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But the chance she doesn't medal is bigger, I think

Luckily there's a glimmer of hope coming out of Austria.

Germans are throwing themselves out of the window as well

Again: where did this come from?

They accidentally left their wax in Bratislava or what?

Late party for Shiffrin last night

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Well yeah, but considering Anesi is her husband, that makes perfect sense

Amy Williams on BBC explaining the British success here: "Yeah it's because we're so good at learning tracks quickly!" I have no doubt IBSF checked everything and it's all legal, but come on, it's so obvious it's not because 'they learn tracks so quickly'...

Parsons making mistake after mistake after mistake after mistake, awful run, yet in the last two corners he wins two tenths of a second on everyone including Yun...German luge sleds are nothing compared to this

They definitely are.

Especially a nation that's really not half-bad....sure, they're not your average top-25 contenders normally, but they're definitely not the kind of athletes who should finish dead-last...

Emergency toilet paper? Hang it above his bed, as a reminder to himself: "Never again"?

Alpine skiing Happy with the women's giant slalom, clearly deserved winner (although I would have preferred someone else, more athletes winning medals = better), and a medal for Mowinckel, my birthday-sharing top athlete, was awesome. On the other hand, sad to see Mölgg give it away once again. The men's downhill gave three very much deserved medalists, clearly the best downhill skiers in the world at the moment. I would have loved Feuz to take the gold though, but Svindal capping off his legendary career with an Olympic downhill gold...yeah, that'll do. Biathlon Hanna Öberg's gold medal...I'm not sure how many things are going to be higher than that on my list of favourite moments after these Olympics, that was awesome, just awesome. Dahlmeier getting bronze was alright, but I so badly wanted Preuss to medal and she came up 4th, which is both fantastic and sad. A medal would have been a perfect redemption story after the horrors of Sochi (training mate who killed herself with her biathlon rifle, Sachenbacher's doping, Preuss' own drama in the relay to top it off). Good to see after Fourcade also JTB got a gold medal, now the men's biathlon at least has a gold for both dominating forces. Fak and Landertinger on the podium, more than alright. Cross-country skiing Haga! The expected Kalla - Bjoergen battle resulted in a third one getting away with the spoils, nice scenario. Krista getting bronze again, nice, nice. Just a shame Jess Diggins missed the medals by a couple of seconds, only one real chance to go for her. Figure skating Enough said about that I think, beautifully heartwarming to finally see gold for someone who's been fighting and been close to that for so long. Luge Really exciting competition, even though the battle for gold in the end was as expected: kinda non-existent unless a German would fail massively. The rest was cool though. Snowboarding Craziness all around, love it. Big-time favourite getting in trouble and still going home with the gold, that's a true champion! Speed skating Lee's race was great, Bergsma's race to follow it was awesome, Bloemen's race following that was....epic. Too bad Kramer, the world's best 10k rider in the last 10 years, 'failed' again after 2006, 2010 and 2014. That's painful for him. Then again, three nations on the 10k podium, I'm not complaining at all. All in all: my favourite day of these Games so far

Of course! The 'Who expected that!" was meant as a sarcastic question Still heartbreaking though, I would have jumped the roof out of my house if she managed to break with this tradition on this day of all days.

About this: Bergsma has now accused Kramer of being the one to 'leak' this information to the media, and at a moment right before the 10k, to throw Bergsma off his focus. We have an old-fashioned speed skating bitchfight on our hands, ready to dominate our media

Obviously taking the lead, as the most well-known ice hockey expert here.

Bergsma most definitely is not a teammate of Kramer They have the same colour of jacket because it's the Olympics and that's sort of obligated, but that's it. Bergsma is as much his teammate as a random Chinese women's sprinter or a Slovak biathlete. And oh well, in 2010 it was Bob de Jong loudly celebrating his bronze, which he got only because Kramer got disqualified

Arguably better to stay quiet about it when you're in his shoes, but if gold isn't working anymore, there is 0 reason to blow yourself up with still a mass start and team pursuit in mind just for another silver or bronze.

Kramer: "I don't feel like going to Medal Plaza for silver or bronze" Journalist: "So you let it go on purpose when you couldn't win the gold anymore?" Kramer (with a big smile): "Well, on purpose.......hmm"

Plus he has quite the North American accent in his Dutch (nowadays, at least) But yeah, he's not even close to those athletes who just happen to choose a certain country. He's at home there

Jorrit Bergsma was (along with 2-3 other marathon skaters), who tried to make Vancouver 2010 as part of.......Kazakhstan, of all places. That didn't happen though (ISU threw up some troubles).

This relay was just really close, arguably the most tense competition (for me, at least) of the entire Olympics And not even because of having quite some bets, but because (until Germany) it was all so close, hundreths, even thousandths of a second deciding positions!

We've got biathlon and speed skating threads for talk about that, no worries

Well that won't happen (unless we see a major fail)