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Because with the Olympics you are catering for a general audience who don't understand the technicalities.

Stage 30 in Kvitfjell (NOR)
 
Men´s Downhill:
 
1. Dominik Paris    1:44.67
2. Marco Odermatt    1:44.99
3. Stefan Rogentin    1:45.30
 
Full Final Results HERE

Men's Team Large Hill
Final Results  
Germany Johannes Rydzek Wendelin Thannheimer Julian Schmid Vinzenz Geiger 50:37.7   Austria Johannes Lamparter Franz-Josef Rehrl Martin Fritz Fabio Obermeyr 50:44.5  
Norway Simen Tiller Joergen Graabak Jens Luraas Oftebro Jarl Magnus Riiber 52:17.5  
Full Final Result HERE

Nordic Combined at the Nordic Skiing FIS World Championships 2025  
Trondheim (NOR) - 27 February 2025 - 8 March 2025  
 
Official Website Programme Results System Facebook Page Discussion Thread

Sometimes I look at Switzerland and I simply envy them. They are making progress in almost every winter sport, not just alpine skiing. It`s a rich country, but Italy is bigger + we should spend much more money becouse we organizing the games. We rarely manage to do that. I would like us to do what France did in Paris: significantly improve our result from 2022. However, I doubt we are able to do it. I have been disappointed and let down too many times in winter to be a big optimist now

Women's Sprint Race
 
Gold:  Marianne Fatton
Silver:  Emily Harrop
Bronze:  Tatjana Paller
 
Full Result and Ranking
https://www.dataskimo.org/pdf/WCH2025-morgins-SPR.pdf

Bronze medalist in Beijing to not even competing at the 2025 Worlds. Sad.

Shooting ESC 10m European Championships 2025  
Osijek (CRO) - 9 March 2025 - 12 March 2025  
 
Official Website Programme Results System Facebook Page Discussion Thread

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cge1q41np7go
 
USA moment

Scores from March 2nd:
 
 2-12
 0-5
 
Standings:
1.  Germany: 1-0 (+12)
2.  Colombia: 1-0 (+5)
3.  Brazil: 0-1 (-5)
4.  China: 0-1 (-12)

Ski Jumping at the Nordic Skiing FIS World Championships 2025  
Trondheim (NOR) - 27 February 2024 - 8 March 2024  
 
Official Website Programme Results System Facebook Page Discussion Thread

Men's Individual Normal Hill
Final Results   Marius LINDVIK 265.5   Andreas WELLINGER 263.2   Jan HOERL 256.3   Full Final Result HERE
Full Qualifiers Results HERE

Alpine Skiing FIS World Cup 2024 - 2025  
Multi-Stage Event - 25 October 2024 - 27 March 2025  
 
Official Website Programme Results System Facebook Page Discussion Thread

Stage 28 in Kvitfjell (NOR)
 
Women´s Downhill:
 
1. Cornelia Huetter    1:31.46
2. Emma Aicher    1:31.61
3. Breezy Johnson    1:31.86
 
Full Final Results HERE

Stage 28 in Kvitfjell (NOR)
 
Women´s Downhill:
 
1. Emma Aicher    1:31.69
2. Lauren Macuga    1:31.72
3. Cornelia Huetter    1:31.88
 
Full Final Results HERE

Afghanistan defeated England by 8 runs! 

Stage 26 in Sestriere (ITA)
 
Women´s Slalom:
 
1. Mikaela Shiffrin    1:50.33
2. Zrinka Ljutic    1:50.94
3. Paula Moltzan    1:50.97
 
Full Final Results HERE

Stage #1 ( Soma Bay)
 
Mixed Relay
 
Gold:  Germany (Isabel Gose, Jeanette Spiwoks, Oliver Klemet, Florian Wellbrock)
Silver:  Australia (Moesha Johnson, Chelsea Gubecka, Nicholas Sloman, Kyle Lee)
Bronze:  Italy (Giulia Gabbrielleschi, Ginevra Taddeucci, Gregorio Paltrinieri, Luca De Tullio)
 
Full Results
https://www.worldaquatics.com/competitions/4794/world-aquatics-open-water-swimming-world-cup-2025/results?event=f8431279-2abe-413f-9463-d54e195feada&unit=final

Norway are bound to have a mediocre to horrible Olympics (by their standards I mean) in Cortina-Milano next year. No Boes, no Riiber, no Johaug, no hope. 

IBU have announced the calendars up until 2029/30 season here.
 
Some interesting changes. 
 
- In 27 and 29 the opening round will be reduced to one weekend (instead of two) with the extra weekend being held around New Years.
 
This is a very nice change in my opinion, as i always appreciate more races around the holidays. Plus we can have an extra location, instead of one resort holding 2 weeks at the beginning. The only thing, which could have made it even better is if they squeezed this round between Christmas and New Year, but i'm sure the athletes would have made a fuss.
 
- Another change is Oberhof moving to the third trimester after being the opening January round for probably 30 years. This seems like a reasonable move, as we all know the troubles with Oberhof every season. 
 
- Of the other locations it's the usual in and out for Annecy, Lahti with Lenzerheide, Otepaa joining their mix of semi-regular slots.
 
- The tradition of returning to North America once every 5-6 years  is kept for 2029. But Asia is still non-existent for biathlon. And to think, when i started watching in 2002/03 for a couple of years China had a top tier women's team, with Japan having a nice presence as well. Seems eternity ago.
 
2026/27 season
 
2027/28 season
 
2028/29 season
 
2029/30 season
 

Stage #1 ( Soma Bay)
 
Men's 10km
 
Gold:  Florian Wellbrock
Silver:  Logan Fontaine
Bronze:  Marc-Antoine Olivier
 
many  swimmers, including Gregorio Paltrinieri, have been DSQ for illegal rounding of a buoy (I wonder why so many and only the Italians? )
 
Full Results
https://www.worldaquatics.com/competitions/4794/world-aquatics-open-water-swimming-world-cup-2025/results?event=2500ff22-0359-48c4-a6a1-c9ad8101ebcd&unit=final

Halvarsson &  Simon in a ski race!
 
Preuß messes up at 17/17 so looks like Simon's race.....
 
Jeanmonnot looking good for bronze.

Men's Slalom
Final Results   Loic MEILLARD 1:54.02 (59.42+54.60)   Atle Lie McGRATH 1:54.28 (59.87+54.41)   Linus STRASSER 1:54.54 (1:00.00+54.54) Full Final Result HERE

Women's 10km Pursuit
Final Results   Franziska PREUSS 26:58.9 (0+0+0+0)   Elvira OEBERG 27:38.0 (0+0+0+1)   Justine BRAISAZ-BOUCHET 27:39.8 (1+0+1+1) Full Final Result HERE

2025 World Triathlon Championship Series - Abu Dhabi 
 
 
Men's Elite
1.)  Hayden Wilde
2.)  Matthew Hauser
3.)  Vasco Vilaca
 
Women's Elite:
1.)  Lisa Tertsch
2.)  Nina Eim
3.)  Laura Lindemann
 
Mixed Relay:
1.)  Germany
2.)  USA
3.)  Italy