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only because it's not an Olympic sport. give them a proper recognition and the sport (which already have more Countries participating at the world champs than the artificial track luge) will bump up their numbers and will have a lot more competitive Nations. look at Karate...it used to have the same old 5/6 Countries at the top...then suddenly there were at least 30 Nations with legitimate gold medal ambitions when it entered the Olympic program...now, a year and a half after the Olympic dismissal, it's back to the usual suspects. it's the Olympic status that makes a sport great, not vice versa. p.s. my first intention was just a joke...but I see that the argument has been taken seriously way more than I expected...

obviously... but he was a late pick, when Senga wasn't available anymore. my top pitchers are Cole, De Grom and Fried (already in IL ) among the starters and Hader among the relievers. Pablo Lopez and Tyler Anderson are the 2 that saved me from the absolute disaster so far...

as the article says, it's a youth / junior facility. there's no way you can host a senior race on a track 700m short and with only 6 curves (and tbh I also think it's not enough even for the junior class, it's good just for the babies, to start the activity already on an artificial track instead of the natural tracks, like it happens right now in South Tyrol and sometimes also in Austria). 50 million venues just to let win 10+ gold medals at the Games...not really necessary...

last one's not gonna happen... . . .

() ICE Hockey League Playoffs Semifinals Recap (Best-of-7 Series) HC Bolzano/Bozen Südtirol Alperia (1) - spusu Vienna Capitals (6) 4-1 (2-1 OT; 3-2; 1-2; 5-2; 3-2) EC Red Bull Salzburg (2) - EC Klagenfurter AC (5) 4-1 (5-1; 2-6; 5-1; 3-1; 4-0) () ICE Hockey League Playoffs The Finals (Best-of-7 Series) HC Bolzano/Bozen Südtirol Alperia (1) - EC Red Bull Salzburg (2) Dates still TBD

Today's Results (Part I) Frölunda HC (6) - Växjö Lakers HC (1) 4-2 (series tied 1-1) HC Dynamo Pardubice (1) - HC Oceláři Třinec (6) 4-2 (Dynamo lead series 1-0) Grizzlys Wolfsburg (5) - EHC Red Bull Munich (1) 3-2 (series tied 1-1) Adler Mannheim (3) - ERC Ingolstadt (2) 3-6 (series tied 1-1) HKM Zvolen (3) - HK Grotto Spišská Nová Ves (5) 2-4 (Spišská Nová Ves lead series 1-0) () EC Red Bull Salzburg (2) - EC Klagenfurter AC (5) 4-0 (RB Salzburg win series 4-1) HC Bolzano/Bozen Südtirol Alperia (1) - spusu Vienna Capitals (6) 3-2 (HC Bolzano/Bozen win series 4-1)

they will never do it...it's Sigulda or Lillehammer for them. and tbh, I think it's time to get rid of artificial track sliding sports...the venue is always too expensive and extremely controversial. time to have just the Natural Track Luge and stop. if the Winter Olympics still make sense in a mid/long future...

what a championship for present is good, future is bright!

no Heathcock Today, in the end...but the USA got gold & bronze in any case... always nice to see more Continents on the podium...and Today we have 4 (an unusual medal in the women's event included). and unbelievable team performance by with 3 guys just below the podium, finishing 5th, 6th and 7th. if only there was a cadet only team event...

Men's Cadet Individual Sabre Gold: William Morrill Silver: Benedykt Denkiewicz Bronze: Taylor Chon & Ahmed Hesham Semifinals Morrill b. Chon 15-12 Denkiewicz b. Hesham 15-13 Final Morrill b. Denkiewicz 15-9 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/269CF9064EF94C7F9BEAA8A7146CD361

Women's Cadet Individual Sabre Gold: Emese Domonkos Silver: Zarifa Huseynova Bronze: Jenna Shoman & Nargiza Jaksybaeva Semifinals Domonkos b. Jaksybaeva 15-10 Huseynova b. Shoman 15-13 Final Domonkos b. Huseynova 15-12 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/CEE0D2F61A3D480F8B7A7E972E242503

unwatchable, unacceptable performance by the youngsters Today.

and we're already done also with the Larnaca World Cup stage... this is the last event. Mixed Team Trap Gold: Portugal 1 (Maria Ines Coelho De Barros & Joao Azevedo) Silver: United States 2 (Alicia Kathleen Gough & Walton Eller) Bronze: Slovakia 1 (Zuzana Rehak-Stefecekova & Adrian Drobny) Final Ranking and Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=17744

had the disastrous idea to put him in my fantasy baseball team... so, I've already lost my 1st match (not that I had any hope...my team sucks, especially in terms of position players) 8 days in advance. by the way, I've already released him...

surely she has prepared this meet perfectly...I think it's a more important test than the World Champ itself (where she might or might not be as fast as this week) looking at the ultimate goal, Paris 2024.

SVT has some games of their NT plus semi & final (quarterfinals & bronze medal match only if play those games). https://www.svt.se/sport/curling/guide-curling-vm-for-herrar-tv-tider-i-svt VPN needed of course for those outside the Country

great start for

Today's schedule Frölunda HC (6) vs Växjö Lakers HC (1), game #2 (3 p.m. CET) HC Dynamo Pardubice (1) vs HC Oceláři Třinec (6), game #1 (5 p.m. CET) EV Zug (6) vs Genève-Servette HC (1), game #2 (8 p.m. CET) Grizzlys Wolfsburg (5) vs EHC Red Bull Munich (1), game #2 (1.15 p.m. CET) Adler Mannheim (3) vs ERC Ingolstadt (2), game #2 (4.30 p.m. CET) HKM Zvolen (3) - HK Grotto Spišská Nová Ves (5), game #1 (6 p.m. CET) () EC Red Bull Salzburg (2) - EC Klagenfurter AC (5), game #5 (5.30 p.m. CET)* HC Bolzano/Bozen Südtirol Alperia (1) - spusu Vienna Capitals (6), game #5 (6 p.m. CET)* *= potential series clinching game

last game from last night... ZSC Lions Zürich (4) - EHC Biel-Bienne (2) 0-4 (Biel-Bienne lead series 2-0)

more of Today's games... HIFK Helsinki (6) - Tappara Tampere (1) 4-2 (series tied 1-1) Pelicans Lahti (4) - Ilves Tampere (2) 3-2 (series tied 1-1) HC Košice (1) - HK Dukla Ingema Michalovce (8) 2-0 (Košice lead series 2-0) @hckošice

finally Lombardo is back! however, we can't hide the whole team behind Manuel's gold, also Today the rest of the team was just unwatchable meanwhile, in the other weight classes, we just saw another chapter of the Casse vs Mollaei saga...

back-to-back junior gold medals for Heathcock, who won last year representing and now after switching to the . at least end up with a medal, but it wasn't a great day at all. and it was our only medallist, Emanuele Nardella, who denied in the quarterfinal a historical medal to Evann Jean Abba Girault, beating him 15-14 in the most improbable of the assaults. Tomorrow it's Sabre once again, but this time with the Cadets tournaments (where in the men's division the main favourite is still the usual suspect, Colin Heathcock).

Men's Junior Individual Sabre Gold: Colin Heathcock Silver: Mao Kokubo Bronze: Shido Tsumori & Emanuele Nardella Semifinals Heathcock b. Nardella 15-6 Kokubo b. Tsumori 15-13 Final Heathcock b. Kokubo 15-12 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/0B50C3620EBC4B09A925C26956B388C9

Women's Junior Individual Sabre Gold: Magda Skarbonkiewicz Silver: Yuina Kaneko Bronze: Anna Spiesz & Nisanur Erbil Semifinals Skarbonkiewicz b. Spiesz 15-12 Kaneko b. Erbil 15-13 Final Skarbonkiewicz b. Erbil 15-11 Full Ranking & Results https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/6CEAAEA81EE64A4F84A9455B1A2D351E

Men's Individual Trap Gold: Anton Glasnovic Silver: Andreas Makri Bronze: Abdel Aziz Mehelba Final Ranking and Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/csevent.ashx?cseventid=17736