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Petranović/Souza got 100 pts in free skate = 153.93 overall. That's 5th place in Golden Spin.

Imagine if Marie-Michelle Gagnon marries her partner Travis Ganong and takes name: Marie-Michelle Gagnon-Ganong That would be like the coolest name.

This is actually the first time that top women race giant slalom at Sestriere since 2006 Olympics.

Another top 15 for Zubo. Pitty for those problems otherwise it could have been top 10!

Even with that huge mistake Zubčić will still jump 9 places in the 2nd run, at least. He is becoming a true 2nd run charge master.

Zampa Oh well, I guess these are at least his first ever points.

I thought Parmakoski was going to win but yeah...

So many DNFs.

Looks like Zubo adopted that strategy in 2nd run.

He will surpass Bjoerndalen fairly soon...

Andreas Zampa in top 15 and still no sign of @hckosice? Weird.

Obratov qualifies for the World Cup race in Whistler.

Disastrous day for the Dutch in Heerenveen. 8th place was their best result in the 500m races.

4.6 earthquake strikes Croatia. Epicenter only 11km away from the second largest city Split. Luckily, only some material damage has been reported.

Yep, it's still way too early to tell, however these results are good, nevertheless.

I wish Krešimir Crnković could shoot... His ski speed is very good, with 0 misses he would have been in points...

If those Carmen Thalmann's hooligans can organize themselves I'm sure you can too.

@heywoodu are you a seismologist by trade? Although, asking that, I don't believe earthquakes are an everyday occurance in the Lowlands.

Golden Spin of Zagreb started today (ISU Challenger event and the oldest annual event in the World). Awesome result for our pair Petranović/Souza in short program, 53.14. Surpassed their PB by 7 points. Way to go.

Yeah, that is just plain weird. They are actually hoping to have less than 114 + 1 athletes? Sweden and Finland will surely repeat their customs of declining.

There seems to be a huge difference between Summer and Winter Olympics in general... While summer sports federations are pushed to allow more nations to qualify, the winter one's (like biathlon) are making it harder. Basically, it's a very hard task nowadays for a small winter sports nations to compete anywhere outside of alpine and cross-country. Will it kill IBU/IOC to increase the number of starters in individual events to 95-100? No. Not only that, winter sports don't have tripartite invitations, they still have restrictions for women in many sports (women race shorter distance/have fewer qualifications spots). It's as if Winter and Summer Olympics are run by two different worlds...

Hot tip: Both Croatian girls are even worse than Nika Blaženić...

That's similar to Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. McDonalds promised to give away free Big mac, fries and cola, depending on a medal that USA won. It was a disaster for McDonalds as USSR and Eastern block decided to boycott (locations were running out of big macs literally).

Well, from what I heard, Finland might get one cool present from Norway for its 100th birthday next year.

Natko Zrnčić-Dim got injured and will miss the whole season.