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You seem to know his gf pretty well?

Peier winning a medal here would be the biggest shocker since Koboyashi winning the 4-hills tournament.

1) Schuster will leave after this season anyway, so he doesnt give a shit 2) Leyhe and Wellinger were on the same level the last couple of days, but Wellinger has more experience, so it wasnt a shocking decision. Tomorrow in the team Lehye will replace Wellinger, so Germany should be fine.

Ultra disappointing first round from a german perspective. The level of competition remains historically low, if it stays like that next year, then Ahonen/Kasai can probably win the overall world cup.

I feel you ... It makes me really sad that tax money is wasted on cross-country/speed skating, would be much better to completely shut down the financing for those sports.

Got all the medallists right, but completely wrong order ... I predicted 1) Bolshunov 2) Sundby 3) Roethe ...

What an interesting race on the womens side ... at least for the first 500 m ... Is Johaug the one who got caught or was that Bjoergen?

Bet contest: Cross-country: 1: Yes 2: No 3: No 4: No 5: Yes 17: Yes

My prediction was that Diggins, Falla and Nilsson would win the medals. Falla and Nilsson should finish top 2, bronze should go to someone else from Sweden.

Carl in the final? Very surprised to see this, never really considered her a sprinter. She will finish 5th or 6th in the final, but it's probably a good sign for the next couple of races. Is it just me or did women's sprint use to have much more depth? I normally don't watch cross-country, but to me it seems as if there are maybe 3 or 4 true world class sprinters at the moment.

Congrats to Hrovat! She isn't a generational talent, but she certainly has the potential to be a regular on the (giant) slalom podium in a couple of years. Sadly for her both Vlhova and Shiffrin are still young + Bassino, Holdener, Meillard and the austrian girls are all still pretty young. Overall slovenia is doing an amazing job in recent years, they might very well be a top 5 nation in a couple of years, especially if Vlhova keeps progressing at the same rate. Nullmeyer's development has been a bit disappointing, 2 years ago she won bronze but seems to have stagnated after that. On the men's side Rösti improved from his bronze medal last year, but for me the bigger story is McGrath from Norway. Being 2 years younger than the competition should be a huge disadvantage in the downhill, so he must be a huge talent to still fight for the medals already.

I think this time there are far less questions you can easily answer with YES or NO, this is probably good for the "competition", but bad for my chances of winning. There are 2 questions i don't like: 1) Will Klaebo be the last athlete for the norwegian relay 2) Will at least one event be postponed by at least 1 hour For me those 2 questions are about guessing and don't have much to do with actual knowledge (of course you could say that Klaebo is the best sprinter in the world and therefore should always be the last athlete in a relay, but noone here knows what plans the norwegian coach has).

I think then you have to rephrase the question. If someone from the gold winning polish team in men's ski jumping from 2 years ago wins a gold medal in a different event here, it can't be considered defending his title and therefore shouldn't count.

Let's say a relay with 2 athletes with 3 names wins a medal, does it count as 2 medals for the question mentioned by the italian guy above?

Not true according to FIS live timing ... There it says that Jessica Anderson from GB won with a margin of 40,74 seconds ahead of Robinson, the only thing suspicious here is that apparently she only needed 14,75 seconds to finish the second run ...

Winning at junior worlds doesnt have to mean much for future success at senior level, but someone doing it while being 3 years younger than most of the competition is almost a safe sign that we are looking at a cant miss level of talent. Dvornik was also born in 2001, she seems to be a very good talent too. Disappointed by the whole italian team, Honkanen, Danioth and Hirtl-Stanggassinger.

[hide] Cross-country Skiing (20) 1- Norway will win gold in both Men's and Women's Individual Sprint [YES - 1] 2- Sweden will win 2 medals in Women's Individual Sprint [NO - 1] 3- Norway will have at least 5 athletes in the final in the Men's and Women's Individual Sprint (Example: 3 Men and 2 Women qualify for the final. Bet won/yes) [YES - 10] 4- Sophie Caldwell will qualify for the final in the Women's Individual Sprint [YES - 1] 5- Andrew Young will be in Top 25 in the qualification for the Men's Individual Sprint [YES - 10] 6- Therese Johaug will win 4 gold medals [YES - 1] 7- Therese Johaug will win Women's 10km C with 35 or fewer seconds to second place [NO - 1] 8- Norway will win more or the same amount of medals in total as Canada, Finland, Italy, Russia and USA [YES - 10] 9- Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo will run the 4th leg for Norway's Relay [YES - 10] 10- Finland will win at least two or more Individual medals [NO - 1] 11- Sindre Bjoernestad Skar will represent Norway in the Teamsprint [YES - 1] 12- At least 2 or more athletes from the Women's 5km C will be slower than the winner of the Men's 10km C [NO - 1] 13- No male athlete from Sweden will win a medal (Including Relay) [YES - 1] 14- The winner of the Men's Skiathlon will be in Top 10 after the first 15km [YES - 1] 15- The same nation will lead after every leg exchange (including finish line) in the Men's or Women's Relay [YES - 1] 16- A nation will sweep a podium in any event [NO - 10] 17- At least one athlete will be 10 or more seconds after a heat winner in the Men's or Women's Individual Sprint [YES - 1] 18- The winner of the Men's 50km will win with 3 or fewer seconds to second place [YES - 1] 19- The winner time of the Men's 50km will be 1:50:00 or under [YES - 10] 20- Ebba Andersson will win more or the same amount of medals as Charlotte Kalla [YES - 1] Nordic Combined (15) 1- An Athlete will win 2 or more gold medals. [YES - 10] 2- Jarl Magnus Riiber will be Top 3 after the ski jumping in both Individual events [YES - 1] 3- Franz-Josef Rehrl will lead after the ski jumping in at least one of the Individual events [YES - 1] 4- Austria will have at least 3 or more athletes in Top 10 after the ski jumping in one of the two Individual events [YES - 1] 5- Alessandro Pittin will be in Top 35 after the ski jumping in at least one of the Individual events [YES - 1] 6- Szczepan Kupczak will fall at least 25 places back in the Cross-Country Skiing (Example: 5th after ski jumping, ends 30th. Bet won/yes) [NO - 1] 7- Ilka Herola will overtake at least 15 athletes in the Cross-Country Skiing [NO - 1] 8- Johannes Rydzek and Fabian Riessle will represent Germany in the Team Sprint [NO - 1] 9- Germany will have at least 2 or more athletes on the podium in the same event [YES - 1] 10- Japan will win at least one medal [YES - 10] 11- Finland will win a medal in the Team Sprint [NO - 1] 12- At least 2/4 events will be decided in a sprint (3 or fewer seconds) between first and second place [NO - 1] 13- The podium for the Team Event will be; 1. Germany, 2. Norway, 3. Austria [NO - 1] 14- Vinzenz Geiger will be the highest-placed German athlete in at least one Individual event [YES - 1] 15- Austria will win at least one gold medal in the Individual events [NO - 10] Ski Jumping (15) 1- Ryoyu Kobayashi will not win a gold medal in any of the Individual events [NO - 1] 2- Poland will have 3 or more athletes in Top 10 in at least one the Individual events [YES - 1] 3- Maren Lundby will win with 7 or more points to second place in Women's Individual event. [NO - 1] 4- Stefan Kraft will win at least 3 medals [NO - 10] 5- At least one defending champion (from 2017) will win a gold medal (including gold winners from team events) [YES - 1] 6- Vladimir Zografski will qualify for the second round in both Individual events [NO - 1] 7- Killian Peier will be in Top 12 in at least one of the Individual events [NO - 1] 8- Marcus Eisenbichler will be the highest-ranked German athlete in both Individual events [NO - 1] 9- The podium in the Mixed Team event will be; 1.Germany 2. Norway, 3. Japan [YES - 1] 10- Halvor Egner Granerud will be the highest-placed Norwegian athlete in at least one of the Individual events [NO - 1] 11- Nika Kriznar will be the only athlete born in 2000 or later to be in Top 10 in the Women's Individual event [NO - 1] 12- Norway will win a medal in all team events, Men, Women and Mixed [NO - 10] 13- Finland will qualify for the final round (last 4 jumps) in the Men's Team event [NO - 10] 14- Austria will win at least one gold medal in any event [NO - 1] 15- The leading athlete/nation in at least 4/6 events after the first round, will end up winning the gold medal (First round in a team event will be after the first jump from every athlete on the team) [NO - 1] General/Overall (6) 1- Top 3 of the Overall medal table will be; 1. Norway, 2. Germany, 3. Austria [NO - 10] 2- At least one event will be postponed with 1 hour or more during the WCH [NO - 1] 3- Austria will win at least one gold medal [YES - 1] 4- Norway will win a medal in at least 18/22 events [YES - 10] 5- Sweden and Finland will win more or the same amount medals as Germany overall [NO - 10] 6- Athletes with three names will win at least 12 or more medals in all events (Only the official name on fis.com will count. Examples: Franz-Josef Rehrl, Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, Daniela Iraschko-Stolz) [YES - 10] [/hide]

Interesting result to finish this competition off ... Two no-names and the house troll on the podium while the two french guys and Kristoffersen all had horrible performances.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Cross-Country Skiing Men's Sprint Freestyle February 21st, 2019 Alex Harvey Lucas Chavanat X Richard Jouve Baptiste Gros Federico Pellegrino X Emil Iversen Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo X Finn Haagen Krogh Sindre Bjoernestad Skar Alexander Bolshunov Gleb Retivykh Any Athlete from Sweden Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's Sprint Freestyle February 21st, 2019 Sandra Ringwald Mari Eide Maiken Caspersen Falla X Kristine Stavaas Sistad Any Other Athlete from Norway Natalia Nepryaeva Yulia Belorukova Any Athlete from Slovenia Nadine Faehndrich Maja Dahlqvist Stina Nilsson X Any Other Athlete from Sweden Sophie Caldwell Jessica Diggins X Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined Men's Individual Gundersen Large Hill 10km Cross-Country February 22nd, 2019 Martin Fritz Franz-Josef Rehrl Mario Seidl Ilka Herola Eric Frenzel Vinzenz Geiger Fabian Riessle Johannes Rydzek X Akito Watabe X Espen Bjoernstad Joergen Graabak Jarl Magnus Riiber X Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 7.5km+7.5km Skiathlon February 23rd, 2019 Teresa Stadlober Krista Parmakoski Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Therese Johaug X Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg X Heidi Weng Yulia Belorukova Natalia Nepryaeva Anastasia Sedova Natalie Von Siebenthal Ebba Andersson X Charlotte Kalla Jessica Diggins Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 15km+15km Skiathlon February 23rd, 2019 Alex Harvey Iivo Niskanen Maurice Manificat Francesco De Fabiani Emil Iversen Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo Sjur Roethe X Martin Johnsrud Sundby X Alexander Bolshunov X Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete from Russia Any Athlete From Sweden Dario Cologna Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Men's Individual Large Hill February 23rd, 2019 Stefan Kraft X Roman Koudelka Marcus Eisenbichler Karl Geiger Stephan Leyhe Ryoyu Kobayashi X Johann Andre Forfang Halvor Egner Granerud Robert Johansson Dawid Kubacki Kamil Stoch X Piotr Zyla Timi Zajc Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's Team Sprint Classical February 24th, 2019 Finland Germany Norway X Poland Russia X Slovenia Sweden X Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Men's Team Sprint Classical February 24th, 2019 Canada Finland France X Great Britain Germany Italy Norway X Russia X Sweden Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Nordic Combined Men's Team Sprint Large Hill 15km Cross-Country February 24th, 2019 Austria X Czech Republic Finland France Germany X Italy Japan Norway X Poland Russia United States Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Men's Team Large Hill February 24th, 2019 Austria Czech Republic Finland Germany X Japan Norway X Poland X Russia Slovenia Switzerland Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Women's 10km Classical February 26th, 2019 Teresa Stadlober Krista Parmakoski Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen Therese Johaug X Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg X Any Other Athlete From Norway Yulia Belorukova Natalia Nepryaeva Ebba Andersson Charlotte Kalla X Sadie Bjornsen Jessica Diggins Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Women's Team Normal Hill February 26th, 2019 Austria Czech Republic France Germany X Italy Japan X Norway Russia Slovenia X United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Men's 15km Classical February 27th, 2019 Alex Harvey Iivo Niskanen X Any Athlete From France Francesco De Fabiani Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo Martin Johnsrud Sundby Didrik Toenseth X Any Other Athlete From Norway Evgeniy Belov Alexander Bolshunov X Any Other Athlete from Russia Any Athlete From Sweden Dario Cologna Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Women's Individual Normal Hill February 27th, 2019 Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Eva Pinkeling Katharina Althaus X Juliane Seyfarth Ramona Straub Carina Voigt Yuki Ito Sara Takanashi X Maren Lundby X Anna Odine Stroem Lidia Iakovleva Nika Kriznar Ursa Bogataj Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 4x5km Relay February 28th, 2019 Finland Germany Italy Norway X Russia X Slovenia Sweden X Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Nordic Combined Men's Individual Gundersen Normal Hill 10km Cross-Country February 28th, 2019 Martin Fritz Franz-Josef Rehrl Mario Seidl Eero Hirvonen Ilka Herola Eric Frenzel Vinzenz Geiger X Fabian Riessle Johannes Rydzek Akito Watabe X Joergen Graabak Jarl Magnus Riiber X Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 4x10km Relay March 1st, 2019 Canada Finland France X Germany Italy Norway X Russia X Sweden Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Men's Individual Normal Hill March 1st, 2019 Stefan Kraft Roman Koudelka Marcus Eisenbichler X Karl Geiger Stephan Leyhe Ryoyu Kobayashi X Johann Andre Forfang Halvor Egner Granerud Robert Johansson Dawid Kubacki Kamil Stoch X Piotr Zyla Timi Zajc Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 30km Mass Start Freestyle March 2nd, 2019 Krista Parmakoski Therese Johaug X Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg X Heidi Weng Any Other Athlete From Norway Yulia Belorukova Natalia Nepryaeva X Anastasia Sedova Ebba Andersson Charlotte Kalla Any Other Athlete from Sweden Nathalie Von Siebenthal Jessica Diggins Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined Men's Team Gundersen Normal Hill 4x5km Cross-Country March 2nd, 2019 Austria X Czech Republic Finland France Germany X Italy Japan Norway X Poland Russia United States Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Mixed Team Normal Hill March 2nd, 2019 Austria Finland France Germany X Italy Japan X Norway X Poland Russia Slovenia United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing Men's 50km Mass Start Freestyle March 3rd, 2019 Alex Harvey Jean Marc Gaillard Maurice Manificat Francesco De Fabiani Emil Iversen Sjur Roethe Martin Johnsrud Sundby X Any Other Athlete from Norway Alexander Bolshunov X Sergey Ustiugov X Any Other Athlete from Russia Any Athlete From Sweden Dario Cologna Any Other Athlete [/hide]

"That's the world's fastest junior time this year and one of the fastest in the world in at least the last ten years." Of course we have to take into consideration that in the US/Jamaica indoor athletics is almost non-existant. Seedo has been known as a huge talent for at least 1 year now. Outdoors is a completely different story of course, but it will be interesting to see what she will do in the summer. 11.40 - 11.50 seems possible. Candace Hill ran 10.98 as a 16 year old in 2015 and Jodie Williams ran 11.23 as a 16 year old in 2010, so far they both haven't done anything noteworthy at senior level. Last year Briana Williams and Tamari Davis both ran 11.13 as 15 year olds. It's a bit worrying that she only improved her 60 m PB by 0.08 seconds, at this age you would expect bigger improvements.

Nice gold for Germany, although men's 5000 m and women's 3000 m were the least competitive events here. I am very disappointed by Stirnemann, she didn't fulfill her potential this time, hopefully she will do better next year.

Yeah sure ... more like 29. Watch him disappear in a couple of years.

How do you know that it wasn't the other way round?

I think pretty much everyone had that prediction ... The same for tomorrow: 1) Shiffrin 2) Vlhova 3) Holdener I think we can already congratulate whoever is first in the prediction contest right now, it's a done deal.

Austria without a single medal on the women's side and it may very well stay that way until the end. What a disaster performance for them.