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Lindsey Vonn has officially qualified and will be skiing for  at her 5th Olympics!  She first competed at the 2002 Salt Lake games as a 17 year old.  Would be an absolutely remarkable story if she wins a medal in Cortina

Check Post 2 on this thread (and those of all other winter sports) to see a compilation of results from this first part of the World Cup season.  Coming in January: Olympic rosters!  

Ouch for China, losing Gold in three disciplines, not even making to GMM in one...all in front of a home crowd.

9 out of 12 medals for  in Innsbruck.  Two for  and one for  .  Results in Post 2 updated.

Doubles competition delayed until tomorrow.

In many cultures, Christmas season only officially starts when the Totallympics decorations go up.  

I've seen her twice in the USA, but I don't know of anyone else in the USA that knows her...any of you familiar with Loreena McKennitt? My fav artist.
 
 

Yes same here. It seems to sporadically go slow at some parts of the day to the point where it’s hard to use the site. Then later it will be fine and after a while back to the same issue. 

I've seen some talks about Stolz going for an Heiden in Milan. He definitely won't win 5 individual races, nobody could today. But with the mass-start under his belt he only needs one more chance ... Of course the team pursuit looks like the easy answer, as his qualities sure wouldn't hurt an already dominant squad, would they ? Put him in one of the three races to gold and have yourself a 5-time Olympic champion. 

Got all the results updated in Post 2 for your convenience!   

Here is World Cup Standings, but I don't know if that's what you want: https://www.fil-luge.org/en/overall-scores?event_season_id=33.
 
I also don't know how they determined who got to compete, but perhaps Host Country extra quota?

Things are currently running faster.  I will report back if that changes.  Thanks!

I have reported the issue and the provider said it should be fixed now, can you please confirm?

Got compiled results in Post 2 updated.  Glad to see Lindsey Vonn doing well!   

Unexpected boost for Team .  They are at least going to have a credible excuse if anyone fails any drug tests.  
 
American rapper Snoop Dogg has been named an 'honorary coach' for Team USA at next year's Winter Olympics.
 
The United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) announced on Thursday the 54-year-old will take on "a volunteer role celebrating and supporting America's athletes off the field of play".
 
Snoop Dogg named 'honorary coach' for Team US at Winter Olympics - BBC Sport

Was in a meeting so I wasn't following, so as soon as it ended, first thing I did was check the score. 
 
Go Team !!
 
Thrilled to have both teams in Cortina. And don't need to go through qualifying in mixed doubles

The continental quotas have a max of 1 athlete per NOC. As only Egypt is competitive, it makes sense for them to only get 1 quota.

Come on ! You've beaten  once, now do it again!  We'll see! Congrats to !

Confirmation that the winner of FIH Pro League 25/26 will receive a quota.

A lot of the systems are now public!
 
https://www.olympics.com/ioc/documents/olympic-games/los-angeles-2028-olympic-games

@Sindo

Not really related to IOC, but the sports federations.
 
In the past day, both FIG and IFSC have rebranded.  I now present to you World Gymnastics and World Climbing.  I wonder how long until all the sports have rebranded like this.  (Hopefully Fencing and Equestrian will be soon so that I can stop trying to remember if it's FEI or FIE.)

loses to  with hammer in extra ends which clinched a spot for  in the #1 vs #2 game.  3rd playoff spot still up for grabs tomorrow on the men's side

And the Americans take 3 gold medals in the GP Finals, with Japan taking the fourth.  The Japanese ladies just took a couple of stumbles, allowing Alysa Liu to snag gold for the ladies.  Japan ends up on top for the season overall.  
 
Check out Post 2 for complete medal tables from the season...see you all in Milano!

ITTF Mixed Team World Cup happening now...
 
Final 8 (these represent half of the teams who entered, and they are now in a Round Robin):







 
 
Of these and after playing two teams in this round, , , , and  haven't lost a match, and the other four haven't won.  We'll see how the next couple of days play out!   has only lost one game in total.
 
More details here: https://xtresults.ittf.com/teamseventInfo?selectedTab=Stages 1-2 (Groups)&eventId=3263