Dmitry

On Monday Men's World Championships in the Division B will start. Both Divisions A and B will play in . 2019 tournaments are record for the number of participating teams. This year there are 20 nations in total in both divisions. Unfortunately in 2019 will not participate. But , and are back! And more of that and are going to play first time in the history of Men's Bandy World Championsips! For the news about Great Britain and Switzerland there is a story about 1913 European Bandy Championships, which was played in Davos and England won it. But according to this it looks like 1913 Eurobandy is just a fake and the tournament was never held. 12 teams in the Division B will play in Vänersborg and Trollhättan. Group A: , , , , , . Group B: , , , , , . Two teams from each group are going to the semifinals. The winner of the play-off can play in Div A next year. 8 teams in the Division A will play in Vänersborg. But besides one game will be in Borås, one game will be in Surte, and two games will be in Trollhättan. The tournament starts next Saturday. Group A: , , , . Group B: , , , . The play-off system are the same like in women's ice hockey. The worst team relegates to the Div B. Official site.

I think in general the concept that some disciplines are going to in at one Olympics, cut in the other Olympics and later reinstate again are OK. The problems is in schedule. Athletes have to know about it at least 7 years before the Olympics. The other problem is the sport (federation) concept which IOC use. They are going to do changes only inside additional sports. But there are many disciplines in the core sports which look worse, but they are stay in because it's core sport. And any core international federation want to bring all disciplines which they have to the Olympics. So there are less space for the others. For me will be better if IOC forget about the sport concept and will do itself list of disciplines for every Olympics. Not a problem if something will shake up if the most interesting and competitive disciplines will stay in the programme every time and if athletes will know the list maybe 7-8 years before the Olympics. But some core federations can be angry with this.

And another thing in the rules for OQT Look at the rules 4. "Qualified .. to the Games or what" So for example Man's team qualified to the Games through the ranking. And Woman's team of the respective NOC is in the last 10 berths. So woman's team can't play in the OQT? But if man's team and woman's team from the same country are in the 16 which can play in the OQT, they still both can qualified to the Games?

I think continental representation will enough in this case too. But this UOQT is a monster. "Only NOC (other than Host Country of the Olympic Games) who have not been represented in Basketball (irrespectively men or women) in the past 2 editions of the Olympic Games are eligible to participate in the UOQT"

Universality-driven Olympic Qualifying Tournament is just

It's hard to find how Women Water Polo World Leagues 2019 system will work for European countries? http://www.fina.org/event/women-european-qualification After first round of qualification only 2 teams from Group A and 2 teams from Group B goes to Europa Cup Final? And later 3 or even all of them qualifies to Superfinal?

Which team will play in the Olympic qualification events if Japan finished in top-2 in their pool at Hockey Series? May be third but I can't find a proof.

But the goalie stopped the puck and Chelmet didn't score. And he stopped both penalty shot... It's interesting to see 3 penalty shots in the same play one day...

2 penalty shots in the same play was in the game Lada vs. Chelmet in VHL in September. There were foul and the goalkeeper come in before 6th player got away. Chelmet missed both chances but they won anyway.

Russia scored two goals on Czech power plays, Czech player scored with his face.

I remember that commentator prefer just to ignore athletes from at the swimming world championships.

They need this manual: Australia ≠ Austria Slovakia ≠ Slovenia Iraq ≠ Iran Sweden ≠ Switzerland Dominican Republic ≠ Dominica

Officialy, Biathlon World Team Challenge 2018 will be the last race for Shipulin.

Shocked results in the women competition at the Russian championship 1 Anna Shcherbakova 229.785 (14 years old) 2 Alexandra Trusova 229.712 (14 years old) 3 Alena Kostornaia 226.543 (15 years old) 4 Stanislava Konstantinova 212.924 5 Alina Zagitova 212.031 (Olympic champion 2018) 6 Sofia Samodurova 209.776 (Started in the Grand Prix 2018 final) 7 Evgenia Medvedeva 205.901 (Silver olympic medalist 2018). Elizaveta Tuktamysheva didn't participate. No one from top-3 can't start at the European Championship 2019 because they didn't reach 15 years old for the moment of the official start season (1 July 2018)

According to rumuors Anton Shipulin can finish his career after Biathlon World Team Challenge 2018. But nothing is confirmed.

X Games Sidney 2018 Winner's runs Friday, October 19 BMX Street Women's Skateboard Street Saturday, October 20 BMX Dirt Moto X Freestyle Skateboard Big Air Sunday, October 21 BMX Big Air Moto X Best Whip Moto X Best Trick Men's Skateboard Street

X Games Sidney 2018 Results Friday, October 19 BMX Street Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Best 1 Alex Donnachie 84.33 77.33 84.33 2 Lewis Mills 69.33 84.00 84.00 3 Garrett Reynolds 83.33 83.33 83.33 Women's Skateboard Street Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Best 1 Mariah Duran 89.00 48.33 36.33 89.00 2 Leticia Bufoni 87.66 66.33 88.00 88.00 3 Aori Nishimura 36.00 82.00 80.33 82.00 Saturday, October 20 BMX Dirt Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Best 1 Dawid Godziek 90.33 17.66 18.00 90.33 2 Kyle Baldock 86.00 50.66 49.33 86.00 3 Colton Walker 37.33 83.00 82.00 83.00 Moto X Freestyle Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Best 1 Tom Pages 35.00 96.66 96.66 2 Josh Sheehan 92.66 95.33 95.33 3 Rob Adelberg 94.66 00.00 94.66 Skateboard Big Air Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Run 5 Best 1 Elliot Sloan 00.00 00.00 42.33 87.33 95.66 95.66 2 Rony Gomes 84.33 38.00 78.33 94.00 00.00 94.00 3 Trey Wood 41.00 86.66 91.33 00.00 00.00 91.33 Sunday, October 21 BMX Big Air Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Best 1 Ryan Williams 88.66 91.00 92.00 72.00 92.00 2 James Foster 90.00 76.33 90.33 72.00 90.33 3 Mykel Larrin 66.66 85.00 78.00 87.00 87.00 Moto X Best Whip Rank Name Run 1 Best 1 Jarryd McNeil 96.00 96.00 2 Corey Creed 92.00 92.00 3 Axell Hodges 91.00 91.00 Moto X Best Trick Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Best 1 Rob Adelberg 94.66 69.00 94.66 2 Tom Pages 91.66 50.66 91.66 3 Josh Sheehan 90.66 90.00 90.66 Men's Skateboard Street Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Best 1 Nyjah Huston 94.33 85.00 96.00 96.00 2 Kelvin Hoefler 82.00 92.66 47.66 92.66 3 Shane O'Neill 84.00 65.66 92.00 92.00

X Games Minneapolis 2018 Winner's runs Sunday, July 22 Harley-Davidson Flat Track Racing Women's Skateboard Park Men's Skateboard Street Men's BMX Park

X Games Minneapolis 2018 Results Sunday, July 22 Harley-Davidson Flat Track Racing Rank Name Time 1 Jared Mees 4:00.747 2 Briar Bauman -1.375 3 Jake Johnson -1.926 Women's Skateboard Park Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Best 1 Brighton Zeuner 87.66 90.33 17.66 90.33 2 Sabre Norris 84.66 85.33 69.66 85.33 3 Sakura Yosozumi 56.00 21.33 82.33 82.33 Men's Skateboard Street Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Best 1 Nyjah Huston 63.00 93.00 80.33 93.00 2 Jagger Eaton 85.00 88.00 90.33 90.33 3 Kelvin Hoefler 89.66 72.00 89.33 89.66 Men's BMX Park Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Best 1 Logan Martin 92.66 93.33 79.33 93.33 2 Dennis Enarson 64.00 90.66 91.00 91.00 3 Kyle Baldock 88.66 - 87.00 88.66

X Games Minneapolis 2018 Winner's runs Saturday, July 21 Moto X Step Up Men's Skateboard Park Women's Skateboard Street BMX Dirt Moto X Best Whip Moto X Best Trick Skateboard Big Air

X Games Minneapolis 2018 Results Saturday, July 21 Moto X Step Up Rank Name Best 1 Jarryd McNeil 43' 2 Libor Podmol 41' 3 Colby Raha 41' Men's Skateboard Park Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Best 1 Alex Sorgente 89.00 11.66 5.00 89.00 2 Triastan Rennie 86.66 87.66 83.33 87.66 3 Tom Schaar 85.33 31.00 72.33 85.33 Women's Skateboard Street Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Best 1 Mariah Duran 24.66 87.66 63.66 87.66 2 Aori Nishimura 85.00 86.00 19.66 86.00 3 Alexis Sablone 77.66 79.33 84.00 84.00 BMX Dirt Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Best 1 Brandon Loupos 90.33 20.66 95.00 95.00 2 Logan Martin 94.00 91.33 91.33 94.00 3 Brian Fox 92.33 44.33 42.66 92.33 Moto X Best Whip Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Best 1 Jarryd McNeil 90.66 91.66 68.00 91.66 2 Genki Watanabe 88.00 87.00 91.33 91.33 3 Axell Hodges 86.00 88.00 90.33 90.33 Moto X Best Trick Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Best 1 Jackson Strong 93.00 - 93.00 2 Tom Pages 91.66 91.00 91.66 3 Rob Adelberg 90.66 91.00 91.00 Skateboard Big Air Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Run 5 Best 1 Mitchie Brusco 39.66 39.00 39.00 92.00 0.03 92.00 2 Clay Kreiner 0.03 0.03 88.00 0.03 91.00 91.00 3 Trey Wood 83.00 X 0.03 90.00 0.03 90.00

X Games Minneapolis 2018 Winner's runs Friday, July 20 Next X Skateboard Park BMX Street BMX Park Best Trick Moto X QuarterPipe High Air BMX Big Air Moto X Freestyle

X Games Minneapolis 2018 Results Friday, July 20 Next X Skateboard Park Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Best 1 Liam Pace 87.00 8.33 87.00 2 Gavin Bottger 63.66 83.66 83.66 3 Luiz Francisco 59.66 80.00 80.00 Next X Skateboard Street Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Best 1 Giovanni Vianna 84.00 90.33 90.33 2 Keyaki Ike 86.00 82.66 86.00 3 Marcos Montoya 76.00 85.00 85.00 BMX Street Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Best 1 Chad Kerley 89.33 92.33 92.33 2 Garrett Reynolds 91.33 88.66 91.33 3 Devon Smillie 82.33 88.66 88.66 BMX Park Best Trick Rank Name Best 1 Alex Hiam 90.66 2 Logan Martin 87.66 3 Alex Nikulin 87.66 Moto X QuarterPipe High Air Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Best 1 Axell Hodges 32'3" 33'2" 34'3" 34'3" 2 Colby Raha 29'9" 31'2" 33'2" 33'2" 3 Tyler Bereman 27'3" 29'9" 29'1" 29'9" BMX Big Air Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Best 1 James Foster 82.66 89.33 21.66 73.33 89.33 2 Morgan Wade 87.66 78.33 44.00 76.33 87.66 3 Vince Byron 83.33 50.33 85.66 82.00 85.66 Moto X Freestyle Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Best 1 Tom Pages 44.00 92.33 92.33 2 Jackson Strong 90.00 25.00 90.00 3 Rob Adelberg 88.66 22.33 88.66

X Games Minneapolis 2018 Winner's runs Thursday, July 19 Skateboard Vert BMX Vert

X Games Minneapolis 2018 Results Thursday, July 19 Skateboard Vert Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Best 1 Jimmy Wilkins 89.00 30.00 57.66 89.00 2 Moto Shibata 86.00 87.33 77.33 87.33 3 Mitchie Brusco 50.00 87.00 7.33 87.00 BMX Vert Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Best 1 Vince Byron 91.00 76.66 91.00 2 Jamie Bestwick 88.00 85.00 88.00 3 Zach Newman 84.00 59.33 84.00