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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.

That's just being smart, because China.

But this isn't new at all....it's basically been public knowledge since forever

And if governments decide that people should be more masculine or feminine I thought Das Reich was mostly gone

Besides, this story would obviously not be surprising at all even if completely true. I don't think anyone would be surprised if Trump has been played for decades by the KGB

Wow.

Spot the Totallympian.

What's up with the junior/U23 world champs' schedule? The U23 athletes have a sprint, distance race and a mixed relay, whereas the juniors get to race in a sprint, individual start distance race, mass start distance race and normal non-mixed relays...

But isn't Baselga impossible as long as it's outdoor? I mean, I thought it had to be an indoor venue, like that's one of the prerequisites. Having outdoor skating at the Olympics would be awesome and every outdoor rink that's being turned into an indoor hall is a knife in the heart of the sport (looking at you, Inzell idiots, you messed up something so wonderful) but it seems...unlikely.

That's excellent. That means no Olympic speed skating there unfortunately, but better preserve a monument like that than destroy it for two weeks of sports.