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Not me that's for sure! I already told my sister that if and when I come to visit her in Madrid it will be in the winter months
 

Thank you, now I've got Higher than Mars stuck in my head AGAIN.

Hubertus from Mexico is singer

What's this? @heywoodu
 

Rumours suggest it was the publicity stunt for WINTERFEST (TISC's rival created by Antarctica).

Everyone are talking about those hurricanes and earthquake, while in the same time in whole Poland we can observe aurora right now  It's very rare here and especially when is summer.

Magnitude 8.1 earthquake has hit just south of Mexico, the strongest earthquake since the September 2015 8.0 quake near Chile.
 
Water is retreating at the beaches, that's not good. As Gandalf would say: "Run, you fools"
 
 

To think the Turks and Caicos Islands are watching all this devastation on Barbuda, Sint Maarten/Saint Martin, Saint-Barthelemy etc, knowing it's coming their way and there's absolutely nothing they can do to stop it..

To think the Turks and Caicos Islands are watching all this devastation on Barbuda, Sint Maarten/Saint Martin, Saint-Barthelemy etc, knowing it's coming their way and there's absolutely nothing they can do to stop it..

To think the Turks and Caicos Islands are watching all this devastation on Barbuda, Sint Maarten/Saint Martin, Saint-Barthelemy etc, knowing it's coming their way and there's absolutely nothing they can do to stop it..

Right. 37 and finally making her Olympic debut then.

Very strange qualification system.. impossible to follow whitout read all rules  

Right. 37 and finally making her Olympic debut then.

Canadian Doug Mason is once again the new coach of the dutch men´s ice hockey national team http://www.iihf.com/home-of-hockey/news/news-singleview/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=11996&cHash=60022265655da5c1083d336bffd0e609

Nothing is over  
 
CBDN (Brazilian federation) makes their own special ranking to determine who gets the one quota. What I mentioned earlier apparently wasn't right and it looks like this is correct:
 
- Average of the 5 best FIS points between 1 July 2016 and 22 January 2018, with some subcriteria;
 - Maximum of two of those results coming in South America
 - At least one of those results coming in the Northern Hemisphere
 
That is, if I'm translating correctly from the criteria, here. ( @vinipereira @thiago_simoes, am I correct?)
 
Mourão had no results in South America, so came to Chile to correct that. She's still rather far ahead in the rankings, but her points of today actually don't really make a significant difference (I'd say she has 80% chance to get the ticket, just like I thought before today).
 
The 25 seconds mean nothing by the way. There were two very hard downhills, on which Bruna fell all the time during training yesterday (they only got hard after the course was changed slightly yesterday). Today before the competition however, she worked hard on learning the 'drift technique' to get through the corners, and in qualifying...it worked! She was only 2 seconds behind Mourão then, but in the last (short, not hard) downhill there was a hole in the track and her ski got stuck, causing her to fall and lose 20-25 seconds.
 
The final was one big confidence boost, because even though Mourão eventually got the win by basically throwing herself down the downhills like a madman, Bruna for the first time ever saw that on the uphills and flat parts she was actually able to get the better of Mourão
 
And well, even if 2018 doesn't work out, that's all very promising for 2022, which after all was the first main goal when she started skiing. The fact that she's even in the running for the 2018 ticket is more than was expected when she was first standing on ski's, only three years ago. 

Yes, Floris Braat won a World Cup race in 2000 (in La Seu D'Urgell, ESP)
He also won a World Championship Silver medal in the Team Event (with 2 teammates, of course) in 2003
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floris_Braat

Not sure, must check it, but NED won 2 medals at world championships, Silver in 2003 Mens K1 Team and Bronze in 1973 mixed C2.
 
 

First strike !
 

@heywoodu  Martina Wegman qualified for the K1 final from 2nd place with a impressive time, maybe something historical in the air today http://results.totallympics.com/forum.php?mod=redirect&goto=findpost&ptid=589&pid=21076&fromuid=5
 
also in C1 all 3 Slovaks qualified for the final + ex-SVK Jerguš Baďura did qualified to the final
 
Livestream of todays finals W K1 and M C1 at 13:33
 

I want to see Bruna at the Olympics so go Bruna!

do you want Alpine Skating results?
here they are (just look at the post above this)...

Cool, maybe I'll tune in for the fun of it 

4th and penultimate Canoe slalom world cup 2017 stage is held this weekend in Ivrea (ITA)
 
Livestreams of todays finals Men C2, W C1 and M K1 start at 13:30
 

World Cup in Ivrea