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There are so many covid cases among Polish athletes, specially speed skating and short track. It makes me so angry. Obviously noone knows where they have caught it. But I just don't understand why Polish NOC didn't skip the official ceremony in their headquarters in Warsaw before they all were heading to board the plane to Beijing. That was unnecessary risk, so many people gathered together in one crowded place. They should have cancelled such an event this year. Very bad decision to hold it. '

And there is one more match on Wed. NOR vs CZE. Feel free to predict the winner in the comments, because 3 is max number of questions one poll may have here.

Natalia Czerwonka, Magdalena Czyszczoń, Marek Kania - speed skating (they are already in China)

Natalia Maliszewska, short track (she is already in China)

Then who?

Maryna is already on the spot. Everything seems to be ok for her.

Poll #27

Yes, BIASED JUDGES, i guessed it correctly 😉

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Freestyle Skiing Men's Moguls Day 1 February 5th 2022 Broadie Summers Mikael Kingsbury x Jimi Salonen Benjamin Cavet Daichi Hara Ikuma Horishima x Kosuke Sugimoto Pavel Kolmakov Walter Wallberg x Ludwig Fjallstrom Cole McDonald Bradley Wilson Any Other Athlete Luge Men's Singles Day 2 February 6th 2022 Wolfgang Kindl x Any Other Austrian Athlete Max Langenhan Felix Loch x Johannes Ludwig x Dominik Fischnaller Kevin Fischnaller Gints Berzins Kristers Aparjods Aleksandr Gorbatcevich Semen Pavlichenko Roman Repilov Any Other Athlete Speed Skating Women's 1500m Day 3 February 7th 2022 Ivanie Blondin Isabelle Weidemann Han Mei Francesca Lollobrigida Ayano Sato Miho Takagi x Nana Takagi Nadezhda Morozova Antoinette De Jong x Irene Schouten Ireen Wust Ragne Wiklund Elizaveta Golubeva Brittany Bowe x Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Mixed Team Event Normal Hill Day 3 February 7th 2022 Austria x Canada China Czech Republic Finland Germany x Italy Japan Norway Poland ROC Slovenia x Snowboard Women's Parallel Giant Slalom Day 4 February 8th 2022 Julia Dujmovits Sabine Schoeffmann Daniela Ulbing x Ester Ledecka x Ramona Theresia Hofmeister Any Other German Athlete Nadya Ochner Any Athlete from Japan Aleksandra Krol x Sofiya Nadyrshina Any Other ROC Athlete Ladina Jenny Patrizia Kummer Julie Zogg Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's Individual Sprint Freestyle Day 4 February 8th 2022 Any Athlete from Finland Lucas Chanavat Richard Jouve x Federico Pellegrino Paal Goldberg Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo x Haavard Solaas Taugboel Erik Valnes Gleb Retivykh Alexander Terentev x Any Other ROC Athlete Marcus Grate James Clinton Schoonmaker Any Other Athlete Short Track Speed Skating Men's 1500m Day 5 February 9th 2022 Stijn Desmet Pascal Dion Any Other Canadian Athlete Ren Ziwei x Sun Long Shaolin Sandor Liu Yuri Confortola Adil Galiakhmetov Sjinkie Knegt Semen Elistratov x Hwang Daeheon Park Jang Hyuk x Any Other Athlete Figure Skating Men's Event Day 6 February 10th 2022 Keegan Messing Han Yan Kevin Aymoz Any Italian Athlete Yuzuru Hanyu Yuma Kagiyama Shoma Uno x Mikhail Kolyada Mark Kondratiuk Andrei Mozalev Cha Jun-hwan Jason Brown Nathan Chen x Any Other Athlete x Alpine Skiing Men's Combined Day 6 February 10th 2022 Matthias Mayer Marco Schwarz x Filip Zubcic Victor Muffat-Jeandet Alexis Pinturault x Any German Athlete Christof Innerhofer Dominik Paris Aleksander Aamodt Kilde Any Other Norwegian Athlete Zan Kranjec Loic Meillard x Any Other Swiss Athlete Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's 10km Classical Day 6 February 10th 2022 Teresa Stadlober Kerttu Niskanen Krista Parmakoski x Katharina Hennig Therese Johaug x Heidi Weng Any Other Athlete from Norway Natalia Nepryaeva Tatiana Sorina Yulia Stupak Ebba Andersson Frida Karlsson x Rosie Brennan Any Other Athlete Snowboard Men's Halfpipe Day 7 February 11th 2022 Scotty James x Liam Gill Wang Ziyang Andre Hoeflich Ayumu Hirano x Kaishu Hirano Ruka Hirano Yuto Totsuka x Jan Scherrer Any Other Swiss Athlete Shaun White Any Other American Athlete Any Other Athlete Alpine Skiing Women's Super-G Day 7 February 11th 2022 Mirjam Puchner Ramona Siebenhofer Tamara Tippler Marie-Michele Gagnon Ester Ledecka x Any French Athlete Federica Brignone Elena Curtoni Sofia Goggia x Ragnhild Mowinckel Lara Gut-Behrami x Corinne Suter Breezy Johnson Mikaela Shiffrin Any Other Athlete Biathlon Men's Sprint Day 8 February 12th 2022 Anton Smolski Simon Desthieux Quentin Fillon-Maillet x Emilien Jacquelin x Benedikt Doll Johannes Kuehn Johannes Thingnes Boe Tarjei Boe Any Other Norwegian Athlete Eduard Latypov Alexandr Loginov Martin Ponsiluoma Sebastian Samuelsson x Any Other Athlete Biathlon Women's Pursuit Day 9 February 13th 2022 Lisa Theresa Hauser Dzinara Alimbekava x Hanna Sola Marketa Davidova Anais Chevalier-Bouchet Julia Simon Any Other French Athlete Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss Any Italian Athlete Marte Olsbu Roeiseland x Kristina Reztsova Elvira Oeberg Hanna Oeberg x Any Other Athlete Short Track Speed Skating Women's 3000m Relay Day 9 February 13th 2022 Canada China x Italy Netherlands x Poland RCF South Korea x United States Speed Skating Women's 500m Day 9 February 13th 2022 Hanna Nifantava Tian Ruining Arisa Go Nao Kodaira x Miho Takagi Femke Kok Any Other Dutch Athlete Andzelika Wojcik Kaja Ziomek Olga Fatkulina Angelina Golikova x Daria Kachanova Kimi Goetz Erin Jackson x Any Other Athlete Ski Jumping Men's Team, Large Hill Day 10 February 14th 2022 Austria Czech Republic Germany x Japan Norway x Poland ROC Slovenia x Switzerland Any Other Nation Freestyle Skiing Men's Slopestyle Day 11 February 15th 2022 Teal Harle Max Moffatt Any Other Canadian Athlete Chris McCormick Ben Barclay Birk Ruud Any Other Norwegian Athlete Oliwer Magnusson Jesper Tjader Fabian Boesch Andri Ragettli x Mac Forehand Nicholas Goepper x Alexander Hall x Any Other Athlete Snowboard Women's Big Air Day 11 February 15th 2022 Anna Gasser x Jasmine Baird Brooke Voigt Rong Ge Enni Rukajarvi Annika Morgan Katie Ormerod Reira Iwabuchi x Kokomo Murase Miyabi Onitsuka Hanne Eilertsen Hailey Langland Any Other Athlete x Alpine Skiing Women's Downhill Day 11 February 15th 2022 Mirjam Puchner Ramona Siebenhofer Any Other Austrian Athlete Ester Ledecka Kira Weidle Nadia Delago Sofia Goggia x Any Other Italian Athlete Ragnhild Mowinckel Ilka Stuhec Lara Gut-Behrami x Corinne Suter x Any Other Swiss Athlete Breezy Johnson Any Other Athlete Speed Skating Men's Team Pursuit Day 11 February 15th 2022 Canada China Italy Netherlands x Norway x ROC South Korea United States x Biathlon Men's Relay Day 11 February 15th 2022 Austria Belarus Czech Republic France x Germany Italy Norway x RCF x Slovenia Sweden Ukraine Any Other Nation Nordic Combined Men's Individual Large Hill Day 11 February 15th 2022 Johannes Lamparter x Mario Seidl Kristjan Ilves Ilka Herola Eric Frenzel Vinzenz Geiger x Johannes Rydzek Terence Weber Akito Watabe Jens Luraas Oftebro Jarl Magnus Riiber x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Any Other Athlete Short Track Speed Skating Women's 1500m Day 12 February 16th 2022 Kim Boutin Courtney Sarault x Han Yutong Zhang Yuting Arianna Fontana Suzanne Schulting x Xandra Velzeboer Ekaterina Efremenkova Choi Minjeong Kim A Lang Lee Yubin x Kristen Santos Any Other Athlete Figure Skating Women's Event Day 13 February 17th 2022 Olga Mikutina Ekaterina Ryabova Loena Hendrickx Madeline Schizas Kaori Sakamoto x Any Other Japanese Athlete Anna Shcherbakova x Alexandra Trusova Kamila Valieva x Kim Ye-lim Lee Hae-in Mariah Bell Karen Chen Any Other Athlete Freestyle Skiing Men's Ski Cross Day 14 February 18th 2022 Johannes Rohrweck Any Other Austrian Athlete Kevin Drury Brady Leman Bastien Midol x Terence Tchiknavorian Any Other French Athlete Florian Wilmsmann Simone Deromedis Sergey Ridzik Any Athlete from Sweden x Joos Berry Ryan Regez x Any Other Swiss Athlete Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's 50km Mass Start Freestyle Day 15 February 19th 2022 Michal Novak Iivo Niskanen x Hugo Lapalus Maurice Manificat Any German Athlete Andrew Musgrave Francesco De Fabiani Hans Christer Holund Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo x Simen Hegstad Krueger Sjur Roethe Alexander Bolshunov x Alexey Chervotkin Any Other ROC Athlete Any Other Athlete Curling Women's Event Day 16 February 20th 2022 Canada x China Denmark Great Britain Japan ROC South Korea Sweden Switzerland x United States x Bobsleigh Four-Man Day 16 February 20th 2022 Benjamin Maier Justin Kripps x Francesco Friedrich x Christoph Hafer Johannes Lochner Brad Hall Oskars Kibermanis Maxim Andrianov Rostislav Gaitiukevich x Simon Friedli Michael Vogt Hunter Church Any Other Team [/hide]

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Cross-Country Skiing Women's Skiathlon Day 1 February 5th 2022 Teresa Stadlober Krista Parmakoski Katharina Hennig Helene Marie Fossesholm Therese Johaug x Heidi Weng Tiril Udnes Weng Natalia Nepryaeva Any Other ROC Athlete Ebba Andersson x Frida Karlsson x Rosie Brennan Jessica Diggins Any Other Athlete Speed Skating Women's 3000m Day 1 February 5th 2022 Marina Zueva Ivanie Blondin Isabelle Weidemann x Valerie Maltais Martina Sablikova Francesca Lollobrigida Any Athlete from Japan Carlijn Achtereekte Antoinette De Jong x Irene Schouten x Ragne Wiklund Natalia Voronina Any Other Athlete Snowboard Women's Slopestyle Day 2 February 6th 2022 Tess Coady Anna Gasser Evy Poppe Laurie Blouin Annika Morgan Katie Ormerod Reira Iwabuchi Kokomo Murase x Miyabi Onitsuka Melissa Peperkamp Zoi Sadowski Synnott x Cool Wakushima Hanne Eilertsen Jamie Anderson x Any Other Athlete Freestyle Skiing Women's Moguls Day 2 February 6th 2022 Jakara Anthony x Britteny Cox Any Athlete from Canada Perrine Laffont x Junko Hoshino Anri Kawamura x Kisara Sumiyoshi Hinako Tomitaka Yuliya Galysheva Olivia Giaccio Kai Owens Jaelin Kauf Hannah Soar Any Other Athlete Alpine Skiing Women's Giant Slalom Day 3 February 7th 2022 Katharina Truppe Ramona Siebenhofer Any Other Austrian Athlete Tessa Worley Marta Bassino Federica Brignone Alice Robinson Any Norwegian Athlete Maryna Gasienica-Daniel x Petra Vlhova x Meta Hrovat Sara Hector Michelle Gisin Lara Gut-Behrami Mikaela Shiffrin x Any Other Athlete Alpine Skiing Men's Super G Day 4 February 8th 2022 Raphael Haaser Vincent Kriechmayr Matthias Mayer x James Crawford Alexis Pinturault Andreas Sander Dominik Paris Aleksander Aamodt Kilde x Beat Feuz Marco Odermatt x Stefan Rogentin Ryan Cochran-Siegle Travis Ganong Any Other Athlete Snowboard Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Day 4 February 8th 2022 Benjamin Karl Andreas Prommegger Any Other Austrian Athlete Radoslav Yankov Stefan Baumeister x Mirko Felicetti Roland Fischnaller Any Other Italian Athlete Dmitrii Loginov x Zan Kosir Tim Mastnak Lee Sangho Dario Caviezel x Nevin Galmarini Any Other Athlete Biathlon Men's Individual Day 4 February 8th 2022 Anton Smolski Simon Desthieux x Quentin Fillon Maillet Emilien Jacquelin Any German Athlete Johannes Thingnes Boe Tarjei Boe x Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen Sturla Holm Laegreid x Eduard Latypov Alexandr Loginov Sebastian Samuelsson Any Other Athlete Speed Skating Men's 1500m Day 4 February 8th 2022 Bart Swings Connor Howe Ning Zhongyan x Seitaro Ichinohe Ryota Kojima Takuro Oda Thomas Krol x Kjeld Nuis Allan Dahl Johansson Peder Kongshaug Kim Minseok Joey Mantia x Any Other Athlete Luge Women's Singles Day 4 February 8th 2022 Madeleine Egle x Any Other Austrian Athlete Anna Berreiter Nathalie Geisenberger x Julia Taubitz x Andrea Voetter Kendija Aparjode Eliza Tiruma Viktoriia Demchenko Tatyana Ivanova Ekaterina Katnikova Summer Britcher Any Other American Athlete Any Other Athlete Freestyle Skiing Men's Big Air Day 5 February 9th 2022 Lukas Muellauer Matej Svancer x Teal Harle Max Moffatt Antoine Adelisse x Ben Barclay Tormod Frostad Birk Ruud Oliwer Magnusson x Mac Forehand Alexander Hall Colby Stevenson Any Other Athlete Snowboard Men's Snowboard Cross Day 6 February 10th 2022 Any Athlete from Australia Jakob Dusek x Alessandro Haemmerle x Any Other Austrian Athlete Eliot Grondin Merlin Surget Paul Berg Martin Noerl x Lorenzo Sommariva Omar Visintin Glenn De Blois Lucas Eguibar Nick Baumgartner Any Other Athlete Biathlon Women's Sprint Day 7 February 11th 2022 Lisa Theresa Hauser Dzinara Alimbekava Hanna Sola x Marketa Davidova Justine Braisaz-Bouchet Anais Chevalier-Bouchet Julia Simon Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss Any Italian Athlete Tiril Echoff Marte Olsbu Roeiseland x Kristina Reztsova Elvira Oeberg x Hanna Oeberg Any Other Athlete Short Track Speed Skating Women's 1000m Day 7 February 11th 2022 Kim Boutin Courtney Sarault Any Athlete from China x Arianna Fontana Suzanne Schulting x Xandra Velzeboer Natalia Maliszewska Ekaterina Efremenkova Sofia Prosvirnova Choi Minjeong Lee Yubin Kristen Santos x Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Women's Relay Day 8 February 12th 2022 Czech Republic Finland France Germany Italy Norway x ROC x Slovenia Sweden x Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Ski Jumping Men's Individual Large Hill Day 8 February 12th 2022 Jan Hoerl Daniel Huber Stefan Kraft Markus Eisenbichler Karl Geiger x Ryoyu Kobayashi x Halvor Egner Granerud Robert Johansson Marius Lindvik x Any Polish Athlete Anze Lanisek Cene Prevc Timi Zajc Kilian Peier Any Other Athlete Skeleton Women's Singles Day 8 February 12th 2022 Janine Flock x Kim Meylemans Any Athlete from Canada Tina Hermann Jacqueline Loelling Hannah Neise Valentina Margaglio Kimberly Bos x Yulia Kanakina Elena Nikitina x Alina Tararychenkova Katie Uhlaender Any Other Athlete Short Track Speed Skating Men's 500m Day 9 February 13th 2022 Steven Dubois Jordan Pierre-Gilles Ren Ziwei x Wu Dajing x John-Henry Krueger Liu Shaoang Liu Shaolin Sandor x Denis Nikisha Any Dutch Athlete Konstantin Ivliev Pavel Sitnikov Hwang Daeheon Kwak Yoon-gy Any Other Athlete Figure Skating Ice Dance Day 10 February 14th 2022 Fournier Beaudry/Sorensen Gilles/Poirier x Wang /Liu Fear/Gibson Guignard/Fabbri Kaliszek/Spodyriev Davies/Smolkin Sinitsina/Katsalapov x Stepanova/Bukin Chock/Bates Hawayek/Baker Hubbell/Donohue Any Other Pair x Alpine Skiing Men's Slalom Day 12 February 16th 2022 Manuel Feller x Any Other Austrian Athlete Filip Zubcic Clement Noel x Alexis Pinturault Dave Ryding Giuliano Razzoli Alex Vinatzer Sebastian Foss-Solevaag Lucas Braathen x Henrik Kristoffersen Kristoffer Jakobsen Daniel Yule Any Other Swiss Athlete Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing Men's Team Sprint Classical Day 12 February 16th 2022 Belarus Canada Czech Republic Finland x France Great Britain Italy Norway x ROC x Sweden Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Freestyle Skiing Men's Aerials Day 12 February 16th 2022 Ihar Drabiankou Jia Zongyang x Sun Jiaxu x Any Other Chinese Athlete Sherzod Khashyrbayev Ilia Burov Maxim Burov x Stanislav Nikitin Nicolas Gygax Noe Roth Pirmin Werner Oleksandr Abramenko Dmytro Kotovskyi Any American Athlete Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined Men's Team Relay Day 13 February 17th 2022 Austria x Czech Republic Finland France Germany x Italy Japan Norway x United States Speed Skating Women's 1000m Day 13 February 17th 2022 Li Qishi Noa Kodaira x Miho Takagi x Yekaterina Aidova Antoinette De Jong Jutta Leerdam Ireen Wust Andzelika Wojcik Angelina Golikova Daria Kachanova Any Other ROC Athlete Brittany Bowe x Kimi Goetz Any Other Athlete Freestyle Skiing Women's Halfpipe Day 14 February 18th 2022 Amy Fraser Rachel Karker x Cassie Sharpe Gu Ailing Eileen x Li Fanghui Zhang Kexin Kelly Sildaru x Zoe Atkin Saori Suzuki Jang Yujin Hanna Faulhaber Devin Logan Brita Sigourney Any Other Athlete Curling Men's Event Day 15 February 19th 2022 Canada x China Denmark Great Britain Italy Norway ROC Sweden x Switzerland x United States Speed Skating Men's Mass Start Day 15 February 19th 2022 Bart Swings x Jordan Belchos Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu Any Athlete from Denmark Andrea Giovanni Jorit Bergsma x Sven Kramer Kristian Ulekleiv Ruslan Zakharov Chung Jaewon Lee Seung-lee Joey Mantia x Ian Quinn Any Other Athlete Biathlon Women's Mass Start Day 15 February 19th 2022 Lisa Theresa Hauser Dzinara Alimbekava Hanna Sola Marketa Davidova Anais Bescond Justine Braisaz-Bouchet Anais Chevalier-Bouchet Denise Herrmann Franziska Preuss Tiril Echoff x Marte Olsbu Roeiseland Kristina Reztsova Elvira Oeberg x Hanna Oeberg Any Other Athlete x Bobsleigh Women's Two-Woman Day 15 February 19th 2022 Beierl/Onasanya De Bruin/Bujnowski Any Other Canadian Team Any Team from China Jamanka/Burghardt Kalicki/Buckwitz x Nolte/Doenicke x Grecu/Wick Sergeeva/Belomestnykh Hasler/Pasternack Humphries/Hoffman Meyers/Gibbs x Any Other Team 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I don't think she'll be allowed to start in the heats if she has any symptoms. And still it's short track, and it's even 500m short track, so it's not easy to say she gets through the heats even if she's healthy... you know, ice is slippery, the elbows are moving, nothing is certain...

And a small poll for all the members, but specially for our users from not-winter-sports-powerhouse-countries. I am sorry if I forgot someone. (countries which were mentioned in polls #6 & #7 are not included here)

Well, Biathlon has moved to the leading position in this voting... Ice hockey fans, where are you? ;-)

It's very understandable why you don't follow figure skating... I may have even guessed why. ;-))) But for me - well, I have a kind of sympathy for this sport. Back in the late 80s there wasn't much winter sports on Polish TV, but they have always showed European and World Championships in figure skating, so if I wanted to watch some sport and I couldn't choose what I really wanted, I had to be happy with what was available. That's where this sympathy comes from, I guess. Now I don't watch figure skating almost at all, but in the olympics I will try not to miss the highlights at least... And there were some really great figure skating olympics moments in the past - vide Yulia Lipnitskaya free program in team event in Sochi or Savchenko/Massot performance in pair skating final in PyeongChang... Those were Masterpieces, I think.

Maybe you are right. But honestly - who cares whether the presidents of certain countries will attend the opening ceremony or not? But NHL players not coming to the games on the planes from USA and Canada - well, that's a huge blow to the games and a big regret.

Well, I'm not that much into ice hockey actually, I mean I like it, but I prefer a few other winter sports.... But when I see how many of you are so interested in it, I can only say once again how much I'm angry that NHL players will not come this time... Ehhh... This is the worst thing that happened to the 2022 olympics so far and I think it's 75% political and only 25% business decision...

I know that when we choose between last 8 only, we miss the great champions like Pirmin Zurbriggen, Franz Klammer, Bernhard Russi, Jean-Claude Killy and others, but I think 8 is good number, in almost all of the post-olympics books I have there are top8 performances listed, and the same with David Wallechinsky books...

This poll #25 may be found stupid or crazy or too complicated, I know. But let's try it, let's do some kind of "imaginary olympics". These are 8 last olympic champions in men's downhill. Imagine that all 8 of them are on the top of their game at the very same moment in time. Who would have won gold, silver and bronze then?

Poll #24

Thanks for your nice words. I hope that she'll be able to start as well. She is one of our only few chances for a good result in Beijing, so that would be a shame if she couldn't start on Saturday in the heats.

Yes, we know. This is very bad situation. And a lot of practice on ice cancelled for her.

Natalia Maliszewska is covid - positive. She is already in Beijing. Hopefully she will be able to start next week. Ehh...

Poll #23 Who will be leading the medal table counted by number of gold medals, then silvers, then bronze... NOT by total number of medals, after all the events of Sunday 6th Feb.

Poll #22