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Very true, especially since only 4 of the top 6 were born in 1998 or later and only 3 of those 4 weren’t from Russia. It is also concerning that at the last junior worlds of all the medals in women’s mogul only gold and silver didn’t go to someone from Russia. By the way: As far as I know there will only be a mixed aerials team event at the Olympics (which is equally nonsensical of course), but no mixed moguls team event.

Disappointing 11th place for Emma Weiss after a 7th place in qualification. She needs to improve by 5 to 6 points in order to fight for a medal.

Women’s slalom: Gold: Mathiou (Italy) Silver: Bostroem Mussener (Sweden) Bronze: A. J. Hurt (USA) Mathiou (2002) and Bostroem Mussener (2001) are young enough to come back next year. Very close race, the top 8 were within 0.68 seconds. Not sure if any of the girls can become world class, no one looked like a superior talent. Sadly another 4th (and 5th) place for Germany. This was the last competition (no downhill/combined/team this year), so here is the final standing of the Marc Hodler Trophy: 1) Austria 61 points 2) Italy 43 points 3) Sweden 40 points 4) Switzerland 36 points 5) Norway 35 points 6) Germany/USA 29 points 8) Slovenia 20 points Separated by gender: Men: 1) Austria 42 points 2) Switzerland 30 points 3) Norway 22 points 4) Italy 19 points 5) USA 16 points 6) Germany 10 points 7) France 8 points 8) Sweden/Slovenia 4 points Women: 1) Sweden 36 points 2) Italy 24 points 3) Austria/Germany 19 points 5) Slovenia 16 points 6) Norway/USA 13 points 8) Switzerland 6 points Biggest surprises for me: - Sweden has a lot of very good talents on the women’s side, they could become strong again at senior level in a couple of years. - The US has some nice talents again (Hurt and Ritchie). - France did very poorly for their standard, only 9 points overall (1 point better than Finland) and their best results were a 5th place in men’s Super G, a 9th place in men’s giant slalom and a 10th place in women’s slalom. - Germany and the US were surprisingly close to Norway and Switzerland in the Marc Hodler Trophy.

Thank god! There are way too many events in freestyle skiing already.

1) Sure, Germany has regressed in some events, but at the same time Germany has improved in other events (triple jump, men’s javelin, women’s distance running), this is just the way it goes. 2) It doesn’t make any sense to draw any conclusions from the results at the European indoor championships. The top 4 or 5 women didn’t even compete in the 60 m sprint (Lückenkemper, Mayer, Kwayie, Pinto) and in women’s 60 m hurdles Dutkiewicz and Roleder were missing.

Sure, Germany is weaker now than 20 or more years ago, but not weaker than 10 or 15 years ago. Also Germany not sure what you mean with „Germany seems to do better in field events these days“. I don’t remember a time when Germany (not GDR) did better in track events.

What are you criticizing? Personally I would prefer to only have the following events on the men’s side: Sprint freestyle Team sprint freestyle 10 km classic 10 km freestyle Not sure if the last two should be mass start or interval start. I think that mass start is more interesting, but it could be another easy gold for the best sprinters.

I am always amazed to see how seriously Poland takes European championships. GB and Germany on the other hand ...

Things change way too quickly in sports to make predictions for a decade. She definitely has a shot at bronze in Tokyo in the 400 m hurdles. Wouldn’t make sense for her to also enter the 400.

Amazing competition. 5 teams with a chance for gold at halftime and Norway isn’t even one of them. Far more competitive than cross-country and Nordic combined team competitions.

Sadly a pointless event (just like the speed skating world championships) without the Asians (and Seidel). Obviously none of the results can be taken seriously. It would be like having table tennis world championships without Asian countries, absolutely pointless.

Stadlhuber not winning a medal might be the biggest surprise in the history of sports!!!

I hope Stadlhuber won’t medal, but since she is Austrian and this is 2021, she probably will. After the doping scandal in Austrian winter sports, they aren’t any less suspicious than the Norwegians.

How the hell do you get lapped when one lap is 6 km? The equivalent in a track 10k would be to be lapped 5 times after less than 9k. There is no way that someone like that should be allowed to compete at worlds. I am sure you could find hundreds of hobby athletes in Norway or Sweden who would do much better but will never get the chance to compete. „Athletes“ like that are ruining the track for real athletes.

Very brave of her to protest the hijab ban in some European countries this way.

At the world championships they weren’t exactly flying either in the sprint. Alimbekava had the 22nd best time (46.6 seconds behind Chevalier-Bouchet), Tandrevold had the 14th best time (37.1 seconds behind) and Davidova had the 12th best time (36.1 seconds behind). Today Davidova was 12th, Alimbekava was 11th and Tandrevold was 10th, so they actually did better than at worlds, you could say that they rather overperformed today.

Here is my prediction for Austria: Biathlon: 0 golds (obviously) Nordic combined: 0 golds Ski jumping: 1 or 2 golds Alpine skiing: 2 golds at best This year they won 7 golds in those sports.

Yes, but very unlikely that the new fluke is from the same nation as the current fluke. Also I was talking about alpine skiing, biathlon and Nordic combined as well.

It is not a handicap obviously, it helps with aerodynamics and also prevents him from getting a sunburn.

No point in him competing without Lewandowski. Obviously his only job here was to push Ingebrigtsen so that Lewandowski has a chance to beat him.

Please update after every heat. We need more updates! Thanks!

Didn’t know that he was still active ... Has he done anything since his fluke gold in 2011?

The year of the insane fluke performances continues for Austria. They must hope that this year never ends. Too bad that they won’t come even remotely close to those results at the Olympics.

Will be interesting to see if any Portuguese born athletes will win any medals for them. First Dongmo from Cameroon and then maybe Pichardo from Cuba ... At the 2008 Olympics their only athletics medal was won by Evora (born in Ivory Coast) and Obikwelu (born in Nigeria) won a medal for them at the 2004 Olympics, so it has some tradition there ...

Don’t think that bronze for France is a surprise, although they are much weaker than they used to be. The truth is that there are only two good relays on the men’s side. The second Norwegian/Russian relay easily would have won bronze here. At least on the women’s side you have 3 good relays (Norway, Sweden, Russia). Hopefully Sweden will get back to their best to make this event at least somewhat competitive in the future. I think Norway now has won this event at every worlds since 1999 (when they lost against Austria of all nations) ...