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On the plus side, there is always Pizza Hut. Or the Olive Garden if you get homesick.

Pretty weird to make a move mid season. I'm sure he will not be there for long though.

Probably Genevieve Simard.

Starts calls for a false start after 50 m completed. Kok and Leerdam shoud be mad.

Ekensskar has a curious figure for a speed skater... 5000 m should be interesting.

Off the top of my head, I can tell you that Halsall, Colliander and Baarup are, so Yom-Tov has no worries there. But here is a full list of FEI officials, including the dressage judges.

First results from Exloo are already in. And just like that the first provisional leader of the rankings is, Jazmin Yom-Tov (Hexagon's Grandville) - 68.022% - 180 points

Voste disqualified for a false start in the 500 m opener... Way to bomb out of the weekend.

4 DNFs in a row... Gross for the win?

There is lots of potential in the NA though. Mid-week races in the Sunshine would be prime time in Europe, for instance...

I have never seen snow conditions as bad as today in Garmisch. That's saying a lot.

One wonders why don't they just hold more races in North America... This is pathetic and really just unsustainable at this point.

Somehow the race will go forward tomorrow as planned. Temperatures haven't gone below freezing for days now. Even now in the late evening it's still +6 degrees at the top!

Suffice to say things are running out of hand in China again and the numbers are getting doctored with so far unclear consequences...

I believe they announced earlier that all 4 events will be a part of the relay. I always found them rather dull, but with 4 legs it will become even more predictable, and frankly, unwatchable.

In all fairness, if Team Sweden in jumping was Top 6 here, then there should have been only 5 nominees.

Happy New Year! And it's one for the books for us here. With this day we both welcome Euro as our new currency and we enter the Schengen zone of free passage. Crazy.

BEST FEMALE ATHLETE for sportswomen in Olympic sports #1: Irene Schouten #2: Jonelle Price #3: Pauline Ferrand-Prevot #4: Song Se-ra #5: Rebeca Andrade #6: Kimberley Garcia BEST MALE ATHLETE for sportsmen in Olympic sports #1: Henrik von Eckermann #2: Johannes Ludwig #3: Nathan Chen #4: Tim Price #5: Nils van der Poel #6: Bart Swings BEST PARALYMPIC ATHLETE for athletes in Paralympic sports #1: Tobias Thorning Joergensen #2: Sanne Voets #3: Michele George #4: Frank Hosmar #5: Rihards Snikus #6: Katrine Kristensen BEST NON-OLYMPIC ATHLETE for athletes in Non-Olympic sports #1: Ouk Sreymom #2: Bart Swings (inline skating) #3: Alexander Volkanovski #4: Johana Viveros Mondragon #5: Boyd Exell #6: BEST YOUTH ATHLETE for any athlete up to 18 years old (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports) #1: Jordan Stolz #2: Zrinka Ljutić #3: Isabeau Levito #4: Lara Couturi #5: #6: BEST MEN'S TEAM for men's teams or groups (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports) #1: Croatian Football Team #2: Swedish team jumping #3: Moroccan Football Team #4: Saudi Arabia Football Team #5: Finnish Ice Hockey Team #6: BEST WOMEN'S TEAM for women's teams or groups (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports) #1: Dutch Field Hockey Team #2: GB Curling Team #3: Canadian Ice Hockey Team #4: #5: #6: BEST DOUBLES OR PAIR for doubles or pairs (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports) #1: Tobias Wendl/Tobias Arlt #2: Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier #3: Deanna Stellato-Dudek/Maxime Deschampes #4: Evaldas Sodeika/Ieva Žukauskaite #5: #6: BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR for the most improved athlete or team (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports) #1: Charlotte Fry #2: Yasmin Ingham #3: Benjamin Werndl #4: Isabeau Levito #5: Simon Ehammer #6: American Men's Team Pursuit Speed Skating OLYMPIC SPIRIT AWARD for any athlete or team that took part in the 2022 Winter Olympics or Paralympics #1: Brittany Bowe #2: Chinese Nordic Combined Relay #3: Markuss Vinogradovs #4: Irene Schouten #5: Lindsey Jacobellis #6: Ireen Wust

Merry Christmas folks!

All awards ended up in Argentina. Needless to say they never before awarded all three to the same nation.

Meanwhile in Croatia... A literal replay of the 2018 homecoming. Only this time in the nighttime and with temperatures around 35° lower...

Commentator's first reaction: "Leo Messi did it!!"

It's the camels.

Another brain freeze in the Evitaland.

Rumor has it you get your money's worth from Uzbek fake fans... Only they are not very discrete.