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I think they incorrectly translated Ukrainian word "nahorody" - it is not a full synonym of "medal". Its cocrrect translation is "award". Meanwhile russian tennis playes switched for Potapova -> Rakhimova ->

Surely. Her first coach now works in russia (and grandma lives in russia according to Sereda). They were in contact and despite of full funding from the girl decided to become the star of russian propaganda. As I saw in X: "It took the Russians four years of war to find a relatively well-known sports personality to carry out such a propaganda operation."

Yes, Mandzyn was very sad but... as he said, he thougth about Max Verstappen and decided not give up )))

I really do not know. But for Ukrainians it is totally inappropriate - to stand for the anthem which is the symbol of death of our people.

This descision means that we may see russian flag and anthem at the Paralympics. So right now it means Ukraine will miss Paralympic Games completely (as well as Latvia, I suppose).

According to FIS right now one more female quota is closer than male one.

I would say it looks like a total mess right now. These questions and problems have no answers right now. FIL has updated the qulification rules but there is nothing about AIN`s there right now. FIL did not publish any regulations on AIN`s participation, criteria e .t.c. So what are the legal grounds of their participation? Russian NOC is still suspended by the IOC - so russians cannot qualify as any other athletes without special regulations. At the same time russians filed an appeal to allow their doubles to compete. Who and how check their neutrality? Here is Matvey Perestoronin. He competed last week. He got his military ID on May 25, 2022 as a member of Central Sport Club of Army. So we are approaching the same situtation as the one before Paris. IFs issues fake neutral statuses. Russians "win" quaotas. The IOC does not confirm neutrality. Quotas are redistributed. As I cited above according to the results of the research 43% of the neutral statuses issued by the international sport federations were denied by the IOC. Almost half is a fake neutrality. P.S. Meanwhile russians will miss the next world cup stage in Winterberg - it is their own decision, and Pavel Repilov is under arrest because he is accused of stealing 11 million rubles allocated for the purchase of sleds for the training center of the national team.

I can add on AIN`s that russians appealed to TAC/CAS and the hearings are sheduled for today. Bad news: FIS agrreed for quick procedure so it means that the decision could be expected in 7-10 days. Elias may weaken FIS position in TAS/CAS to lost the case. At the same time FIS extended qualification dedaline to the mid-January so they potentially will have Tour de Ski to qulify even if they miss Davos.

Yes, difference between classic and freestyle is crucial for some athletes. Ivo Niskanen is a good example of the master of classic.

Now it is ok ) It looks like the page was corrected. Previuos version gave us only 1 quota for men singles.

I see some calculations of quoats here. But they do not look like correct ones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luge_at_the_2026_Winter_Olympics_–_Qualification

Yes, I am with that too. But looks like FIL is in total chaos right now.

I am very surprised that it was not broadcasted. As far as I understand these results are counted to Olympic qualification instead of the fiest stage of the World Cup.

@Illya Ну, от, до речі, сани нам якраз і дають проблеми з квотами. Якщо в двійках ми за результатами першого етапу "на своїх" місцях, щоб взяти по 1-й квоті, то у дівчат через допуск росіянок маємо великі проблеми з тим, щоб взяти другу квоту. Наразі, якщо я правильно порахував, саме росіяни забирають останню "другу" жіночу квоту. Але за ними навіть не ми перші на черзі, а Китай ( До речі, чи є хоч якась інформація від федерації щодо правил відбору для нейтралів? Вони взагалі можуть на другу квоту зазіхати, чи тільки одна, як у ковзанярів? У шорт-трку зберігаємо 2 квоти?

Yes, right now Judo, Chess, Fencing, Wrestling, Taekwondo are in the first line. I suppose chess will be the next and then Fencing. By the way FIE had a Congress last week and Usmanov visited the event. Money are more important then values for those people. On Monday russians will try to revert FIS decision in CAS and return to all the ski disciplines.

IJF reinstated russians and return their flag and anthem to the international tournaments. No AINs in judo anymore. And it means no Ukrainian judokas at the competitions were russians are present anymore.

I have not seen Euro 1976 qualifer 4-1 vs So I will add it to my watch list )) Thank you!

Now it is clear - why Zmuda moved to Italy only in 1982. 28 yo. By the way what WC game of the national team is considered to be the best of all time in Poland?

Exactly! Spain 1982. The first group round draw. FIFA did a huge mistake and did not see the problem until they placed Scotland to the group with Argentina.

Yes I remeber 1994 too. Czerniatynski played for Antwerpen in the 90-s if I am correct - they have a good season in CWC. But Scifo was much better IMO too. In 1994 I was very impressed by . That was a cool team with Kenneth Andersen, Dahlin, Brolin, Larsson, Ravelli. From that time I always support )

Littite quiz before the WC Draw. From what WC draw are these 3 groups at the screenshot?

Yes, it was the strangest tournament ))) They did not have a fixed draw for 1/4 and 1/2 - so they draw lots for each stage,

One little remark on Sweden - they had UEFA president at that moment, as far as I remember ))) (their last WC was in 1978 by that moment). Bu there were the times when rankings were much less important. For example before Italy 1990 there were a lot of talks about in pot 1. supposed that the system was designed to move for sure to the islands.

Any regulation on AIN participation and qualification? I cannot find it at all.

Yes, eralier they did it manually. For example, in 1978 FIFA assigned to pot 1 But beeing vice-champions from 1974 asked: why??? And FIFA said Ok. You will be in pot 1. So we need to move someone to pot 2. And they moved Then asked: ?&(^&*??? And FIFA said: you will be in pot 2 but you will be allowed to chose you group without any draw. And used this bonus to get place in the same group as . There were a lot of stories with these draws - something like that happened before WC 1990 when.