daleman won the gold (2-1-1-3), 2.266 points in front of  Greta Myers (5-3-3-6) and  Jade Groenewoud (17-2-6-2).
 
Shout out to  Jeannine Rosner who finished 5th on the 1.500m and 3.000m as a 15-year old. Looks like Herzog might have a compatriot who has the talent to follow in her footsteps.
 
Curious to see what  Angel Daleman will do as she will be a junior for the next three seasons and is also a world-class junior in short track speed skating.

there's some life in the Italian Speedskating, after all!
 
 Serena Pergher is the new Junior World Champion of the women's 500m. 
 
earlier Today, in  Inzell, she won the World race in 38.61 (PB), ahead of Angel Daleman (38.93, PB) and   Alina Dauranova (39.10).

more results from the Junior Worlds
 
women's 1500m, Gold Medal to  Angel Daleman, who destroyed the field in 1.58.81.
Silver to  Jade Groenewoud in 2.00.04; Bronze to  Greta Myers in 2.00.56.
 
men's 500m, Gold to  Jordan Stolz in 34.95, just a fraction ahead of  Issa Gunji in 34.97.
Bronze to  Tim Prins in 35.73.
 
men's 1500m, Gold once again to  Jordan Stolz in 1.45.17.
in this case, his rivals are way behind...Silver went to  Kotaro Kasahara in 1.47.14; Bronze to  Yang Ho Jun in 1.47.90.
 
 Daleman and  Stolz are also leading with more than comfortable margin the All-Around competition in their respective gender (can I still write the word "gender"?   ).

Dresden
 
 
women's 1000m
Gold: Suzanne Schulting
Silver: Hanne Desmet
Bronze: Zhang Chutong

women's 1500m
Gold: Choi Min Jeong
Silver: Kristen Santos-Griswold
Bronze: Courtney Sarault
 

men's 1000m
Gold: Park Ji Won
Silver: Roberts Kruzbergs
Bronze: Felix Roussel

men's 1500m
Gold: Lee June Seo
Silver: Pietro Sighel
Bronze: Lim Yong Jin
 

mixed Team 2000m Relay
Gold: Italy
Silver: South Korea
Bronze: Netherlands
 

women's 3000m Relay Finalists:

men's 5000m Relay Finalists:

Dresden
 
 
women's 500m
Gold:  Suzanne Schulting
Silver:  Xandra Velzeboer
Bronze:  Choi Min Jeong

women's 1500m (2)
Gold:  Kim Gilli
Silver:  Anna Seidel
Bronze:  Shim Suk Hee
 
women's 3000m Relay
Gold:  Netherlands
Silver:  Canada
Bronze:  South Korea
 

men's 500m
Gold:  Lin Xiaojun
Silver:  Zhong Yuchen
Bronze:  Kazuki Yoshinaga

men's 1500m (2)
Gold:  Park Ji Won
Silver:  Sjinkie Knegt
Bronze:  Reinis Berzins

men's 5000m Relay
Gold:  China
Silver:  Japan
Bronze:  Hungary

As we've reached the end of the competitive categories, now it's time for the Totallympics' Stars Award, which celebrates our own members. Voted by their peers, these users made some important contributions, having a strong presence in our forum. Here, they are nominated for many different reasons, such as: organization of prediction contests, work on results section, writing for Totallympics News, TISC hosting duties, and discussions or sports info in our threads. All members are valuable for making Totallympics the best sports forum on the internet. We salute you all, including those not listed. This year, the Totallympics' Stars Award honorees are:
 
 

 
@dcro @Hipooo @phelps @Dragon @MHSN @rafalgorka @frantic13poland @Mkbw50 @Vektor @hckošice @Olympian1010 @Vojthas @heywoodu @OlympicIRL @Wumo  

Ireen Wüst
SPEED SKATING
Regarded as the most successful speed skater ever, Ireen Wüst first achieved a spot in the Dutch Olympic team in 2006. In Turin, she became the youngest Dutch gold medalist at the Winter Games, starting a sequence of results that would made history. Winning at least one gold medal in each of her Winter Olympic appearances, she is the only athlete to win an individual gold medal in five consecutive Olympics, Summer or Winter. Not only she is the most successful athlete from the Netherlands at the Olympics, in Beijing she also became the oldest Speed Skating gold medalist in the history of the Winter Games. "Words can't describe her class", said fellow competitor Brittany Bowe after the 1500m event at the 2022 Olympics; "she is the greatest of all-time, as her performance shows". Indeed, Wüst's career more than earned her a place in our Hall of Fame.
@vinipereira
 

Ghiotto - one of my favourite skaters - with his first World Cup win after a fantastic race in 12:45,10
 
16 years after Enrico Fabris won a 10k in the World Cup, it's been a while for Italy  

13:02.53 for Henriksen

Sven Kramer moved the world junior record into a new era:
 

 
And now Henriksen shattered it, as expected, but what a race