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Watching the X games which is much bigger than any WC. The NZ Park and Pipe athletes in both Snowboard and Freestyle have made massive progress and have shaken the tree as such. We've found new sensations in Luca Harrington and Rocco Jamieson. Along with the imperious Zoi Sadowski Synnott who looked scary good and buried her competition when coming off a year long injury. Hopefully not too long till Nico Porteous is back. His understudies are holding their own in Fin Melville Ives and Luke Harrold in the Freeski HP. It's looking rather exciting when you know they have a full year to improve more and those athletes coming off long injuries.

Career best WC finish 

And she finishes 4th! 

Sonjaa Schmidt into the final in the women's sprint at the WC stop in Switzerland!

Aerials WC Lake Placid | Lake Placid, United States  
 
Men
Gold-  Sun Jiaxu (136.17)
Silver-  Noe Roth (123.90)
Bronze-  Li Xinpeng (118.10)
 
Women
Gold-  Xu Mengtao (95.52)
Silver-  Danielle Scott (95.17)
Bronze-  Marion Thenault (90.94)
 
Mixed Team
1.  China 1 (Xu Mengtao, Li Xinpeng, Sun Jiaxu) (328.41)
2.  Canada 2 (Alexandra Montminy, Miha Fontaine, Alexandre Duchaine) (289.17)
3.  Australia (Laura Peel, Reilly Flanagan, Abbey Willcox) (277.63)
 
Full Results

The 18 time world cup winner in Ski Cross, Anna Holmlund will now start to compete in para swimming, backstroke. Just a few days after her last WC victory in 2016 she crashed in training and fell into coma for 5 months. Interesting to see if she can reach success in paralympics.

Canada wins silver in the team aerials competition. Our second team finished in fourth. And the surprising thing was there was no Marion Thenault on either of our teams showing our depth.

Marion Thenault opens the Aerials season with a bronze medal!

Silver for Megan Oldham at the Laax Slopestyle WC! 

Four medals at the Reiteralm Ski Cross WC!
 
Day 1: Schmidt and Sherret won gold and bronze
Day 2: Sherret and Schmidt won gold and bronze, and Drury won bronze. 

I disagree with Fontana being the only possible choice here,  Wang Meng was absolutely dominant in her 2006 and 2010 wins, would have been a contender again in 2014 but for injury and also has accomplished much, much more than Fontana in world championships (Fontana has never won the world championships over 500m, while Meng has won it six times).
 
The only blemish on Meng’s career is that she never came back after her ankle injury.

Awesome news!
 
Megan Oldham and Olivia Asselin are back for the Slopestyle WC in Laax 

Oldham/Asselin are already through to the women’s final (Skye Clarke with a career best 13th as well)

Bonus live curling this week on Eurovision Sport - live coverage of the WFG Masters from Guelph, , starting tomorrow.  Lots of big names in action, both men and women.
 
Eurovision Sport | Curling

Gold at the Women’s U18 World Championships!

Anders Johnson with the third best time of the year (world) in the 500m, meanwhile Connor Howe with the second best in the 1000 and third in the 1500 at the event in Calgary last week (admittedly its altitude)  

Reminded that the mixed doubles world will be in my old hometown of  Fredericton :D

Great fun watching this the last few days. Let's see if this strategy for early selection works for Milan 2026. 
 
Homan is very likely going to be there for the women anyway, but we'll see. 

Great fun watching this the last few days. Let's see if this strategy for early selection works for Milan 2026. 
 
Homan is very likely going to be there for the women anyway, but we'll see. 

Great fun watching this the last few days. Let's see if this strategy for early selection works for Milan 2026. 
 
Homan is very likely going to be there for the women anyway, but we'll see. 

Peterman and Gallant versus Homan and Botcher for the ticket to Italy . Two great teams !

And it’s all over!
 
Peterman/Gallant cap off their unbeaten week with a win in the final and are going to the Olympics!! 

And Alexander Cameron wins bronze in the men’s downhill, the same hill that will be used for the Olympics next year in Italy.

Just wanted to say Happy Holidays to everyone here! Been enjoying the predictions. I'm not great at these, but always love to read other people's opinions. 

PART 2
 
 
Freestyle Skiing
 
Men's Aerials -  - Qi Guangpu
Men's Moguls -  - Mikael Kingsbury
Men's Dual Moguls -  - Mikael Kingsbury
Men's Ski Cross -  - Florian Wilmsmann
Men's Freeski Halfpipe -  - Alex Ferrera
Men's Freeski Slopestyle -  - Birk Ruud
Men's Freeski Big Air -  - Birk Ruud
Women's Aerials -  - Danielle Scott
Women's Moguls -  - Jakara Anthony
Women's Duel Moguls -  - Jakara Anthony
Women's Ski Cross -  - Sandra Naeslund
Women's Freeski Halfpipe -  - Eileen Gu
Women's Freeski Slopestyle -  - Tess Ledeux
Women's Freeski Big Air -  - Mathilde Gremaud
Mixed Team Aerials - 
 
Snowboard
 
Men's Parallel Giant Slalom -  - Daniele Bagozza
Men's Snowboard Cross -  - Jacob Dusek
Men's Snowboard Halfpipe -  - Yuto Totsuka
Men's Snowboard Slopestyle -  - Ryoma Kimata
Men's Snowboard Big Air -  - Kira Kimuga
Women's Parallel Giant Slalom -  - Esther Ledecká
Women's Snowboard Cross -  - Charlotte Bankes
Women's Snowboard Halfpipe -  - Cai Xuetong
Women's Snowboard Slopestyle -  - Mia Brookes
Women's Snowboard Big Air -  - Anna Gasser
Mixed Team Snowboard Cross - 
 
Cross Country Skiing
 
Men's Skiathlon -  - Johannes Hosflot Klaebo
Men's Sprint Classic -  - Johannes Hosflot Klaebo
Men's Team Sprint Free - 
Men's 4x10km Relay - 
Men's 15km Free -  - Simen Hegstad Kruger
Men's 50km Mass Start Classic -  - Johannes Hosflot Klaebo
Women's Skiathlon -  - Ebba Anderson
Women's Sprint Classic -  - Kristine Stavas Skistad
Women's Team Sprint Free - 
Women's 4x5km Relay - 
Women's 10km Free -  - Jonna Sundling
Women's 30km Mass Start Classic -  - Jessie Diggins
 
Nordic Combined
 
Men's Normal Hill -  - Jarl Magnus Riiber
Men's Large Hill -  - Jarl Magnus Riiber
Team - 
 
Ski Jumping 
 
Men's Normal Hill -  - Stefan Kraft
Men's Large Hill -  Timi Zajk
Men's Team - 
Women's Normal Hill -  - Katharina Schmid
Woman's Large Hill -  Nika Prevc
Mixed Team - 
 
Ski Mountaineering
 
Men's Sprint -  - Oriol Cardona Coll
Women's Sprint -  - Emily Harrop
Mixed Relay -