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So in other news, the usual season for Sofia Goggia's career.

I've said it before, but 4 matches a day is absurd.

Things look good for Iran to lift their first cup, since the 70s.

I have to watch the start on ARD since Eurosport are showing snooker, again.. I like snooker, but don't know when it became this "money" sport for them, that they air it over ski-jumping. This happened only for the Masters in prior years, definitely not for lower tournaments. Conditions are awful and Willingen, but it makes for a very interesting results.

Time for my usual calendar rant... It appears the holy week in February is 12-18th, when we have the Swimming Worlds, the Biathlon Worlds, the Weightlifting Euro and the Wrestling Euro. And to be more "fun" all of their evening sessions are someway colliding in the 18:00-20:30 (BG) timeframe or so. It can't be the week prior, or the week after, no, everything has to be in this exact week. UWW and EWF are doing this a second year in-a-row, as if they are in cahoots.

Darn it, i was hoping she had magical genes in her too.

Not hard to predict, as usually it's lower tier athletes, that wouldn't cut in their current nation, that seek change. I was specifically talking about alpine skiing also. Rahneva is in no way someone, who is even in the conversation for a variety of reasons: A) She is an elite athlete already in her sport and probably very happy; B) Her sport has absolutely no foundation here and we bring absolutely nothing from a sporting perspective; C) She is 35 and if she ever wanted to compete for BG, it would have come up long ago; D) Again, she is 35 and the Federations here would want to select younger athletes, that have lot's of years ahead of them.

Some of you may have seen an interesting name while scrolling the results. Swiss born Anina Zurbriggen competing for . I thought it was another market deal, but apparently her mother is Bulgarian and she decided to compete for BG from this season (because she couldn't make the Swiss team i presume ). Couldn't find who her father is and what is her connection to the legendary Zurbriggen family. This has sparked a new strategy for our Federation in looking for foreign-born athletes with Bulgarian ancestry.

Usually 7-8 golds are enough for top 10 in the medal table, but with Russia having almost no participation, the threshold could rise to 10 golds.

BULGARIA Grafa & The Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices - "Вековна Гора" (Ancient Forest) English Lyrics:

The big chunk of quotas are yet to be given, so it's expected that almost all nations will be below, what they had in Tokyo. The stats in early May will be way more telling on the ups and downs for the NOCs.

A round every 2 seasons is perfectly possible (same with Bansko btw ). If Croatia can manage to get rounds every damn season, for many years after the Kostelic siblings were out of the picture, then Slovakia should definitely get more chances, than the "fill the calendar spot every 4 years, when there is no big Championship" routine. Especially when Vlhova is one if the biggest names on the women's tour.

I'm sure many Slovak fans were not happy at all with arch-rival Shiffrin winning in front of their eyes, while Petra is in the hospital. But big applause for the great attendance and atmosphere in spite of what happened yesterday. They could definitely find a more regular spot on the calendar.

Italia killing it on the second day.

Rado Yankov makes the podium in third. His first podium in 6 years. Danielle Bagozza with a flying win in the Italian final against Coratti, as he dominated in the slower red course.

Ledecka winning to the surprise of no one. Too bad Hoffmeister made a mistake in the final as everyone wanted to see a full showdown between the two.

Good to see Arnold settling his problems with the Austrian Customs and is keeping his tradition of gracing the biggest alpine race of the World Cup.

Nice to see Ester Ledecka honoring Bulgaria with her rare return to snowboard these days. Rado Yankov with a 4th place in the Q will give him a nice position to attack a podium.

Sarrazin continues shocking with his runs

No, it's an outdoor sport in the elements, everyone should adapt to whatever their abilities are. If you are not confident in these conditions you can ski slower and more careful like many did. Injuries happen more often in bright sunny races, people need to stop scapegoathing the weather conditions.

Swiatek has mastered every top players skill of delaying and bitching about something, when they start losing and the opponent takes the upper hand

Yeah, this is devastating.. Not only because of the injury, but the timing of it is absolutely brutal. At home snow, long awaited starts for everyone with terrific attendance I didn't watch the first run, but will have to check something before the second. What kind of a course is it, the margins are gigantic. Is the weather bad? What the heck is going on.

The final entries are out for next month's European Championships in Sofia. https://ewf.sport/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/BW-2024-Sofia.pdf We are submitting all of our best lifters (bar the injured David Fischerov) with the ambition to win the medal table and of course get good lifts for the Olympic ranking. Expectations are for 5 golds at 55, 61, 67, 89 and 109. For the women's team it would be good if they can get one medal, as most of the girls are young and are there for a participation in a big event. BG Men's Team: 55 kg - Angel Rusev & Dzhan Zarkov 61 kg - Ivan Dimov & Gabriel Marinov 67 kg - Valentin Genchev & Dian Pampordzhiev 73 kg - Bozhidar Andreev 81 kg - none.. 89 kg - Karlos Nasar 96 kg - none.. 102 kg - Vasil Marinov 109 kg - Hristo Hristov 109+ kg - none BG Women's Team: 45 kg - Nadezhda Mey-Nguen & Boyana Kostadinova 49 kg - Reni Ruseva & Silvia Angelova 55 kg - Magdalena Dimitrova 59 kg - none 64 kg - Galya Shatova 71 kg - Maria Arnaudova 76 kg - Sofia Stefanova 81 kg - none 87 kg - none 87+ kg - Dzhesika Ivanova

Both Ramazanov brothers are living in my city, when they are not in training camps with the NT. I believe the documents are in order, as the coaches will heavily push both of them for quotas. On the other hand, this is yet another foreigner bought, which is not sitting very well with me. The quality of Bulgarian wrestlers has decreased immensely, that any outsider can come in easily win the weight on a National level..

Guess i will probably make time this edition, so i will join.