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euh WHAT ????

from 6th to 1st hell yeah !!!!

Podiuuuum Finally

Hat-off Veronika

a tied 1st place between them should be fine for me too

looks like Veronika will make it to the 2nd round already my personal sports moment of the year

Tomorrow Veronika Velez-Zuzulová will compete for the last time in her career in a World Cup race. She will participate in two other races this February at the Olympics (Slalom and Team Event) and will very likely end her great career Due long injury she unfortunately lost her place in the top 7 start list, so she will wear BIB 15 tomorrow, she announced that she doesn´t have great expectations about the result tomorrow, it´s already a miracle and huge highly respectable success that she is even able to compete. As she said "I am prepared for something around 80 % right now, but I´ll have 2 more weeks to be ready at best possible for probably my last individual careers race in PyeongChang´s Slalom on that St. Valentine´s day when the Slalom is scheduled." this huge smile tonight during the BIB draw ceremony in Lenzerheide, when you know that you just did everything (almost the impossible) to compete at the Olympics only 4 months after so severe knee injury and surgery. Bravo Veronika, respect, what a fighter she is !

Schedule of the last day of the Division III tournament 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division III In Sofia, , 22-28 January 2018 Sunday January 28th, 2018 - Round-Robin Final Day Schedule (GMT +2) 13:00 New Zealand vs Israel 16:30 Iceland vs Bulgaria 20:00 Australia vs China * Israel is already the winner of the tournament and will be promoted for the U20 Division II Group B next year 2019 and New Zealand will finish last of this tournament and thus will be relegated to the U20 Division III qualification tournament next year 2019. ** This means in the tomorrows program there will be only matches for the remaining medal positions.All 4 teams will fight for medals, Iceland with the best position for the silver, in case of regular time win they will finish second. Bulgaria in case of win will have to wait for Australian win over China. China can also finish in silver position if they win against Australia and Bulgaria defeat Iceland. Australia in case of regular time win will finish in bronze medal position. LIVESTREAM NZL vs ISR ISL vs BUL AUS vs CHN

a couple of several pictures from the Olympic village some 13 days to go. Not a lot of snow though...but they have table air hockey

Stage 12 in Zakopane (POL) January 27th, 2018 Large Hill Team Mens (4/6) 1. Poland (Kot/Hula/Kubacki/Stoch) 1092.0, 2. Germany (Eisenbichler/Leyhe/Wellinger/Freitag) 1067.3 and 3. Norway (Fannemel/Forfang/Lindvik/Stjernen) 1055.2 Full Results HERE Video Highlights

Stoch

Stage 7 (Nordic Combined Triple) in Seefeld (AUT) January 27th, 2018 Individual Gundersen Normal Hill (10km) Men´s (4/7) 1. Akito Watabe 23:28.5, 2. Vinzenz Geiger 24:34.0 and 3. Jarl Magnus Riiber 24:37.4 Full Results HERE Video Highlights

Stage 13 in Ljubno (SLO) January 27th, 2018 Normal Hill Individual Womens (8/13) 1. Maren Lundby 256.0, 2. Katharina Althaus 241.5 and 3. Sara Takanashi 236.3 Full Results HERE Video Highlights

Stage 7 in Seefeld (AUT) January 27th, 2018 Sprint Freestyle Mens (7/10) 1. Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo , 2. Lucas Chanavat and 3. Calle Halfvarsson Full Results HERE Video Highlights Sprint Freestyle Womens (7/10) 1. ex aequo Sophie Caldwell and Laurien Van Der Graaff and 3. Maiken Caspersen Falla Full Results HERE Video Highlights

Stage 28 in Lenzerheide (SUI) January 27th, 2018 Giant Slalom Womens (7/9) 1. Tessa Worley 2:10.81, 2. Viktoria Rebensburg 2:10:88 and 3. Meta Hrovat 2:12.26 Full Results HERE Video Highlights

Paulína just fantastic today what a pity for the sprint result

Stage 27 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER) January 27th, 2018 Downhill Mens (7/9) 1. Beat Feuz 1:55.39, 2. ex aequo Vincent Kriechmayr and Dominik Paris 1:55.57 Full Results HERE Video Highlights

Stage 20 in Bansko (BUL) January 27th, 2018 Snowboard Cross Mens (7/12) 1. Pierre Vaultier , 2. Christopher Robanske and 3. Alessandro Haemmerle Full Results HERE Video Highlights Snowboard Cross Womens (7/12) 1. Charlotte Bankes , 2. Michela Moioli and 3. Nelly Moenne Loccoz Full Results HERE Video Highlights

Popovič with a huge and beautiful smile, she looked so happy

Interesting also to see how many foreigners and/or naturalized athletes are going to the Olympics this time in the different delegations. For Naturalized Athletes: 2 Anastasiya Kuzmina (Biathlon - ) Lucie Myslivečková (Figure Skating, Ice Dance - ) Foreigners in our team: 14 Snowboarding: Kjersti Buaas ( ) former Olympic medalist, coach of our lone Snowboarding participant Klaudia Medlová Chanelle Sladics ( ) altogether with Kjersti Buaas coach of Klaudia Medlová. Alpine Skiing: Livio Magoni ( ) coach of Petra Vlhová Mateusz Herda ( ) coach of Matej Falat Alberto Belfi ( ) coach of Barbora Kantorová Marco Porta ( ) fitness coach Matteo Freo ( ) physiotherapist Dušan Kapš ( ) Veronika Velez-Zuzulová ski staff serviceman Krzysztof Mazurek ( ) ski serviceman Biathlon: Daniel Kuzmin ( ) Anastasiya Kuzmina´s coach Fabien Blondeau and Baptiste Blondeau ( ) Anastasiya Kuzmina´s ski servicemans Figure Skating: Corrado Giordani ( ) Myslivečková/Csolley´s coach Ice Hockey: Craig Ramsey ( ) National Team coach

speaking about eventual medals or honorable placements, is also interesting to see which rewards the different NOC´s promised to their athletes for The general assembly approved yesterday also the rewards for eventual Slovak successes. For the eventual Individual Olympic gold the athlete will receive from our NOC 50.000 EUR, the top 8 ranks in individual events will be rewarded. The Ice Hockey team + biathlon relays and Alpine skiing mixed team can earn in case of Olympic gold 15.000 EUR each competing athlete, the top 6 ranks in those evente will be rewarded Here the Official approved rewards for Slovak athletes: Individual Events 1st Place - 50.000 EUR 2nd Place - 40.000 EUR 3rd Place - 30.000 EUR 4th Place - 20.000 EUR 5th Place - 15.000 EUR 6th Place - 10.000 EUR 7th Place - 8.000 EUR 8th Place - 6.000 EUR Team Events (Ice Hockey, Biathlon Relays, Alpine Skiing Mixed Team Event) 1st Place - 15.000 EUR for each competing athlete from the team 2nd Place - 13.000 EUR for each competing athlete from the team 3rd Place - 11.000 EUR for each competing athlete from the team 4th Place - 9.000 EUR for each competing athlete from the team 5th Place - 6.000 EUR for each competing athlete from the team 6th Place - 4.000 EUR for each competing athlete from the team

2018 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division III In Sofia, , 22-28 January 2018 Friday January 26th, 2018 - Round-Robin Day 4 Results (GMT +2) 13:00 Israel 6 - 2 Iceland 16:30 New Zealand 2 - 11 China 20:00 Bulgaria 7 - 5 Australia Provisional Standing After Day 4 1. Israel 12 pts, 2. Iceland 7 pts, 3. China 6 pts, 4. Bulgaria 6 pts, 5. Australia 5 pts, 6. New Zealand 0 pts. * Israel is already, one day match to go, assured to win the gold and earn promotion to the next years U20 division II Group B 2019 tournament where they will replace Turkey, freshly relegated from this year U20 Div IIB tournament held a couple of days ago in Serbia. **New Zealand is, one day match to go, already assured to be relegated in the Under20 Division III qualification tournament next year 2019.

Ice Hockey Tournaments at Sochi 2014 Canada went undefeated throughout the whole tournament to become 2014 Olympic Champions, winning 9th Olympic title, and retaining the title from the Vancouver games 4 years ago The Ice Hockey tournaments at the 2014 took place in Sochi, Russia, from 8th to 23rd February 2014. The matches were played at the Bolshoy Ice Dome and at the Shaiba Arena, both located in Sochi. The format of the mens tournament was exactly the same as in Vancouver 4 years ago. 12 participating countries were divided into 3 four teams groups, after a classical single round-robins the group winners and the best 2nd ranked team received a automatic bye to the quarterfinals, all remaining teams were forced to play a play-off direct qualification match to qualify for the final 8. In women´s tournament the 8 participating countries were according their world ranking positions directly seeded in the two preliminary groups, the best 4 nations in group A and remaining teams in the group B. The first two teams from group A received the direct bye for the semifinals, while the other two teams from this group and best 2 teams from group B played a play-off quarterfinal match. Canada went undefeated throughout the whole mens and womens tournaments to win both golds and retain their Olympic titles. The mens tournament was the 5th consecutive tourney played also with NHL players, as the North American prestigious league scheduled a break during the games, allowing their players to play once again under the 5 rings. Canada became Olympic champion for the 9th time, and became the first nation since the former USSR to retain a Olympic title, they became also the first team to win all their matches since the Sarajevo 1984 triumph of the ex-USSR. Sweden won silver and Finland retained their bronze medals from Vancouver, this time beating the United States in the Bronze medal bout. The 4 directly qualified teams for the quarterfinals were USA, Canada, Sweden and best 2nd team Finland from Group B. The United States won the group A with 8 points ahead of the strongly motivated host team trying to finally win the first ever Russian´s Federation Olympic Ice Hockey gold. their respective match was one of the highlights of the games that finished after 8 shootouts penalty series, the man of the game was definitely TJ Oshie who scored 4 goals during this shootout session. The Russians with 6 points finished second and had to play the round of 16 just like 3rd Slovenia, The debuting country experienced a fantastic tournament that ended in a surprising quarterfinal appearance. Slovenia earned it´s first historic win at the Olympic games in the group against Slovakia, which in opposite, experienced a strongly disappointing and catastrophic tournament. Canada dominated the Group B with 8 points losing only 1 single point after a Overtime win against Finland, this result in final helped also the Suomis to qualify directly for the quarterfinals as the best second ranked team. Austria with 3 points and Norway pointless went to the round of 16. In the group C it was a Swedes ride, The Tre Kronor won all 3 matches to earn the first place of the group with 9 points ahead of Switzerland 6 points, Czech Republic 3 points and Latvia without any single point from this group. Interesting was the final goal average of the Swiss after all their matches in the group : 2-1. In fact all their matches ended 1-0. Also the only goal of their opening match against Latvia 1-0 was scored at time 59:52 !!! In the round of 16, Slovenia continued its heroic and historic achievement defeating their neighbors from Austria clearly 4-0. The host Russia won by the same score over Norway and the biggest surprise happened in the replay of the game Switzerland - Latvia, Latvia also reached their historic result at the Olympics beating Switzerland 3-1 to advance for the top 8. In the last match Czech Republic played the traditional derby against the Slovaks. and as every olympic confrontation between the two nations before ended by the win of the Czechs, this time 5-3. Canada experienced some hard times in the quarterfinal against Latvia, a fantastic 55 saves of Gudlevskis in Latvian net started to really frustrate the Canadian super stars, but the top favorite finally found the way to score and won 2-1. their semifinals opponent became the United States after their win 5-2 over the Czechs. the second semifinal pair was Sweden vs Finland. the Swedes ended the beautiful and highly valuable fairy tale of the Slovenians 5-0 and Finland eliminated Russia 3-1. The Russians NHL top stars failed for the second consecutive time in the Quarterfinals. Cursed ? Russia with a squad fulled by NHL mega stars was aspiring to finally win this dreamed first gold since the collapse of the USSR, and when is the best occasion to do that than at home ice, but once again they failed in the quarterfinals, this time to Finland Canada - USA and Sweden - Finland. two great semifinals were expected and they delivered. it was one great night of hockey. The Swedes and the Canadians were finally the luckiest after beating their opponents 2-1 and 1-0 respectively. Finland retained the bronze, this time easily beating a demotivated team USA 5-0. In this match Teemu Selänne continued to write his name to the eternal history of this sport. at his 6th Olympics at age 43 years and 234 days, became the oldest ice hockey player to win an Olympic medal, by being part of Team Finland's bronze. He also holds the Olympic record for total ice hockey points, upping it to 43 !!! The Gold medal match was a battle between the reigning 2010 champions Canada and the 2006 champions Sweden. Canada confirmed its supremacy in this tournament winning 3-0 after goals of Toews, Crosby and Kunitz. Canada conceded in this tournament all in all only 3 goals ! but scored only 17 which is the smallest amount among all Olympic champions in history. Carey Price finished the tournament with 2 shutouts in the semifinal and finals. Canada defeated Sweden 3-0 in the Gold Medal match, confirming its supremacy in the tournament allowing all opponents to score only 3 goals, both semifinals and finals ended with a shutout wins 1-0 and 3-0 Slovakia entered the tournament with big hopes and...too much unrealistic expectations, despite the team was almost the same as the 4th ranked Vancouver squad (missing especially Pavol Demitra RIP) was absolutely the opposite on the ice, very poor display, many wrong solutions from the players and coaching staff ended by a disastrous and extremely frustrating tournament, for the only time in history we didn´t win any single match, earning only 1 point after the Overtime lose to the host Russia 1-0 after OT. the debacle from the United States 7-1 in the opening match was a first hint, but what followed in the next match will stay as one of the biggest failure and nightmares of our hockey, the first ever historic lose to Slovenia at any level 1-3 came after one horrible and extremely below average level performance from our team. With 1 single point we went to the round of 16 with small ambitions, and they happened to be definitely over when we realized that our opponent will be the Czech team. the first 2 periods continued in the way we played this tourney, but only at 4-0 for the czechs, we suddenly revived and started to play our best hockey in the whole tournament, unfortunately we did not had the time to do more only reducing the Czechs lead to 4-3, a empty-netter in the final minute definitely closed our bad tournament with 5-3 loss to our Czech brothers. and for such team a humiliating 11th place. The biggest surprise of the tournament was definitely Slovenia, the underestimated debuting country managed to reach the Quarterfinals to finish in a fantastic 7th place, their first hiśtoric win came in the preliminary round after a upset over Slovakia, which in opposite experienced a disastrous tournament full of real hockey nightmares Final Ranking of the Men´s Tournament: 1. Canada 2. Sweden 3. Finland 4. United States ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Russia 6. Czech Republic 7. Slovenia 8. Latvia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9. Switzerland 10. Austria 11. Slovakia 12. Norway 4th Consecutive Gold for Canadian womens team, came after a huge hockey thriller in a First ever womens hockey final decided in a Overtime Canada dominated also the women´s tournament. Winning all 5 matches. to grab the 4th consecutive Olympic gold, repeating the achievement of their males colleagues 1920-1932 and the Soviet Unions streak 1964-1976. Hayley Wickenheiser led again the team to win her 5th Olympic medal and 4th gold, for the first time a Olympic final had to be decided by Overtime. Canada won 3-2 and scored the Gold medal goal at 68:10 by Marie Philipe Poulin, who also tied the score in the Regulation time 58 seconds to go to 2-2. USA once again had to submit and took the silver medals. Switzerland produced a improbable upset to won the Bronze medal match, beating Sweden 4-3 and scoring all 4 goals in the last period. This was the first ever Swiss womens Ice Hockey medal and first country´s Olympic Ice Hockey medal after 66 years. The host team finished the tournament outside of medals at 6th place, but later was completely disqualified. Final Ranking of the Women´s Tournament: 1. Canada 2. United States 3. Switzerland 4. Sweden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Finland 6. Germany 7. Japan Russia - Disqualified Canada - Sweden Mens Final highlights Canada - USA womens final Highlights

OLYMPIC ATHLETES FROM RUSSIA Goaltenders: Nadezhda Alexandrova (Tornado Moscow Region, ) Nadezhda Morozova (Biryusa Krasnoyarsk, ) Valeria Tarakanova (SKIF Nizhni Novgorod, ) Defencers: Maria Batalova (Tornado Moscow Region, ) Anastasia Chistyakova (Dynamo St. Petersburg, ) Liana Ganeyeva (Arktik-Universitet Ukhta, ) Angelina Goncharenko (Tornado Moscow Region, ) Yekaterina Lobova (Biryusa Krasnoyarsk, ) Yekaterina Nikolayeva (Dynamo St. Petersburg, ) Nina Pirogova (Tornado Moscow Region, ) Svetlana Tkachyova (Tornado Moscow Region, ) Forwards: Lyudmila Belyakova (Tornado Moscow Region, ) Yelena Dergachyova (Tornado Moscow Region, ) Yevgenia Dyupina (Dynamo St. Petersburg, ) Fanuza Kadirova (Arktik-Universitet Ukhta, ) Diana Kanayeva (Dynamo St. Petersburg, ) Viktoria Kulishova (SKIF Nizhni Novgorod, ) Valeria Pavlova (Biryusa Krasnoyarsk, ) Anna Shokhina (Tornado Moscow Region, ) Alevtina Shtaryova (Tornado Moscow Region, ) Yekaterina Smolina (Dynamo St. Petersburg, ) Olga Sosina (Agidel Ufa, ) Alyona Starovoytova (Tornado Moscow Region, )

Stage 7 (Nordic Combined Triple) in Seefeld (AUT) January 26th, 2018 Individual Gundersen Normal Hill (5km) Men´s (3/7) 1. Akito Watabe 11:22.3, 2. Jarl Magnus Riiber 11:22.8 and 3. Fabian Riessle 11:54.7 Full Results HERE Video Highlights