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Slovak Athlete of the Year 2020 nominations are out. Due Covid-19 pandemic this year is a bit different, several athletes and sports teams could not introduce themselves and compete, which is why this year is different. Instead of the traditional top 10, only the top 5 will be awarded. And instead of the top 3 sports teams, only one winning team will be awarded and announced. Athlete of the Year 2020 Nominations (In Alphabetical Order) Erik Černák (Ice Hockey) Erik "Drago" Černák the Košice born blueliner is among the nominated for the 1st time. 2015 U20 World Championship Bronze medalist is this years NHL Stanley Cup champion with Tampa Bay where he is despite his young age considered as one of the leaders of the defense which he proved with his ice times in the entire playoffs. Peter Sagan (Road Cycling) Peter is nominated for the 10th consecutive time !!! He is a 3 time winner (2013, 15 & 17) This year was defiitely not one of his most successful for sure, but he still managed some nice things sadly his seasons goal the Green Jersey remained unfulfilled. However his stage win at the Giro was certainly epic and now he is a fresh member of a all 3 Top Tour stages winner club. Matej Tóth (Athletics) Matej the 2016 Winner is nominated for the 6th time. In a very difficult year for Race Walking he never gave up, continued hard training and despite endless problems with canceling the races, he persevered and managed to create the world best performance of the year in a single race of the whole season and qualified for the Olympics. EAA also awarded him by title of European athlete of the month of October. Petra Vlhová (Alpine Skiing) The only female in the Top 5 and definitely our biggest sport star nowadays is the reigning champion of this award from 2019, her only triumph so far from the 5 nominations. This whole 2020 year believe it or not, She is the only skier to won WC Slalom races so far. She won 2 small crystal globes for Slalom and Parallels last season, this season she already won 3 more WC races. Ján Volko (Athletics) Our sprinter "Johnny" Volko is nominated for the 3rd time, his both previous nominations finished by 4th places (2017 & 19). sadly this year he could not really compete and defend his indoor ECH title, however he still showed some good races like in the Diamond Legue in Bruxelles where he was 3rd n 200m. We already know the 6th-8h Places 6. Martin Dúbravka (Football) 7. Andrej Sekera (Ice Hockey) 8. Ivona Fialková (Biathlon) The Winners will be announced in a "special-Covid-19" Gala the 16th december evening in our public TV. Former Athlete of the Year winners Former Team of the Year winners

Why ? There still 31 Women races remaining this season, I really dont get how te overall WC should be already decided with all DH and SG still to be raced and Mikaela can perfectly win all the GS or SL until the end of the season

OFFICIALS The list of game officials for the 2021 IIHF World Junior Championship was released today by the IIHF. With the World Juniors being played in a “competition bubble”, the IIHF Officiating Committee has selected game officials that currently residing within the host country Canada. The decision to use only Canadian-based officials was made based due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on travel restrictions in the individual countries, as well as the existing health and safety regulations in Canada. Referees Linesmen BLOSKI, Adam BRUNELLE, Guillaume CAMPBELL, Michael CEKO, Matt GARON, Alexandre CHAPUT, Maxime GOUIN, Olivier DESCHAMPS, Jonathan KOWALSKI, Kyle FOSTER, Deion LABONTE, Guillaume HARRIS, Adam LANGIN, Mike MACKEY, Brett LAWRENCE, Fraser MAHONEY, Kelsey MAILLE, Kevin MANNELLA, Matthew MENNITI, Mathieu O'QUINN, Ben PEARCE, Mark VANOOSTEN, Nathan ROELAND, Brett WYONZEK, Tarrington SANDLAK, Carter - STEWART, Tyson -

Mikaela Shiffrin will skip also St. Moritz, she announced it today

Some hard core revolution happened today in Slovakia. The Slovak Ski Association is not anymore a National sport federation. The Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sports of the Slovak Republic takes away the status of the national sports association from the Slovak Ski Association (SLA). Following an agreement with the International Ski Federation (FIS), the state moved the whole movement, which brings together several disciplines, temporarily under the Slovak Olympic Committee (SOŠV). Based on this, also our skier Petra Vlhová should continue undisturbed in the started season of the World Cup. but will not represent the Slovak Ski Association but the Slovak Olympic Committee. The patronage of SOŠV should apply not only to the Alpine Skiers, but also to other sections and their representatives, Cross-Country Skierss, Freestyle Skiers, snowboarders, Ski Jumpers or atletes in the Nordic combined and grass skiing. this reaction from the state and the olympic committee came right after 46 sports clubs with 1,317 members !!! (almost all our skiing clubs), including Petra Vlhová, basically the whole Alpine Skiers and other representatives from ski jumping to cross-country skiing, decided to leave the association today. Five of the six members of the general assembly also resigned everyone has enough of the current leadership under the Italian Marino Mersich (an extremely controversial character) who is behind our ski association for 12 years now (even if he was successfully kicked out a couple of years ago he still under some strange circumstances was able to place at highest posts of the federation his people and under which the Slovak skiing has completely disappeared, Ski Jumpinh and Nordic Combined does not exist anymore Cross-Country is barely living and behind Petra there a big hole also in the alpine skiing. More here in slovak https://sport.aktuality.sk/c/472080/revolucia-v-slovenskom-lyzovani-petra-vlhova-a-dalsi-pretekari-opustaju-sla/ Reaction of the State https://sport.aktuality.sk/c/472099/ministerstvo-skolstva-odobralo-sla-statut-sportoveho-zvazu/ and the Ski federation attacked back saying that nobody can take away anything from them and they are the only eligible representatives of all Skiing sports in Slovakia and in all FIS events, and whoever want to step out from the federation will have to return all the fnancial support they get and also return all the assets they have borrowed from the SLA. Sort of slovak stop the count ! We won ! https://sport.aktuality.sk/c/472122/reakcia-sla-na-aktualnu-situaciu-vlhova-je-nadalej-clenkou-tvrdenia-sa-nezakladaju-na-pravde/

PREVIOUS MEDALISTS *The 1974, 75 and 76 editions are still considered as unnofficial Tournaments, The 1st official Juniors World Championships was played in 1977 YEAR HOST GOLD SILVER BRONZE 1974* Soviet Union USSR Finland Canada 1975* Canada & United States USSR Canada Sweden 1976* Finland USSR Canada Czechoslovakia 1977 Czechoslovakia USSR Canada Czechoslovakia 1978 Canada USSR Sweden Canada 1979 Sweden USSR Czechoslovakia Sweden 1980 Finland USSR Finland Sweden 1981 West Germany Sweden Finland USSR 1982 United States & Canada Canada Czechoslovakia Finland 1983 Soviet Union USSR Czechoslovakia Canada 1984 Sweden USSR Finland Czechoslovakia 1985 Finland Canada Czechoslovakia USSR 1986 Canada USSR Canada United States 1987 Czechoslovakia Finland Czechoslovakia Sweden 1988 Soviet Union Canada USSR Finland 1989 United States USSR Sweden Czechoslovakia 1990 Finland Canada USSR Czechoslovakia 1991 Canada Canada USSR Czechoslovakia 1992 Germany C.I.S. Sweden United States 1993 Sweden Canada Sweden Representation of Czech Republic & Slovakia 1994 Czech Republic Canada Sweden Russia 1995 Canada Canada Russia Sweden 1996 United States Canada Sweden Russia 1997 Switzerland Canada United States Russia 1998 Finland Finland Russia Switzerland 1999 Canada Russia Canada Slovakia 2000 Sweden Czech Republic Russia Canada 2001 Russia Czech Republic Finland Canada 2002 Czech Republic Russia Canada Finland 2003 Canada Russia Canada Finland 2004 Finland United States Canada Finland 2005 United States Canada Russia Czech Republic 2006 Canada Canada Russia Finland 2007 Sweden Canada Russia United States 2008 Czech Republic Canada Sweden Russia 2009 Canada Canada Sweden Russia 2010 Canada United States Canada Sweden 2011 United States Russia Canada United States 2012 Canada Sweden Russia Canada 2013 Russia United States Sweden Russia 2014 Sweden Finland Sweden Russia 2015 Canada Canada Russia Slovakia 2016 Finland Finland Russia United States 2017 Canada United States Canada Russia 2018 United States Canada Sweden United States 2019 Canada Finland United States Russia 2020 Czech Republic Canada Russia Sweden

VENUE ROGERS PLACE (EDMONTON) Rogers Place is a multi-use indoor Arena in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Construction started in March 2014, and the building officially opened on September 8, 2016. The arena has a seating capacity of 18,500 as a hockey venue and 20,734 as a concert venue. Used mainly as home to the Edmonton Oilers NHL Ice hockey team and venue for some of the biggest concerts, shows, and live events in Edmonton.

TOURNAMENT FORMAT Tournament Format The 10 teams are divided into two, five-team groups in the Preliminary Round. After a single round-robin series in each group, the top four teams from each group advance to the Playoff Round while the fifth-placed team in each group the tournament is over. There will be no relegated team this year. The top four placed teams from the Preliminary will play a cross-over quarter-final game: 1A vs. 4B, 1B vs. 4A, 2A vs. 3B and 2B vs. 3A. Canada will play the third quarter-final game (17:00) if qualified. The winner of each quarter-final moves onto the semi-finals. Three Point System Overtime Operations Penalty-Shot Shootout Procedure Tie breaking formula Final Ranking The gold medal game and bronze medal game will determine the final ranking for the top-4 teams. The eliminated teams from the preliminary round plus the losing teams of the quarter-finals will be ranked following their positions in the groups preceding the quarter-final round. The final ranking will follow the following procedure: 1. Higher position in the group, 2. Higher number of points, 3. Better goal difference, 4. Higher number of goals scored for, 5. Better seeding number

TEAM ROSTERS AUSTRIA CANADA CZECH REPUBLIC FINLAND GERMANY RUSSIA SLOVAKIA SWEDEN SWITZERLAND UNITED STATES

Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2021 Edmonton (CAN) - 25 December 2020 - 5 January 2021 Official Website Programme Results System Results Database Facebook Page Discussion Thread

Preliminary Round December 25th - December 31st, 2020 10 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Nations from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals Group A Canada Finland Germany Slovakia Switzerland Group B Austria Czech Republic Russia Sweden United States Group A Mountain Standard Time (GMT -7) Switzerland 0 - 1 Slovakia Period-by-Period: 0-0, 0-0, 0-1 December 25th 2020, h. 12:00, Rogers Place, Edmonton Germany 3 - 5 Finland Period-by-Period: 0-2, 2-3, 1-0 December 25th 2020, h. 16:00, Rogers Place, Edmonton Germany 2 - 16 Canada Period-by-Period: 1-4, 0-7, 1-5 December 26th 2020, h. 16:00, Rogers Place, Edmonton Finland 4 - 1 Switzerland Period-by-Period: 1-1, 1-0, 2-0 December 27th 2020, h. 12:00, Rogers Place, Edmonton Slovakia 1 - 3 Canada Period-by-Period: 0-1, 0-0, 1-2 December 27th 2020, h. 16:00, Rogers Place, Edmonton Slovakia 3 - 4OT Germany Period-by-Period: 1-1, 2-2, 0-0, Overtime: 0-1 December 28th 2020, h. 19:30, Rogers Place, Edmonton Canada 10 - 0 Switzerland Period-by-Period: 1-0, 4-0, 5-0 December 29th 2020, h. 16:00, Rogers Place, Edmonton Finland 6 - 0 Slovakia Period-by-Period: 1-0, 2-0, 3-0 December 30th 2020, h. 12:00, Rogers Place, Edmonton Switzerland 4 - 5 Germany Period-by-Period: 0-3, 0-1, 4-1 December 30th 2020, h. 16:00, Rogers Place, Edmonton Canada 4 - 1 Finland Period-by-Period: 1-0, 2-0, 1-1 December 31st 2020, h. 16:00, Rogers Place, Edmonton Group A Final Standing Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Canada 4 4(0) 0(0) 33 4 +29 12 Finland 4 3(0) 1(0) 16 8 +8 9 Germany 4 2(1) 2(0) 14 28 -14 5 Slovakia 4 1(0) 3(1) 5 13 -8 4 Switzerland 4 0(0) 4(0) 5 20 -15 0 Group B Mountain Standard Time (GMT -7) Russia 5 - 3 United States Period-by-Period: 1-1, 3-0, 1-2 December 25th 2020, h. 19:30, Rogers Place, Edmonton Sweden 7 - 1 Czech Republic Period-by-Period: 1-1, 3-0, 3-0 December 26th 2020, h. 12:00, Rogers Place, Edmonton United States 11 - 0 Austria Period-by-Period: 1-0, 6-0, 4-0 December 26th 2020, h. 19:30, Rogers Place, Edmonton Czech Republic 2 - 0 Russia Period-by-Period: 0-0, 1-0, 1-0 December 27th 2020, h. 19:30, Rogers Place, Edmonton Austria 0 - 4 Sweden Period-by-Period: 0-1, 0-2, 0-1 December 28th 2020, h. 16:00, Rogers Place, Edmonton United States 7 - 0 Czech Republic Period-by-Period: 0-0, 3-0, 4-0 December 29th 2020, h. 12:00, Rogers Place, Edmonton Austria 1 - 7 Russia Period-by-Period: 0-4, 1-0, 0-3 December 29th 2020, h. 19:30, Rogers Place, Edmonton Russia OT4 - 3 Sweden Period-by-Period: 2-1, 0-1, 1-1, Overtime: 1-0 December 30th 2020, h. 19:30, Rogers Place, Edmonton Czech Republic 7 - 0 Austria Period-by-Period: 0-0, 4-0, 3-0 December 31st 2020, h. 12:00, Rogers Place, Edmonton Sweden 0 - 4 United States Period-by-Period: 0-2, 0-2, 0-0 December 31st 2020, h. 19:30, Rogers Place, Edmonton Group B Final Standing Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. United States 4 3(0) 1(0) 25 5 +20 9 Russia 4 3(1) 1(0) 16 9 +7 8 Sweden 4 2(0) 2(1) 14 9 +5 7 Czech Republic 4 2(0) 2(0) 10 14 -4 6 Austria 4 0(0) 4(0) 1 29 -28 0

Qualification Format Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 Division I Group A World Championship 2020 December 9th - December 15th, 2019 6 Nations, the 1st Nation will qualify for the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2021 I I Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2020 December 26th, 2019 - January 5th, 2020 10 Nations, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th Nations will qualify for the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2021 Registered Nations Qualified, Eliminated, In Progress Austria (Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 Division I Group A World Championship 2020) Belarus (Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 Division I Group A World Championship 2020) Canada (Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2020) Czech Republic (Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2020) Denmark (Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 Division I Group A World Championship 2020) Finland (Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2020) Germany (Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2020) Kazakhstan (Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2020) Latvia (Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 Division I Group A World Championship 2020) Norway (Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 Division I Group A World Championship 2020) Russia (Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2020) Slovakia (Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2020) Slovenia (Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 Division I Group A World Championship 2020) Sweden (Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2020) Switzerland (Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2020) United States (Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2020)

Road to the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2022 The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th Nations will qualify for the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2022.

Qualified Nations Austria Canada Czech Republic Finland Germany Russia Slovakia Sweden Switzerland United States Competition Format Preliminary Round December 25th - December 31st, 2020 10 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Nations from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals I Knockout Round January 2nd - January 5th, 2021 8 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match, the winning Nation will be the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2021 Champion

Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2021 Edmonton (CAN) - 25 December 2020 - 5 January 2021 Official Website Programme Results System Results Database Facebook Page Discussion Thread

Events Men's Aerials (1/9) Men's Moguls (1/10) Women's Aerials (1/9) Women's Moguls (1/10) Official Schedule Eastern European Time (GMT +2) Olympic Event Final | Non-Olympic Event Final Friday, December 4th 13:30 Women's Aerials Qualification 16:00 Men's Aerials Qualification 19:00 Women's Aerials Final, Run 1 19:18 Men's Aerials Final, Run 1 19:39 Women's Aerials Final, Run 2 19:49 Men's Aerials Final, Run 2 Saturday, December 5th 09:40 Women's Moguls Qualification, Run 1 10:35 Women's Moguls Qualification, Run 2 12:40 Men's Moguls Qualification, Run 1 14:05 Men's Moguls Qualification, Run 2 16:00 Women's Moguls Final, Run 1 16:25 Men's Moguls Final, Run 1 16:52 Women's Moguls Final, Run 2 17:03 Men's Moguls Final, Run 2

Freestyle Skiing FIS World Cup 2020 - 2021 (Ruka) Ruka (FIN) - 4 December 2020 - 5 December 2020 Official Website Programme Results System Results Database Facebook Page Discussion Thread

Events Women's Super-G (1/7) Women's Super-G (2/7) Official Schedule Central European Time (GMT +1) Olympic Event Final | Non-Olympic Event Final Saturday, December 5th 11:30 Women's Super-G Sunday, December 6th 11:30 Women's Super-G

Alpine Skiing FIS World Cup 2020 - 2021 (St. Moritz) St. Moritz (SUI) - 5 December 2020 - 6 December 2020 Official Website Programme Results System Results Database Facebook Page Discussion Thread

Events Men's Giant Slalom (2/10) Men's Giant Slalom (3/10) Official Schedule Central European Time (GMT +1) Olympic Event Final | Non-Olympic Event Final Saturday, December 5th 10:30 Men's Giant Slalom Run 1 13:30 Men's Giant Slalom Run 2 Monday, December 7th 10:00 Men's Giant Slalom Run 1 13:00 Men's Giant Slalom Run 2

Alpine Skiing FIS World Cup 2020 - 2021 (Santa Caterina Valfurva) Santa Caterina Valfurva (ITA) - 5 December 2020 - 7 December 2020 Official Website Programme Results System Results Database Facebook Page Discussion Thread

Events Men's Individual Large Hill (4/22) Men's Individual Large Hill (5/22) Official Schedule Yekaterinburg Time (GMT +5) Olympic Event Final | Non-Olympic Event Final Friday, December 4th 17:30 Men's Individual Large Hill Official Training 19:30 Men's Individual Large Hill Qualification Saturday, December 5th 19:15 Men's Individual Large Hill Trial Round 20:30 Men's Individual Large Hill Final Sunday, December 6th 19:00 Men's Individual Large Hill Qualification 20:30 Men's Individual Large Hill Final

Ski Jumping FIS World Cup 2020 - 2021 (Nižnij Tagil) Nižnij Tagil (RUS) - 4 December 2020 - 6 December 2020 Official Website Programme Results System Results Database Facebook Page Discussion Thread

Women’s Nordic Combined World Cup premiere rescheduled in Ramsau am Dachstein The historic premiere of the Women’s Nordic Combined World Cup will happen in Ramsau am Dachstein! The Local Organising Committee and the Austrian Ski Federation agreed to host one of the cancelled events originally planned for Otepää (EST) in January 2021. Now, the first-ever Women’s World Cup will take place on Friday, 18th of December, in conjunction with the Men’s World Cup events and also one additional event in Women’s Ski Jumping.

Just clicked on this video after the whole month I had it in my Olympcs channel recommendation and boom to my absolute surprise a SVK goal was among the picked there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNIWwIz9iNY&feature=emb_err_woyt