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Stage 18 in Erzurum (TUR) January 20th, 2018 Snowboard Cross Mens (6/12) 1. Omar Visintin , 2. Pierre Vautier and 3. Alessandro Haemmerle Full Results HERE Video Highlights Snowboard Cross Womens (6/12) 1. Eva Samkova , 2. Chloe Trespeuch and 3. Michela Moioli Full Results HERE Video Highlights

Stage 23 in Kitzbuehel (AUT) January 20th, 2018 Downhill Mens (6/9) 1. Thomas Dressen 1:56.15, 2. Beat Feuz 1:56:35 and 3. Hannes Reichelt 1:56.56 Full Results HERE Video Highlights

Stage 6 in Chaux-Neuve (FRA) January 20th, 2018 Individual Gundersen Large Hill (10km) Men´s (7/15) 1. Jan Schmid 23:59.7, 2. Akito Watabe 24:01.1 and 3. Ilkka Herola 24:21.2 Full Results HERE Video Highlights

Stage 24 in Cortina d´Ampezzo (ITA) January 20th, 2018 Downhill Womens (5/8) 1. Lindsey Vonn 1:36.48, 2. Tina Weirather 1:37.40 and 3. Jacqueline Wiles 1:37.46 Full Results HERE Video Highlights

Stage 11 in Zao (JPN) January 20th, 2018 Team Normal Hill Womens (2/2) 1. Japan (Iwabuchi/Seto/Ito/Takanashi) 761.7, 2. Slovenia (Bogataj/Rogelj/Klinec/Kriznar) 706.8 and 3. Russia (Barannikova/Kustova/Tikhonova/Avvakumova) 696.1 Full Results HERE Video Highlights

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Stage 21 in Mammoth Mountain Resort (USA) January 19th, 2018 Halfpipe Mens (5/6) 1. Kyle Smaine 92.20, 2. Alex Ferreira 90.40 and 3. Torin Yater-Wallace 89.20 Full Results HERE Video Highlights Halfpipe Womens (5/6) 1. Brita Sigourney 91.20, 2. Maddie Bowman 89.80 and 3. Devin Logan 83.80 Full Results HERE Video Highlights

Stage 22 in Lake Placid (USA) January 19th, 2018 Aerials Mens (5/6) 1. Jia Zongyang 126.99, 2. Olexandr Abramenko 123.45 and 3. Olivier Rochon 120.24 Full Results HERE Video Highlights Aerials Womens (5/6) 1. Lydia Lassila 99.75, 2. Hanna Huskova 95.55 and 3. Laura Peel 90.59 Full Results HERE Video Highlights

January 19th, 2018 Men´s Singles 1. Javier Fernandez 295.55, 2. Dmitri Aliev 274.06 and 3. Mikhail Kolyada 258.90 Full Results Short Program and Finals Video Highlights Javier Fernandez Free Skate Dmitri Aliev Free Skate Mikhail Kolyada Free Skate

Ice Hockey Tournaments at Vancouver 2010 Canada ,2010 Olympic Champions, won 8th Olympic title, becoming again the most successful country in men´s Ice Hockey at the Olympics The Ice Hockey tournaments at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games took place from 16th to 28th February 2010 in Vancouver, Canada. It was the first ever Olympic Ice Hockey Tournament played in a NHL sized rinks and first ever Olympic Tournament using the 4 referees system. It was the 4th Olympic tournament with participation of NHL players. The matches were contested at the Canada Hockey Place (NHL team Vancouver Canucks home venue the General Motors Place) and at the Thunderbird Arena. 12 Teams entered the Men´s Tournament, For this games the format was totally changed and renewed, the 12 countries according their seeding were divided into 3 four teams preliminary Groups. After classical round robins in the different pools the winners of the 3 groups + the best second ranked team received a automatical bye for the next round and has qualified directly for the Quarterfinals, remaining 8 teams had to play a Play-Off Round of 16 game. Canada won the so desired home gold in a total domination´s mode. Supported throughout the entire tournament by fantastic home crowd finished the tourney with a deserved gold, the 8th in history making of Canada the most successful country of all times again, overpassing USSR. USA took silver after a painful Gold Medal Game lose to their northern neighbors 2-3 in Overtime. Finland won the bronze medal match beating the biggest surprise of the tournament, Team Slovakia 5-3, thanks 4 goals in a heartbreaking third period for the Slovaks. The Olympic tournament was played in a fantastic atmosphere For the first time each match had to have a winner and thus was used the new point system in the preliminary round. The United States dominated the Group A topping the pool undefeated, even ahead of Canada which lost 4 points in the group after a win 3-2 only after Penalty Shootouts over the dangerous Swiss, and a lose in a prestigious USA-Canada match 5-3. The Canadians had to play the Round of 16 like 3rd Switzerland with 3 points and 4th Norway with 1 single point thanks a 4-5 Overtime lose to Switzerland as well. The Group B introduced some highly memorable games and a very strong and close group. Russia despite shocking lose to the Slovaks 1-2 in Penalty Shootouts decided by one of the most memorable and epic shootout goal scored by the local Vancouver Canucks star Pavol Demitra, topped the group winning both remaining matches with 7 points ahead of the Czech Republic with 6 points, Slovakia was third just behind with 5 points, Latvia unlucky to be put in this group finished 4th pointless. It was the Group C that included the two direct quarterfinalists, it was just as expected the two Nordic powerhouses. Sweden the reigning champion showed their power and ambitions winning the group without losing a single point, Finland with 6 points and better overall Goal average than the Czechs advanced to the QF, 3rd Belarus with 3 points and 4th Germany 0 points moved to the Round of 16. In this KO format, the all favorised countries won their games, but three of them had to work a bit harder to make the quarterfinals though, just like Slovakia had a lot of troubles to beat the brave and valiant Norwegians 4-3, Also the Czechs fought hard to eliminate Latvia 3-2 after Overtime and Switzerland 4-3 after the Penalty Shootouts session the Belarussians, only the host Canada outclassed their opponent easily 8-2 over Germany. In the Quarterfinals, there were 2 big shocks that happened: The reigning champions surprisingly finished their tournament, in a great match of such historic value for Slovakia and Slovak sport the central europeans shockingly send out the Swedes 4-3, the other big highlight of the QF stage was definitely the Russia vs Canada clash, everyone who expected a huge hockey thriller couldn´t believed what happened in that game, Canada eliminated the team around Alexander Ovechkin 7-3 !!! The other two semifinalists became Finland defeating Czech Republic 2-0 and the still unbeaten United States beating Switzerland by the same result. USA started the semifinals in a incredible way outclassing Finland 6-1 including the worst historic Finlands first period finished by a 6-0 for the U.S. In the second semifinal, it was expected that Canada will have no big troubles to bomb out Slovakia. Canada was even leading 3-0 some 5 minutes to go, but then started a unprecedented offensive show of the Slovaks closing the home team in their defensive zone, Pavol Demitra was close few seconds before the end to tie the score, but sadly for Slovakia denying by a memorable save from another local star Roberto Luongo. Slovakia thanks their performances and very attractive style of play won the hearts of the Canadian fans, All cheered to the guys from under the Tatras to win this unbelievable bronze in the 3rd place match with Finland, Pavol Demitra, Marián Hossa and Marián Gáborík put a 3-1 lead after 40 minutes, Slovakia was 15 minutes of the enormous upset, but failed, Finland showing their best period of the tournament scored 4 pucks in the net of Jaroslav Halák to overturn the result 5-3 and win the bronze for the "Suomis" led by legendary Teemu Selanne (who became the all-time scorer leader with 37 points from all his 5 Olympics), Jere Lehtinen and Saku Koivu. Slovakia finished 4th, the best ever result at the Olympics for the country, but the pain was huge after that missing chance. Pavol Demitra a Slovak Hockey legend who perrished next year in the KHL Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air crash tragedy became the only non CAN or USA player to be rewarded i the All Stars team of the tournament, he was also the best scorer of the tournament a statistic who won by scoring 10 points in the tourney just ahead of another Slovak player, Marián Hossa with 9 points (3+6) One of the biggest surprises and fairy tales of the tournament had a sad end, Slovakia, missed a huge medal chance losing the Bronze Medal Game to Finland 3-5, after the team was leading 3-1 at the start of the third period The Gold Medal match was once again at the North American soil a North American derby, Host Canada faced unbeaten and in big shape playing team USA, and it was a fantastic final, 60 minutes was not enough to determine the winner. Canada was 2-0 leading after goals of Correy Perry and Jonathan Toews, but the USA tied the score thanks Ryan Kessler and 30 seconds before the final buzz Zach Parise. In time 67:30 Came the moment of glory, for many, the best ice hockey player of our ages, Sidney Crosby showed his geniality and extreme skills scoring the winning golden goal. Sidney Crosby just scored the Overtime Gold winning goal Slovakia arrived to this tournament with the strongest possible team our country had in all history, the Golden era team was expected to play its last tournament in this composition. ..And dear god, what a ride it was... The start wasn´t very successful, a derby with the Czech Republic, a team we definitely don´t know how to beat at the Olympics, we lost again 1-3. but in the next match came our first win, and a absolutely unexpected over one the biggest favorites, the super team of Russia, 2-1 after Penalty Shootouts. In the last match we defeated Latvia clearly 6-0, finishing the group on 3rd place with 5 points. In Round of 16 we got Norway, and the proof that the Knockout phase is just another tournament was clear. Slovakia had to fight really hard to beat their opponent 4-3, saved by a goal of Miroslav Šatan. but The biggest moment of this team had only to arrive, the quarterfinal against reigning champions of Sweden, one of the biggest favorites was shockingly send home losing to Slovakia 3-4, the hero of the day was Tomáš Kopecký scoring the winning goal. but this was a great match of the first line Hossa-Demitra-Gáborík.. In the first ever Slovak Olympic semifinal we had the home team, Canada in a fantastic atmosphere had to show all their art to survive and defeat Slovakia 3-2. The Bronze Medal Game, will be remembered as one of the saddest days in our sport, we was 15 minutes of the bronze, leading 3-1 but the last minutes of the game was epic from the Finland´s team who won the bronze 5-3. Final Ranking of the Men´s Tournament: 1. Canada 2. United States 3. Finland 4. Slovakia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Sweden 6. Russia 7. Czech Republic 8. Switzerland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9. Belarus 10. Norway 11. Germany 12. Latvia Canaada, 2010 Womens Olympic Champions, earn 3rd consecutieve gold The 2010 Women´s Olympic tournament was played with 8 teams, divided into two preliminary groups. The top 2 teams from both pools advanced to the semifinals, the remaining teams continued in the consolation round. Canada won 3rd consecutive gold, USA took silver and Finland grab their first ever womens Olympic ice hockey bronze, The reigning silver medalists, Sweden finished this time outside of the medals in 4th place. 2 Goals of Marie-Philipe Poulin in the final match brought the gold for the host country. Slovakia qualified to this Olympic tournament for the first time ever. Undefeated during the whole qualification (Including the World Record win 82-0 against Bulgaria) surprisingly managed to earn the Olympic quota. But in the Olympic tournament it was as expected a absolutely different story, the differences in the womens world hockey were too important, it was evident already in the opening match and another historic highest result in the womens Olympic tournament this time against us, we lost to Canada 0-18. After the reigning champions we had to face another finalist of the last tournament in the next match, and this time it was much better, losing to Sweden after a good game 2-6. After the lose 2-5 to Switzerland in the last groups match we finished as expected last and pointless. In the consolation round came another two loses, first in the 5-8th places semifinals to Russia 2-4 and in our best match of the tournament in the 7th place game to China 1-3. Slovakia qualified for the first and only time to the womens Ice Hockey Olympic tournament, despite finishing last 8th without single win and with a negative record of highest lose in the history of the womens Olympic tournaments 0-18 to Canada, it was a enormous experience for the girls Final Ranking of the Women´s Tournament: 1. Canada 2. United States 3. Finland 4. Sweden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Switzerland 6. Russia 7. China 8. Slovakia Canada - USA final Highlights Team Canada's Journey To Ice Hockey Gold - Vancouver 2010 Olympics Highlights of Slovak matches

TEAM SLOVENIA Goaltenders: Luka Gracnar (Red Bull Salzburg, EBEL, ) Gasper Kroselj (Rodovre Mighty Bulls, ) Matija Pintaric (Rouen Dragons, ) Defencers: Blaz Gregorc (Mountfield Hradec Králové, ) Sabahudin Kovacevic (Energie Karlovy Vary, ) Ales Kranjc (Eispiraten Crimmitschau, ) Ziga Pavlin (Motor České Budějovice, ) Matic Podlipnik (Energie Karlovy Vary, ) Jurij Repe (Rytíři Kladno, ) Mitja Robar (KAC Klagenfurg, EBEL, ) Luka Vidmar (Fehervar AV19, EBEL, ) Forwards: Bostjan Golicic (Grenoble Bruleurs de Loups, ) Andrej Hebar (Olimpija Ljubljana) Ziga Jeglic (Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, KHL, ) Anze Kuralt (Amiens Gothiques, ) Jan Mursak (Frolunda Gothenburg, ) Ales Music (Fehervar AV19, EBEL, ) Ken Ograjensek (Graz 99ers, ) Ziga Pance (Dornbirner EC, EBEL, ) David Rodman (Grenoble Bruleurs de Loups, ) Marcel Rodman (EC Bad Tolz, ) Robert Sabolic (Torpedo Nizhni Novgorod, KHL, ) Rok Ticar (Sibir Novosibirsk, KHL, ) Jan Urbas (Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven, ) Miha Verlic (Villacher SV, EBEL, )

LAAX OPEN Slopestyle cancelled Due to the ongoing bad weather situation with snow fall, gusty side winds and low visibility at Crap Sogn Gion event organisers have been forced to cancel the Slopestyle World Cup of the LAAX OPEN 2018. Since Tuesday, officials had been doing everything they could to get the event done but unfortunately Mother Nature did not let up. Today, after the men's slopestyle got cancelled at first, organisers waited for a window to open to at least run the women's finals which seemed to be the case around noon but incoming fog from the valley dashed everyone's hopes again right before the first lady was about to drop in. “A big thank you to the LAAX OPEN organisers, park crew and volunteers who worked so hard. We tried everything we could but the weather did not cooperate,” said FIS Contest Director Park & Pipe Roberto Moresi. The LAAX OPEN will conclude tomorrow with the halfpipe competition. Finals are slated for 13:00 CET.

Stage 23 in Kitzbuehel (AUT) January 19th, 2018 Super-G Mens (4/6) 1. Aksel Lund Svindal 1:30.72, 2. Kjetil Jansrud 1:31:22 and 3. Matthias Mayer 1:31.28 Full Results Here Video Highlights

Slovakia just received a wild card for the Womens U18 World Championships this summer in Poland. Apparently because of reducing amount of Asian participating countries the quota was returned to Europe and given to the first non-qualified team, SVK. source in svk from our Handball federation website http://www.slovakhandball.sk/article/5a61dfcba1707e010054ab01

too strong wind, heavy snowing, a total mayhem we have today here in Ghana so no surprising by the cancellations

Stage 24 in Cortina d´Ampezzo (ITA) January 19th, 2018 Downhill Womens (4/8) 1. Sofia Goggia 1:36.45, 2. Lindsey Vonn 1:36.92 and 3. Mikaela Shiffrin 1:37.29 Full Results HERE Video Highlights

Stage 11 in Zao (JPN) January 19th, 2018 Normal Hill Individual Womens (6/15) 1. Maren Lundby 260.9, 2. Chiara Hoelzl 219.3 and 3. Irina Avvakumova 216.8 Full Results HERE Video Highlights

Julia Mancuso is retiring right now

Czech + Slovakia = true brothers Apparently the president of the Czech Bob federation send a open letter to ISBF yesterday and this was apparently their own initiative ! wow. respect but unfortunately the decision is final and unchangeable. ps: The Slovak team at least offered to the Czechs our bob for their PyeongChang Bobsleigh team, so they may use it if they want or will need in case of mechanical issues with their original engines or for any other reason

@heywoodu the yummy gummy bears are back and part 2

Hahaha this is so funny ! I can´t stop laughing "You have no neck ! Show me your neck !" https://www.olympicchannel.com/en/playback/sports-swap/core-sports-swap/sports-swap-figure-skating-vs-ice-hockey-with-marchei-vasiljevs/

yes, they approved their team today and announced that they will send 2 bobs in both mens events

January 18th, 2018 Mixed Pairs 1. Russia (Evgenia Tarasova/Vladimir Morozov) 221.60, 2. Russia (Ksenia Stolbova/Fedor Klimov) 211.01 and 3. Russia (Natalia Zabiiako/Alexander Enbert) 210.18 Full Results Short Program and Finals Video Highlights Tarasova/Morozov Free Skate Stolbova/Klimov Zabiiako/Enbert James/Cipres

The General Assembly of the Czech Olympic Committee approved today the Czech Olympic delegation for the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games, It count 85 Athletes (5 of them will be named and added next week, 3 in Biathlon (2 Womens and 1 men) 1 women in Alpine Skiing and 1 men in Cross-Country Skiing, following the last parts of the internal qualifiers. The youngest athlete is 18 years old Pairs Figure Skater Anna Dušková, the Oldest 39 years old Jakub Havlín who will represent in bobsleigh. They are expecting to receive one or two more realocations in the next weeks, but actually they are also counting that in the worst scenario they may also lose 2 quotas in snowboarding Czech Republic Olympic Team Alpine Skiing: Martina Dubovská, Ester Ledecká, Kryštof Krýzl, + 1 women will be added next week. Cross Country Skiing: Kateřina Beroušková, Petra Nováková, Martin Jakš, Petr Knop, Michal Novák, + 1 men will be added next week. Freestyle Skiing: Nikol Kučerová (skicross) Nordic Combined: Lukáš Daněk, Miroslav Dvořák, Ondřej Pažout, Tomáš Portyk. Ski Jumping: Lukáš Hlava, Roman Koudelka, Čestmír Kožíšek, Viktor Polášek, Vojtěch Štursa. Snowboarding: Ester Ledecká, Vendula Hopjáková, Eva Samková, Jan Kubičík, Šárka Pančochová, Kateřina Vojáčková, Petr Horák. Bobsleigh: Dominik Dvořák, David Egydy, Jakub Havlín, Jaroslav Kopřiva, Jakub Nosek, Dominik Suchý, Jan Šindelář, Jan Vrba + Jan Stokláska (Alternate). Biathlon: Michal Krčmář, Ondřej Moravec, Michal Šlesingr, Adam Václavík, 1 men will be added next week, Markéta Davidová, Jessica Jislová, Eva Puskarčíková, Veronika Vítková, + 2 womens will be added next week. Luge: Tereza Nosková, Ondřej Hyman, Antonín Brož, Lukáš Brož, Jaromír Kudera, Matěj Kvíčala. Figure Skating: Michal Březina, Martin Bidař, Anna Dušková, Michal Češka, Cortney Bree Mansourová. Speed Skating: Karolína Erbanová, Martina Sáblíková, Nikola Zdráhalová. Short Track Speed Skating: Michaela Sejpalová. Ice Hockey: Patrik Bartošák, Pavel Francouz, Dominik Furch, Michal Jordán, Jan Kolář, Tomáš Kundrátek, Vojtěch Mozík, Jakub Nakládal, Ondřej Němec, Adam Polášek, Ondřej Vitásek, Michal Birner, Roman Červenka, Martin Erat, Milan Gulaš, Roman Horák, Petr Koukal, Jan Kovář, Dominik Kubalík, Tomáš Mertl, Lukáš Radil, Michal Řepík, Jiří Sekáč, Michal Vondrka, Tomáš Zohorna. Source Czech Olympic Committee in Czech http://www.olympic.cz/clanek/2874--plenum-cov-schvalilo-nominaci-85-ceskych-sportovcu-do-pchjongcchangu

yeah, well, still heartbreaking though