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And so Russia wins again. 

Doping or no doping, they have some incredible depth in their team, I'll say that much.

Just now, hckosice said:

Ajde Srbija

It looks like they will beat Slovakia :O 

I must say Drndic is improving very fast. I think she could maybe get on the WC in a couple of years.

Just now, hckosice said:

 

at least Veronika Vitková was absolutely great

Yes she was great to watch  Looking forward to her races at the WCH.

I wonder who the fourth relay member for the men will be. Probably Vaclavik, I guess. His shooting isn't the greatest, though.

Just now, hckosice said:

 

Krupčík

I didn't expect this from him honestly. I guess with the nomination pressure and the race pressure. But normally he's quite reliable.

4 minutes ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

Don't worry you can root for us

(I feel the same way sometimes about alpine skiing. Better to just root for Slovakia.)

Ok don't root for us scratch that

1 minute ago, hckosice said:

3+6 after 2 legs in the single relay..wow

Don't worry you can root for us

(I feel the same way sometimes about alpine skiing. Better to just root for Slovakia.)

Just now, heywoodu said:

Well, nope

 

 

 

In that case, Go Croatia.

26 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Oh you mean in Poland, yes  

 

I had forgotten Mika is still there, but she only drove to Prague yesterday to take Bruna to the bus station (to start the travel to Kazakhstan) and then went back I gues...

 

Well, Gabi and Caio were in the single mixed in the Junior Cup in Pokljuka this week  

Yeah true that  I meant in senior competition. 

Looks like Brazil will have a relay team this year after all! And livestreamed 

3 minutes ago, hckosice said:

well 61-13 SOG it´s really something we don´t see so often at international level. but I´m not familiar with the real levels of the teams here, I know our players play the relatively solid university league, some of them play in our second/third tier championship clubs. and we really rarely (or never) play matches against second or lowest divisions hockey countries, so it´s nice to see this comming at least at the universiade. if my knowledge is correct this was only the second SVK-GBR official match in history, the first one was7-1 in September 1993 in Sheffield during the Lillehammer 1994 olympic qualification, just 1 year after our independance when IIHF incomprehensibly and shamefully forced us to play the C pool (Equivalent of todays Division II)

Must have been quite funny for us Czechs when you had to play in Division II...

Poor poor Slovakia

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

 

Hard to say, so far I only looked at FIS points but today and tomorrow I'm going to take a closer look at the exact results of athletes with for example above 150 FIS points to see what's possible  

 

All participants ranked by FIS distance points:

 

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Athlete	Nation	FIS distance	FIS sprint
Anna Nechaevskaia	RUS	43,19	125,05
Marion Buillet	FRA	52,89	122,99
Ewelina Marcisz	POL	67,60	136,31
Maria Davydenkova	RUS	68,41	77,57
Olga Repnitsyna	RUS	68,74	116,03
Anna Shevchenko	KAZ	69,63	127,77
Celine Chopard-Lallier	FRA	71,62	279,10
Anastasia Mayngardt	BLR	75,41	141,76
Lilia Vasilieva	RUS	77,33	109,44
Anna Stoyan	KAZ	79,86	121,29
Kseniia Malevannaia	RUS	81,11	121,47
Martyna Galewicz	POL	81,14	246,28
Olga Mandrika	KAZ	82,39	168,05
Coralie Bentz	FRA	84,74	233,21
Andrea Klementova	CZE	86,45	208,77
Lali Kvaratskheliya	RUS	87,58	106,92
Irina Bykova	KAZ	88,47	152,89
Kozue Takizawa	JPN	89,65	245,89
Oxana Glavatskikh	RUS	91,90	117,18
Ina Lukonina	BLR	93,79	162,76
Jogscha Abderhalden	SUI	96,37	279,36
Anzhelika Tarassova	KAZ	97,06	204,94
Lea Damiani	FRA	97,86	320,97
Yukari Tanaka	JPN	102,76	237,22
Angelina Shuryga	KAZ	103,09	258,07
Viktoriia Olekh	UKR	114,10	231,84
Maryna Bukinich	BLR	120,95	152,56
Anastasiia Moskalenko	RUS	121,03	97,73
Marina Matrossova	KAZ	130,23	255,10
Maryia Roshchynskaya	BLR	131,34	250,66
Lee Ji-yun	KOR	133,59	601,22
Yulia Tarasenko	UKR	137,70	308,34
Marija Kaznacenko	LTU	140,95	190,01
Mariia Nasyko	UKR	153,14	286,01
Yonca Karademir	TUR	157,57	428,59
Christel Pichard-Jolicoeur	CAN	163,30	263,25
Aneta Smerciakova	SVK	164,24	275,37
Andrée-Anne Théberge	CAN	172,33	318,31
Valentina Ebel	KAZ	181,83	303,30
Otgontsetseg Chinbat	MGL	195,41	438,99
Oksana Siheti	UKR	196,10	312,67
Iryna Solovei	UKR	198,11	376,64
Emma Camicioli	CAN	198,58	255,58
Yoo Dan-bi	KOR	200,85	401,62
Bae Min-ju	KOR	200,90	495,69
Eva Segecova	SVK	201,75	238,86
Kim Bo-ra	KOR	202,24	597,97
Kim Eun-ji	KOR	214,00	585,86
Enkhtuul Ariunsanaa	MGL	216,34	389,75
Consuelo Confortola	ITA	220,61	378,27
Kyla Vanderzwet	CAN	227,47	337,36
Bruna Moura	BRA	251,44	458,63
Katarzyna Stokfisz	POL	279,16	249,08
Magdalena Czusz	POL	304,81	336,16
Sierra Jech	USA	316,66	x
Meghan Kent	USA	316,85	689,65
Daryna Mazur	UKR	324,38	801,31
Yara Thomas	USA	347,91	416,19
Delgermaa Bat-Ochir	MGL	402,68	383,44
Emma Malmquist	USA	702,04	544,87
Shelby Dickey	CAN	x	x
Zhang Xue	CHN	x	x
Wu Aiting	CHN	x	x
Li Lei	CHN	x	x
Zhao Yuan	CHN	x	x
Jael Compagnoni	ITA	x	x
Kunduz Abdykadyrova	KGZ	x	x
Helen Cutting	USA	x	x
Sierra Foster	USA	x	x
Adrienne Sulser	USA	x	x

 

Bruna would have considerably less points if the races in Ushuaia in July/August weren't cancelled by the way, probably something like 170-180  

I'd only say for certainty Abdykadyrova and some of the Mongolians. But who knows? Hopefully she is motivated by her fanclub  

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

And she might have a decent chance considering there's not much World Cup-action among the athletes  

 

And yes I was just as surprised about Georgia

 

By the way, 10 of 70 female cross-country skiers don't even appear in the FIS Points List. Mostly because they didn't compete any FIS races in the past year or so and in a few cases because there's simply no profile of them  

How many of them do you feel Bruna can beat?  

8 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Oh we already started

 

I thought this was just about tomorrow until you came up with actual stats

Same, I had no idea. Hahaha

I'm not really going to watch the hockey much, though. Mostly biathlon, ski jumping etc

Interesting we have a ski jumper from GEORGIA. 

Also our best female ski jumper Dolezalova is coming back, this is great news for Pyongchang, I thought she had stopped racing.

6 hours ago, dcro said:

 

Well, "Kazakhstan No. 1" coach is also something to be mentioned.

Can't forget all the potassium!

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

Looks like he will make his debut in Lahti.

 

 

I hope Eurosport broadcasts the qualifying races like last year! He'd probably be an early starter.

1 minute ago, dcro said:

 

Apparently he hasn't competed since 2014 season.

 

Maybe the taekwondo player can do something, he does have an athletic background at least.

It's possible, I hope. But taekwondo isn't really an endurance sport, if he can train up his technique and endurance he could do well. We'll see at the World Champs!

2 hours ago, dcro said:

 

I think Tonga can scratch Kasete-Naufahu Skeen. More than one minute behind the winner in his first giant slalom.

 

https://data.fis-ski.com/dynamic/results.html?sector=AL&raceid=87432

Hmm... Yeah their cross country skiiers also are likely to be slow. Makaleta Stephan was over 10 minutes off at the Wch SPRINT.

And the other guy is a taekwondo player.

Any news on Bruno Banani?

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Uganda's snowboarding guy will compete in the Winter Universiade next week, so that might be interesting to see him in action in a big competition

So far he's quite behind in points. Would be great to see him perform.

By the way Uganda's the only country to have participated in the Winter Paralympics but not Olympics. Fun fact

This doesn't really count, but remember the Iraqi , Faisal Faisal, who narrowly missed out on the 2006 and 2010 Olympics? I messaged him and he says he's coming back onto the slopes next year, probably too late for Pyongchang but is aiming for Beijing 2022!

Other countries that were doing decently in past Olympic cycles include the Bahamas (snowboarder), Panama (bobsled team) and El Salvador (had a good alpine skiier who stopped racing suddenly). But that's very speculative that anything from them will happen, especially now.

Algeria  has a young alpine skiier who if she improves a lot could make it, and Khelifi their cross-country athlete could still be there, since he started about this late for qualifying for Sochi. Unfortunately they're not an ISU member so I don't see the figure skating thing happening for them  

Also I think we should add Qatar . I know it's a huge longshot, but they are trying in short track (and yes, even mixed doubles curling) and have about as much chance as say the Haitian alpine skiiers.

Come on Bruna!

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Just for your info: Eurosport 2 is showing the men's race today, 'Eurosport 1' is showing the women's race. Or at least that's how it's in the Netherlands  

You're a godsend. Without you I'd be watching on datacenter lmao

Intersting how they didn't broadcast the World Cup. Guess the Australian Open has its ways.

Quite interested in this race, the Czechs are treating these sort of as selection races.

And also it's not every day you can watch a lower-level race like this.

Just now, heywoodu said:

Yes, it's on the official streaming page  

http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/ibu/

 

And on the Eurosport Player if you happen to have that (since I'm guessing you can't receive Eurosport 2 over there). 

Oh, thanks! I had no idea, I didn't even think to check because I assumed it wouldn't be there!

I can go on cricfree over here so I can watch Eurosport. I try to when possible, I like the commentators very much.

Anyway does anyone know of a livestream of the event online?