Herki

Sad news, I really liked both Dominik and Simon, gonna miss rooting for those guys.

Was really hoping our athletes would do better at home. Susan Külm seems to have found her best skiing form ever, too bad she can't hit the targets to make a good result out of it. Tuuli Tomingas said she felt dead tired already yesterday and knew she wouldn't do much in the race, she finished the season and even skips relays on Sunday. But as France is my favorite biathlon country I am very pleased with the sprints results

Kadri Lehtla has announced her retirement. She had plenty of top 40 finishes 10 years ago but then had some health issues and only got worse and worse over the years.

Next stop, Otepää When I saw it is going to be held in almost mid March I was worried because usually it is quite warm and rainy already but this year it is still a nice winter with temperatures below 0 and a lot of snow.

Not sad to see her go.

A gold for our guy

Was surprised to read this was the last ever Olympic race for Johaug and she even considers retiring at the end of the season. Without her the Norwegian women have been such a B-tier nation lately. They have been so dominant over the last decade and made women's races rather boring, so I wouldn't mind seeing them fading into the background for a while.

Well, there are those "family is the most important, you can't fight with them" people. But she started getting a lot hate a few months ago when it was revealed that little brother Henry can't fight for Olympics qualification because their mother won't let him use the sponsor money, there is a rule that for an underage person both parents must give the permission to use the money. So, Henry couldn't travel to competitions and had no chance to make it to OG. Since Kelly is siding with her mother, she was also getting hate for not caring about her brother.

Before the OG she said she definitely feels a lot more pressure than in other competitions. Definitely something wrong with her equipment, don't know how can something like this happen twice during such important moments. Don't think there was any injury but she did say after qualifying that she feels quite fatigued already.

Estonia for sure expected a better catch than "just a bronze" from this OG from Kelly. She has gathered quite a many haters over the whole Sildaru family drama, they had a field day today. Funny how in last race a Russian and Norwegian claimed they deserved more points and should have won bronze, Kelly's coach said judges know what they are doing and the results are just right. Today he said that Kelly deserved more points and judges scores were suspicious.

Really pleased with Marten Liiv's 7th place, he said he aims top 10 and he made it, at least 1 our athlete who reached their goal. TBH I rate this result higher than Saskia Alusalu's "4th" at PY.

Really happy for the German gold, always have rooted for their skiers, glad to see this resurrection from them.

Kelly Sildaru finally takes an Olympic medal. She was like 9 when people started talking about little Kelly who saves our winter sports and will win Olympics medals. And she did.

Only reason I may somewhat believe him is that it would be really REALLY stupid to risk like that. I mean, his son is useless with or without doping, there is a high chance these days he could get caught. No brainer that his own case comes into spotlight again. Can he really be that idiot to make himself dirty again so that his son could get 59nd place instead of 72nd?

This is so embarrassing and frustrating. Like our cross country skiing isn't a joke enough. Tammjärv was the only one who could get some points, now we know why. Our skiers reputation here in Estonia has been very low already for years due to miserable results, this will be the final straw. RIP. The worst part is who got caught: Andreas Veerpalu - son of Andrus Veerpalu and also Poltoranin, who is coached by Andrus Veerpalu. Andrus himself finished his career with a doping case, he was eventually announced to be clean but this process was kinda skechy and left many Estonians turning their backs to their former hero. Still, he was oficcially declared clean, case closed, everyone moved on. Now his name comes up again and even if he really had no idea what his son and trainee were up to like he claims, it brings more bad light to his case.