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This all sucks though. Tretiakov vs Dukurs vs Yun promised to be one of the best fights of the entire Olympics and not seeing Nikitina there is going to be disappointing as well.

I don't know what you would base that on, but he's been beaten more and more often by a guy who's only getting better (and utterly destroyed him only last week) and has the all-important home track advantage in Pyeongchang.

We've got some 'interesting' weather in Sjusjoen.. I'm not sure what I hope for tomorrow: a bit of a lottery kind of race might increase the chances for the Brazilians to get a good IBU points score (if they shoot well and the rest starts messing up a bit, like Gabi did in the Arber individual until her 4th shooting bout), but seeing as they have brand new rifles and that's actually going pretty well this week (their first week of using them), it might be better if it's not windy and they can actually use their shooting abilities

No, absolutely not I still really wish Brazil would have a uniform like alpine skier Nathan Alborghetti (which they really should get for the XC and biathlon competitions btw, THAT would make them stand out as awesome exotics ), but I'm guessing they'll have something rather white with a green and yellow line or something

I don't have much against it, but it's so....uninspiring, simple, standard. Like, pay 20 euro and you can get exactly the same one in the shop apart from the Czech logo I always prefer uniforms that show the flags (at least the colours) much more prominent Well if I was a Czech athlete, I would turn it into the much more awesome gold side around 5 seconds after receiving the kit, medal or no medal

At least I hope the atmosphere will be better than the last time they were in the USA, when there were like 5 people watching, the TV direction was awful and they planned it in such a time that the last athletes were competing in semi-darkness.

Each medalist? You mean every athlete who wants an awesome jacket instead of a boring "everyone has this" kind of white jacket

How fantastically creative

Plus, this sadly means Kontiolahti with the fantastic Wall of Kontiolahti* is already out again. Annecy (and Tyumen) as well, but meh, don't care about that *which is still nothing compared to the epic climb at the start of the lap in Arber (GER), but alright

The cooperation has barely started and they're already getting along well, this is promising Also: my hotel for IBU Cup 2 in Lenzerheide has been booked, and it happens to be the same one as them, so that makes life easy. Now it's a matter of trying to find a place to stay in Livigno and Obertilliach and hoping I can indeed travel with them as planned (since a 2-3 hour car trip is definitely better than a 9-hour train/bus trip)

I believe just the 5 and 10k (and only the women's 5k, not the men's, but I'm not sure about that)

Beautiful goal by Fankaty Dabo of Vitesse in the Dutch Eredivisie today It's just a shame it was in the wrong goal, but hey, details

That sucks so much.

Not really anything, results were mostly influenced by the snow that got stronger towards the end.

Only for the B division. And not 'again'

12:53.63 for Davide Ghiotto Of course, it's in the B division so it's easier to go faster because they start with 4 per race instead of 2 (on opposide sides of the track), but still, that's impressive.

How did Langenhan do that?

Well yeah, hanging halfway out of your sled in the last curve is not the fastest way of getting to the finish

That was not very good from Rieder

12:56.62 for Hoogeveen in the B division in Stavanger, right, that's fast

It's way too early to even think about a second women's competition in ski jumping, the one there is now isn't that competitive yet. Women's Nordic combined will happen indeed, but when it mostly consists of girls who are in their early to mid teens and international competition has literally not even gotten off the ground yet (it's only going to start this season), going from below zero to adding it to the Olympics within four years is just an absolutely ridiculous idea.

Secret project

I'd like to see the parallel slalom in snowboarding come back if it's to replace big air, which is soooo....short and uneventful. Especially the women's big air.

This is all so sad. Especially the women's Nordic combined and the mixed events. And the team event in snowboard cross. And big air.

Now I care