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Oh, I thought movies were nominated for those too

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Mixed Relay 4x7.5km Day 1 February 10th, 2021 Austria Belarus Czech Republic France x Germany Italy Norway x Russian Biathlon Federation Sweden x Switzerland Ukraine United States Any Other Nation Men's 10km Sprint Day 2 February 12th, 2021 Quentin Fillon Maillet Emilien Jacquelin Any Other French Athlete Arnd Peiffer Any Other German Athlete Lukas Hofer Johannes Thingnes Boe x Sturla Holm Laegreid x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Jakov Fak Martin Ponsiluoma Sebastian Samuelsson Benjamin Weger Any Other Athlete x Women's 7.5km Sprint Day 3 February 13th, 2021 Lisa Theresa Hauser Dzinara Alimbekava Marketa Davidova Anais Chevalier-Bouchet Any Other French Athlete Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss x Any Other German Athlete Dorothea Wierer Lisa Vittozzi Marte Olsbu Roeiseland x Tiril Eckhoff x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Elvira Oeberg Hanna Oeberg Any Other Swedish Athlete Any Other Athlete Men's 12.5km Pursuit Day 4 February 14th, 2021 Quentin Fillon Maillet Emilien Jacquelin x Any Other French Athlete Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer Any Other German Athlete Johannes Thingnes Boe x Johannes Dale Sturla Holm Laegreid x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Sebastian Samuelsson Benjamin Weger Any Other Athlete Women's 10km Pursuit Day 4 February 14th, 2021 Lisa Theresa Hauser Dzinara Alimbekava Justine Braisaz-Bouchet Julia Simon Any Other French Athlete Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss x Dorothea Wierer Marte Olsbu Roeiseland x Tiril Eckhoff Any Other Norwegian Athlete Elvira Oeberg Hanna Oeberg x Any Other Swedish Athlete Any Other Athlete Women's 15km Individual Day 5 February 16th, 2021 Anais Chevalier-Bouchet Justine Braisaz-Bouchet Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss Dorothea Wierer Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Tiril Eckhoff Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Any Athlete Representing Russian Biathlon Federation Hanna Oeberg x Linn Persson Any Other Swedish Athlete Yuliia Dzhima Any Other Athlete x x Men's 20km Individual Day 6 February 17th, 2021 Simon Eder Quentin Fillon Maillet Antonin Guigonnat Any Other French Athlete Benedikt Doll Arnd Peiffer Any Other German Athlete Lukas Hofer Johannes Thingnes Boe Sturla Holm Laegreid Any Other Norwegian Athlete Alexander Loginov x Any Other Athlete Representing Russian Biathlon Federation Any Swedish Athlete Any Other Athlete x x Mixed Single Relay 6km + 7.5km Day 7 February 18th, 2021 Austria Belarus Canada Czech Republic France x Germany Italy Norway x Russian Biathlon Federation Sweden x Switzerland Ukraine United States Any Other Nation Women's 4x6km Relay Day 8 February 20th, 2021 Austria Belarus Czech Republic France x Germany Italy Norway x Russian Biathlon Federation Sweden x Switzerland Ukraine Any Other Nation Men's 4x7.5km Relay Day 8 February 20th, 2021 Austria Czech Republic Finland France x Germany Italy Norway x Russian Biathlon Federation x Sweden Switzerland Ukraine Any Other Nation Women's 12.5km Mass Start Day 9 February 21th, 2021 Lisa Theresa Hauser x Dzinara Alimbekava Marketa Davidova Julia Simon Any Other French Athlete Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss Any Other German Athlete Dorothea Wierer Lisa Vittozzi Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Tiril Eckhoff x Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold Any Other Norwegian Athlete Hanna Oeberg Any Other Swedish Athlete x Any Other Athlete Men's 15km Mass Start Day 9 February 21th, 2021 Simon Eder Quentin Fillon Maillet Emilien Jacquelin x Any Other French Athlete Arnd Peiffer Any Other German Athlete Lukas Hofer Johannes Thingnes Boe x Tarjei Boe Sturla Holm Laegreid Any Other Norwegian Athlete Jakov Fak Martin Ponsiluoma Sebastian Samuelsson Any Other Athlete x [/hide]

At least the last two times it was women - men, didn't bother to check further To be honest, I like when they mix the order up. As far as I'm concerned, mixed relays at the highest level (so WC, WCH and OG) should always be women - men followed by men - women - followed by women - men and so on. Not much about equality, it's just more fair to have a roughly 50/50 balance in the order in an event where things like final sprints are a thing - and so always having the same order always benefits countries who have stronger men/women (depending on who's always last). The exact distances have changed quite often recently if I'm not mistaken, it seems like they've been trying it out for a while now. I'm fairly sure I've seen mixed relays with equal distances before.

Great, so time trial handlebars during regular flat stages it is..

The shortlists for the main awards come later?

Now I can't see her hidden content anymore, thanks !

For some reason, I am able to see this post by @brunamoura, even though it is 100% within hide /hide blocks. I checked both her and my posts in that thread and they are exactly the same (other than the names in the teams of course, I mean the hide blocks are identical). Also, on her account my post is not visible, whereas on my account her post is visible. What's going on here? Right now the content of that post is just the word 'test' (inside the hide blocks), because of the issue of not wanting to show the team

[hide] Nation Captains NOR JT Bø NOR M Olsbu Røiseland Nation Women SWE H Öberg CZE M Davidova RUS E Pavlova BLR D Alimbekava Nation Men SWE S Samuelsson AUT S Eder GER E Lesser SUI B Weger [/hide]

Warmup tonight and the Daytona 500 to kick off the year for real on Sunday already

Not yet, but Brazil will have a competitor in two World Cup races (finishing = points and finishing in the top-100 is enough for more than one point) and at the World Championships Brazil should be able to score some points as well, considering there are three athletes, two of whom might compete in more than two races including the team sprint. Until today there were 27 nations in the ranking, today's competition added Spain, Turkey, Lithuania, Mongolia and Kazakhstan. We can assume at least Kazakhstan will get ahead and stay ahead with the senior races, but that means there's still space inside the top-30, which is what Brazil needs to have a shot at qualifying two women for Beijing 2022.

Impressive qualifying by Niilo Moilanen, leaving everyone at least 5 seconds behind him and only the top-11 within 10 seconds. Excellent 8th place for Jaume Pueyo . DNF for Tuuli Raunio in the women's qualifying, that makes one worried when that happens in a sprint. Maria Iglesias made the cut by 0,03 seconds, cool. Meanwhile, the likes of Lithuania, Turkey, Mongolia all scored a single Nation's Ranking point per athlete, so they're not a threat for Brazil as of yet.

Damn it, last time it was in Germany and all those races were readily available to watch on YouTube Seriously, 18 euro for junior world championships in a fringe sport...idiots.

And both U-23 and junior races count for the nation's ranking. Which is probably why Turkey is there with four junior girls, and Mongolia with two, Lithuania with four and so on. The fight is on.

As arguably the world's leading non-Brazilian follower of Brazilian women's cross-country, I could not agree more with this

Any reason for that? I've heard German Madrazo's name quite often in the past few years, part of the infamous Project Bogota to qualify for Pyeongchang, did he grow his participation into some attention for the sport?

Tiny start list and now already postponed if not cancelled. What a start to these championships.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's Alpine Combined Day 1 February 8th, 2021 Franziska Gritsch Ramona Siebenhofer Ricarda Haaser Marie-Michele Gagnon Ester Ledecka Marta Bassino Federica Brignone Elena Curtoni Ragnhild Mowinckel Petra Vlhova Michelle Gisin x Lara Gut-Behrami Wendy Holdener x Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Women's Super-G Day 2 February 9th, 2021 Tamara Tippler Any Other Austrian Athlete Marie-Michele Gagnon Ester Ledecka x Marta Bassino Federica Brignone x Kajsa Vickhoff Lie Petra Vlhova Ilka Stuhec Michelle Gisin Lara Gut-Behrami x Priska Nufer Corinne Suter Any American Athlete Any Other Athlete Men's Super-G Day 2 February 9th, 2021 Vincent Kreichmayr x Matthias Mayer Any Other Austrian Athlete Alexis Pinturault Andreas Sander Christof Innerhofer Dominik Paris Kjetil Jansrud Beat Feuz Marco Odermatt x Ryan Cochran-Siegle Travis Ganong Any Other Athlete x Men's Alpine Combined Day 3 February 10th, 2021 Vincent Kreichmayr Matthias Mayer Marco Schwarz Victor Muffat-Jeandet Alexis Pinturault x Any Italian Athlete Kjetil Jansrud Luca Aerni Loic Meillard Justin Murisier Ryan Cochran-Siegle x Any Other Athlete x Women's Downhill Day 4 February 13th, 2021 Tamara Tippler Any Other Austrian Athlete Ester Ledecka x Kira Weidle Elena Curtoni Laura Pirovano Kajsa Vickhoff Lie Ilka Stuhec Michelle Gisin Lara Gut-Behrami x Corinne Suter Breezy Johnson Any Other Athlete x Men's Downhill Day 5 February 14th, 2021 Vincent Kreichmayr Matthias Mayer x Otmar Striedinger Johan Clarey Romed Baumann Andreas Sander Christof Innerhofer Dominik Paris Kjetil Jansrud Martin Cater Beat Feuz x Carlo Janka Ryan Cochran-Siegle x Travis Ganong Any Other Athlete Women's Parallel GS Day 6 February 16th, 2021 Franziska Gritsch Elisa Moerzinger Katharina Truppe Any French Athlete Marta Bassino Federica Brignone Kristin Lysdahl Thea Louise Stjernesund Petra Vlhova x Any Slovenian Athlete Sara Hector Lara Gut-Behrami Wendy Holdener x Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Men's Parallel GS Day 6 February 16th, 2021 Fabian Gstrein Roland Leitinger Filip Zubcic Alexis Pinturault Stefan Luitz Alexander Schmid Henrik Kristoffersen x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Zan Kranjec Semyel Bissig Gino Caviezel Any Other Swiss Athlete x Any Other Athlete x Mixed Team Parallel Event Day 7 February 17th, 2021 Austria x France Germany Italy Norway Slovakia Slovenia Sweden Switzerland x United States x Any Other Nation Women's Giant Slalom Day 8 February 18th, 2021 Katharina Liensberger Any Other Austrian Athlete Tessa Worley Marta Bassino x Federica Brignone Alice Robinson Mina Fuerst Holtmann Petra Vlhova x Meta Hrovat Sara Hector Michelle Gisin Lara Gut-Behrami Wendy Holdener Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Men's Giant Slalom Day 9 February 19th, 2021 Roland Leitinger Marco Schwarz Filip Zubcic Alexis Pinturault x Any Other French Athlete Alexander Schmid Luca De Aliprandini Henrik Kristoffersen Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen Zan Kranjec Loic Meillard Justin Murisier Marco Odermatt x Any Other Athlete x Women's Slalom Day 10 February 20th, 2021 Katharina Liensberger Chiara Mair Katharina Truppe Any Canadian Athlete Martina Dubovska Lena Duerr Irene Curtoni Kristin Lysdahl Any Other Norwegian Athlete Petra Vlhova x Michelle Gisin x Wendy Holdener Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Men's Slalom Day 11 February 21st, 2021 Manuel Feller Michael Matt Marco Schwarz x Clement Noel x Alexis Pinturault Linus Strasser Dave Ryding Alex Vinatzer Henrik Kristoffersen Sebastian Foss-Solevaag Loic Meillard Ramon Zenhaeusern x Any Other Swiss Athlete Any Other Athlete [/hide]

There's already been a big no for natural ice marathons, presumably there's no way the Elfstedentocht will be held even if we have four weeks of -15 degrees. I also kinda hope it won't be, it would suck so bad to have an Elfstedentocht with no spectators....I'd rather keep on waiting for a rare chance to have a real one, with hundreds of thousands of people standing on the side of the canals at 4am.

First significant snowfall in one or two years and probably the first time in 5-6 years it actually will stay around for at least a week (forecasts are for it to not be over zero degrees until the end of February, including during sunny days ). And the best of all, @brunamoura just finished a session of some fun and actual cross-country skiing right on the street in front of my house! Literally on the evening before going to Austria for the season, timing could not have been better. Despite (of course) using her oldest and most shitty pair of skis, wrong poles, wrong gloves and not having any kind of prepared track, she said she felt great

FIS mixing up the teamsprint semifinals in their PDF's again, why on earth is it apparently so incredibly hard for them to get it right in specifically the teamsprint? It's wrong and all mixed up every single time

The paddock of the track at Termas de Rio Hondo has basically been completely destroyed by fire

They were not much in shape anyway I hear. Run three, Nolte just made a big mistake in the bottom and Meyers Taylor could pass her. However, halfway in the run Meyers was already behind Nolte in terms of split times, but John said "this is where she can catch Nolte....but she doesn't!". No, because the splits were compared to Humphries, not to Nolte. She was definitely catching up on Nolte in those last few corners.

Martin Haven calling Evan O'Hanlon an Olympic champion over and over (and even 'an Olympic champion at the Paralympics', ffs) is the biggest disappointment of the season. It's such a show of disrespect towards Paralympic athletes when people don't recognize them as Paralympic greats and call them Olympians or Olympic athletes...that just sounds like you're not taking the Paralympics serious in any way.

Dominik Paris won the Garmisch downhill today. Which is promising for tomorrow, since 8 of the previous 9 wins he had before today were part of a two-day double

Simon Geschke rightfully pointing out that weirdly enough the absolutely moronic finish in Poland is apparently still fine, despite years of warnings and a near-fatal crash last year.