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Kazakhstan should have been selected. And I highly doubt there would have been any riots now if they had got selected. The IOC takes some of the blame here.

And in the end nobody boycotted. Either MH shared fake news, or everybody changed their mind give that it is an OQ race.

Drama in Winterberg... German team protested sweeping protocol on their own track!! Run 1 got cancelled after everyone got down. Germans were not very happy with the results. Anyways, now we have a restart, one heat race, with at least 8 non-German sliders deciding to boycott.

Cain-Gribble/Leduc won the short program, narrowly ahead of Calalang/Johnson, with both teams posting impressive scores even for a national event standards. If they both keep it up, then K/F will have a hard time passing their petition through.

President of the Philippines is threatening to have unvaccinated people arrested (!) following record numbers of newly infected. So much for things being all dandy on the archipelago.

Za poredak se računa onoliko rezultata koliko je održano utrka u Svjetskom kupu. Trenutno je to šest. Naši već imaju sedmi rezultat u rezervi i on je isti kao i sedmi rezultat od Jamajke (80 bodova), tako da tu neće biti promjene. Rumunji tek čekaju sedmi rezultat ovaj vikend u SK, tako da mogu ispasti u slučaju lošeg rezultata.

Always fun U.S. nationals are starting today. One of the pairs favorites Knierim/Frazier withdrew after Frazier tested positive. He is both vaccinated *and* boosted. Time will tell if they will get selected for the Olympics anyway as one of the top scoring teams. It will be streamed on the Olympic Channel. https://olympics.com/en/sport-events/2022-figure-skating-toyota-us-championships-nashville/

Izgleda da će bob četverosjed također biti prvi ispod crte. Talijani nas najvjerojatnije prestižu ovaj vikend. Postoje šanse da mi prestignemo Rumunje, ali vrlo su male. Upadamo jedino ako Nizozemci otpadnu. Njihov odbor traži jedan Top 8 rezultat ili Top 12 u ukupnom poretku. Ove sezone najbolji su bili 11., a u ukupnom poretku trenutno su 18. Ne bi trebali uspjeti, ali kakve smo mi sreće, ništa me više ne bi iznenadilo.

[hide] Preliminary Round January 9th - January 20th, 2022 24 Nations, 6 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nation from each Group + the 4 best 3rd-placed Nations will qualify for the Round of 16 Group A Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 9th 2022, h. 17:00 Cameroon 2 0 Burkina Faso January 9th 2022, h. 20:00 Ethiopia 2 0 Cape Verde January 13th 2022, h. 17:00 Cameroon 2 0 Ethiopia January 13th 2022, h. 20:00 Cape Verde 1 1 Burkina Faso January 17th 2022, h. 17:00 Cape Verde 0 2 Cameroon January 17th 2022, h. 17:00 Burkina Faso 1 1 Ethiopia Group B Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 10th 2022, h. 14:00 Senegal 3 0 Zimbabwe January 10th 2022, h. 17:00 Guinea 1 1 Malawi January 14th 2022, h. 14:00 Senegal 2 1 Guinea January 14th 2022, h. 17:00 Malawi 1 1 Zimbabwe January 18th 2022, h. 17:00 Malawi 1 3 Senegal January 18th 2022, h. 17:00 Zimbabwe 0 1 Guinea Group C Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 10th 2022, h. 17:00 Morocco 1 1 Ghana January 10th 2022, h. 20:00 Comoros 0 2 Gabon January 14th 2022, h. 17:00 Morocco 3 0 Comoros January 14th 2022, h. 20:00 Gabon 0 2 Ghana January 18th 2022, h. 20:00 Gabon 1 2 Morocco January 18th 2022, h. 20:00 Ghana 5 0 Comoros Group D Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 11th 2022, h. 17:00 Nigeria 1 1 Egypt January 11th 2022, h. 20:00 Sudan 0 1 Guinea-Bissau January 15th 2022, h. 17:00 Nigeria 2 0 Sudan January 15th 2022, h. 20:00 Guinea-Bissau 1 2 Egypt January 19th 2022, h. 20:00 Guinea-Bissau 0 0 Nigeria January 19th 2022, h. 20:00 Egypt 2 0 Sudan Group E Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 11th 2022, h. 14:00 Algeria 3 0 Sierra Leone January 12th 2022, h. 20:00 Equatorial Guinea 0 2 Ivory Coast January 16th 2022, h. 17:00 Ivory Coast 2 0 Sierra Leone January 16th 2022, h. 20:00 Algeria 10 0 Equatorial Guinea January 20th 2022, h. 17:00 Ivory Coast 1 1 Algeria January 20th 2022, h. 17:00 Sierra Leone 1 1 Equatorial Guinea Group F Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 12th 2022, h. 14:00 Tunisia 1 0 Mali January 12th 2022, h. 17:00 Mauritania 1 1 Gambia January 16th 2022, h. 14:00 Gambia 0 2 Mali January 16th 2022, h. 17:00 Tunisia 2 1 Mauritania January 20th 2022, h. 20:00 Gambia 0 1 Tunisia January 20th 2022, h. 20:00 Mali 0 0 Mauritania [/hide]

Okay this is becoming more embarrasing by the minute. At this point, I am fairly sure they keep on doing it just to spite the new mayor.

He passed the gate from the opposite direction. Of course it will not be enough for the second run so doesn't really matter.

Yeah, this ain't happening.

That seems off... I remember it being insured during previous years.

Nice pictures, but only so much can be done with the actual surface in one day. Race interrupted after Bib 14, but should continue.

Yeah, but she will basically need a podium, which is fairly unlikely.

The approval happened via the Australian tennis federation, which is certainly something to be noted. Where there is smoke, there is usually fire as well. I find it difficult to believe that the very best player in the world just happens to also be one of the 'handful' to have a valid medical exemption, especially knowing his stance on health issues. This is just my two cents though.

Sadly 10th place is not nearly enough. And even more sadly, the Ukrainian lady in 11th will qualify instead. Looks like Europe was the easier qualification route this year.

I wonder if Djokovic got his visa rejected because it was established that his medical exemption was, in fact, invalid? We can only guess at this point. As far as I know, no official reason for his rejection has been revealed yet.

Very pleased for Dawson. His technique is 10/10.

Looks like every nation who tried will indeed qualify a sled for women's singles. Moldova and Ireland stand to get in once NED/NZL decline. That's just a question of time. They should remove 10 quotas from singles luge and award it to skeleton.

Meanwhile, it started snowing in Ravna Gora today. If there is enough snow, and there should be according to the current forecast, I am quite sure the races will be held. Our team needs their prep run for the Olympics.

Can't you choose your own races (like Mirlene Picin apparently does)?

According to some of the reports here, he is jailed and has no means of communication.

Crucial race weekend is coming up in Igls for Trang Tran Thi Doan. There are only 12 names on the start list, but Trang still needs to beat as many names as possible, and especially Andreutti in the head-to head battle. It will be hard, but not impossible.

Updated now: Run 1 at 13:00, Run 2 at 16:10. https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/event-details.html?sectorcode=AL&eventid=49080&seasoncode=2022