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How on earth can Croatia lose the team event quota ? there 16 teams qualified and there No way you will not be there

yeah and ofc he must did it against Jaro Halák but anyway, congrats !

Another one pure jewel from the Juniors World champs final, the last one, promised but this is a pure beauty, when Sweden tied the score to 1:1

which one you meant ? this one

Osrblie Brezno is the nearest city, Osrblie is the village where the Areal is located, some 15 km from Brezno

MEN´S UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SWEDEN - CANADA 1-3 Gold Medal Game Goals: 34. Söderlund 1:1 – 22. Dubé 0:1, 59. Steenbergen 1:2, 59. Formenton 1:3 at Key Bank Center, January 5th, 2018. (20:00 h.) HIGHLIGHTS

MEN´S UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CZECH REPUBLIC - UNITED STATES 3-9 Bronze Medal Game Goals: 41. Kaut 1:7, 43. Pavlík 2:7, 48. Kurovský 3:8 - 20. Frederic 0:1, 21. Poehling 0:2, 25. J. Anderson 0:3, 26. Frederic 0:4, 28. Bellows 0:5, 33. Frederic 0:6, 40. Bellows 0:7, 46. Frederic 2:8, 58. Harper 3:9 at Key Bank Center, January 5th, 2018. (16:00 h.) HIGHLIGHTS

MEN´S UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mittelstadt named MVP Two Americans, two Swedes on all-star team U.S. forward Casey Mittelstadt was voted the Most Valuable Player of the 2018 IIHF World Junior Championship by the media. The 19-year-old centre from Edina, Minnesota had 11 points for the bronze-medal Americans (4-7-11) to lead the tournament. As a 2017 first-round draft pick (eighth overall) of the Buffalo Sabres, he was a fan favorite at both KeyBank Center and the 29 December outdoor game at New Era Field, where the U.S. beat Canada 4-3 in a shootout. Mittelstadt was also named Top Forward and a tournament all-star along with fellow American Kieffer Bellows, who led the World Juniors with nine goals. Silver-medal Sweden also had two players receive Directorate Awards and all-star berths: goalie Filip Gustavsson and defenceman Rasmus Dahlin. Forward Filip Zadina became the first Czech all-star since goalie Petr Mrazek (2012). Total tournament attendance for 30 games in Buffalo was 211,210. Directorate Awards Top Goaltender - Filip Gustavsson Top Defenceman - Rasmus Dahlin Top Forward - Casey Mittelstadt All-Star Team and MVP (selected by the media) Goaltender - Filip Gustavsson Defenceman - Rasmus Dahlin Defenceman - Cale Makar Forward - Casey Mittelstadt Forward - Filip Zadina Forward - Kieffer Bellows MVP - Casey Mittelstadt ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Groups for 2019 known Host Canada to play in Vancouver Group A (Vancouver) Group B (Victoria) Canada (1st in 2018) Sweden (2.) Czech Republic (4.) United States (3.) Russia (5.) Finland (6.) Switzerland (8.) Slovakia (7.) Denmark (9.) Kazakhstan (Div. I. A. 2018 Winner)

2018 IIHF World Junior Championship In Buffalo, , 26 December 2017 to 5 January 2018 Friday January 5th, 2018 - Knock-Out Round Final Day Results (GMT -5) Gold Medal Match 20:00 Sweden 1 - 3 Canada (in Key Bank Center) Bronze Medal Match 16:00 Czech Republic 3 - 9 United States (in Key Bank Center) Final Standing 1. Canada Men´s Under 20 World Champions 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Sweden 3. United States 4. Czech Republic 5. Russia 6. Finland 7. Slovakia 8. Switzerland 9. Denmark ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. Belarus Relegated for the Men´s Under 20 Division I Group A World Championships 2019

Osrblie is prepared and ready for the IBU cup this weekend, you can find some pics from training sessions here

Nope, there only 1 World Cup big air remaining this season, scheduled after the Olympics in Quebec. But there still 2 world cup slopestyles scheduled before the Games, next week in USA and one week later in Switzerland.

Ice Hockey Tournaments at Salt Lake 2002 Canada, 2002 Olympic Champions, after defeating the host USA 5-2 in the memorable Gold medal match ended the 50 years long wait for the Olympic gold The Ice Hockey tournaments at the Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games 2002, were held from 9th to 24th February 2002 and took place at the E-Center in West Valley City and at the Peaks Arena in Provo, Utah, United States. Both tournaments were won by Canada, and in both occasions after the Gold Medal match win over the host country, the United States, Women´s defeating the reigning Olympic champions 3-2, in a Canadian successful revenge from Nagano 1998, Sweden took the Bronze. Canada won also the men´s gold beating USA 5-2 in an epic final and finally ending a long 50 years period of waiting for the Olympic gold for the Ice Hockey birth country, Russia took the bronze medals after beating the biggest surprise of the tournament team Belarus 7-2. This was the second historic Olympic tournament including the NHL players. as the National Hockey League agreed to organize a 12 days break during the Olympics, but Once again, they controversially did not allowed their players to play in the preliminary round !!! So once again this extremely affected especially Slovakia, the team had to play the preliminary round with only 13 players !!! waiting for their 10 top NHL players for the main round, but unfortunately this tactic didn´t worked at all, Slovakia experienced a disastrous tournament finishing last in the preliminary round, so paradoxically the team was allowed to use their stars only in the match for 13th place, and the team with all its stars defeated France 7-1. Thankfully this idiotic and absolutely unfair system was later changed and in Torino 4 years later all teams were equal and all allowed to profit of their NHL players from the start. This was done especially because of Slovakia´s complaints, The funny thing is that few months later, Slovakia became World Champion. 14 Teams entered the tournament with the same illogical format as 4 years ago in Nagano, the top 6 Ice Hockey powerhouses Canada, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Czech Republic and USA were directly seeded in the main round, all other countries had to play a preliminary round. The 8 remaining teams were divided into 2 four teams preliminary groups, Germany and surprisingly Belarus won their respective groups and advanced to the main round. In the main phase, Canada had a bad start in the group finishing only third, beating only the qualifier Germany and losing to Sweden. The Swedes won the group unbeaten and suddenly became the biggest top favorites, Czech Republic the reigning champions finished second ahead of Canada and pointless Germany, The Group B was surprisingly won by the home team, USA, which wasn´t really considered as a medal contender before the tourney. Finland finished second and Russia third, the biggest underdog Belarus finished as expected last losing all 3 games clearly. So the quarterfinals were set. USA vs Germany, Finland vs Canada, Czech republic vs Russia and Sweden vs Belarus. In a replay of the Nagano 1998 final, the Czechs again met the Russian, this time again the result was 1-0 but this time for the Russians, eliminating the reigning champions by a goal of Maxim Afinogenov. Canada vs Finland was another jewel of the Ice Hockey history, the Canadians managed to win this great battle thanks goals from Sakic and Yzermann 2-1. USA defeated Germany easily 5-0 to reach the semifinals and in the last match it was expected that Sweden will defeat Belarus easily too...but, in this game happened probably the biggest upset since the 1980 Miracle in Ice. Belarus shocked the world beating Sweden full of NHL top stars by a incredible goal 3 minutes to go by a certain Kopat scored from the Central zone against the great Salo. The biggest surprise of the tournament was without any doubts, Team Belarus, one of the most memorable moment of the whole Olympic history came in the 57th minute of the Quarterfinal against Sweden full of NHL top stars and the crazy goal from the central zone that brought to the scorer Vladimir Kopat the eternal glory The Vladimir Kopat goal It was also the end of this incredible fairy tale, Belarus in the semifinals logically had to submit to the Canadians 1-7. The second semifinal was another story a epic match between USA and Russia on American soil, exactly the same day after 22 years from the legendary Miracle on Ice. And this was a fantastic match, The host won 3-2 and did qualified for the final, proving they are just incredibly successful at home Olympics. For both nations, the gold-medal game came coincidentally on the anniversary of each nation's last gold medal in men's Olympic hockey. Canada last won 50 years previously at the Oslo 1952 WOG. The US won their last gold medal when they defeated Finland two days after "The Miracle on Ice" in 1980. Both games, coincidentally, were played on a Sunday. The match was tied 2-2 after two periods, but in the last frame Canada scored 3 more goals by Joe Sakic and Jarome Iginla to beat the host 5-2 and won its 6th Olympic Gold, first after 50 years. Don Cherry jokes just prior to touching the 'Lucky Loonie' to wish good luck to the men's and women's Olympic hockey teams before the 2010 Vancouver Olympics at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. The Lucky Loonie was buried surreptitiously by Canadian ice-maker Trent Evans at centre ice before the men's and women's 2002 Olympic Ice Hockey tournaments in Salt Lake City. After Team Canada's second hockey Gold Medal victory, the Lucky Loonie was dug up and presented to Team Canada General Manager Wayne Gretzky. Gretzky then donated the Lucky Loonie to the Hockey Hall of Fame The Salt Lake Olympic tournament will remains in Slovak memory as one of the biggest waste and another disastrous experience our hockey had to pass. The rules were knon before the tournament we can use all our top NHL stars as Demitra, Marián Hossa, Šatan, Višňovský, Stumpel, Bartečko, Handzuš, Pálffy etc... officially only from the main round, but first we must qualify for this second round, the problem was we could enter only 25 players, so the team staff had to make a hard decision and select only 15 players for the preliminary round, some stars like Demitra succeeded with requests to their NHL club owners to play 1 or 2 matches if at this time their club did not played in NHL, this is the case of Demitra who travelled the night after his club played a NHL game to play against Latvia in the preliminary rounds second match but then had again to fly throughout the whole America to rejoin his club and play the last match before the NHL break. In this situation our team totally flopped. Finishing in embarasing and humiliating last place of the group after losing in the opening match to Germany 0-3 and in the last match to Austria with only 11 players in our bench 2-3. Our only point in the preliminary round came in the tire 6-6 against Latvia thanks to a fantastic Pavol Demitra. The last place meant our team will play only 1 game the humiliating 13th place match. But our NHLers showed pride and honor and all decided to stay and play this match to show everyone what a injustice was done to us. The match was absolutely one sided, we won against France 7-1 and finished 13th. After this tournament came 2 great news for our hockey, IOC, IIHF and NHL agreed that from 2006 all NHLers will be allowed to play for their teams since the start of the competition. The second one..few months later in this 2002 year, this same Slovakia became World Champion. Final Ranking of the Men´s Tournament: 1. Canada 2. United States 3. Russia 4. Belarus ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Sweden - Main Tournament 6. Finland - Main Tournament 7. Czech Republic - Main Tournament 8. Germany - Main Tournament ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 9. Latvia - First Phase 10. Ukraine - First Phase 11. Switzerland - First Phase 12. Austria - First Phase 13. Slovakia - First Phase 14. France - First Phase 4 Years after losing to the USA in Nagano Olympic final, Canada took its revenge winning the final 3-2 to become for the first time the Womens Olympic champion The 2002 Olympic women's ice hockey tournament was played by 8 Nations, increasing the amount of participants by 2 teams. The 8 Nations were divided into two preliminary groups, the top 2 from both groups advanced to the semifinals. All 4 favorites made the cut without any problem, Canada and Sweden from Group A and USA with Finland from Group B. Canada and USA reached as expected the final winning easily also their semifinals against the Nordic duo. Sweden won then the derby against Finland 2-1 to grab the bronze medals. In the final Canada defeated USA 3-2 to win its first Olympic gold. Final Ranking of the Women´s Tournament: 1. Canada 2. United States 3. Sweden 4. Finland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5. Russia 6. Germany 7. China 8. Kazakhstan Highlights form the Men´s Final Canada vs USA 5-2

4 Hills Tournament Stage 4 Bischofshofen KO Round Starting Order Q Athlete Pairing Athlete Q 26 Stephan LEYHE 1 Noriaki KASAI 25 27 Killian PEIER 2 Michael HAYBOECK 24 28 Gregor SCHLIERENZAUER 3 Manuel FETTNER 23 29 Andreas STJERNEN 4 Halvor Egner GRANERUD 22 30 Clemens AIGNER 5 Daniel Andre TANDE 21 31 Junshiro KOBAYASHI 6 Maciej KOT 20 32 Sebastian COLLOREDO 7 Daniel HUBER 19 33 Constantin SCHMID 8 Domen PREVC 18 34 Anze SEMENIC 9 Karl GEIGER 17 35 Timi ZAJC 10 Piotr ZYLA 16 36 Kevin BICKNER 11 Denis KORNILOV 15 37 Alex INSAM 12 Stefan HULA 14 38 Taku TAKEUCHI 13 Peter PREVC 13 39 Jakub WOLNY 14 Anders FANNEMEL 12 40 Manuel POPPINGER 15 Ryoyu KOBAYASHI 11 41 Dimitry VASSILIEV 16 Jernej DAMJAN 10 42 Tomasz PILCH 17 Markus EISENBICHLER 9 43 Elias TOLLINGER 18 Andreas WELLINGER 8 44 Mackenzie BOYD-CLOWES 19 Ziga JELAR 7 45 Markus SCHIFFNER 20 Robert JOHANSSON 6 46 Cestmir KOZISEK 21 Kamil STOCH 5 47 Pius PASCHKE 22 Stefan KRAFT 4 48 Clemens LEITNER 23 Simon AMMANN 3 49 Kento SAKUYAMA 24 Johann Andre FORFANG 2 50 Alexey ROMASHOV 25 Dawid KUBACKI 1

Stage 14 in Lackenhof (AUT) January 5th, 2018 Parallel Giant Slalom Mens (3/7) 1. Nevin Galmarini , 2. Rok Marguc and 3. Alexander Payer Full Results HERE Video Highlights Parallel Giant Slalom Womens (3/7) 1. Ester Ledecka , 2. Julia Dujmovits and 3. Ladina Jenny Full Results HERE Video Highlights

Tomorrow will start the Women´s Under 18 World Championships 2018 program with the first day of the Top division in Russia and the Division I Group B in Poland. Here the schedules of Day 1 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship In Dmitrov - Moscow Region, , 6-13 January 2018 Saturday January 6th, 2018 - Preliminary Round Day 1 Schedule (GMT +3) Group A 15:30 Canada vs Russia (in Arena A) 19:30 United States vs Sweden (in Arena A) Group B 15:30 Czech Republic vs Switzerland (in Arena B) 19:30 Finland vs Germany (in Arena B) *Tournament Format: The 8 teams are divided into two, four-team groups in the Preliminary Round with the top-four seeded teams (USA, CAN, RUS, SWE) in Group A and the others in Group B. After a single round-robin series in each group, the all four teams from Group A and the best two teams from Group B advance to the Playoff Round while the third- and fourth-placed team in Group B will play a best-of-three relegation round series. The two top-seeded teams from Group A will receive Quarter-Final Round bye thus moving automatically to the Semi-Finals. The Quarter-Finals will be played between 3A-2B and 4A-1B. The winner of each Quarter-Final moves onto the Semi-Finals. The winner of each Semi-Final game will move onto the Gold Medal Game, while the losers will play in the Bronze Medal Game. The two last-placed teams of the preliminary Group B will play a best-of-three Relegation Round series. The third game is only played if needed. The winner of the series plays again at the 2019 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship, while the loser will be relegated to the next year´s Women´s U18 Division I Group A. Nations ranked from 1st to 7th will stay in top division also for the next edition 2019. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2018 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women's World Championship Division I Group B In Katowice, , 6-12 January 2018 Friday January 6th, 2018 - Round-Robin Day 1 Schedule (GMT +1) 13:00 Great Britain vs Denmark 16:30 China vs Poland 20:00 Australia vs France *Tournament Format: 6 Nations play a usual Round-Robin tournament, Each team play once every opponent, The first ranked Nation will qualify for the Women´s Under 18 Division I Group A World Championships next year in 2019. Teams ranked from 2nd to 5th will stay in this division also for the next year and the last ranked Nation will be relegated to the Women´s Under 18 Division I Group B World Championships Qualification Tournament 2019 LIVESTREAM GBR vs DEN CHN vs POL AUS vs FRA

Once again, I have absolutely no problem with the fact if you (or any other user) like her (or any other athlete) or not, you are free to have your opinions, there nothing wrong with that, I also respect that you personally may like (probably) some athletes that I don´t like myself for example, or hate some athletes which in opposite I like, really, trust me, it´s absolutely no problem for me at all. I was just pointing the accusations and some - how to say - a bit strong words like "cheater" or " she stole enough medals so far", since there not a single proof about that, ofc everything can happen and I may be wrong , but for now, she is still considered as clean, and all the medals she won are considered as legitimate and rightfull as well, she never had any doping violation problem or even any suspicion, I think we can agree about that. So I just ask you to respect that, and (let say) until nothing else happens, just stop using these unfounded accusation.

Here the schedule of the last day of the U20 Top Division 2018 IIHF World Junior Championship In Buffalo, , 26 December 2017 to 5 January 2018 Friday January 5th, 2018 - Knock-Out Round Final Day Schedule (GMT -5) Gold Medal Match 20:00 Sweden vs Canada (in Key Bank Center) Bronze Medal Match 16:00 Czech Republic vs United States (in Key Bank Center)

MEN´S UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CANADA - CZECH REPUBLIC 7-2 Semifinal Goals: 16. Steel 1:1, 19. Batherson 2:1, 28. Batherson 3:1, 30. Comtois 4:1, 33. Kyrou 5:1, 37. Batherson 6:1, 46. Katchouk 7:1 – 6. Zadina 0:1, 51. Zadina 7:2 at Key Bank Center, January 4th, 2018. (20:00 h.) HIGHLIGHTS

MEN´S UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SWEDEN - UNITED STATES 4-2 Semifinal Goals: 34. Pettersson 1:0, 47. Andersson 2:0, 48. Steen 3:0, 49. Jonsson Fjällby 4:0 - 53. Bellows 4:1, 57. Tkachuk 4:2 at Key Bank Center, January 4th, 2018. (16:00 h.) HIGHLIGHTS

MEN´S UNDER 20 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP 2018 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DENMARK - BELARUS 3-2 After GWS Relegation Round (Match 2) Series Final Standing: DEN - BLR 2:0 Goals: 11. Nielsen 1:0, 13. Röndbjerg 2:0, Game Winning Shoot-Out Scored by Svejstrup 3:2 GWS - 49. Sushko 2:1, 50. Litvinov 2:2 at Key Bank Center, January 4th, 2018. (12:00 h.) HIGHLIGHTS

2018 IIHF World Junior Championship In Buffalo, , 26 December 2017 to 5 January 2018 Thursday January 4th, 2018 - Knock-Out Round Day 2 Results (GMT -5) Semifinals 16:00 Sweden 4 - 2 United States (in Key Bank Center) 20:00 Canada 7 - 2 Czech Republic (in Key Bank Center) Relegation Round 12:00 (5A-5B) Match 2 - Denmark GWS3 - 2 Belarus (in Key Bank Center) Best-of-three Matches series. Game 2. Series final standing: Denmark - Belarus: 2-0 Belarus is relegated to the Men´s Under 20 Division I Group A World Championships 2019

The Olympics without NHL players is really weird, but in other hand a great chance for others not so famous players to fulfill their childhood dreams, like this young American player from the AHL Milwaukee Admirals Bobby Butler, and the moment when he announced to his father that he was selected for the Olympic Team USA Emotive moments shared by all his team mates

Last warning. One more post with unfounded accusation (meaning without any single proof) and I will immediately delete the post. I had a lot of patience until now, peoples may have their opinions, also peoples do not have to love the athlete, and can think whatever they want I´m okay with that, but this is starting to be a bit too much over the line. As far as I know all medalists samples from Vancouver and Sochi were tested and retested, including Kuzmina´s samples, the result was always negative, so she did not steal anything. point.

btw what it exactly means ?