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must walk with by default ?

Mr. Olympic champion, Fencing 1976 just announced

and another olympics are starting live

Final Standings 1. Germany 14 ------------------------------------- 2. Japan 12 3. Hungary 7 4. France 6 5. Italy 5 ------------------------------------- 6. Denmark 1 The following Nation have qualified for the Women's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 18 World Championship 2021 Germany The following Nations have qualified for the Women's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 18 Division I Group A World Championship 2021 France Hungary Italy Japan The following Nation has been relegated to the Women's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 18 Division I Group B World Championship 2021 Denmark

Thursday January 9th, 2020 - Round-Robin Last Day RESULTS (GMT +1) 11:00 Denmark 0 - 2 France 14:30 Hungary 2 - 3(PSO) Italy 18:00 Japan 1 - 2 Germany

btw any idea who will light the cauldron ? Martina Hingis, Dario Cologna, Simon Ammann or Lara Gut-BEHRAMI ?

Nice jackets

That sounds like some high class dutch jinx a la @heywoodu his majesty the master of the jinx himself

qualified

Norway’s girls step up Norway pipped Austria to top spot in the 2020 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship Division I Group B thanks to a tight 2-1 victory when the teams met on the final morning of the competition in Katowice. The Austrians had the edge going into Wednesday’s match-up and boasted a goalie in stellar form. Selma Luggin, a 17-year-old who plays her club hockey with the Sabres Vienna, allowed just one goal in the first four games of the tournament. But Norway scored on her twice to claim a 2-1 verdict, joining Austria on 11 points and sneaking into first place by virtue of that head-to-head victory. Luggin finished the tournament with hugely impressive stats: she stopped 97.3% of the 111 shots she faced and had a GAA of just 0.6. She even stopped a Norwegian penalty shot in the first period, denying captain Lotte Pedersen. But it wasn’t enough to take gold. Instead, Silje Gunderson twice found a way past Luggin to give her team enough to win, while Kaja Ekle made 26 saves to secure a 2-1 verdict. Austria’s goal came from Lena Daubock; she and Gunderson led the tournament scoring charts with the Norwegian finishing with 7 (3+4) points to her Austrian rival’s 6 (5+1). Both will likely be back next year; the Stavanger Oilers forward is just 15 while Daubock, already part of the Austrian senior women’s set-up, is 16. Gunderson opened the scoring against Austria in the 24th minute, advancing down the left channel before ripping a wrister past Luggin. She got her second on 46 minutes after Eirin Stendhal chased down a lost cause behind the Austrian net. Mari Pederson fed the puck back to the point where Gunderson was waiting to unleash a thunderous slap shot that whistled over Luggin’s shoulder and into the net. The local commentator described it as the ‘goal of the tournament’ and, fittingly, it proved decisive in the game and the competition. Daubock pulled one back for Austria, getting away from two Norwegian defencemen before beating Ekle to give her team hope of saving the game, but it wasn’t enough to deny Norway the gold. Promotion sees Norway return to Division IA, from which it was relegated in 2018. It’s a return to the second tier of U18 Women’s World Championship play, a level Norway held from its first season in 2008/09 until that demotion two seasons ago. Austria narrowly missed out on an immediate return to the Division IA following its relegation last year. With promotion settled in nerve-jangling fashion on the final morning, the relegation question would be decided in the last game of the tournament. Host nation Poland needed to defeat Great Britain in regulation time to claw back a three-point deficit in the standings and preserve its position in Division IB. The Brits had their chances but struggled to find a way past Helena Grzybowska in the Polish net. And two goals in the second period from Wiktoria Sikorska gave the home team a lead that it would not relinquish. Julia Zielinska added a power play goal early in the third before Kaitlyn Morrison gave Britain a glimmer of hope. That was swiftly extinguished: Vanessa Patla and Iga Schramm added two more goals just 12 seconds apart to wrap up a convincing victory. Poland survived, GB paid the price for a lack of firepower and went down after scoring just five goals in five games. Third place in the group went to China, a point behind the leaders. With the country preparing to ice a team at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in Beijing, this was encouraging news for a national program looking to build depth behind the players gaining experience at KRS Vanke Rays in the Russian Women’s Hockey League. China won four of its five games here, including an overtime win against the Norwegians. A 4-2 success against Korea on Wednesday secured the bronze. IIHF.COM

It´s official Osrblie will host the next 2 stages of the IBU Cup, this weekend the shortened individuals (Frday) and sprints (Sunday) and then also the next weekend to replace the stage originally scheduled in Poland, but because of lack of snow the IBU decided to award the stage to (repsectively keep it in) Osrblie also for the next week with mixed relays (wednesday) Sprints (Friday) and pursuits (Saturday) Some interesting names are on the start lists like Erik Lesser, Roman Rees, Philipp Navrath, Fredrik Gjesbakk, Karoline Knotten, Synoeve Solemdal, Ekaterina Glazyrina, Anastasia Porshneva, Anastasia Merkushina or Veronika Vítková etc.. , also the next stage will be the official retiring race of Matej Kazár More about the upcomming races can be found here, in Slovakian, so google translate required 37 nations will participate including Mongolia https://www.biatlon-info.sk/spravodajstvo/ibu-cup/1198-osrblie-caka-dvojita-porcia-desiatich-pretekov-my-postavime-mnozstvo-nadeji

This one is for you @heywoodu like you predicted another step closer to Beijing ROAD TO BEIJING 2022 2nd QUALIFYING ROUND Group L --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dutch win through in Barcelona The Netherlands proved too strong for Spain in Wednesday’s rearranged Olympic Qualification Group L game in Barcelona. A 5-3 victory took the Dutch past the host nation and into February’s next round of qualification. The Netherlands will compete in Group H in Kazakhstan, where Poland and Ukraine make up the quartet. But it took a pair of goals in the third-period to separate the teams in a hard-fought clash in the Catalan capital. Spain matched its higher-ranked opponent for much of the game but could not recover when Raymond van der Schuit got a breakaway goal early in the third to make it 4-3. To make it more painful for the Spanish, the play began after the Dutch iced the puck then won the face-off in their own end. The host battled hard in search a way back into the game once again, but home hopes were killed off late on when Danny Stempher slotted home an empty-net goal. That took the Tilburg forward to 1+2 for the game and a tournament leading 12 (8+4) overall. “The travel was an issue, we took a while to get things going but at a certain point, we just had that bit more skill and speed,” said Netherlands head coach Bo Subr. “I thought we always looked a bit better in 5-on-5 but we got into penalty trouble and allowed them to score two power play goals. After that we stepped it up another notch and took over the game to pull away in the third. Maybe we didn’t score as many as we should, but a win’s a win.” The travel woes were due to the problems with the ice that prevented these teams from completing this Olympic qualification group as scheduled in December. The decisive match-up on 15 December had to be abandoned after a goalless first period due to problems with the ice. Today, three weeks later, the Dutch and the Spanish tried again in Barcelona, playing a one-off game to determine the winner of Group L. The hastily rearranged game posed logistical headaches for the both sides. The Dutch flew in for the early game in Barcelona and will return today, and the roster had five changes enforced by work, study or injury. Mark Hoekstra, Stijn Knoop, Alexei Loginov, Jordy van Oorschot and Jasper Nordemann all missed the new date. The host had eight changes from its original roster, with Oriol Boronat, captain in December, among the more prominent absentees. “We were missing a couple of guys who were here last time, but I think it was the same for both teams,” added Subr. “If you look at it overall, maybe defensively we were a bit better last time, we lost a couple of strong defencemen for this game, but we got one of our best forwards back so it kind of evened out.” One of the new faces on the Dutch roster was instrumental in the first goal of the day. Giovanni Vogelaar, a defenceman from Tilburg Trappers, fired in a point shot that Ander Alcaine could only pad on to the stick of Bartek Bison for a fourth-minute opener. However, Spain replied with a goal on its first power play of the game and it was a play involving two members of the Barcelona team. Adrian Ubieto’s pass from the point picked out Oriol Rubio at the back door and he made no mistake. The Netherlands had more of the game in the opening session, but Spain had a great chance to get in front when Ander Arraras stole the puck from Ninho Hessels and bore down on the net. He was unable to get a shot away but did draw a penalty late in the first period. Home hopes were lifted early in the second session when Angel Fernandez-Pola gave Spain the lead with a slick finish from close range. However, it took a matter of seconds for the Dutch to tie the game once again when Reno de Hondt got free to wrap up a passing move involving Bison and Danny Stempher. De Hondt was a late call-up for this game, his line-mates had been prolific scorers last month. Midway through the action, Jonne de Bonth put the Dutch back in front when he was given too much time and space to get between the hashmarks and lift a backhand shot past Alcaine. However, Spain was not done, and the home power play continued to stretch the Dutch. Rubio stuffed home his second from close range to tie the game going into the second intermission. However, Rubio’s effort was not enough to halt the Dutch advance. Those third-period goals secured the win – and booked a challenging trip to Nur-Sultan in the next round. “Kazakhstan is going to be interesting,” added Subr. “I know that Tilburg, where I coach, has two games scheduled for that weekend. We had 10 players from Tilburg on our line-up today so we will have to see what we can do about that. I’m pretty sure there’s an agreement to move one of those games. “We need to get a roster together quickly and let the players know – a lot of our players have jobs or study commitments and will have to take time off. But it’s a good opportunity. We don’t usually play opponents from that level so hopefully we can put a good team together and have a good outing in Kazakhstan.” The Dutch victory also has implications for Croatia, which will now progress to Slovenia for the next qualification phase in early February. IIHF.COM

Thursday January 9th, 2020 - Round-Robin Last Day Schedule (GMT +1) LIVESTREAM 11:00 Denmark vs France 14:30 Hungary vs Italy 18:00 Japan vs Germany 1) *We will have a direct match for the Gold medal and promotion into the Women´s Under 18 Top Division World Championships next year 2021. Japan and Germany will meet tomorrow in a real final of this tournament and the winner of the game will replace Slovakia next year among the W U18 elite. *JPN - 1-will qualify if they beat Germany (It doesn´t matter if in Regulation Time or after Overtime/Penalty Shoot-Out). **GER - 1-will qualify if they beat Japan (It doesn´t matter if in Regulation Time or after Overtime/Penalty Shoot-Out). 2) *Still 3 Nations are fighting to avoid the relegation to the Women´s Under 18 Division I Group B World Championships 2021, France, Italy and Denmark are all in danger to be replaced next year in this division by Norway freshly promoted team from this years W U18 Div I B tournament: *FRA - Will avoid the Relegation if they don´t lose in Regulation Time to Denmark, or if Italy lose in Regulation Time to Hungary. **ITA - Will avoid the Relegation if they don´t lose in Regulation Time to Hungary, or if France doesn´t lose in Regulation Time to Denmark. ***DEN - Will avoid the Relegation only if they beat France in Regulation Time.

Thursday January 9th, 2020 - Round-Robin Day 3 Schedule (GMT +2) LIVESTREAM 12:00 Japan vs Spain 15:30 Great Britain vs Romania 19:00 Lithuania vs Serbia

Sailing ASCON 420 & 470 African Championships 2020 Luanda (ANG) - 13 January 2020 - 18 January 2020 Official Website

Final Standings 1. Norway 11 ------------------------------------- 2. Austria 11 3. China 10 4. South Korea 5 5. Poland 4 ------------------------------------- 6. Great Britain 4 The following Nations have qualified for the Women's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 18 Division I Group A World Championship 2021 Norway The following Nations have qualified for the Women's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 18 Division I Group B World Championship 2021 Austria China Poland South Korea The following Nation has been relegated to the Women's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 18 Division II Group A World Championship 2021 Great Britain

Wednesday January 8th, 2020 - Round-Robin Last Day RESULTS (GMT +1) 13:00 Austria 1 - 2 Norway 16:30 China 4 - 2 South Korea 20:00 Great Britain 1 - 5 Poland

Stage 16 in Madonna di Campiglio (ITA) Men´s Slalom: 1. Daniel Yule 1:35.60 2. Henrik Kristoffersen 1:35.75 3. Clement Noel 1:35.85 Full Final Result HERE

8 Hours before the opening ceremony during the official training

Nodar Kumaritashvili.

btw that insane amount of snow everywhere around the Olympic village reminds me of Sochi. that spirit of a winter games

Can you believe it ? The highest top floor ! Those barbarians almost lodged us on the roof. at least the Czechs are one floor down

@intoronto @NearPup

3rd penultimate Qualifying Round Groups set Olympic Pre-Qualification Round 3 (6-9 February 2020) Group G In Jesenice, Slovenia.: (Host)+ + + Group H In Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.: (Host) + + + Group J In Nottingham, Great Britain.: (Host) + + +