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This looks to be our team. 
 
 SLOVENIA  
() - qualifying rank
 
Jan Vukovič - 800 m (17)
Filip Jakob Demšar - 60 m Hurdles (30)
Robert Renner - Pole Vault (17)
Jan Luxa - Triple Jump (18)
Anita Horvat - 800 m (2)
Jerneja Smonkar - 800 m (18)
Veronika Sadek - 800 m (20)
Maruša Mišmaš Zrimšek - 1500 m (27), 3000 m (9)
Joni Tomičič Prezelj - 100 m Hurdles (31)
Lia Apostolovski - High Jump (12)
Tina Šutej - Pole Vault (1)
Neja Filipič - Triple Jump (2)
Eva Pepelnak - Triple Jump (17)
 
 
 
If there will be no cancellation, we will have 13 athletes (4 men, 9 women). This would equal Birmingham 2007, in last years participation was a bit poor, with exception of last Championships (13 athletes).
 
Šutej is hard favourite to take a medal, then there are Filipič, Horvat and Mišmaš Zrimšek, so quite a descent ladies team.
 
EDIT: No Demšar, 12 athletes (3m, 9w)
 

NBC’s story on Bruna : https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2023/02/23/bruna-moura-cross-country-skiing-brazil/
 
The one and only @heywoodu also gets a mention, which means two Totallypians have now been featured by NBC 

78th, I can confirm a very happy Bruna  

Bruna's inspiring story was presented as well through our national broadcaster, I just heard it on our special podcast, dedicated to this WCH.
 
Anyway, time to wish all athletes the best, 100 ladies and 139 men will take part in today's Sprint, which is a bit less than two years ago in Oberstdorf, but still quite nice participation.

No way this can confuse anyone
 

Scream of satisfaction, well done Bruna. 

SLOVENIA 
Anže Lanišek
Timi Zajc
Peter Prevc
Domen Prevc
Lovro Kos
Žiga Jelar
Ema Klinec
Nika Križnar
Nika Prevc
Katra Komar 
Maja Vtič
 
Medal history: 3 golds, 2 silver, 5 bronze / Total: 10 medals
 
Val di Fiemme 1991: 1. Franci Petek - Men's LH Individual
 
Oberstdorf 2005: 1. Rok Benkovič - Men's NH Individual
                                      3. Peterka, Bogataj, Benkovič, Damjan - Men's NH Team
 
Oslo 2011: 3. P. Prevc, Tepeš, Damjan, Kranjec - Men's LH Team
 
Val di Fiemme 2013: 2. Peter Prevc - Men's LH Individual
                                           3. Peter Prevc - Men's NH Individual
 
Oberstdorf 2021: 1. Ema Klinec - Women's NH Individual
                                     2. Križnar, Rogelj, Bogataj, Klinec - Women's NH Team
                                     3. Anže Lanišek - Men's NH Individual
                                     3. Nika Križnar - Women's LH Individual
 
There is no doubt, which sport is the one, who could bring some joy for host nation. Ski jumping were always been kind of national sport. After major Beijing Olympics success this season had a lot of ups and downs. Among men we had a lot of podium candidates, but only Lanišek was quite constant. Among women sadly two times Olympic champion Urša Bogataj ended season due to injury, Nika Križnar had also some crisis. I still believe because Planica always brings out the best from our athletes, at least 3-5 medals should be realistic goal to achieve. But because we all know WCH are special competition, organized only once every two years, a single medal could save all the organizers efforts.

This is not our official team, these are athletes, who achieved standards according to EAA.

Well done, also nobody say we are not good host, since Lucija Medja gave a win to Brazilian squad.  

Scream of satisfaction, well done Bruna. 

Go Bruna
 
This is already a gold medal for perseverance, dedication and absolute fighting spirit and will 

I can not imagine the Freestyle events being held there if the weather will not improve, imagine a big air, some athletes can end up being blown to Armenia

SLOVENIA 
MIha Šimenc
Vili Črv
Anže Gros
Izidor Karničar
Boštjan Korošec
Miha Ličef
Jošt Mulej
Eva Urevc
Anja Mandeljc
Neža Žerjav
Anita Klemenčič
Klara Mali
Nika Ljubič
Lucija Medja
 
Medal history: 2 silver, 3 bronze / Total: 5 medals
Sapporo 2007: 2. Petra Majdič - Sprint C
Oslo 2011: 3. Petra Majdič - Sprint F
Seefeld 2019: 2. Katja Višnar / Anamarija Lampič - Team Sprint
Oberstdorf 2021: 3. Anamarija Lampič - Sprint C
                                     3. Eva Urevc / Anamarija Lampič - Team Sprint
 
After Lampič decided to compete in biathlon, CC skiing team has much less potential for great success in front of home crowd. But let us not forget Eva Urevc this year achieved real progress in distance with some top 10 results, also Anja Mandeljc.
Urevc is still really capable to attack final in Sprint, where everything is possible. Sprints are most powerful factor also in men's site, but to be honest every top 10 result from any CC skier from Slovenia would be huge deal. Too bad Planica could not host WCH few years back, when the likes of Majdič, Fabjan, Višnar and Lampič could bring home much better results.

As you said, top 6 is realistic goal for Ema, Gašper Brecl could end up in top 20 with better jump, because of "4 athletes per nation" limit. 
 
I have some hopes for Mixed event, because they were quite good in World Cup, so even here top 6 is possible.

If I start in the Team Sprint, I may also get 1 or 2 free tickets, so I can give you one for this event. Sadly we get tickets only for the days we are going to compete. But about competing in the Team Sprint, I will decide latest after tomorrow

Great, I will try to visit Planica next Sunday, when there is most busy schedule with mixed team SJ, mixed NC and ofcourse CC Team Sprint. 

Just to say what a remarkable achievement this was...

Over to you @heywoodu

Nina Pušlar - Nina, Nina, Nina 
 

 
 

Great, I will try to visit Planica next Sunday, when there is most busy schedule with mixed team SJ, mixed NC and ofcourse CC Team Sprint. 

So much looking forward to race!!!
 
And... It seems like finding someone to prepare my skis won't be a problem as this time FIS will provide a "neutral support" for small teams with specialized staff preparing our skis 😱😍 *(just heard it from Jaque)
 
Vamos!!! 🚀🚀

Our very own @brunamoura has arrived in Slovenia today, where she'll make her comeback after surviving the car crash on the way to the Olympics a year ago. Bit of a tense morning, because she had to go by a transfer arranged through GetTransfer, again, just like she was more or less forced to do last year due to the circumstances (this time the Brazilian van was full with the rest of the Brazilian athletes and a few non-Brazilians, so there was no space anymore). The reason for that being a tense thing of course being how it went so very wrong last year, so stepping into a hired taxi van was understandably a bit of a....tense moment.
 
Luckily this time, as logic would of course expect, nothing happened and she arrived safely in Slovenia, all good!  
 
Next up: try to find someone to wax the ski's these days, light trainings to keep the shape and get the energy level to competition level and then on Wednesday, it's the big moment...the 5k freestyle! Vamos  

I have a song in mind for over a week, but am not sure. But probably will put it out today or maybe tomorrow, who knows. 😄

Nice race, well deserved medals, our team did very good, more than 4th place was not possible, but still very solid performance.

Prince Hubertus will start tomorrow, because as I recall there are special rules, which adds racers from different countries aside those who qualified today.