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Is Mixed relay will be at the World, European and new 4 Continents championships? I can't find any information about it.

Russian Olympic Committee showed new mascots of the Russian Olympic Team. They are cat-ushanka-hat and bear-matryoshka-untopply. The names will be create later.

Kazakhstan's capital Astana will be renamed to Nursultan after the first president of the country Nursultan Nazarbayev has leaved the office. It will be the fifth name of the city which was created in 1830.

Some big names which will start in the figure skating include Alexander Samarin, Matteo Rizzo, Mai Mihara, Elizabet Tursynbaeva. Dmitry Loginov and Natalia Soboleva will participate in the snowboard and Maxim Burov in the freestyle.

It was in the news at the official website in the Russian language. Now there is a news about cross-country skiing and ski-orienteering. 27 countries will participate in the cross-country. The biggest teams are (16 athletes), (15), (13), (12). , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , will start too. And , , represents with only 1 athlete. The competitor from Australia is Katerina Paul, which was 3rd in the qualifying race at the Seefeld WCHs some days ago. 21 countries in the ski-orienteering. The biggest teams are (16 athletes), (12), (11), (11), (9), (9). , , , , , , , , , will start too. And , , , , represents with only 1 athlete. Two athletes from Romania will be the only representatives of their country at the Universiade.

38 countries expects in the alpine skiing. There are no full list but it can includes , , , . In general expects 58-60 countries. and participation were under question. , , have to start first time at the Winter Universiades.

Team sports at the Winter Universiade 2019 Men's ice hockey Group A Group B Women's ice hockey Men's bandy Women's bandy Men's curling Women's curling

Huge crash of Piquet and win for Di Grassi at the last metres.

Ovechkin sets NHL points record for Russians players during the game Washington Capitals vs. Vancouver Canucks (3-2). Ovechkin, who assisted on T.J. Oshie's first-period goal, has 1,180 points (644 goals, 536 assists) in 14 NHL seasons, one more than Sergei Fedorov (483 goals, 696 assists) had in 18 seasons.

5:6 Russia lost most part of the game but won at the additional time. 8:2

12:6 First game against Germany was the best for the Netherlands at this tournament. Today they were very close to Germans during 50 minutes but later missed a lot.. Next year they go back to Div B. 9:3 6:2 2:2 after the first half but two fast goals at the start of the second half have a negative impact on the Finnish team. 20:1 Medal games tomorrow.

There are national federations, players, fans which like this sport. And international federation, which organises the WCH. In general there are no inconsistency between them about necessarity of this tournament. What is the problem?

10:1 4:1

2:3 22:1 14:0 7:7 Pen. 2:0 The most sapid part of the championship have started. Russia had a very tough match against Finland. The United States won very important game against Germany only on penalties and go to the play-off. Germany led 2:6 in half an hour before the end of the game. Play-off starts tomorrow. vs. vs. and qualified to the semifinals.

Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik has just announced that he will end his career as a professional chess player. Kramnik was world champion from 2000 until 2007.

Winner's runs - Thursday, January 24th Winner's runs - Friday, January 25th Winner's runs - Saturday, January 26th Winner's runs - Sunday, January 27th

6:0 22:1 13:2 1:25 No games tomorrow.

Final Results - Sunday, January 27th Men's Ski Slopestyle Rank Name Best 1 Alex Hall 95.66 2 Alex Beaulieu-Marchand 92.66 3 Ferdinand Dahl 80.33 Harley-Davidson Snow Hill Climb Gold Match Rank Name Time 1 Logan Mead 10.500 2 Travis Whitlock DNF Bronze Match Rank Name Time 3 Jake Anstett 11.370 4 Austin Cardwell DNF Men's Snowboard SuperPipe Rank Name Best 1 Scotty James 94.00 2 Yuto Totsuka 90.00 3 Danny Davis 83.66 Snow Bike Best Trick Rank Name Best 1 Rob Adelberg 91.00 2 Brett Turcotte 89.66 3 Ethen Roberts 89.00

Snowboard Knuckle Huck event was really cool.

Final Results - Saturday, January 26th Women's Snowboard Slopestyle Rank Name Best 1 Zoi Sadowski-Synnott 91.00 2 Hailey Langland 90.66 3 Enni Rukajarvi 84.66 Adaptive Snow BikeCross Rank Name Time 1 Mike Schultz 5:07.241 2 Tyler Brandenburger -22.211 3 Kevin Royston -26.226 Para Snow BikeCross Rank Name Time 1 Doug Henry 4:57.599 2 Will Posey -19.051 3 Leighton Lillie 1 Lap Men's Snowboard Slopestyle Rank Name Best 1 Mark McMorris 96.00 2 Rene Rinnekangas 94.00 3 Mons Røisland 91.33 Snow BikeCross Rank Name Time 1 Cody Matechuk 10:31.387 2 Jesse Kirchmeyer -4.445 3 Brock Hoyer -5.766 Snowboard Knuckle Huck Rank Name Best 1 Fridtjof Sæther Tischendorf 100.00 Men's Ski Big Air Rank Name Best Two 1 Birk Ruud 89.00 2 Alex Beaulieu-Marchand 87.00 3 James Woods 82.00 Women's Snowboard SuperPipe Rank Name Best 1 Chloe Kim 84.00 2 Queralt Castellet 80.00 3 Cai Xuetong 72.66

Now Fan Boost looks even more weird.

6:3 10:13 It's hard to remember when both teams scored 10 or more goals in one game at the World Championship

With the attack mode these races looks more interesting.

Final Results - Thursday, January 24th Special Olympics Unified Snowboarding Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Best 1 Henry Meece- Chris Klug 18.865 15.916 34.70 2 Scotty Lago- Juan Guentrutrsipai 15.867 19.02 34.82 3 Mike Schultz- Christopher Perdue 16.56 18.81 35.37 Women's Ski SuperPipe Rank Name Best 1 Cassie Sharpe 94.00 2 Kelly Sildaru 92.33 3 Rachael Karker 86.33 Men's Ski SuperPipe Rank Name Best 1 Alex Ferreira 92.66 2 David Wise 90.33 3 Nico Porteous 89.00 Women's Snowboard Big Air Rank Name Best Two 1 Laurie Blouin 77.00 2 Zoi Sadowski-Synnott 77.00 3 Jamie Anderson 67.00 Final Results - Friday, January 25th Women's Ski Slopestyle Rank Name Best 1 Kelly Sildaru 99.00 2 Sarah Hoefflin 90.00 3 Maggie Voisin 87.66 Jeep Wrangler X Challenge Rank Name Time 1 Casey Currie 46.640 2 Brian Deegan -8.890 3 Bucky Lasek -11.200 Snowmobile Freestyle Rank Name Best 1 Daniel Bodin 91.66 2 Brett Turcotte 90.66 3 Justin Hoyer 87.33 Women's Ski Big Air Rank Name Best Two 1 Mathilde Gremaud 83.00 2 Johanne Killi 80.00 3 Kelly Sildaru 79.00 Men's Snowboard Big Air Rank Name Best Two 1 Takeru Otsuka 88.00 2 Mark McMorris 85.00 3 Sven Thorgren 76.00

6:4 9:0 This year two teams from pool 1 will go straight to the semifinals. So these results at the group stage can be a little more important than usual.