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By God Watson, Canada can fly! First ever medal at WC, men or women. Imagine, that random Olympic medal being the turning point for these and upcoming successes.

The word conservative doesn't fit the narrative here, more so the publishers greedy and egotistical view to sell more copies... Same shtick is happening now with the James Bond novels. Let's hope this would be a failure only for the UK and other regions wouldn't follow this downfall.

Somehow Divisions III isn't what i had in mind.

Because he was booted a few years ago from the US team for being "with no potential for the future". Wonder what those people are thinking now, especially since the US men's team is going to be extinct very soon by the look of things.

I believe (not fully sure) this is the first WC medal for Greece in any winter sport in history!

WOW A historic podium, i'm very happy for all 3 of them

By God, i think we are heading for a medal for Greece, a gold medal for Greece

Surprise, surprise, Albert Popov DNFs for the 4th time in his 5 World Championship appearances

Mellard burns out on the second gate

O Canada

Jacquelin gassed again on the final lap

Awesome run from Czechia, if they manage to get a medal in this lineup

Yeah, not far from 3rd, but i was talking about the gold medal sweep

Looks like we won't be seeing the JTB clean sweep, unless he passes the shooting range without stopping, in the final leg.

Another tragedy with migrants today here... Two days ago 52 migrants (all young men from Afghanistan of course) jumped the border fence with Turkey with a common ladder. Skipping the part, where this group hadn't been spotted from authorities and/or regular people, until they were found in an abandoned truck in the woods, all the way nearly to Sofia. All 52 people were stacked in secret compartments at the bottom of the truck, under the load of timber. Those compartments weren't fully compact though and the fumes from the truck were going in. End result is 18 dead migrants, while the other 34 are transported to the hospital. It's assumed, that the traffickers were getting 2500 euros per person, just to transport them inside Bulgaria, which makes 130 000 euros from this run alone. And then people wonder why traffickers are only increasing. I am sure the EU politicians will be very "saddened and concerned", even though this tragedy (and all such prior ones) should be on their conscious.

And there is an uphill finish tomorrow as well.

Let i've said before, no real boycott will happen at the end and it's just smoke and lightning from a few countries to see, if their bluff will work. US and Canada will not boycott in anyway and France is the worst host for this idea, as they are a valuable strategic partner in bigger, non-sports, departments. Do people actually believe there won't be any backstage strings being pulled, so that the French Games aren't ruined? The 3 Baltic states are the only ones i see, that could potentially stick it to the end, as it won't be a significant loss for them (or the Games), if they missed out. Mayyyyybe 1-2 of the Scandinavian ones, but i can't see how Macron wouldn't sway them. Poland is barking the loudest, but i would be gobsmacked, if they actually boycotted. Their politicians are just using what is popular today and then will promptly make up an excuse, when time comes.

2 race days and 2 wins already for Pogacar. Can't wait to see him tare down the new season

I see JTB is on the start list tomorrow and he is going for the Phelps-esq run to win everything

B U L G A R I A Молец - Случки (english -> Molec - Events) LYRICS: Well, for the this years contest i not only chose a song from the past year, but also a duo / group, that started their career in the past year. The two boys from Molec are childhood friends, but started doing music together only in 2022 and quickly are becoming the biggest rising stars here, because of their deep and heartfelt lyrics and regular down to earth personas. They have admitted, that they aren't professionally trained singers, but have pure love and emotion for music. I had difficulty choosing, which of their songs to use and per tradition switched it in the last seconds. And i couldn't find any english lyrics, so had to do the translations myself, so if there is something not very understandable, that's on me.

Is this a lower level World Cup? I saw some news about a good performance yesterday in the individual, but that's about it. Strange to see a team success, as we have always had only 1 adequate athlete, if any at all, in fencing. :D

Another title for Emma Hinze

And people found the answer to that - just convince their 2 most dominant athletes to retire at age 25.

With todays start, Granerud missed the chance to equal the all time consecutive World Cup podiums record. Janne Ahonen will keep the record at 13 for now.