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so, tomorrow it could be the final nails on the Olympic Games' grave... perfect end of the most awful year in history (at least since I'm alive -and it's been quite a while right now )...

well, hockey junior worlds are quite a special event for Canada...actually, they basically consider this tournament like a national celebration rather than just a international hockey tournament... however, all the teams are in the bubble and the games will be held with no spectators... moreover, Edmonton already proved they can manage this thing as they hosted most of the Stanley Cup playoffs in their arena and recorded 0 positive cases in 2 and a half months...

I'd rather watch pencak silat...

so, one step forward (the reinstated disciplines and the return of the 2-hour format instead of the silly 90-min schedule) and two steps back (that fuc*in' sh*t of the "final-3" in the field events)...

France alone is not Europe... tbh, the rest of the continent only cares (and not so much) about alpine disciplines in those 2 sports... you can see by yourself how difficult it is to see "freestyle" SB and FS events organized in Europe and how low the number of European competitors is... I'm not saying that those events shouldn't be part of the Games (at least, some of them), but please, don't try to hide that they're on only because of the North-American TV Networks (and ski federations)...

imho, Canoeing should follow the Rowing structure...I mean, they should choose an "Olympic distance" (which should be 1000m, obviously) and build their program on that distance, instead of making doubles and triples of the same race over those not-so-different lenghts (except for the 5000m races, which are truly a different discipline, but, always imho, they're not worth the Olympic status, too)

Marc Marquez had a new (the 3rd) operation to his right arm after his July crash in Jerez that ruled him out for the entire 2020 season... and it was an 8-hour surgery https://www.motorsport.com/motogp/news/marc-marquez-third-arm-surgery/4920698/

he was also Sprint world champion in 2017...

can't wait...

well, actually she announced it already a few days ago... she wants to reset her technical disciplines' skills... Levi's defeats still hurt a lot...

and here's a full slide of the Yanqing track from the women's start point thanks to Julia Taubitz... it looks it's gonna be quite a long run for the luge singles...well beyond the 50-second mark, close to a minute...

just go to the data center, select the race of your interest and choose the "competition analysis" among the available reports... https://biathlonresults.com/ there you can find all the details you're looking for taken from the athletes' transponder (official timing)...

this makes more sense than all the other jokes reported in the last few months, but still... I just can't stand those mixed gender team events anymore...this thing's really got pandemic... and the most recent news about Bach's unopposed candidature for another mandate as the IOC President could make more damages than another Trump's mandate as US President...

https://www.insidethegames.biz/index.php/articles/1101453/bach-to-stand-unopposed-ioc-president?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=vr&utm_campaign=tsb#:~:text=Bach to stand unopposed for re-election as IOC President in 2021,-AddThis Sharing Buttons&text=Thomas Bach is set to,sole candidate for the role. so...this is THE END...

Dominik Windisch and Thomas Bormolini have been cleared to join the Italian men's team in Lahti for the next weekend's races, as they were tested negative twice to covid in the last few days... the women's team will be the same of last Saturday and Sunday...

not sure if it's gonna work in your Country (geo-blocking's always possible), but normally here's the place to watch all the Euro 2020 games for free... https://ehftv.com/competitions/womens-ehf-euro

so, this is a sport truly deserving the olympic spots they get...meanwhile NTL does not...

in 1992 they were 4th https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luge_at_the_1992_Winter_Olympics_–_Doubles

it's quite simple...these National teams don't have either any NBA nor Euroleague players... so, all of those teams who have their best players in those 2 leagues now are playing the Euro qualifiers with 2nd, 3rd tier rosters... meanwhile those 2nd tier teams playing with all of their best players have a clear advantage, sometimes even a shot at upsetting bigger names...

Italy vs North Macedonia cancelled because of 3 positive covid tests among the Macedonian staff... and they should be in a "safe bubble"...

Austrian win in the doubles' event... not happy at 100%, but at least it's not a German sweep this week... Rieder / Kainzwaldner had a great 1st run, but threw their potential podium place out of the window with a shameful start in the 2nd... so, it's "only" 5th, 6th and 7th for our sleds... tomorrow I'm curious to see if the coming back German moms would eventually get back to where they left (especially Geisenberger, of course)...

Greiner-Petter is her original surname...Memm (Silvio, former Nordic Combined specialist) is her husband...

not a good start of the season...Germany begin with a win in their weakest discipline, the men's singles... and the worst news of them all it's that Felix Loch is back on top again! by the way, from an Italian point of view, very good 3rd place for D-Fisch despite his appendicitis troubles and usual average performance by K-Fisch... meanwhile the youngsters have been quite disappointing (despite the good 1st run by Lukas Gufler, who ruined his race with an awful 2nd run)...

oh, Lukas! how to throw an encouraging, improving weekend out of the window!

by the way, is it me that I never noticed it or has the FIL live streaming service finally activated the true chromecast support to their video? in the past years I can only remember the chance to make the full screen mirroring and not the true video casting...