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Still think there is a win in there this season.

Have been seeing mixed signals about this all week, but seemingly tonight's premier Men's Downhill of the season IS going ahead in about 30 minutes from now. Gaah! "Shortened run". Unusually, normal start gate, but cuts off the usual final jump, so a bit like one of those Olympic practice runs where every just stands out of tuck.

Bump for the Luge World Cup starting this weekend, starting at Winterberg rather than Igls for technical reasons (lazy Austrians ). Since we are now going to Winterberg twice this season, this particular weekend will not count towards Olympic Quals, as discussed already, There has been some changes for us oldsters, so maybe a guide for beginners as well. Broadcasting Good and perhaps not so good news. There is a new deal with Discovery/Eurosport. All three days of the weekend are now being covered including the Friday races which usually are not shown. Unfortunately, not clear whether the FTA option via YouTube and/or the FIL Page will still exist, or will be geo-blocked. Hopefully also they will stick with the excellent commentary format of one pro comms person on-site paired with a willing volunteer from the non-competing athletes. Race formats There are four sets of races now. Nations Cup on Friday - the Qualifying races for the Saturday / Sunday World Cup. Top sleds are pre-qualified so don't take part here. Mixed Races on Friday - These races are for the smaller nations who don't have large enough teams to participate in the Team Relays. Nations can either compete as a pair or as single nation partnerships along the lines of old historic friendships like /, /, /, / etc. World Cup Races on Saturday and Sunday - The standard four formats of Men's Singles, Women's Singles, Men's Doubles, Women's Doubles Team Relay on Sunday - Always exciting relays races in which the big nations run one team from each of the WC formats. Unlike every other form of Winter Sports team event, this is the one in which it is quite normal for even the biggest and best teams to seriously mess up & either disqualify themselves or have some kind of significant time delay. Sprint races - Everyone hates them so hopefully they have been killed. Beer The race track at Winterberg is sponsored by a brewery and in the past winners have been given very large glasses of the product! Unfortunately, this is the alcohol-free version of the beer.

Uldal our first contender to go 15/15 Botn joins him All of a sudden things go back to normal Laegreid 19/20 Uldal first leader to get 20/20 but ski speed is not enough.....Botn also 20/20 will surely get in as the leader So here's our exciting new season 1 & 2 and probably also Bakken & Old Man Laegreid 19/20 top 5. Hey Kulbin goes 20/20 Will get a top 15!

Florent Claude our first outsider chance today - 0 0 0 after 15. Well 19/20 might get somethon. Rastorguevs is Mr Consistency - misses shot 20 as he always does when he shoots 19/19. Mandzyn 0 0 5 . Ah, dropped his rifle.

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Wierer wins by 0.3!!!

Voigt gets caught in the wait/shoot doom loop, loses a minute without firing a shot.Not Jeanmonnot had a chance on the last shoot but another miss. Richard also blows the win! for Cloetens as Jeanmonnot & Hanna Oeberg push her from 2nd to 4th. Leinamo 19/20 & is going to take the win!!! Sonja Leinamo takes the lead! Wierer still with a chance!

Bened on 0 0 0, heading for a showdown with Shot 20 Cloetens misses Shot 20, Bened Shot 16. They're both home & the big names are missing so.long horrible wait coming.

take the lead 0 0

Windy day in Ostersund & Irwin starts her race with 4 misses.

Missed this one while we were all so busy over the weekend. And also because it's so little a surprise...... The official World Athletics Athletes of the Year were Women’s World Athlete of the Year: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (USA) Men’s World Athlete of the Year: Mondo Duplantis (SWE) Women’s track: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (USA) Women’s field: Nicola Olyslagers (AUS) Women’s out of stadium: Maria Perez (ESP) Men’s track: Emmanuel Wanyonyi (KEN) Men’s field: Mondo Duplantis (SWE) Men’s out of stadium: Sabastian Sawe (KEN) Women’s Rising Star: Zhang Jiale (CHN) Men’s Rising Star: Edmund Serem (KEN)

See post #30 above, there is a link to the rules.

Not much jumping going on in Ruka. The Nordic Combined race yesterday used the test round results & today's jump was cancelled altogether. Ski Jumping yesterday was one round & today was also cancelled.

Campbell Wright the man to beat the Olympic Medal drought in biathlon?