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There goes the Dutch ski jumping gold Greetings, Dutch NOS

Except for Gao with his 33.83 monster 500m

World championships are underway, the elite women just started. Including Kata Blanka Vas, who despite her only 20 years decided to start here instead of a younger category, that shows bravery! @Vektor

Novo Nordisk is the cycling team. Not exactly a succesful one, but obviously good for inspiration in terms of being able to have a sports career.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Freestyle Skiing Men's Moguls Day 1 February 5th 2022 Broadie Summers Mikael Kingsbury x Jimi Salonen Benjamin Cavet Daichi Hara Ikuma Horishima x Kosuke Sugimoto Pavel Kolmakov Walter Wallberg x Ludwig Fjallstrom Cole McDonald Bradley Wilson Any Other Athlete Luge Men's Singles Day 2 February 6th 2022 Wolfgang Kindl Any Other Austrian Athlete Max Langenhan Felix Loch Johannes Ludwig x Dominik Fischnaller x Kevin Fischnaller Gints Berzins Kristers Aparjods Aleksandr Gorbatcevich Semen Pavlichenko x Roman Repilov Any Other Athlete Speed Skating Women's 1500m Day 3 February 7th 2022 Ivanie Blondin Isabelle Weidemann Han Mei Francesca Lollobrigida Ayano Sato Miho Takagi x Nana Takagi Nadezhda Morozova Antoinette De Jong Irene Schouten Ireen Wust Ragne Wiklund x Elizaveta Golubeva Brittany Bowe x Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Mixed Team Event Normal Hill Day 3 February 7th 2022 Austria Canada China Czech Republic Finland Germany x Italy Japan Norway x Poland ROC Slovenia x Snowboard Women's Parallel Giant Slalom Day 4 February 8th 2022 Julia Dujmovits Sabine Schoeffmann Daniela Ulbing Ester Ledecka Ramona Theresia Hofmeister x Any Other German Athlete Nadya Ochner Any Athlete from Japan Aleksandra Krol Sofiya Nadyrshina x Any Other ROC Athlete Ladina Jenny Patrizia Kummer Julie Zogg Any Other Athlete x Cross-Country Skiing Men's Individual Sprint Freestyle Day 4 February 8th 2022 Any Athlete from Finland Lucas Chanavat x Richard Jouve x Federico Pellegrino Paal Goldberg Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo x Haavard Solaas Taugboel Erik Valnes Gleb Retivykh Alexander Terentev Any Other ROC Athlete Marcus Grate James Clinton Schoonmaker Any Other Athlete Short Track Speed Skating Men's 1500m Day 5 February 9th 2022 Stijn Desmet Pascal Dion Any Other Canadian Athlete Ren Ziwei x Sun Long Shaolin Sandor Liu x Yuri Confortola Adil Galiakhmetov Sjinkie Knegt Semen Elistratov Hwang Daeheon x Park Jang Hyuk Any Other Athlete Figure Skating Men's Event Day 6 February 10th 2022 Keegan Messing Han Yan Kevin Aymoz Any Italian Athlete Yuzuru Hanyu x Yuma Kagiyama Shoma Uno x Mikhail Kolyada Mark Kondratiuk Andrei Mozalev Cha Jun-hwan Jason Brown Nathan Chen x Any Other Athlete Alpine Skiing Men's Combined Day 6 February 10th 2022 Matthias Mayer x Marco Schwarz Filip Zubcic x Victor Muffat-Jeandet Alexis Pinturault x Any German Athlete Christof Innerhofer Dominik Paris Aleksander Aamodt Kilde Any Other Norwegian Athlete Zan Kranjec Loic Meillard Any Other Swiss Athlete Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 10km Classical Day 6 February 10th 2022 Teresa Stadlober Kerttu Niskanen x Krista Parmakoski Katharina Hennig Therese Johaug x Heidi Weng Any Other Athlete from Norway Natalia Nepryaeva Tatiana Sorina Yulia Stupak Ebba Andersson Frida Karlsson x Rosie Brennan Any Other Athlete Snowboard Men's Halfpipe Day 7 February 11th 2022 Scotty James Liam Gill Wang Ziyang Andre Hoeflich Ayumu Hirano x Kaishu Hirano Ruka Hirano x Yuto Totsuka x Jan Scherrer Any Other Swiss Athlete Shaun White Any Other American Athlete Any Other Athlete Alpine Skiing Women's Super-G Day 7 February 11th 2022 Mirjam Puchner Ramona Siebenhofer Tamara Tippler Marie-Michele Gagnon Ester Ledecka Any French Athlete Federica Brignone x Elena Curtoni Sofia Goggia Ragnhild Mowinckel Lara Gut-Behrami Corinne Suter Breezy Johnson Mikaela Shiffrin Any Other Athlete x x Biathlon Men's Sprint Day 8 February 12th 2022 Anton Smolski Simon Desthieux Quentin Fillon-Maillet x Emilien Jacquelin Benedikt Doll Johannes Kuehn Johannes Thingnes Boe x Tarjei Boe Any Other Norwegian Athlete Eduard Latypov Alexandr Loginov Martin Ponsiluoma Sebastian Samuelsson Any Other Athlete x Biathlon Women's Pursuit Day 9 February 13th 2022 Lisa Theresa Hauser Dzinara Alimbekava Hanna Sola Marketa Davidova Anais Chevalier-Bouchet Julia Simon x Any Other French Athlete Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss Any Italian Athlete Marte Olsbu Roeiseland x Kristina Reztsova Elvira Oeberg Hanna Oeberg x Any Other Athlete Short Track Speed Skating Women's 3000m Relay Day 9 February 13th 2022 Canada x China x Italy Netherlands x Poland RCF South Korea United States Speed Skating Women's 500m Day 9 February 13th 2022 Hanna Nifantava Tian Ruining Arisa Go Nao Kodaira x Miho Takagi Femke Kok Any Other Dutch Athlete Andzelika Wojcik x Kaja Ziomek Olga Fatkulina Angelina Golikova Daria Kachanova Kimi Goetz Erin Jackson x Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Men's Team, Large Hill Day 10 February 14th 2022 Austria x Czech Republic Germany Japan Norway x Poland ROC Slovenia x Switzerland Any Other Nation Freestyle Skiing Men's Slopestyle Day 11 February 15th 2022 Teal Harle Max Moffatt x Any Other Canadian Athlete Chris McCormick Ben Barclay Birk Ruud x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Oliwer Magnusson Jesper Tjader Fabian Boesch Andri Ragettli Mac Forehand Nicholas Goepper Alexander Hall x Any Other Athlete Snowboard Women's Big Air Day 11 February 15th 2022 Anna Gasser x Jasmine Baird Brooke Voigt Rong Ge Enni Rukajarvi Annika Morgan Katie Ormerod Reira Iwabuchi x Kokomo Murase x Miyabi Onitsuka Hanne Eilertsen Hailey Langland Any Other Athlete Alpine Skiing Women's Downhill Day 11 February 15th 2022 Mirjam Puchner Ramona Siebenhofer Any Other Austrian Athlete Ester Ledecka Kira Weidle x Nadia Delago Sofia Goggia Any Other Italian Athlete Ragnhild Mowinckel Ilka Stuhec Lara Gut-Behrami Corinne Suter x Any Other Swiss Athlete Breezy Johnson Any Other Athlete x Speed Skating Men's Team Pursuit Day 11 February 15th 2022 Canada China Italy Netherlands x Norway x ROC South Korea United States x Biathlon Men's Relay Day 11 February 15th 2022 Austria Belarus Czech Republic France x Germany Italy Norway x RCF Slovenia Sweden x Ukraine Any Other Nation Nordic Combined Men's Individual Large Hill Day 11 February 15th 2022 Johannes Lamparter x Mario Seidl Kristjan Ilves Ilka Herola Eric Frenzel Vinzenz Geiger x Johannes Rydzek Terence Weber Akito Watabe Jens Luraas Oftebro Jarl Magnus Riiber x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Any Other Athlete Short Track Speed Skating Women's 1500m Day 12 February 16th 2022 Kim Boutin Courtney Sarault x Han Yutong Zhang Yuting Arianna Fontana Suzanne Schulting x Xandra Velzeboer Ekaterina Efremenkova Choi Minjeong x Kim A Lang Lee Yubin Kristen Santos Any Other Athlete Figure Skating Women's Event Day 13 February 17th 2022 Olga Mikutina Ekaterina Ryabova Loena Hendrickx Madeline Schizas Kaori Sakamoto Any Other Japanese Athlete Anna Shcherbakova x Alexandra Trusova x Kamila Valieva Kim Ye-lim x Lee Hae-in Mariah Bell Karen Chen Any Other Athlete Freestyle Skiing Men's Ski Cross Day 14 February 18th 2022 Johannes Rohrweck Any Other Austrian Athlete Kevin Drury Brady Leman Bastien Midol Terence Tchiknavorian Any Other French Athlete x Florian Wilmsmann Simone Deromedis Sergey Ridzik Any Athlete from Sweden x Joos Berry Ryan Regez x Any Other Swiss Athlete Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 50km Mass Start Freestyle Day 15 February 19th 2022 Michal Novak Iivo Niskanen Hugo Lapalus Maurice Manificat Any German Athlete Andrew Musgrave Francesco De Fabiani x Hans Christer Holund x Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo Simen Hegstad Krueger Sjur Roethe Alexander Bolshunov Alexey Chervotkin Any Other ROC Athlete Any Other Athlete x Curling Women's Event Day 16 February 20th 2022 Canada x China x Denmark Great Britain x Japan ROC South Korea Sweden Switzerland United States Bobsleigh Four-Man Day 16 February 20th 2022 Benjamin Maier Justin Kripps x Francesco Friedrich x Christoph Hafer Johannes Lochner Brad Hall Oskars Kibermanis Maxim Andrianov Rostislav Gaitiukevich x Simon Friedli Michael Vogt Hunter Church Any Other Team [/hide]

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Cross-Country Skiing Women's Skiathlon Day 1 February 5th 2022 Teresa Stadlober Krista Parmakoski x Katharina Hennig Helene Marie Fossesholm Therese Johaug x Heidi Weng Tiril Udnes Weng Natalia Nepryaeva Any Other ROC Athlete Ebba Andersson Frida Karlsson x Rosie Brennan Jessica Diggins Any Other Athlete Speed Skating Women's 3000m Day 1 February 5th 2022 Marina Zueva Ivanie Blondin Isabelle Weidemann Valerie Maltais Martina Sablikova Francesca Lollobrigida Any Athlete from Japan Carlijn Achtereekte Antoinette De Jong Irene Schouten x Ragne Wiklund x Natalia Voronina x Any Other Athlete Snowboard Women's Slopestyle Day 2 February 6th 2022 Tess Coady Anna Gasser Evy Poppe Laurie Blouin Annika Morgan Katie Ormerod Reira Iwabuchi x Kokomo Murase Miyabi Onitsuka Melissa Peperkamp Zoi Sadowski Synnott x Cool Wakushima Hanne Eilertsen Jamie Anderson x Any Other Athlete Freestyle Skiing Women's Moguls Day 2 February 6th 2022 Jakara Anthony x Britteny Cox Any Athlete from Canada Perrine Laffont x Junko Hoshino Anri Kawamura x Kisara Sumiyoshi Hinako Tomitaka Yuliya Galysheva Olivia Giaccio Kai Owens Jaelin Kauf Hannah Soar Any Other Athlete Alpine Skiing Women's Giant Slalom Day 3 February 7th 2022 Katharina Truppe Ramona Siebenhofer Any Other Austrian Athlete Tessa Worley Marta Bassino x Federica Brignone Alice Robinson Any Norwegian Athlete Maryna Gasienica-Daniel Petra Vlhova x Meta Hrovat Sara Hector Michelle Gisin Lara Gut-Behrami Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Alpine Skiing Men's Super G Day 4 February 8th 2022 Raphael Haaser Vincent Kriechmayr Matthias Mayer x James Crawford Alexis Pinturault Andreas Sander Dominik Paris Aleksander Aamodt Kilde x Beat Feuz Marco Odermatt x Stefan Rogentin Ryan Cochran-Siegle Travis Ganong Any Other Athlete Snowboard Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Day 4 February 8th 2022 Benjamin Karl Andreas Prommegger Any Other Austrian Athlete x Radoslav Yankov Stefan Baumeister Mirko Felicetti Roland Fischnaller Any Other Italian Athlete x Dmitrii Loginov Zan Kosir Tim Mastnak Lee Sangho Dario Caviezel Nevin Galmarini Any Other Athlete x Biathlon Men's Individual Day 4 February 8th 2022 Anton Smolski Simon Desthieux Quentin Fillon Maillet Emilien Jacquelin x Any German Athlete Johannes Thingnes Boe x Tarjei Boe Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen Sturla Holm Laegreid Eduard Latypov Alexandr Loginov Sebastian Samuelsson Any Other Athlete x Speed Skating Men's 1500m Day 4 February 8th 2022 Bart Swings Connor Howe Ning Zhongyan x Seitaro Ichinohe Ryota Kojima Takuro Oda Thomas Krol x Kjeld Nuis Allan Dahl Johansson Peder Kongshaug Kim Minseok Joey Mantia x Any Other Athlete Luge Women's Singles Day 4 February 8th 2022 Madeleine Egle x Any Other Austrian Athlete Anna Berreiter Nathalie Geisenberger Julia Taubitz x Andrea Voetter Kendija Aparjode Eliza Tiruma Viktoriia Demchenko Tatyana Ivanova x Ekaterina Katnikova Summer Britcher Any Other American Athlete Any Other Athlete Freestyle Skiing Men's Big Air Day 5 February 9th 2022 Lukas Muellauer Matej Svancer Teal Harle Max Moffatt Antoine Adelisse x Ben Barclay Tormod Frostad Birk Ruud Oliwer Magnusson Mac Forehand x Alexander Hall x Colby Stevenson Any Other Athlete Snowboard Men's Snowboard Cross Day 6 February 10th 2022 Any Athlete from Australia Jakob Dusek Alessandro Haemmerle Any Other Austrian Athlete Eliot Grondin x Merlin Surget Paul Berg x Martin Noerl Lorenzo Sommariva Omar Visintin x Glenn De Blois Lucas Eguibar Nick Baumgartner Any Other Athlete Biathlon Women's Sprint Day 7 February 11th 2022 Lisa Theresa Hauser Dzinara Alimbekava Hanna Sola x Marketa Davidova Justine Braisaz-Bouchet Anais Chevalier-Bouchet Julia Simon Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss Any Italian Athlete Tiril Echoff Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Kristina Reztsova Elvira Oeberg x Hanna Oeberg Any Other Athlete x Short Track Speed Skating Women's 1000m Day 7 February 11th 2022 Kim Boutin x Courtney Sarault Any Athlete from China Arianna Fontana Suzanne Schulting x Xandra Velzeboer Natalia Maliszewska Ekaterina Efremenkova Sofia Prosvirnova Choi Minjeong Lee Yubin Kristen Santos x Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's Relay Day 8 February 12th 2022 Czech Republic Finland x France Germany Italy Norway x ROC Slovenia Sweden x Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Men's Individual Large Hill Day 8 February 12th 2022 Jan Hoerl Daniel Huber Stefan Kraft Markus Eisenbichler Karl Geiger x Ryoyu Kobayashi x Halvor Egner Granerud Robert Johansson Marius Lindvik Any Polish Athlete Anze Lanisek x Cene Prevc Timi Zajc Kilian Peier Any Other Athlete Skeleton Women's Singles Day 8 February 12th 2022 Janine Flock x Kim Meylemans Any Athlete from Canada Tina Hermann Jacqueline Loelling Hannah Neise Valentina Margaglio Kimberly Bos x Yulia Kanakina Elena Nikitina x Alina Tararychenkova Katie Uhlaender Any Other Athlete Short Track Speed Skating Men's 500m Day 9 February 13th 2022 Steven Dubois Jordan Pierre-Gilles Ren Ziwei Wu Dajing x John-Henry Krueger Liu Shaoang Liu Shaolin Sandor Denis Nikisha Any Dutch Athlete Konstantin Ivliev Pavel Sitnikov Hwang Daeheon Kwak Yoon-gy Any Other Athlete x x Figure Skating Ice Dance Day 10 February 14th 2022 Fournier Beaudry/Sorensen Gilles/Poirier x Wang /Liu Fear/Gibson Guignard/Fabbri Kaliszek/Spodyriev Davies/Smolkin Sinitsina/Katsalapov Stepanova/Bukin x Chock/Bates Hawayek/Baker Hubbell/Donohue x Any Other Pair Alpine Skiing Men's Slalom Day 12 February 16th 2022 Manuel Feller Any Other Austrian Athlete Filip Zubcic Clement Noel x Alexis Pinturault Dave Ryding Giuliano Razzoli Alex Vinatzer x Sebastian Foss-Solevaag x Lucas Braathen Henrik Kristoffersen Kristoffer Jakobsen Daniel Yule Any Other Swiss Athlete Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's Team Sprint Classical Day 12 February 16th 2022 Belarus Canada Czech Republic Finland France x Great Britain Italy Norway x ROC Sweden x Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Freestyle Skiing Men's Aerials Day 12 February 16th 2022 Ihar Drabiankou Jia Zongyang x Sun Jiaxu x Any Other Chinese Athlete Sherzod Khashyrbayev Ilia Burov x Maxim Burov Stanislav Nikitin Nicolas Gygax Noe Roth Pirmin Werner Oleksandr Abramenko Dmytro Kotovskyi Any American Athlete Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined Men's Team Relay Day 13 February 17th 2022 Austria x Czech Republic Finland France Germany x Italy Japan Norway x United States Speed Skating Women's 1000m Day 13 February 17th 2022 Li Qishi Noa Kodaira Miho Takagi x Yekaterina Aidova Antoinette De Jong Jutta Leerdam x Ireen Wust Andzelika Wojcik Angelina Golikova Daria Kachanova Any Other ROC Athlete Brittany Bowe x Kimi Goetz Any Other Athlete Freestyle Skiing Women's Halfpipe Day 14 February 18th 2022 Amy Fraser Rachel Karker Cassie Sharpe Gu Ailing Eileen x Li Fanghui Zhang Kexin x Kelly Sildaru x Zoe Atkin Saori Suzuki Jang Yujin Hanna Faulhaber Devin Logan Brita Sigourney Any Other Athlete Curling Men's Event Day 15 February 19th 2022 Canada x China Denmark Great Britain x Italy Norway x ROC Sweden Switzerland United States Speed Skating Men's Mass Start Day 15 February 19th 2022 Bart Swings x Jordan Belchos Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu Any Athlete from Denmark Andrea Giovanni x Jorit Bergsma Sven Kramer Kristian Ulekleiv Ruslan Zakharov Chung Jaewon Lee Seung-lee Joey Mantia x Ian Quinn Any Other Athlete Biathlon Women's Mass Start Day 15 February 19th 2022 Lisa Theresa Hauser Dzinara Alimbekava Hanna Sola x Marketa Davidova Anais Bescond Justine Braisaz-Bouchet Anais Chevalier-Bouchet Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss Tiril Echoff Marte Olsbu Roeiseland x Kristina Reztsova Elvira Oeberg x Hanna Oeberg Any Other Athlete Bobsleigh Women's Two-Woman Day 15 February 19th 2022 Beierl/Onasanya De Bruin/Bujnowski x Any Other Canadian Team Any Team from China Jamanka/Burghardt Kalicki/Buckwitz Nolte/Doenicke Grecu/Wick Sergeeva/Belomestnykh Hasler/Pasternack Humphries/Hoffman x Meyers/Gibbs x Any Other Team 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Nothing from IOC, but with Brazilian federation I actually meant both CBDN (snow sports federation) and COB (Brazilian NOC). Who does what...I am not exactly sure, but they are definitely both trying to help how they can, also with their doctors contacting the hospital if needed for example. So far I am mostly just very thankful for the help that's coming out of Brazil.

During the day there are very busy moments with contact with insurances and doctors and all that stuff, but also moments where not much can really be done, so I might just as well watch some sports and post some updates then.. Luckily since November she is officially living in the Netherlands and a requirement for that is to get an obligated health insurance within X months. I arranged that at the end of December (switching to another insurer is something that can be done in December in the Netherlands, so I got a new one for myself and got her on the same policy), and now we already need them. Good thing is that the coverage of medical costs for these kind of things is generally excellent, especially within Europe, so as far as I know all of the medical costs in Italy will be paid by our insurance. As for the transport costs, like with an 'ambulance taxi' we can hire: insurance doesn't pay that, long story about travel insurance (which wasn't valid anymore, hers was until the day before the accident...), but the Brazilian snow sports federation is really being very helpful. I've been in touch a lot with their contact person and she has already told me they will cover all transport costs. Probably a transport would cost roughly 5000-7500 euro, which you know, is a lot of money...but if really necessary, not impossible to pay. But it really helps a whole lot that they (federation) will pay this!

Plus Simen Hegstad Krüger tested positive and won't be defending his skiathlon gold next week.

Not really. Or well, not exactly, although we do have hope for it to not take super long. We had some hopes for her to be transported to the Netherlands tomorrow or even today, but she still needs a surgery on both her left arm and left foot, which can't wait too long. To do that, a hospital in the Netherlands would need to receive her, but that's not possible on such short notice. Exceptions are possible for surgeries that really need to be done here (but that's not the case, Bolzano hospital in the centre of skiing-accident world obviously knows their way around fractures) or in case the patient is in a country where hospitals aren't known to be similar in terms of quality. Italian hospitals are seen as excellent, so an exception can't be made to receive her here. In short: the surgeries will need to happen in Italy, hopefully still tomorrow. Since we're talking about surgeries for fractures, I am assuming that afterwards she most likely doesn't need to stay in the hospital too long, so we do have hope for her to be here in less than a week. The advantages of doing the surgeries in Italy are multiple, at least: we win time by doing so, her pain (especially to her foot) will be relieved much sooner and when being transported (most likely by a sort of 'ambulance taxi' we can hire), she can be dropped off straight here at home instead of in a hospital.

Hopefully he tests negative soon enough though...

The amount of times I've heard the taekwondo commentator say "Open stance, but no open scoring" is larger than the number of scored points in all finals combined.. In my case most things I care about will be on Dutch TV (speed skating), German TV (biathlon, ski jumping, sliding sports) and/or regular Eurosport (biathlon, cross-country). The rest I'll probably see on Eurosport Player indeed.

She isn't really able to answer anything here since she can only use one hand for now. Fine for voice messages, not so much for typing. But she asked me to write here that she had a quick look and is very very grateful for all the wishes and messages here! So, thank you all on Bruna's behalf!

Long story short: she was on the way from Austria (where she had been in quarantine until today) to Munich, to get tested three times there in the coming five days, starting today. Somewhere along the Austrian/Italian border (Vintl), the transfer we had booked for her (a minivan, her as only passenger) had an accident, a bad one, one might say. Sadly the driver didn't make it, and considering they hit a truck head-on, Bruna sitting in the back (to keep some distance) quite simply saved her life. Transported to the hospital by helicopter. Broken arm, two broken feet and an unknown number of broken ribs seems to be the damage. Which, considering the gravity of the accident, is barely short of a miracle. As for me, I'm at home in the Netherlands, which is where we are trying to get her as soon as possible (when medically allowed, of course). It has been a long day of back and forth contact with insurance and Brazilian federation and everything to see what can be done. But, again, the main thing is she's still with us.

Bruna's flight is scheduled for 1st February and she will test tomorrow and Friday (and then again on Sunday). All those dates were suggested/approved by the Brazilian NOC, which in turn had it confirmed by the organizing committee, so I do assume that is correct I really hope Zyla tests negative today, and Weng and the other Norwegians do so in time. After the past one and a half week, I can truly say this is a horror show I really don't wish on any athlete hoping to compete in the Olympics, no matter who you are.

The forum is incredibly slow today..

This was 8 days, but has been moved to 5 days (which is why Bruna could move her test from Monday to tomorrow), with two more negative tests required shorter before travel. Possibly due to the large amount of athletes who were and are in danger?

Really can't see Weng compete in the skiathlon anymore (at least)...

Really can't see Weng compete in the skiathlon anymore (at least)...

Which all counts as similar, to be fair. There isn't really any significant difference between a track at sea level or one at 250m or something, at least nothing that's a bigger factor than the actual quality of the ice

For those interested, Argentinian Ceci Dominguez is throwing all of the Argentinian federation's dirt on the street on how they systematically tried to and succeeded in pushing her out, piece by piece. https://www.instagram.com/cecilia_dominguez01/

Might be an unfortunate but wise and necessary decision. Paranoia or not and agreeing with restrictions or not, the moment one positive test puts you out of the Olympics, you simply need to be extremely careful, completely independent from what one's own opinion about the rules is.

Somehow I feel Goggia doesn't feel psychological aspects, otherwise she wouldn't put down kamikaze runs every single time despite her injury history

I am going to take the freedom to call this an epic result by young Argentinian Franco del Farra, wow. https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&raceid=39389

To be fair, it does seem Italy and France are basically requesting the same thing, so it's not just Austria