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Hello from Oberwiesenthal, where there will be FESA Cup races tomorrow and Sunday
 
Spot the Brazilian, I assure you she's on the photo
 

Hello from Oberwiesenthal, where there will be FESA Cup races tomorrow and Sunday
 
Spot the Brazilian, I assure you she's on the photo
 

Hello from Oberwiesenthal, where there will be FESA Cup races tomorrow and Sunday
 
Spot the Brazilian, I assure you she's on the photo
 

Julia Tannheimer is such an impressive talent.

Can they check if the pool is indeed 25 m and not 20 m.. It was very fun in the beginning, but now it's getting absurd, especially with Walsh, who's every swim is basically a WR. I thought the "enormous number of broken WR's at the same event" years were behind us, but here we are.

Poland has a great talent in the women's divisions. Hanna Mazur is being very impressive in the junior World Cup so far, riding 39's as a 16 year old in super slow Tomaszow is really impressive.
https://live.isuresults.eu/events/2025_POL_0002/competition/17/results
 
She's also got some endurance, judging by her second place in the mass start today.

it's about 2 main factors: first, the pool's size and shape (depth, width and also the gradient of the pool's sides -if the walls are perfectly vertical or not), which has an influence on the water mass movement following the swimmers' action (the more the walls can absorb the waves made by the swimmers, the faster they can go; meanwhile, the bigger the waves are, the more they slow the swimmers down); second, water hardness might also be a factor (less than the pool's technical features, but still) as in different Countries there might be different habits (if not laws) about the sanification of the water itself (for instance, here in Italy we use to put a lot of chlore in pools' water, more than in many other places)
 
environmental and water's temperature can also have an impact, but in the indoor events I think there's no big difference between places (and the water's temperature is standardized by FINA for sure)
 
altitude might also be a factor (as it is for all the aerobic efforts), but normally there are no swimming big events in high places, so it's more a chance than a real thing since the 1968 Olympics and the 1975 Worlds (which were held in  Cali)

Progress in filling up the bookcase in our new house  All of the boxes we already brought there are now emptied and gone into the bookcase, I'm sure I still have some random stuff laying around here at home/old home, but I'm sure I'll get to that  
 
And yes, they are definitely going to be put in a nicer position and so on, instead of this mess (like putting them nice and standing up and such), but I needed to empty all the boxes and kind of sort them a bit, so I can work on making it nice late. Right is sports, left is non-sports (with a large majority of that being related to history)  
 
 

Progress in filling up the bookcase in our new house  All of the boxes we already brought there are now emptied and gone into the bookcase, I'm sure I still have some random stuff laying around here at home/old home, but I'm sure I'll get to that  
 
And yes, they are definitely going to be put in a nicer position and so on, instead of this mess (like putting them nice and standing up and such), but I needed to empty all the boxes and kind of sort them a bit, so I can work on making it nice late. Right is sports, left is non-sports (with a large majority of that being related to history)  
 
 

Things happened too fast, surprised everybody. the future is so unpredictable. so far these groups are trying to act properly but so did Taliban at first. we will see their true color in next few weeks/months.
 
Bashar Asad was a murderer and criminal but he wasn't extremist. these guys can be both murderer and extremist. but there are lots of groups involved. still it's not totally clear who will get the power ultimately. it's highly possible to see a war between these groups
 
Turkey is sponsoring some (most) of these groups, so the future will be hard for the Kurds too. Turkey will push these groups to conquer the Kurdish parts too.
 
but I think the regime in Iran was the biggest loser here, they spent billions of dollars (at least 30 according to rumors) to keep this piece of crap in power. he was supposed to pay it back someday. now they have to rethink their strategy, everything if falling apart for them. (which is not necessarily a bad thing to be honest) 
 
anyway it was a very hard few years for the Syrian people and the future doesn't look brighter. I just hope I'm wrong and something good comes out of this.  maybe these guys have really changed  Syrian people suffered a lot already.

Super nasty fall for Arnaud Boisset in today's first downhill of the season, he was 100% knocked out by hitting his head on the snow....

The full schedule in shorttrack always appears very late, like the day/evening before the first day. So tomorrow evening, you should see it here:
https://www.shorttrack.swisstiming.com/?evt=11213100000127

And, in his own words, possible final end of his career. That is quite tragic, he was so excited to compete for his mother's country for at least a season..

Didn't get there yet, so I'm still curious as to what a 'mixed singles' is exactly  
 
I mean, in tennis that'd be a man vs a woman, I suppose  

Totally forgot, but Sunday was the 10k classic in Santa Caterina. Tougher race for Bruna both because of it being a back to back 10k (which she hadn't done before, especially not this early in the season when still building up racing rhythm), and because classic style is the one where the foot she crushed in 2022 is far and away the most painful. Managed to bite through it though and got an excellent 269 FIS points  
https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&raceid=47720
 
Yesterday she drove to Schlinig/Slingia on the / border, where next weekend there'll be the first FESA/OPA/Alpencup of the season, generally an excellent opportunity for good points.

Great to see luge being back underway, but annoying that the graphics aren't really working properly yet  
 
They're showing the time gaps at all the splits, as per usual, but then at the finish there is only the actual time, and no time gaps, resulting in all the time having to mentally calculate the difference to see if someone gained or lost time in the last part.

Yeah that mirror thing was so weird. You literally need a maximum of two safety car laps (possibly just 1) to take away that 1 piece of stuff....but wait until someone unavoidably shatters it into 1000 little pieces  
 
Intentionally or not, there is no way it was NOT going to happen at some point...

Italian alpine skier Matilde Lorenzi has died during the night after a bad crash in training yesterday, only 19 years old  
https://www.krone.at/3574860
 
Two top-10's in the speed disciplines at last season's world junior championships, lots of Europa Cup results and she was Italian super-G champion in quite a strong field (seniors), definitely someone we would have been likely to see in the World Cups in the next few years..

No idea. 
 
But i remember Brodka vs Verweij win in Sochi by 0.000000000001 sec like It was yesterday 🤪 that was fun!

The heart of Diggins on display once again. She seemed out of it on the second to last climb, but found her second life on the final one and bypassed the two Norwegians like nothing. Johaug will need some time to get back into her terminator form.

They're based on four things:
 
1. A factor (800 for interval starts, 1200 for sprint qualifying, 1400 for mass starts/skiathlons)
 
2. The winner's time
 
3. The time of athlete X (the one you want to calculate the points for)
 
4. The current FIS points of the athletes in the top-5 of the race
 
I know there are two formulas FIS uses, which obviously result in the same points total, but I don't have them in mind

Not really working, cross-country has that in order a lot better than alpine skiing  
 
Nowadays if you're able to get 300 FIS points, you're certainly able to ski a decent race at least. The athletes you might see at world championships, where some of them might be in one of their first ever races on snow and they are still learning basic technique, definitely won't be able to get 300 points or better.
 
 

Not really working, cross-country has that in order a lot better than alpine skiing  
 
Nowadays if you're able to get 300 FIS points, you're certainly able to ski a decent race at least. The athletes you might see at world championships, where some of them might be in one of their first ever races on snow and they are still learning basic technique, definitely won't be able to get 300 points or better.
 
 

I met JT Miller and Conor Garland of the  yesterday, it was an incredible experience 

Not 300 points....233 points  
https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&raceid=47716
 
Excellent start of the season! Live timing wasn't ideal, some transponders issues here and there, so while she should have crossed the line first (started 2nd), I didn't see her in the finish list even after 8-9 women finished...luckily then she called and when I asked if she finished, she said she did, so no problems and it was indeed just some transponder issue  
 
Tomorrow it's the 10k classic, first time she does 10k races back-to-back, let's see how that goes  Less pressure though, since that one won't count for the Brazilian Olympic ranking, only classic sprint and freestyle distance races count for that.