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By the way, I did not follow the action, but there was another accident. "Jeanne Richard damaged her teammate Oceane Michelon's rifle. She was caught red-handed by Justine Braisaz-Bouchet." I do not know, if it was resolved somehow.

Sivert Guttorm Bakken R.I.P.

This video is just about the poic "Russia-Ukraine Crisis Consequences in Sports"

It means that our pair will miss Olympics for sure. But I am happy for your pair. They won it fair and they deserve it. It always sad to see when your own sports bodies destroys dreams.

Do you know how it worked at the Test event? There were no nations cup races at the Test event. And those points are not included into the world cup standings. So we do not know for sure what the standings is now

Hmm, according to the WC standings 30 are awarded for the 13th place.

Looks like a big battle for 2 second quotas in men`s singles. After the big 5 () 2 second quotas are at the stake. According to my calculations 2nd best athletes: - 55 - 37 - 35 - 33

Important information on team Aerials. There is no AIN`s team at the start list of the world cup despite of the fact that belorussians have enough athletes to have a team. https://medias4.fis-ski.com/pdf/2026/FS/8119/2026FS8119SLF1.pdf

By the way. It looks like no AIN`s will be in biathlon by the start of the Olympics. Russians filed an appeal to CAS to get AIN statuses in biathlon. But IBU did not agree to have hearings with short procedure. So the decisons are not expected before the end of qulifying period. (FIS could do the same but its top-officials prefer to help russians be back as quick as possible). I would like to see Dolidovich at the Games. Because she is a real refugee of the relatively high level.

Nepryaeva`s quota is potentially in the game too. Right now it is really just a speculation. But today according to our sources 3 of 6 russian lugers lost their AIN statuses. Will see what happen later - but all 3 of them have DNS in today`s training results.

Ukrainian resources reported in the morning that 3 russian lugers lost their AIN statuses. All 3 of them did not start today at the training session before the 3rd stage of the World Cup. https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/wc-luge-training-group-b-12-16-2025.pdf 19 AIN GORBATSEVICH, Aleksandr DNS DNS DNS 22 AIN MAZUR, Sofiia DNS DNS DNS 24 AIN SHAMOVA, Kseniia DNS DNS DNS Other 3 russian lugers took part in the session. I do not think we will have some official communication from the FIL. I think they are to busy calculation qualification points manually.

Am I correct this allocation is not final and have time till the 19th of Janiary to get proper FIS-points?

An interesting detail. Russians still use fluorine in domestic races. Therefore, they do not have normal experience in using modern ski waxes and do not have experience in preparing skis for fast Alpine snow too. In this situation, the Italian team helps them prepare their skis. Marcus Kramer, who has experience working in Russia and now works with Italy, used his current position to help the Russians prepare their skis. @copravolley Is Italian ski federation ok with this? And if they will get Italian wax-service at the Olympics?

I would say we have some chace that Nepyaeva will not be invited by the IOC. But, FIS has time to issue AIN status to someone else. Did Belarus get the quota? I do not see AIN`s at the FIS qualification table

Підсумки чергових кваліфікаційних тижнів. Тож маємо: - Біатлон - 10 - Лижі - 5 - Гірські лижі - 2 - Фігурне катання - 1 - Шорт-трек - 2 ******* Мої передбачення: - Сани - 6-8 - Скелетон - 1-2 - Фристайл і сноубординг - 8-10 - Двоборство - 2 - Трамплін - 2 Що нового: Тему перерозподілу в лижах можна закривати - там нам вже, схоже, немає чого робити. У щорт-треку 2 квоти за нами, і 3 дистанції. Шанси на четверту (1500 м у дівчат) - непевні. У фігурному катанні дізналися, що поїде Марсак. Доля пари достеменно невідома. Принаймні, не бачив звісток з Узбекістану і Нідерландів щодо відмов від квот. На трампліні Калініченко набрав перші очки на кубку світу і зміцнив свою позицію в заліку. В принципі, потенційна поява росіян не мала б завадити йому втримати другу квоту. Марусяк попри важкий початок сезону зберігає солідний минулорічний запас. У дівчат трамплін виглядає практично безнадійно. Козлова ситуацію не рятує. Скелетон - Норвегія вийшла дуже слабкою. Тому все для нас вирішить подвійний етап в Сігулді - в плані шансів зачепитися таки за другу квоту для Лавренюка. Сани - якщо дівчата виправили ситуацію в боротьбі за другу квоту, то у хлопців завал Мандзія ще на рівні кубку націй, раптово загострив бортьбу за другу квоту. Наразі ми випереджаємо Канаду на дещицю, а Словаччина вже попереду нас. Втім, суперники на 100% поилкою скористатися не змогли. Але на наступному етапі будуть ще й аінівці У сноубордингу в паралельному слаломі, певно, Данча може почуватися впевнено. А от з чоловічою квоти ми випали. І там треба маленьке диво, щоб її повернути. Так само нелегко буде взяти і другу жіночу квоту. У акробатиці ми запустили на кубок світу 4-у учасницю у дівчат, що потенційно дає цілих 8 квот, якщо вона добере необхідні фіс-поїнти. Але тут треба врахувати 2 моменти - запуск аінівців, які можуть виступити вже наступного тижня в Китаї, та потребу 8 команд у командному турнір - там квоту може відійти і Швейцарії. Одним словом, треба набирати бали. У біг-ейрі фантастичне срібло практично гарантує путівку Катерині Коцар - одразу в двох дисцплінах. Біг-ейру вже до Олімпіади і не буде, але далі ще кілька етапів у слоуп-стайлі. Тобто, 41 - 43 квоти потенційно.

And first ever podium in this sports at the WC level!

Hope she will get the spot.

Russians got 9 neutral statuses in bobsleigh and skeleton. Nonames mostly. They missed a lot and will miss next stages in Sigulda. But their coach said that "they will be at Olympics - you will see how". It looks like they are going to demand "defended rankings" usage to get the quotas.

Our national team finally got silver medals from the World Championship 2011.

And what about this? )))

I am not really sure if we can discuss it seriousely since you support russia and I do not. Russian ideology is non-utilitarian. It has neo-Eurasianism as its foundation. It means that it is not important for them how many resources do they have until they do not have ours. Have you read Humiliov, Dugin?

Surely, we are not going to go very far. But all the discussions are in the dead end. Ukraine, EU and USA may discuss the question, but russians is not going to stop. And there is no political will in the US to make them withdraw.

The answer for this question: russians are not going to stop. I know very well their geopolitical doctrines: they want all the territory of Ukraine (terrirtory and resources) to reestablish empire. I read Dugin and Dugin was in charge of the higher educations of russian diplomats. Having Ukrainian resources they would be able to go further west. Our slow retreat helps to save soldiers and win time. Russians are using "meat attacks". We cannot do the same. One little and important correction - they do not capture but destroy the cities. Ukrainian cities captured during Worl War II remained the cities. Bakhmut and others are totally ruined.

Russians claimed that they had captured Kupyansk several times.