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Happy finals day Let the massacre begin

Italia picking up steam just before Cortina.

Alpine snowboard is by far the most shown discipline on Eurosport/Discovery in Europe. If it's not clashing with a bunch of other things, they are showing the WC starts live. Snowboard cross would be the next in line and they are showing starts, but they are fewer and if it's head to head with alpine, alpine will get the advantage. Halfpipe is occasionally shown and it's usually only some of the NA rounds, when it's the evening here and all other winter sports stuff is over. And they are not showing snooker, golf, cycling etc. Big Air / Slopestyle is practically non-existent, never shown, unless it's some weird BA in November in the middle of nothing. And it's the same picture in the Freestyle skiing. Ski cross is the most shown and probably has more races televised, than all other disciplines combined. Halfpipe is so-so from the rest, with BA & Slopestyle non-existent again. Moguls & Aerials are dead, at least i can't remember Eurosport showing their WC events on TV. This just shows the complete division between Europe and North America. I don't think there is a single European country which prefers airing (or training) the technical disciplines than the racing ones. Which is the complete opposite than what it has been in NA.

OK, won't spoil the outcome yet. The most interesting relay in who knows how long and it was after lunch on a working day... It's idiotic that the Germans don't have the weekday starts in the evening, when people are OFF WORK. If i was advertising i'd be fuming it's not at least at 18-19:00...

Who would have guessed, that our first men's podium of the season won't be from either Yankov or Zamfirov, but from Alexander Krashniak This pretty much solidifies our men's team as the third strongest in the parallel events after and . And there are a couple of top youngsters coming up, so the potential is big for the next 5-6 years. Too bad this progress is only limited to the parallel. Snowboard cross is again dead after Zhekova retired, while the other "techinical" snowboard disciplines have always been non-existent here..

Now this is something i don't want to read in January I need my cycling to be all on Eurosport and not scattered around the place...

Total incompetence once again in the jury.. Borek Sedlak should be FIRED on the spot. This guy screwed so many people with his moronic decisions, that he shouldn't officiate any jumping event ever again... The only certainty in this sport is that the jury will forever be incompetent fools, that have no idea what they are doing. 5 random users from the forum will do a better job. I can guarantee that!

Looks like Stroltz won't be doing a last month miracle like 4 years ago. In 2022 he exploded in January and basically forced the Austrian coaches to include him last minute for Beijing, but this time his luck is nowhere to be seen.

Seems to be snowing everywhere in Europe, without here of course Or at least not on the level that is in North-West of us..

Haven't seen so much snow in Oberhof in ages An anomaly indeed. But Giacomel keeps the form and is shaping up to be amongst the big players at the OG.

Not a news specifically with the Games, but i got my leave from work approved today. Got 7 days from 12th to 20th, so will only miss day stuff from 9-11th, but you can't win them all.

Another great performance for the Latvian Vlhova, Dzeni Germane I'm hopeful this is just the beginning and we will be seeing her for years to come. The technique is there, time to work on the consistency and attack. On the top, Rast puts and end to Shiffrin's streak in the slalom and with a showcase run just after Mikaela had destroyed everyone else. I wonder if Rast is going to get inside Shiffrin head just before the Olympics.

Very heartfelt win for Rast after the tragedy on New Years. She is hitting the stride, after almost winning the slalom at Semmering as well.

Nothing too surprising, Schonach is one of those places that always gets cancelled

Yes, now it's way better. Starting 2026 in style

Am i the only one still having issues with loading the site? On any click it "thinks" about 30 seconds - 1 minute before loading the page... After it connects the page is loaded instantly, but before that the wait is sooo long. @Sindo Even when i want to tag Sindo it thinks for 20 seconds before finding him.

Volleyball World are doing a countdown to the new year with a list of the best players for 2025. Here is the men's top 10 with two places to go: (which are Michieletto and Aleks Nikolov) 1. ??? 2. ??? 3. Simone Giannelli 4. Jakub Kochanowski 5. / Wilfredo Leon 6. Simeon Nikolov 7. Fabio Balaso 8. Aleks Grozdanov 9. Jan Kozamernik 10. Patrik Indra

Absolutely phenomenal game between Anderson and Wattimena If you haven't watched it, go and find it, one of the best games the whole year.

Some surprises and fun results so far at this year's Worlds. Like a few minutes ago, when Harrysson made the 1/8 with another very good performance. Now he plays Jonny Clayton, who this afternoon made a stellar performance in a tough battle with Zonneveld. I don't see an easy match for Clayton, even though on paper he would have wished such an opponent for a 1/8 before the tournament. Also i'm delighted that my fav Gary Anderson seems to be in good form, though at his age, he is prone to sudden bad matches at any time.

Point for me i reckon 16 year old D'Antonio is set to make her WC debut in tomorrows slalom, without having a single Europa Cup race.

Unfortunately, with the way this whole comeback has unfolded, i can't see her with anything more than a top 15 position in Cortina.. If that at all is achievable given, that she will almost have no races before the OG and no training for 8 months.. Wonder if this will haunt her in the coming years (especially if she does badly), to injure herself in such an unnecessary race..

New info has come out, that Sivert Bakken when found, was wearing his high altitude mask. As we know those masks reduce the oxygen, that goes in the body. And with Bakken's previous health conditions, that should have been a red light... The Norwegian Biathlon Federation has forbidden all of it's athletes to wear altitude masks until further notice.

Shocking news 😔 We just saw him competing 2 days ago in Annecy.

Snow or Ice or GTFO! Sometimes i wish i was in these organization's structures, so i can give them a piece of my mind.