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Stoch winning the 4 hills tournament and olympic gold again would be bad for the sport, but you cant blame him for exploiting Freitag's monster choke. I hope that 3 different nations will win the 3 olympic golds this time.

Good news, the combined is a snoozefest most of the time and often very unfair for speed specialists, especially on the mens side. I think Shiffrin would have dominated this event anyway, there is no need to gift her another gold. Of course heywoodu is right about speed skating, i dont get what those officials are thinking. Is there any person that will suddenly say "So far i never cared about speed skating, but now that they introduced the mass start i became a huge fan"? They should just accept that some sports are boring and will never have as many fans as the popular sports like ice hockey or biathlon, so they should just try to keep those people happy, who already follow their sport.

Why only top 3? Top 5 would have been easy for me: 1) Biathlon 2) Alpine skiing 3/4) Snowboarding/Ski jumping 5) Figure skating I picked snowboarding as my third option, because snowboarding halfpipe/slopestlye is better than ski jumping, all the other snowboarding events arent interesting for me. I dont care much about the other sports.

And again Stoch had clearly better wind conditions than Freitag ... i am starting to believe that this is a conspiracy. Respect for Stoch nevertheless, he has an ugly style, but he is absolutely peaking again and he handled the break very good.

What a fucking nightmare, if Freitag doesnt turn this around, this has to be considered as one of the worst chokes in sports history. Of course he again had shitty wind ... Has anyone ever seen Kobayashi having bad wind? This guy always seems to have the best wind conditions.

I am absolutely shocked by this result, i was totally sure that Freitag would win easily, but today Stoch clearly had better conditions and got lucky. I hope that justice will be restored soon and for now i dont worry too much, lets just hope that Freitag keeps his nerves and doesnt choke like today. Now it is basically a three way battle between Freitag, Stoch and Kraft.

Russia is certainly missing top 3 results, but interestingly enough they are currently better in the nations ranking on both the mens and the womens side as they were at the end of last year. Switzerland and Slovakia are also having quite good seasons so far. Nations ranking on the womens side at the end of last season/currently: 1) Germany/Germany 2) France/Ukraine 3) Ukraine/France 4) Czech Republic/Norway 5) Italy/Italy 6) Norway/Russia 7) Russia/Belarus 8) Sweden/Sweden 9) Belarus/Czech Republic 10) Kazakhstan/Switzerland Nations ranking on the mens side at the end of last season/currently: 1) Germany/Norway 2) France/Germany 3) Russia/France 4) Norway/Russia 5) Italy/Austria 6) Norway/Ukraine 7) Russia/Czech Republic 8) Sweden/Italy 9) Belarus/Switzerland 10) Kazakhstan/USA

The womens race was a fitting end (on the womens side) to a horrible world cup (overall). We should all thank god that the french arent allowed to host a world cup every season, because they obviously dont know what they are doing. My only wish for christmas is that Kuzmina finally gets caught and that justice is finally done, she already stole enough olympic medals, its disgusting that she doesnt know when its enough, almost as if she wants to be caught.

By (probably) winning the super-G in Gröden, Josef Ferstl did something of almost historic importance for german alpine skiing: - It is the first german podium in men's super-G in almost 7 years (Stephan Keppler was 2nd in Gröden on December 17th 2011) - It is the first german victory in men's super-G or downhill in almost 13 years (Max Rauffer won the downhill in Gröden on December 18th 2004) As you see, Gröden is always a good place for german alpine skiing ...

By reaching the quarterfinal in Astana, Dimitrij Ovtcharov becomes the first non-chinese world number 1 in almost 7 years (last non-chinese number 1 was Timo Boll in march 2011)! Just sad that there are no olympics or individual world championships next year, it would have been amazing to see a non-chinese world/olympic champion, i doubt that he can keep this level until 2020 and even if he does, it is very unlikely that Harimoto won't be absolutely unbeatable by then.

I just don't get it ... Germany is by far the best nation this season but obviously they are too stupid to show it in the team event.

Olympic season and Kuzmina is back winning ... when will this nightmare finally end, when will she finally be caught? This has reached Johann Mühlegg dimensions, it can't get more obvious, if she would be russian, she would have been banned years ago.

So you are a doctor? Edit: If you are indeed a doctor, why don't you just quit your job and play golf 24/7?

Off-topic: First things first! Thanks for uploading all the higlights (also in other sports), i gave you a like not for this special comment, but for your work in general. For me you are probably the user of the year already. On-topic: Amazing day for Germany, Rebensburg's second place probably was just a fluke, as was Shiffrin's victory (who, according to herself, was the only athlete who had clear sight and therefore was pretty lucky), because this wasn't a typical downhill and Lake Louise in general isn't very representative. I don't see Shiffrin regularly finishing on the podium in the speed disciplines and i am not sure whether she should compete in those events at the olympics, although the schedule would allow it (giant slalom and slalom will be contested first). Seeing her recent results, the combine should be her best chance for gold, closely followed by the slalom. Dreßen's 3rd place was the best result for Germany in men's downhill in 13 years! Finally Germany seems to be able to compete in men's downhill/super-G. On the women's side we saw an amazing 8th place for young Kira Weidle who qualified for the olympics with this result. Her 8th place and the 7th place for Ledecka are other sings that this wasn't a typical downhill. I think at the olympics things will look very differently, with Gut and Fenninger hopefully back in top shape.

It's sunday, isn't it illegal to work?

Another norwegen borefest. Thanks to IOC for killing the russians, now cross-country at the olympics will become even more boring. Would be cool if a russian journalist would uncover the norwegian doping system some time soon.

I can't believe it, he is the athlete i wanted to see winning a medal at the Olympics most, who knows whether he would have even continued his career, if he would have known that he wouldn't be able to compete at the Olympics ... I hope that this isn't the end! Horrible start to the winter for Germany, very bad results in ski jumping, nordic combined and bob + the injury of Neureuther + the injury of Freund + the injury of Zimmermann.

Here are some interesting links dealing with this topic and also AI in general, maybe you will find some of them insightful. It is interesting to see that people like Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg are also in favor of an universal basic income, but i don't know if them advocating this idea is a good thing or not ... ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWmRkYsLzB4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ8U3687b28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th3nnEpITz0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opdc8hQN0ew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWistojFP3w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR5N2Jl8k14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nt3edWLgIg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu8s0tp9yzY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEkT14RBzDI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSKi8HfcxEk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gfw6vIl8ILk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQGqMVuAk04 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16W7c0mb-rE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnT1xgZgkpk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXQrbxD9_Ng

Here are some links for you, in case you want to learn more about it (the first three links are in german): http://www.3sat.de/page/?source=/kulturzeit/themen/135178/index.html (i remember that there was also a video of an interview with Andre Gorz, but sadly i can't find it anymore) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BAmI1t-Awo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM4dFbliffU https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/31/finland-universal-basic-income https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/opinion/finland-universal-basic-income.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irf2dhtJZZ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIL_Y9g7Tg0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rL6gJkdlNU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9ANdC7ZFAI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_iPysBMIUg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4W5RXPXsko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydKcaIE6O1k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkO2CwLWRvg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzs9IljUZiU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq3nRSq03x4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFERVdpmPDc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6Ttro225EE There has also been an experiment in Kenya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyTBWUkdGR0 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/magazine/universal-income-global-inequality.html https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/6/14007230/kenya-basic-income-givedirectly-experiment-village Interesting footnote of history: Richard Nixon already wanted to introduce an universal basic income more than 40 years ago ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM7iQU0eaG0 Edit: Sorry for throwing all those links at you, i thought i post them here, in case someone finds that topic interesting, i didn't want to "impose" a discussion on you ...

FIFA World Cup™ Magazine episode 27 (in case you are sad that the qualifiers are over and want to see more ...): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TfUabUAcKw

An interesting video for all the people who fear that most of us will be replaced by robots soon ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUmyygCMMGA I think this channel has a lot of interesting videos, the same is true for the following channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrU9YDoXE88

Leonardo Da Vinci's last painting in private hands "Salvator Mundi" (at least it is said to be by him) was sold for $450.3 M yesterday. It's old owner Dmitry Rybolovlev bought it for $127 M 4 years ago, so he made a good profit ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7omwQLuGJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b70MWFITsd4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJb14H3Mz_o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCHD-6s2tes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TnA4fwk6Yo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTS6-KeGoHg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY1CKDxaeiQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAU64qk5nNY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhArixI-oJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB9iy3k3TBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3mLhkijkOw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0AwMlOGCv0 The art market is getting crazier and crazier by the minute, but it has to be said that Da Vinci apparently was a really interesting character ... For me personally it is just sad that it is allowed for people to buy great artworks like this and then hide it away, especially because this work was just recently "discovered" and i think that everyone should get the chance to see it before it is locked away again. It also has to be said that the art market is a great place to launder money, so we should take the skyrocketing of the prizes we see with a grain of salt ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0AwMlOGCv0

Don't know if it is the right thread, but i will drop some links here anyway, in case that someone wants to watch some interesting Wimbledon matches from the past: 1980 Wimbledon final: Borg vs. McEnroe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6PW9pNevIg 1975 Wimbledon final with my favorite player: Ashe vs. Connors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgQhyiaAMeY 2001 Wimbledon final: Ivanisevic vs. Rafter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzoEVuRkLLo 2009 Wimbledon final: Federer vs. Roddick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rctOtFOXco8 2008 Wimbledon final: Federer vs. Nadal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8YEiCAPAbg 2001 Wimbledon 4th round: Federer vs. Sampras https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEPdLJhq6-k 2015 Wimbledon 2nd round: Brown vs. Nadal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2-CAWnLa1Y 1977 Wimbledon semifinal: Borg vs. Gerulaitis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feJGKuI3WLk 2005 Wimbledon final: V.Williams vs. Davenport https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nchz8NgeJAM 1978 Wimbledon final: Navratilova vs. Evert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUibcWfCswc "Spirit of Wimbledon" documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IPihpU0_l4

I am extremely disappointed by this edition, no songs i really like. Why was everyone afraid to pick popular songs? The open edition should normally have a much better quality than the annual edition, but this time it is clearly the other way round. Given the level of competition, i am confident that Germany would have gotten a very good result this time, which makes me even sadder that i missed the deadline to enter a song.