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Sivert Guttorm Bakken  R.I.P.

Yep, the amount of emergency services I heard at some point was a little extreme (for our little town), so I checked what was going on and saw they were all being called to a specific location. Until then I thought maybe it was part of a parade of trucks and agricultural vehicles that was on it's way from the next town over, decorated with lights and stuff.
 
Since I knew it was on the parade route, I was sure one of those big vehicles had hit people somehow (there were, besides the many vehicles, also two helicopters on the way, meaning it certainly wasn't about a single victim).
 
We picked our bikes and went to take a look, absolutely chaos in the area. Never saw so many services combined together, fire trucks from 20km away, ambulance after ambulance came racing by, people frantically trying to make way for them (the roads weren't really closed yet).
 
While there we heard someone who had been close say that the parade hadn't arrived yet and what seemed to have happened was that a car from the other side came onto the roundabout and simply never turned. "It's a massive drama over there, unbelievable", he said.
 
Quite quickly rumours started spreading of course, the first one turned out to be true: a middle aged (local) woman was behind the wheel and seems to have become unwell. Local security camera showed the car going at high speed right before the roundabout.
 
Plenty of rumours going around in terms of who were involved of course, and people keeping each other up to date to see if they know this or that family and such...
 
Never expected my little town to be big news in the Netherlands, even including some breaking broadcasts, live reporters and everything, damn. By far the biggest thing to happen here in my memory
 

Yesterday he finished 15th and was slow timong in cross country, so it was hard to praise him. He still miss of stability, although he very like route in  Anterselva, so I'm still hope on his dominance there. Hopefully. Now, there isn`t a some monsters,  as Fourcade, or J. Boe, or Bjoerndalen, etc, and many people have a chance to win gold.

Two pages of bitching about  biathlon and Giacomel will get a win 

Bened just stands aside & lets them all past.  

First individual victory ever for Kirkeeide!

Stage 3 in Ramsau (AUT)
 
Men´s Individual Gundersen Normal Hill:
 
1.  Vinzenz Geiger    23:36.7
2. Jens Luraas Oftebro    23:36.8
3. Johannes Lamparter    23:45.1
 
Full Final Result HERE

Personally, I was hoping Giacomel would dominate the cross country on this season. Without that, he won't be the new Fourcade. Fifth place in the cross country is okay, but it's not enough. I don`t worry with his today`s 4 mistakes because a mistake can happen to anyone, but in the ski you can't lose 30 seconds to the Norwegian.

9 out of 12 medals for  in Innsbruck.  Two for  and one for  .  Results in Post 2 updated.

with a successful draw on the last stone of the 8th end to defeat  6-5 and earn a spot in Cortina.
 
It will be  vs  tonight for the final spot

There's no funding anymore, same as everywhere else.

But in women`s not good for us. 

Short Track, which was once a big programme, will send only one athlete Niall Tracey,  to Milan.  
 
Winter Olympics 2026: Niall Treacy only GB short track speed skater - BBC Sport

It's a shame that Italy hasn't naturalized anyone from those regions for 4 years, including winter sports. Many countries do this, though the most of them are those from the former USSR, where Russia itself probably doesn't bother with too long waiting periods: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, etc, but not only they. We only have Antropova, which isn't even case involved in the war, as it was already discussed in 2021.
 
https://www.oasport.it/2025/12/polina-kudermetova-non-rappresentera-piu-la-russia-la-tennista-giochera-sotto-la-bandiera-delluzbekistan/

Stage 7 in Sankt Moritz (SUI)
 
Women´s Downhill:
 
1. Emma Aicher    1:30.50
2. Lindsey Vonn    1:30.74
3. Sofia Goggia    1:30.79
 
Full Final Results HERE

SF 
 29-23 
 35-25 
 
Bronze Medal Match
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Final
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Well, I think the final is 99.9% likely to go to Norway. But I imagine Germany is already quite satisfied with this silver medal.

Aicher takes over, keeps the race alive.

Aicher takes the lead by 0.24!

Stage 7 in Sankt Moritz (SUI)
 
Women´s Downhill:
 
1. Lindsey Vonn     1:29.63
2. Magdalena Egger   1:30.61
3. Mirjam Puchner    1:30.79
 
Full Final Results HERE

OMG!!!!! 
Lindsay is baaack!
the season is over, the Olympic Gold is already gone

seem slow today, maybe holding back for lap 3.
 
Giacomel takes the lead!
 
Straight race with Botn now!  
 
And just when it looks like Giacomel had won, here comes  Perrot!
 
Looks like 's day!

USA will.play in California then Seattle then California ...why hell this long distance , teams should stay in 1 place , this is tiring even for spectators 

women's Epee ( Vancouver)
 
Gold:  Giulia Rizzi
Silver:  Marie-Florence Candassamy
Bronze:  Eszter Muhari &  Lim Tae Hee
 
Full Rankings & Results
https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/308FA406A2FD4E8D9FCC5EA03F41E7C3

women's Team Foil ( Busan)
 
Gold:  Italy
Silver:  United States
Bronze:  Japan
 
Full Rankings & Results
https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/E37F7418566341D688E25D98F12D8A69

men's Team Foil ( Fukuoka)
 
Gold:  Italy
Silver:  France
Bronze:  Japan
 
Full Rankings & Results
https://www.fencingtimelive.com/events/results/896E8C4F2BF541DF883769BE7C7E9B7A