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I'd rather take pencak silat rather than breakdance... once that door has been opened, to me there's no limit anymore...

that was painful... by the way, this year's Spengler was definitely below par in terms of exciting matches... last night's semifinal clash between Ambrì and the Czech Champions was by far the best of the tournament so far... Canada's domination is stronger than ever (this is the 26th final reached by them since they first appeared in Davos 35 years ago )...

and here we have the full results of the Rapid & Blitz World Champs... Rapid Worlds Men's Event Gold: Magnus Carlsen Silver: Alireza Firouzja Bronze: Hikaru Nakamura Full Ranking: http://chess-results.com/tnr499127.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=15&flag=30&zeilen=99999 Women's Event Gold: Humpy Koneru Silver: Lei Tongjie Bronze: Ekaterina Atalik Full Ranking: http://chess-results.com/tnr499128.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=12&flag=30 Blitz Worlds Men's Event Gold: Magnus Carlsen Silver: Hikaru Nakamura Bronze: Vladimir Kramnik Full Ranking: http://chess-results.com/tnr499129.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=21&flag=30&zeilen=99999 Women's Event Gold: Kateryna Lagno Silver: Anna Muzychuk Bronze: Tan Zhongyi Full Ranking: http://chess-results.com/tnr499130.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=17&flag=30

I noticed that yesterday night all the matches were geo-blocked (on day #1 they weren't)... but now in the archive they are free again (but there's no GER vs USA from last night)... they're making quite a mess, I fear...

no, definitely no... I don't know Ladin, but I'm pretty sure that they don't say "ladino" to name their language...

yeah, I called it in Italian and it was my mistake, I should have written its name in English...

oh, you're right... we were really m,aking a mess with the other version...

ok, the race for the second place is on... the top of the podium has already been booked, instead...

it looks that Shiffrin is back in top shape...

fixed by the following posts... we were just going the wrong direction because of my mistake, writing the name of Ladin in the wrong language.... actually, Bun di sounds very much like Buondì, which is a regular way to say "Good day" here in the northern part of Italy (and it's easily understandable everywhere through the Country, even if it's not generally used in the south)...

Ski (both Alpine & Cross-Country), Hockey and College Football will cover my day...

it depends on how long the appeal takes...sometimes they are pretty quick, sometimes they may take years (like in the Egyptian case)...

Romance is a true Romance language, one of the 2/3 still strongly connected to the old original Romance language (the others are "Ladino", spoken in part of the Trento province and lower part of South Tyrol, and "Friulano", which is wrongly considered only a dialect spoken in the extreme north-east of Italy, meanwhile it's actually a true original language of the Romance family)... It derives (as all the Romance languages) from the spoken Latin language of the late years of the Roman Empire (which it was quite different from the official language you can normally study at school and it's still the official language of the Vatican State) and it's spoken basically only in part of the Grisuns and it's been also strongly influenced by the ancient German and the Celtic languages, which were normally spoken in that area before the Romans came there... if you want a lot more details, I guess you need to spend a few minutes reading Wikipedia or some other encyclopedia...

personally, I can only distinguish true Spanish from Latin American Spanish spoken above the Equatorial line and those things spoken in Chile on one side and Argentina on the other (can't really understand all they say in Rioplatense, but I can definitely recognize it among the other versions of the Spanish language, as the accent is completely different...or, at least, to me, as an Italian, it sounds completely different)...

it means "Snow"...

Hockey, Hockey and Hockey once again... Under-20 worlds and Spengler Cup mainly... and a few NCAA Football Bowls...

maybe better say he's now at 4 consecutive wins (3 DHs and 1 SG) in the last 4 speed races (the only that count, unless we talk of world champs and/or Olympic events) held on the Stelvio Track... but yeah, that useless AC event from 2017 in between the downhill of the same year and the 2018 + 2019 speed races technically makes his series "only" a 3-win streak overall in Bormio...

P.K. Subban received a nice and unconventional C'mas gift... https://www.nhl.com/news/pk-subban-lindsey-vonn-engagement-nhl-short-shifts/c-313071062?tid=281396148

I didn't know if it was the case to post it here or in the Hockey thread... so, to keep it safe, I'm gonna do some cross-posting... Lindsey Vonn proposed to P.K. Subban...and he said: "Yes!"... https://www.nhl.com/news/pk-subban-lindsey-vonn-engagement-nhl-short-shifts/c-313071062?tid=281396148

and it's 3 in a row for Dominik Paris in Bormio (4, considering also the last Super-G)... and what a race it was between him, Feuz and Mayer!

yes, they have the TSN broadcast redirected to their website... unfortunately they only go at 480p max (at least, SUI vs KAZ has the Canadian commentary and that resolution..I haven't checked the CZE vs RUS game, which I have on the Czech TV in HD)... p.s. on the TSN.ca website the live streams are blocked, but if they do like they did in the the past years, they will make the replays available ondemand all around the world in the following hours (for those who want to catch up something they didn't/couldn't watch live earlier)...

yes (but it's blocked in selected markets)... however, Italy (and Croatia, I think) are not among them... here's the Ambrì vs Salavat Yulaev Ufa live streaming... p.s. very disappointing Russians...they left half the regular team home to rest and called up 12 guys from their farm teams to play the traditional tournament in Davos... if I were the boss of the organizing committee, i'd pay them half the promised fee... p.p.s. now and always, let's go Ambrì!