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More about our Final venue Gothenburg's Scandinavium will host the 2019 Champions Hockey League final, it has been confirmed. Frölunda Indians won the right to host the final, having had a better record than Red Bull Munich over the CHL campaign. It will be the venue for the CHL's showpiece event, where the winner will be decided and the European trophy presented. Opened in 1971, the Scandinavium has been Frölunda's home ever since. The arena has a capacity for hockey of 12,044 and as such will be the biggest venue to host a CHL final so far. During it's 48 years, the Scandiavium has hosted other notable events such as the 1985 Eurovision Song Contest, 1981 and 2002 IIHF World Ice Hockey Championships, 1993 and 2011 World Men's Handball Championships, 2005 and 2012 ISU World Synchronised Skating Championships, and Tennis' Davis Cup final four times (1984, 1987, 1988 and 1997). It has also played host to concerts, and has been the venue of the annual Göteborg Horse Show since 1977. The arena is located approximately 250 meters from Korsvägen, a major public transport hub in Gothenburg, where more than 15 different bus lines, and trams four and five, all stop. Scandinavium itself has stops on tram lines six, eight, thirteen and fourteen. This will be the second time that Gothenburg has hosted the Champions Hockey League final; in 2017, the Indians beat Sparta Prague in overtime at Frölundaborg. Tickets sold out Tickets for this season's Champions Hockey League final went on sale at 10 a.m. on January, 23rd. By lunchtime, they had sold out! Any pre-booked tickets that are unclaimed are on sale this week, if available.

One week to go! Game Time and Game Officials for the Final decided After being confirmed that the 2018/2019 CHL Final will take place on Tuesday, February 5th in Gothemburg, it's also been announced that the game would start @ 7 p.m. local (CET) time. Also the Officials designated for the 2018/2019 CHL Final match have been announced. Top game officials from Switzerland and Finland will take charge of this season's Champions Hockey League Final, including the two referees who both have previous CHL Final experience. Head Referee for the Final on 5 February in Gothenburg will be Marc Lemelin. A native of Albuquerque, USA, Lemelin joined Switzerland’s National League in the 2018/19 season, after officiating over 50 games in the NHL. It is the second consecutive CHL Final for Lemelin, who has refereed in the EBEL and DEL in past seasons. He was also selected for the Gold Medal Game at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyongchang and worked several games at the IIHF World Championships. Joining Lemelin with the armbands will be Liiga referee Mikko Kaukokari who was previously assigned to the CHL Final 2017 in Gothenburg. The Finnish official has experience of more than 460 games in his own country, and has been selected for two World Junior Championships Finals. Running the lines will be Hannu Sormunen (FIN) and Bryce Kovacs (SUI). "These game officials are all top-ranked in their domestic leagues," CHL Senior Sport Advisor Bo Lennartsson said. “They stood out with great performances in the Champions Hockey League and, as currently part of the world’s elite, they have very much deserved the chance to officiate this years’ CHL Final in Gothenburg.”

I know that...and I don't like it... actually, I'm against multiple starts also in any other sport (and yes, I didn't enjoy that much Ledecka's achievement in Pyeongchang, as it only shows how poor the level of those competitions is, also at the top -or, if you prefer, that there's no enough difference between her to sports to justify the presence of both at the Games)... for instance, in Swimming 3 individual races + the relays would be a good compromise, in Athletics, no more than 2 + relays... but this just my opinion... what's really important, however, is to have simpler qualification rules in any sport to avoid "strange things" around the qualification process...and it's almost never the case, unfortunately...

tbh, there's more than one reason that would legitimate Squash as an Olympic Sport more than both Table Tennis and Badminton together... and for sure, once you have Artistic Swimming, Rhytmic Gymnastics, Trampoline, 3x3 Basketball, Surf, Skateboarding and BMX Freestyle already in the Oympic Schedule, it's no joke at all thinking about Squash getting a chance, too (that said by a non-fan of any raquet sport, tennis more than the others)...

well, I wouldn't call Squash a niche sport if compared to most of the Current Olympic Sports... not in terms of high level players, not in terms of development around the world and for sure not in financial terms... in the men's division, this is a quick summary of Countries' representation in the World Ranking (and I'm only talking of the Pro Tour, the highest level of competition in this discipline...but there are many good players also outside that)... top 10 EGY GER COL NZL FRA Places 10-20 PER IND HKG AUS ENG SUI Places 20-40 WAL QAT MEX SCO ESP MAS and this an Olympic Qualification simulation based on the current world ranking with the top 32 players / max 2 per NOC EGY 2 GER 2 COL NZL 2 FRA 2 PER IND 2 HKG 2 AUS 2 GBR 2 SUI 2 QAT MEX 2 ESP 2 MAS 2 PAK 2 FIN USA CAN -Cut @ position #73- First OUT = ARG @ #76 meanwhile this is the current situation in the Women's division... top 10 EGY NZL FRA ENG WAL Places 10-20 USA HKG MAS IND Places 20-40 AUS BEL CAN NED Olympic Qualification simulation based on the current world ranking with the top 32 players / max 2 per NOC EGY 2 NZL 2 FRA 2 GBR 2 USA 2 HKG 2 MAS 2 IND 2 AUS 2 BEL 2 CAN 2 NED RSA 2 LAT MEX 2 PAK PHI COL CZE -Cut @ position #85- First OUT = FIN @ #86 Financially, there are more tiers of tournaments, with the top class having 160,000/180,000 US $ Prize Money... If you want more details, the PSA official website and the wiki page should help... http://www.worldsquash.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018–19_PSA_World_Tour

in Canoeing (and Rowing) it would be better to allow a certain (reasonable) number of boats in any event, forbid any form of multiple starts for all the athletes and therefore having the athletes' quota coming only and simply as a direct consequence of the number of boats allowed to compete... p.s. and I would be even stricter on the relationship between qualifiers and actual OG events...any athlete should only be allowed to take part in the Olympic Games in the same event he has qualified for (no switching allowed, only replacing with someone who didn't compete in any Olympic qualifier in case the coaches need/want to replace a qualified athlete because of injury or poor form, if compared with the previous year)... that would make it simple and fair from the beginning, with no tricks, tactics and Countries (athletes) that have to wait until the last second to know if they are in or out because they have to wait for other people's decision making their fortune or misfortune...

what are they doing in the main area? have they re-sized the entire ice sheet or are they just putting new boards on?

thanks to the lights of Marton and Pusztai, Hungary is improving very fast and now they've become a very dangerous opponent, making the relatively small women's team sabre field of real contenders a bit bigger... not good news for Italy (enjoying some big results in the last couple of years more because of weak opponents rather than their own quality as individuals)...that's sure...

I've just checked it out...and actually she won the Bronze Medal, not Gold (still, that's an important result and doesn't change her -really good- perspective...the other Bronze medal at the 2017 U-21 Worlds went to Egypt's Feryal Abdelaziz, another established player in that category, meaning that the starting field for that event was very competitive)...

2019 Short Track Speedskating Junior World Championships Final Medal Table KOR, 5 / 2 / 0 CHN, 2 / 3 / 0 USA, 1 / 0 / 0 NED, 0 / 2 / 1 RUS, 0 / 1 / 1 ITA, 0 / 0 / 3 CAN, 0 / 0 / 2 JPN, 0 / 0 / 1

Results men's 3000m Relay Gold: China (new Junior World Record) Silver: Netherlands Bronze: Russia

Results women's 3000m Relay Gold: South Korea (new Junior World Record) Silver: Russia Bronze: Italy

when you skate a relay with only 2 good skaters and and a turtle in your team... by the way, still a good bronze for our girls...

Results men's 1000m Gold: Jung Ho Kyoung Silver: Kim Tae Sung Bronze: Kazuki Yoshinaga

clear obstruction by Kim Tae Sung when his teammate made the decisive move on the outside... the Koreans do their team job already at this level (when there's no need for that, as they are by far stronger than any opponent)... and the judges closed their eyes on that...

Results women's 1000m Gold: Li Jinyu Silver: Park Yoon Jung Bronze: Claudia Heeney

yes, they are brother and sister (and their father is the former speedskating all-round world champion Roberto Sighel)...

Day #3 (Final) Live Streaming (running right now)

Results so far... men's 500m Gold: Kim Tae Sung Silver: Sun Long Bronze: Pietro Sighel men's 1500m Gold: Chang Hyun Woo Silver: Wang Pengyu Bronze: Pietro Sighel men's 3000m Relay, Teams qualified to the Final Japan Netherlands China Russia women's 500m Gold: Maame Biney Silver: Xandra Velzeboer Bronze: Georgie Dalrymple women's 1500m Gold: Seo Whi Min Silver: Li Jinyu Bronze: Courtney Lee Sarault women's 3000m Relay, Teams qualified to the Final South Korea Italy Russia Kazakhstan

today's Garmisch downhill made some victims also in the Italian team... Federica Sosio suffered a composed double fracture of tibia and fibula in her left leg... meanwhile further exhamination cleared Federica Brignone to take part in next week's GS in Maribor, but earlier in the day she was feeling strong pain to her knees and she was taken to the hospital to have that deep exhamination...

Women's Team Sabre (Salt Lake City, USA) Final Results Gold: France Silver: Hungary Bronze: Italy Semifinals: France b. China 45-37 Hungary b. Italy 45-37 Bronze Medal Match: Italy b. China 45-40 Gold Medal Match: France b. Hungary 45-42 Here is the Full Final Ranking (and Results) from Today's competition: http://fie.org/competitions/2019/826/results/rank

well, the girl is a really promising talent...she was Sub-21 World Champion last year (if I remember well what our commentator said...I'm too lazy to check it out right now)...

because if France blow out their race there's a small chance more for Italy to make the podium (which is still a very, very remote chance...but you never know)... and don't forget the traditional rivalry between ITA and FRA...if I say that I hope FRA goes well, I could go to jail and be tortured... just joking, of course...

not that I wouldn't like it, but I have to fix it...

maybe... probably... sure... p.s. but this year I'm pretty happy with Doro and Lisa, in any case...