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Having more points after only 8 starts, than his previous best full season is wild. His inclusion in training with the German team the past few season has really paid off this year. Btw, I'm really enjoying the start of this season with the new Slovenian dominance. Domen looks like the incarnation of his older brother.

I can't see how Norris will lose this. Even Littler will be before McIlroy in my eyes.

Vonn winning by a second doesn't speak well for the state of women's alpine skiing.

I will definitely vote on Sunday evening as well. This time for real. Need to fill my final ranking, as i have a couple of clashes, but will be traveling on the weekend, so will finalize things when i get home.

If this was 6-7 years ago I would have said "Fantastic, I will have luge on my Eurosport again". But after a couple of seasons of watching live and whenever I wanted on free YouTube, to go back to sporadic random runs being shown and most likely on delays is going to be frustrating Because Eurosport is not going to prioritize luge at all for live broadcasts.

Great 6th place for Gismondi Beating almost all Norwegians and some of the Swedes is a superb performance.

And I presume people have first class travel available to these places. The point to host such events,for these resorts, is usually to attract tourists and fans. If you are hosting a WC round only one or two weekends a year, then I fail to see how there aren't at least 1000 fans in the whole country that can't plan on going..

JTB and TB announce retirement and everyone outside Norge pop open the champagne and say "finally". Then Norge enter Botn and Uldal, who are the next incarnation of JTB and Taraj Boe

Great to see the Poles coming out again for their Wisla round. The atmosphere is on hand as usual. With all due respect to Norway, Finland and Sweden who have invented these sports, but in the last couple of years it's painful to watch the starts in Scandinavia with 30 people in the stands.. It is always a shock how barely anybody goes out to watch a WC round in a historical sport for that nation. Same goes for the cross-country, Nordic combined races we had. Only biathlon managed to pull a nice crowd in Ostersund.

Perfect start to the WC for Malena Will have to watch her 1/2 to see if she was close to making the final. If people are remembering, she was probably the toughest opponent for Ledecka at the WCH in March. Even though she DNF'ed because if the aggression, she pushed Ledecka hard and I believe she would have medaled if some one else was in her bracket. She is a very big talent for the future.

Finland have been awful in almost all winter sports, well beside ice hockey and cross-country from time to time, for a lot of years. It's very good to see them building people to challenge for wins again. Their new coach has done wonders it seems.

Even with 48 teams, France and England managed to not be happy with the groups I for sure thought after Morocco went with Brazil, that a strong Euro team will join them, but they got .... Scotland, so that fizzled out quickly. All in all interesting groups, but having 3 teams move on is going to make many matches pointless. The 3 hosts were very, very lucky (well, maybe if Italy doesn't qualify). Even Trump wouldn't have picked a better group for USA.

Bumping the thread so people are reminded. By the looks of the voting i think an extension would be required. Maybe till Sunday, or even next week.

They unveiled the route for the 2026 Giro and it's way softer, than what we have seen in recent times. But it's going to finish in my home town, so that's fine by me.

Another lacklustre performance by the Italian women in the slalom. I wonder if the coaches will call up the young prospect Giada D'Antonio for some WC starts this season. There seems to be a lot of hype for her and also the marketability will probably be there, as she isn't the typical skier.

Cancelling a round in Kuusamo.. so what else is new Zografski with a 4th and a new PB, but it's a real bummer that he doesn't have the chance to jump for a podium. This jury has really become quite pathetic the last few years.

So Richard intentionally tampered with her teammate Michelon's rifle in a clear sabotage, yet there are no consequences at all for her. I would have understood if this was a small team and she was the star and they have no choice but to keep her, but this is France, arguably the strongest one. One athlete robs her teammate, another one messes with the rifle and these women have to be a team. Olympics or not, i would have banned Richard and Simon for 1 full season as an example for anyone else thinking of breaking the rules. But the French federation seems more mellow than a melon.

The renaissance of Scotland, from last to first

I hope this won't be demolished after the Games.. It could be from the way the picture is taken, but they could have made the roof a bit higher. If i was in the stands i'd be agitated when looking in the hall.

This has been a horrible last year or two for alpine skiing. Brignone, Gut, Shiffrin, Vlhova, Kilde, Sarrazin all having extended injuries..

More like a glorified GS by the looks of things I don't know why they haven't made the course a bit longer and open, it's not like they don't have mountains in Colorado.

Good start of the season for Zografski, though the rare occasion there is a Normal hill on the schedule is always to his benefit. Will see if he can stabilize a top 15-20 placing in the coming starts. Also a nice surprise to see Tomasiak doing well. I don't know what is the general feeling in Poland about their current state in ski-jumping, but i'm seeing a big problem for them. The time of the seemingly eternal old dogs Stoch, Kubacki, Zyla and Kot is coming to an end (for some even at the end of this season) and there is practically no one coming up to replace them. I don't think they will become the next Finland and drop out completely from the scene, but so many years without a breakthrough young guy has to be very concerning. Zniszczol, Wolny, Stekala were all failed prospects. While Wasek had a very good last season, his consistency is still a question mark.

Getting close to the Games, so I think some updates here will be welcomed

Just had time to check some of the Cortina skeleton runs and indeed the situation there is much better. As if mother nature knows there are Olympics coming up (well let's hope that snow won't melt in December ).

I don't know why they didn't have these ECH a week early and have practically the whole TV time to themselves. Next week the schedule is much more crowded with the other winter sports kicking the season. Sometime i think if we made the calendar it would be much more beneficial to over a dozen sports.