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World Cup Finals in Trondheim (NOR)
 
Mixed Team Normal Hill:
 
1.  Norway (Oftebro/Westvold Hansen/Hagen/Graabak)    34:45.9
2. Austria (S. Rettenegger/Hirner/Slamik/Lamparter)    34:58.0 
3. Germany (Faisst/Armbruster/Nowak/Rydzek)    35:39.1
 
Full Final Result HERE

Congratulations  Lara Gut-Behrami  
 
and   Federica Brignone 27th win, the most successful Italian women skier ever di World Cup

World Cup Finals in Saalbach (AUT)
 
Women´s Slalom:
 
1. Mikaela Shiffrin    1:53.22
2. Mina Fuerst Holtmann    1:53.76
3. Anna Swenn Larsson    1:53.85
 
Full Final Results HERE

World Cup Finals in Saalbach (AUT)
 
Women´s Giant Slalom:
 
1. Federica Brignone    2:20.05
2. Alice Robinson    2:21.41
3. Thea Louise Stjernesund    2:21.72
 
Full Final Results HERE

World Cup Finals in Saalbach (AUT)
 
Men´s Slalom:
 
1. Timon Haugan    1:54.00
2. Manuel Feller    1:54.40
3. Linus Strasser    1:54.44
 
Full Final Results HERE

Marta Bassino wins the second Crans Montana DH but the story is Elvedina Muzaferija in 4th place

The Adidas Arena was opened yesterday (8,000 seats), it will host badminton and rhythmic gymnastics during the Olympics. Il will also become the home of the Paris Basketball team.

Ilves just sooooo close to a moment of Estonian history with a win at home.

Incredible historic achievement for  Alexander Ferlazzo to be 5th in the men’s singles today.  Non-track nations very often do well in skeleton & bob, but it’s incredibly difficult in luge, so a big .

Stage 27 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER)
 
Men´s Super-G:
 
1. Nils Allegre    1:11.92
2. Guglielmo Bosca    1:12.10
3. Loic Meillard    1:12.17
 
Full Final Results HERE

Stage 26 in Cortina d´Ampezzo (ITA)
 
Women´s Downhill:
 
1. Ragnhild Mowinckel    1:33.50
2. Jacqueline Wiles    1:33.85
3. Sofia Goggia   1:33.94
 
Full Final Results HERE

5-6. places
 
23-22
 
 
 

Just arrived home and heard about it. omg !
 
Is this an epidemy of top skiers or what ? This is like a nightmare season, seriously
 
 

Georgiadou 6th, Gkountoura 33rd. Georgiadou probably needed to take advantage of Gkountoura's result and do a little better than 6th to really close the gap between her and Gkountoura for the Greek quota spot.
 
It must be so awkward for them to be competing against each other for this quota, especially because they are good friends...

Well, at first match Croatia beats Spain with +10 goals, while today they only tied 28-28 with Austria 
 
Also surprisingly  tied 26-26 with  
 
I'm hoping that  will qualify to OQT and then qualify to Olympics 

Thank you, and congratulations to the Dutch team for the gold! You were our non-qualification sisters for a while. First in London 2012 when you were defending Olympic champions and we were world champions, then in 2016 we both also missed.
 
I am glad to see you succeed since then (although you always beat us now), and also a lot of Dutch girls play and have played for Greek clubs in their careers 

Thank you. And on top of that ... we have a Greek coach: Eva Doudesis.
 
I'm very happy the best European countries will qualify for the Games, because for me it's almost sure  and  will qualify as well. And of course happy for  and  -medals at the ECh.

Wohoooooo 11th For Vytautas in the Pursuit with perfect shooting I was waiting for this kind of peformance but didn't think it would be his first 20 out of 20.

Yeah, we've been hearing the 'it is going to get hard now' line just as often as the 'the next title will be historic' line  

Hahaha, all Dutch fans are still partying here in Eindhoven. Wonderful tournament for our girls with a great finish. Next month the WCh in Doha starts, not really looking forward to it. Too much tournaments in a short period. 

16 years later. After a lot of pain and suffering especially in the last 12 years. This means so much to the girls of this team and also the girls of previous teams who never got the chance to go to the Olympics. We missed London, Rio, and Tokyo but we will be in Paris!
 

might have played 3 horrific periods, might have made a lot mistakes on offense...people might have a bad day, refs can make mistakes...they can even be biased sometimes (and this should never happen in any case)...
 
but not to the point the  and  refs acted tonight...they literally killed  from the beginning to the end of the match...
 
disgusting...
 
refs like that are the worst spot for the sport of waterpolo 
 
p.s. congrats to  

Qualified Olympic Games 2024
Return since Pékin 2008

We did it! Wooowww!!! As always they didn't make it easy but this time they held on for the win!
 
I don't even care that we won bronze, our girls are going to the Olympics for the first time since 2008!
 
So many heartbreaking losses in quota games since then. 2012 against Spain when we were World Champions in 2011 and that's how FINA changed their qualification system. Then 2016 against Russia with a 9-7 lead with 2 minutes left and 10-9 lead with 4 seconds left and lost on penalties. Then 2021 when we led the Dutch at halftime and didn't score a single goal the rest of the game.
 
It will be nice to be relaxed during the World Championships and not having to stress about either one of our teams.
 
They did it for themselves and also for the past generations! Some of the best players in the world in the last 10-15 years like Avramidou, Kouvdou, Manolioudaki never got to go to the Olympics. And so many others.
 
So nice to see people like Diamantopoulou who was expected to make her Olympic debut in 2012 as a 16 yo, finally getting to go as a 28 yo! And Asimaki 16 years later in her "second career." Also girls like the Plevritou sisters, Eleftheriadou, Xenaki who shed many tears in past heartbreaks, most of them as teenagers at first, finally getting to go to the Olympics!
 
 
 
I am sorry for our Italian friends. This was so important for us though. I hope you guys qualify via Doha because you deserve it especially for beating USA last year!

Women's Individual Foil ( Paris)
 
Gold:  Tommaso Marini
Silver:  Alessio Foconi
Bronze:  Guillaume Bianchi &  Filippo Macchi
 
Semifinals
Marini b. Macchi 15-9
Foconi b. Bianchi 15-6
 
Final
Marini b. Foconi 15-12
 
Full Ranking & Results
https://fie.org/competitions/2024/142?tab=results