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Fun Fact was released by our Olympic Committee on its site today. I had no idea about it as well. It is exactly 50 years since last time a European player was in the W Singles World Championship Final, and believe it or not it was a Slovak player (under Czechoslovakia at that time obviously) Photo (Courtesy of SOŠV Slovak NOC website): In 1973 at the Sarajevo World Champs Alica Grofová faced Chinese Hu Yulan in the W Singles Final, Who would have thought at that day that for the next half of Century it will be the last European appearance in this discipline Gold Medal Match at the WCh.

Yes, it should be fine this time... but due to the experience from the previous Olympics, well, we will still remain in alert if you do not mind until the very end. He also had Tokyo basically during the entire qualification in the bag but somehow finally lost that quota in the very last race by a couple of silly places in the semi-finals

2nd QUALIFYING ROUND LAST DAY SCHEDULE Round-Robin December 14th - December 17th, 2023 12 Nations, 3 Groups, the 1st Nation from each Group will qualify for the 3rd Qualifying Round Group K Greenwich Mean Time (GMT ) South Africa vs Bulgaria Period-by-Period: December 17th 2023, h. 13:30, Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavik Estonia vs Iceland Period-by-Period: December 17th 2023, h. 17:00, Laugardalur Arena, Reykjavik Group L Central European Time (GMT +1) Netherlands vs Spain Period-by-Period: December 17th 2023, h. 16:30, Ijssportscentrum, Tilburg Georgia vs Thailand Period-by-Period: December 17th 2023, h. 20:00, Ijssportscentrum, Tilburg Group M Central European Time (GMT +1) Turkiye vs Chinese Taipei Period-by-Period: December 17th 2023, h. 15:30, Pionir Ice Rink, Belgrade Serbia vs Croatia Period-by-Period: December 17th 2023, h. 19:00, Pionir Ice Rink, Belgrade

2nd QUALIFYING ROUND DAY 3 RESULTS Round-Robin December 14th - December 17th, 2023 12 Nations, 3 Groups, the 1st Nation from each Group will qualify for the 3rd Qualifying Round Group L Central European Time (GMT +1) Thailand 1 - 23 Netherlands Period-by-Period: 1-6, 0-7, 0-10 December 16th 2023, h. 16:30, Ijssportscentrum, Tilburg Spain 5 - 1 Georgia Period-by-Period: 1-0, 3-1, 1-0 December 16th 2023, h. 20:00, Ijssportscentrum, Tilburg Group L Provisional Standing After Day 2 Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Netherlands 2 2(0) 0(0) 31 3 +28 6 Spain 2 2(0) 0(0) 20 3 +17 6 Georgia 2 0(0) 2(0) 3 13 -10 0 Thailand 2 0(0) 2(0) 3 38 -35 0

Sunday December 17th, 2023 - Round-Robin Last Day Schedule (GMT) 13:00 Spain vs Netherlands 16:30 South Korea vs Great Britain 20:00 Lithuania vs China

Sunday December 17th, 2023 - Round-Robin Last Day Schedule (GMT +1) 12:30 Estonia vs Croatia 16:00 Italy vs Poland 19:30 Slovenia vs Ukraine

Final Standing Nation P W(OTW) L(OTL) GF GA +/- Pt. Kazakhstan 5 4(0) 1(1) 21 12 +9 13 France 5 3(0) 2(0) 18 19 -1 9 Denmark 5 3(0) 2(0) 18 14 +4 9 Austria 5 3(1) 2(0) 22 21 +1 8 Hungary 5 1(0) 4(1) 13 16 -3 4 Japan 5 1(1) 4(0) 12 22 -10 2 The following Nations have qualified for the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 World Championship 2025 Kazakhstan The following Nations have qualified for the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 Division I Group A World Championship 2025 Austria Denmark France Hungary The following Nation has been relegated to the Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 Division I Group B World Championship 2025 Japan

Saturday December 16th, 2023 - Round-Robin Last Day Results (GMT +1) 12:30 Denmark 5 - 1 Japan 16:00 France 0 - 4 Hungary 19:30 Austria PSO7 - 6 Kazakhstan

December 2023 International Break Saturday 16th December, 2023 --------------------------------- EURO-HOCKEY TOUR 2023/24 Stage 2 in Switzerland (Swiss Ice Hockey Games) Day 2 - 2-3 - 2-3 After Overtime Swiss Ice Hockey Games Provisional Standing After Day 2: 1. SWE 6, 2. CZE 5, 3. SUI 1, 4. FIN 0 EURO-HOCKEY TOUR cumulative Standing After Day 5/12: 1. CZE 14, 2. SWE 12, 3. FIN 3, 4. SUI 1

Despite missing the final Richard Tury is very satisfied with his performance and very good amount of points to the Olympic Ranking. Also special mention: First time ever our public TV (RTVS) broadcasted Skateboarding live early this morning

Stage 4 in Engelberg (SUI) Men´s Individual Large Hill: 1. Pius Paschke 316.8 2. Marius Lindvik 315.1 3. Stefan Kraft 313.3 Full Final Result HERE

Stage 3 in Ramsau (AUT) Men´s Individual Compact Normal Hill: 1. Johannes Lamparter 17:09.6 2. Jarl Magnus Riiber 17:11.2 3. Stefan Rettenegger 17:11.5 Full Final Result HERE

Stage 3 in Ramsau (AUT) Women´s Individual Compact Normal Hill: 1. Ida Marie Hagen 13:11.8 2. Gyda Westvold Hansen 13:15.2 3. Lisa Hirner 14:00.8 Full Final Result HERE

Stage 4 in Trondheim (NOR) Men´s 20km Skiathlon: 1. Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo 43:50.7 2. Andrew Musgrave 43:51.4 3. Didrik Toenseth 43:51.5 Full Final Result HERE

Jakub Borguľa confirmed today his incredible start of his first career Junior season finishing 5th in the Sprint in Ridnaun and believe it or not, but the kid is really still leading the whole World Cup ... I do not understand, is this some sort of intergalactical coincidence of circumstances in this season first trimester or do we really actually have some hopes in this sport for the future ?

Points Points for ,would never have believed that I would hear it this year Miracles apparently does not happens only during Christmas It was also the first career WC points of Ema Kapustová, Congrats, something nice for her after finishing 41st just a couple of seconds behind points Thursday right on her 21st birthday, was her new PB but rather bittersweet on your birthday I mean lol

Stage 4 in Engelberg (SUI) Women´s Individual Large Hill: 1. Nika Prevc 305.3 2. Ema Klinec 302.7 3. Eirin Maria Kvandal 297.0 Full Final Result HERE

Stage 11 in Val Gardena/Groeden (ITA) Men´s Downhill: 1. Dominik Paris 1:59.84 2. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde 2:00.28 3. Bryce Bennett 2:00.44 Full Final Results HERE

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Answer time So at the end will play (Picked) the Boys Tournament, since a spot was still available ( chosed rather their W Team, do not ask me why) so no Nela Lopušanová in Korea..instead our boys will probably end in 5th place behind CAN, USA, FIN and CZE Boys Tournament A: USA, CZE, SVK B: CAN, FIN, KOR Girls Tournament A: SWE JPN NOR B: SUI GER FRA 3v3 Tournaments Boys : Girls :

Stage 4 in Trondheim (NOR) Women´s 20km Skiathlon: 1. Ebba Andersson 49:23.4 2. Jessie Diggins 49:38.6 3. Heidi Weng 49:40.1 Full Final Result HERE

Stage 12 in Val d´Isere (FRA) Women´s Downhill: 1. Jasmine Flury 1:43.47 2. Joana Haehlen 1:43.69 3. Cornelia Huetter 1:43.71 Full Final Results HERE

It happens quite rarely, but happened time to time, mainly in the past

Here is the last Minute and half of the match The main problem was I think with the graphics which did not show the 3rd goal, instead just kept by mistake the wrong score 2:3, it happens sometimes. But yeah 20 seconds to go, that was a clear foul, A Tripping at its pure finest, an encyclopedical one, I do not know what the refs were doing here, Thinking about whether they have their christmas gifts already prepared or not ? Should be sanctioned by the directoriate later for not calling this foul though I guess

No back to back WCh finals. Rišo missed the final for 3 points this time Anyway this 10th place bring another very valuable points to the Olympic Qualifiers. Will be really tough to qualify, but hopefully this time it will really happen ! #InParis24WeTrust I still remember how he lost his quota for Tokyo at the very last race by some points...