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Absolutely knew it... Scared morons. The fear of not making the WC again led to Italy not making the WC yet again. I'm astounded how often players and teams forget how to play the game.

Italy doing their Italian tactics and i'm afraid it's going to bite them in the end.

Was looking at this new concept "Rock League", which is happening next week and am wondering if people know how they decided the teams Mixing people from different countries looks fun. I would have liked though if they didn't name the teams based on regions, because when you see the rosters it doesn't make sense with couple of the names included.

Now this feels like a proper ending to the season. Lots of fans, atmosphere, looks like a big deal. Slovenia doesn't disappoint.

One of the few good things done by the IOC in the last 10-15 years... Now we are inevitably waiting for their bad decisions to even the scale.

Quite a lot of sports in general for only an 11-12 day event. But depending on when the bid for 2036 OG is held, this could be a vital boost for Turkey, if it is organized perfectly.

First do or die for . Another WC without them would be a nightmare.

Baffling scheduling again. It's like FIS want to drive people away. It's the Finals, on paper your big conclusion to the season, yet it feels like "let's get this over with". Just compare how the ATP treat their finals with this. Ok, you want to have the GS & SL on Tuesday/Wednesday. That's fine, i've been advocating for more mid-week starts to begin with. But why, oh why do you have them in the middle of the day, on a work week. Why aren't you having them in the evening, in prime time, when people are off work. Make it a big special event, which people want to visit and not during the day in front of a 100 fans. It's not that hard to choose a place with some floodlights. And even this week we don't have Champion League football, so the night is free from big competition. Perfect opportunity to have alpine skiing on TV right now, but noooo.

Keely going a bit overboard with the makeup. It's not time for the gala yet.

Ryder mistake not knowing the route. Motorbikes always divert in the final km, so no outside fault here.

It's going to be a good night for the British girls

Laegreid showing up to compete in the final stretch of the season, but a bit too late. That cheating confession did wonders, he is like a new man. Imagine if he was in this form at the beginning of the season.

What a BS event Either run a proper 400 m or don't run it at all. Indoor athletics has been going downhill, but you can't expect anything else with Coe at the top.

Huge crash on the downhill from Cipressa Lots of blood on Kasia Newiadoma.

Great end of the season for Italia Two wins and a Globe today.

So open race now? US seem to have send some bad runners if the individual is some reference.

Agree. We should definitely have more starts in NA. And not only for cross-country but other Winter sports as well. Ending the season there would be a nice touch, especially with the now (sadly) warmer conditions in most Europe in March. I know they are worry of the logistics and long travel, but in modern time this shouldn't be an issue. Either opening or preferably closing the season there more constantly will bring more traditions and fans I reckon.

Lake Placid still looking like a winter picture, unlike Europe where there is practically no snow left in most places and winter is basically over.

Kaczmarek winning the gold will be the only redeeming quality of this 400 m debacle.

Hey, i like the goose

Lol, there is going to be two finals in the 400 m Which genius thought this to be a good idea..

By the way, i think it's time to freshen up the format. Everyone playing everyone with 12 teams has gotten a bit repetitive. I would expand the field to 16 teams, split them into two groups of 8. Everyone plays 7 matches in their group and then top 4 go to the 1/4. Or top 2 go to the 1/4 and 3-6 go to a play-off round ala UEFA. It would make more stakes from the currently endless round-robin.

Constantini doing bad even when many of the top teams are missing

Praying they add more stuff to the Mon-Wed section, so it really feels like three full weeks

The lack of fans is something i have mentioned and observed for a couple of years now. And it relates to the whole of Scandinavia (with some exceptions here and there, like Lahti last week). Whatever snow sport i watch in Scandinavia, it's always jarring how there are barely any fans, when compared to starts in Continental Europe. I don't know what is the reason, but it feels like people there have started taking skiing for granted and something that's an everyday thing and not a special sporting event. And they know their starts aren't going anywhere, because of history, climate situation and necessity.