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2023 Arctic Winter Games begin the this weekend. Eight teams competing this time, with mostly youth/junior competitions being held. Official Website: https://awg2023.org

Some more negative reactions to the IOC statement.

Zelenskyy released a recorded speech in response to the IOC’s recent statement.

I’m just surprised no one has asked the IOC, “what does Russia offer the Olympic Movement?” They’ve broken the Olympic Truce, engaged in state-sponsored doping, and drove up an insane bill that has been citied by some as a reason for less bidders all within the last decade or two. Why fight so hard to bring them back in to the fold at every turn? I understand it’s a complex issue, and I do get some of the arguments made against unilaterally banning athletes from a particular country, but it’s not like the invasion is Russia’s only offense against Olympic values (as other users have pointed out.)

At best a careless mistake, at worst vocal support for Putin and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Scathing opinion on the IOC’s statement from one of the top U.S. Olympic journalists.

Speaking of results you don’t typically see in winter sports, Vaclavik leads after the short program in boy’s figure skating cc: @hckošice

Zelenskyy’s statement to Macron about the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics seems to have ruffled a few feathers at the IOC. They came out with this laundry list of statements about the participation of Russian/Belarusian athletes today. It seems to both maintain the status quo, while maybe opening the door slightly more to Russian/Belarusian athletes.

Not in the medal count, but worth noting… Gwyneth Ten Raa finished in the top 10 in the girl’s slalom. It’s not everyday you see a result like that for Luxembourg in alpine skiing (Then again, she is already an olympian )

I’m not sure if that’s happened at the EYOF before, but it seems like something that would have happened at other sporting events. / derby would be quite the finale though. @Dragon might be able to shed some light on rather or not spouses have coached against each other at the Olympics.

Yeah, I noticed that as well. It’s a bit off-topic, but I was surprised by the lack of ITG reporters in Birmingham this summer. To my knowledge, I was the only representative of one of the big Olympic publications in town. I got some great interviews other publications didn’t, so I can’t complain, but that was odd to me. Barker also points out how the FISU does medal ceremonies, but doesn’t add that athletes are still organized by nation and wear national uniforms (for the most part) at the World University Games.

Interesting historical perspective on the current national flags debate by ITG’s resident historian Philip Barker: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1132697/flags-anthems

with two skiers in the top 10 in the boy’s slalom. You certainly don’t see that everyday

Palmitjavila 4th in the SkiMo sprint Hopefully he can improve his placing in the individual

I realize this is a very delayed fact-check, but that wasn’t even close to the record. beat 46-0 at the 2017 Asian Winter Games.

It’s live now.

I’m trying to find some, but I can only be so helpful

Should be listed here under “reports” (toggle for the sport you want): https://eyof2023.microplustimingservices.com/#/general-reports

If MicroPlus improved their data reliability (ie. live timing operating correctly, with all relevant documents posted [sometimes they just straight fail to post a few random ones, which is annoying]) their new system [used for Oran 2022, Commonwealth Games 2022, Lake Placid 2023, and now here) would be on par with SwissTiming’s classic sportresult system in my opinion. It offers the information I want (when it works properly) and it has a clean UI that can be customized to fit the look of the games nicely. Bornan’s current results system has some promise too [2019 World Beach Games and 2022 GCC Games for reference), especially since it’s easily integrated into moblie apps. However, they too need to improve their data reliability a little bit. Their system (especially documents) can be a bit heavy too.

Yeah, it was like that during the two EYOFs last year too. EOC probably has the worst OTT streaming service of the bunch at the moment

Road furniture in the last Km, someone spraying the peloton with a hose just ahead of that, questionable television direction; the Vuelta a San Juan is in full swing