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FIS FREESTYLE SKIING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USA, Australia, and China looking strong for aerials world championship Ashley Caldwell and Mac Bohonnon top qualifications, but Australian and Chinese teams will be strong on Friday night. The rapid fire Freestyle Skiing start to the Sierra Nevada 2017 Freestyle Ski & Snowboard World Championships continues right along on Friday evening, with the ladies and men of aerials set to send it high for world championships gold under the lights in Spain. Soaring temperatures in Sierra Nevada have affected the aerials venue perhaps more than any other so far at these world championships, as shaping the precise geometry of the aerials jumps is a delicate operation at the best of times. However, crews in Sierra Nevada have been pulling out all the stops to ensure the jumps don’t deteriorate, covering them during the days and constantly pumping dry ice below the surface to keep them cold, in form and ready for competition. And while there have been some delays and restructuring of the program during training, come competition time the jumps will be ready to host world championships-caliber action. In fact, the aerials venue in Sierra Nevada has already been put through its paces, with qualifications on Thursday seeing some excellent jumping and some strong results for the US, Australian, and Chinese teams ahead of Friday’s finals. US athletes lead the way in both the men’s and ladies’ sides, with Ashely Caldwell notching the biggest ladies’ score by stomping the only triple flip of the evening - a full, full, full for 103.68 points - and Mac Bohonnon coming away from qualies with the top men’s score after nailing a full, double full, full, for 124.34 points. However, the slate is wiped clean come time for finals tomorrow, and the battle for 2017 world championships title will be fierce, with nearly all the top competitors making it through qualifications and into tomorrow’s competition. On the ladies’ side, this means the stacked Australian team will be bringing numbers to the party, with all four of their athletes making it through to finals from the first round of qualification (top 6), lead by reigning world champion Laura Peel. Though the 2016/17 World Cup season wasn’t Peel’s best, she comes into Sierra Nevada hot on the heels of her lone podium on the season, and appears to be peaking just in time for Friday’s competition. Also to watch out for is 2013 world champion and this season’s crystal globe winner Mentao Xu (CHN), Peel's teammates Danielle Scott and Lydia Lassila (AUS), and 18-year-old Russian standout Liubov Nikitina. Over on the men’s side, it was team China putting three athletes through to the finals in the top-6, with two-time reigning world champion Qi Guangpu leading the way for that squad with second place in qualification. Qi scored no lower than runner-up in any competition he entered this year, and the rest of the men’s field will be in tough to take his throne tomorrow. However, there are some big time performers set to try and do just that, including Qi’s teammates Zhou Hang and Jia Zongyang, 2015 world championships bronze medallist Maxim Gustik (BLR), and Sochi 2014 silver medalist David Morris (AUS). Action in the Sierra Nevada aerials world championship competition gets underway on Friday night at 19:30 CET, and competition will feature a three jump final format that will begin with a field of 12 men and 12 ladies that will be whittled down to nine athletes for jump two, and finally to just six skiers in one jump super final. Full Qualifications Results Men and Women

FIS SNOWBOARDING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Onitsuka and Garcia Knight top slopestyle qualifiers After the freestyle skiers already had their first medal event in the books at the 2nd ever combined world champs, things were finally kicking off for the snowboarders, too, at the Sierra Nevada 2017 FIS Freestyle Ski & Snowboard World Championships. Blessed with a bluebird sky, riders were tackling the huge course built on the Loma de Dílar slope which features a four kicker line (with the third jump part also offering some jibbing features) as well as two massive rail sections of which the latter one was constructed following the theme of an Andalusian village. In the women's event, Miyabi Onitsuka underlined her claim on the title as the defending champion from Japan owned the course scoring a 93.00 for her backside 720 to frontside 360, 50-50 frontside 180 out, cab 540 backside grab, a 50-50 on the right rail as well as an ollie on the roof and an ollie to tail grab off the house. Laurie Blouin (CAN) was the only girl in the field who got close with a 90.50. However, US riders Karly Shorr (84.75) and Jessika Jenson (84.50) as well as Zoe Sadowski Synnott (NZL; 81.75) also impressed the judges getting over the 80's. Isabel Derungs (SUI; 79.25), Yuka Fujimori (JPN; 72.25) and Brooke Voigt (CAN; 71.50) also survived the qualifier cut making it into the finals of the top-8. In the men's event, Garcia Knight, a 19-year old Kiwi who is attending his first ever FIS Snowboard World Championships, proofed some nerves of steel throwing down a superb second run after he couldn't bring things together in his first one. Garcia Knight landed a backside double cork 1080 mute to rodeo 540 indy, switch backside double cork 1260 and a frontside 1080 before throwing down a 50-50 and a boardslide 270 out to score a 94.25. In heat 1, it was Mans Hedberg (SWE) being given a 90.25 with Ville Paumola (FIN; 88.00), Seppe Smits (BEL; 86.00), Clemens Schattschneider (AUT; 82.00), Niklas Mattsson (SWE; 77.50), Fridtjof Tischendorf (NOR; 77.25), Sebbe de Buck (BEL; 74.00) and Dylan Thomas (USA; 71.75) also making it to the finals. The 16 male finalists were rounded out by Tiarn Collins (NZL; 88.75), Chris Corning (USA; 84.00), Nicolas Huber (SUI; 79.25), Francis Jobin (CAN; 73.75), Rene Rinnekangas (FIN; 73.00), Billy Morgan (GBR; 72.00) and Vlad Khadarin (RUS; 68.50) placing as respective second to seventh in heat 2. The finals are scheduled for Saturday, March 11 at 12 PM CET. The world championships will continue tomorrow with the halfpipe and snowboard cross qualifiers. Full Qualifications Results Men and Women

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FIS FREESTYLE SKIING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Men's Dual Moguls Non-Olympic Event Final Results HORISHIMA Ikuma -Big Final WILSON Bradley -Big Final TADE Marco -Small Final ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Women's Dual Moguls Non-Olympic Event Final Results LAFFONT Perrine -Big Final GALYSHEVA Yulia -Big Final KAUF Jaelin -Small Final Laffont and Horishima win golds in dual moguls shocker The second day of competition at the Sierra Nevada 2017 Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships set a standard that all other competitions will have a tough time topping, with Perrine Laffont (FRA) taking ladies’ gold and Ikuma Horishima (JPN) becoming the first ever men’s double world champion in a hugely entertaining dual moguls competition. Dual moguls is always an unpredictable event, but few could have foreseen the outcome of Thursday’s competition, where the entire Canadian squad - including 2015 dual moguls world champion Mikael Kingsbury - were eliminated in the quarterfinals, yesterday’s ladies’ single moguls world champion Britt Cox (AUS) was bumped in the semi finals, and the men’s super final saw both athletes involved in separate crashes in their push for the finish line. Laffont took a tough road to the final, knocking off Hedwig Wessel (NOR), Keaton McCargo (USA), and Jaling Kauf (USA) on her way to a showdown with Yulia Galysheva of Kazakstan in the big final. Once there, both Laffont and Galysheva showed off just why they were the last two ladies standing on the day, putting aside the pressure of the moment and laying down a pair of masterful runs that would leave no one envious of the judges duties in deciding a winner. For most gathered it was too close to call, but when the scores came down the decision went to Laffont by slimmest possible margin - 18-17. “It’s crazy…I can’t believe it,” Laffont said from the finish, still emotional after celebrating with her extended family who were on hand to witness the occassion, “I’m 18 years old and I’m the new world champion. Just last year I was the junior world champion and now I’m the real world champ. Last year I won my first world cup, yesterday I took silver medal (in single moguls), and today I’m the champion. I can’t believe it. “In the start before final I had no energy. I was like, ‘I can’t do this. I’m so tired.’ After winning silver yesterday I was just so tired. But I just tried, I did everything I could in my final run, and it worked.” Galysheva’s silver medal was one step up from her performance at the Kreischberg 2015 world championships, where she took the bronze, with Thursday’s medal coming ten years to the day after she competed in her first world championships competition. In the small final, the above-mentioned Kauf squared off against Jee-Won Seo (KOR), where she was able to claim the first Sierra Nevada 2017 medal for the USA with a strong 21-14 victory. Horishima first man to claim double world championship gold While the ladies’ competition certainly had it’s share of upsets and surprises, nothing could compare to the men’s dual moguls finals at Sierra Nevada. Beginning with the first heat and ending with the final one it was one shocking result after another, and by the end of the competition Ikuma Horishima - yesterday’s single moguls winner - would take the victory and become the first men to win double moguls world championships gold medals. First up was eight final number one, where the eventual-winner Horishima knocked off the typically indomitable Kingsbury with ease, by a score of 21-14. From there, the list of favourites to fall in the first round of heats included Ben Cavet (FRA), Matt Graham (AUS), and Philippe Marquis - athletes ranked two, three, and four in the world, respectively. Meanwhile, Horishima calmly carried on from his defeat of Kingsbury, proceeding to smash his way to the big final by skiing faster, tighter, and bolder runs than seemed physically possible. In the big final he met Bradley Wilson, the athlete consistently proven to be the fastest on the moguls World Cup this past season, and having those two in the mix would quickly prove too volatile to last. After a blistering top section, both athletes started to lose form just after the first jump, with Horishima losing control first and crashing to a full stop in the middle of the course. Wilson, meanwhile, was desperately fighting a losing battle to hold it all together himself, but eventually he he too would give in to gravity and pull up short just behind the bottom air bump, then skipping that jump and rolling slowly into the final pitch and towards the finish. Meanwhile, Horishima had picked himself up, seen the struggles of Wilson, and set back on down the course, launching a massive off-axis 720 off the bottom jump and pinning it across the line just behind Wilson. It was almost too much to believe for the fans gathered at the bottom of the course, but the judges in the booth, pros prepared for virtually any scenario, were able to properly evaluate both runs and give the win to Horishima by a score of 20-15. Silver medallist Wilson had an was insightful in describing what happened following the competition. “He was the one athlete skiing faster than me in singles yesterday, and I knew that, going into finals. I landed the top air a going a little too fast and couldn’t quite control it. I was about to blow out, but then I saw him blow out and I just tried to hold, but by then I had really already lost it. Unfortunately, it took me almost the whole run to finally figure it out, and I missed the bottom air. “Looking back on it, it’s like, ‘Oh man, if only I could have done something else,’ but hindsight is 20/20. I’m still super stoked with my runs before the big final, and I’m pumped on this medal. I mean, second place at the world championships, this is definitely one of the highlights of my career. Through a translator, the 19-year-old Horishima reflected on his big final. “In the start I was very nervous, but I knew also that I had strength. When I fell down, I knew that I would get back up and finish the run, no matter what. This is what I did and now I am the double world champion.” Bronze on the day would go to Switzerland's Marco Tade, with the 21-year-old Swiss skier taking the small final win against his good friend and roommate here in Sierra Nevada, Sacha Theocharis of France, after Theocharis crashed out in the middle of his run. Full Results Men and Women Perrine Laffont 2017 Womens Dual Moguls World Champion and Ikuma Horishima 2017 Mens Dual Moguls World Champion

yes. I think it´s pretty clear now that PyoengChang will be without NHL players (maybe except few Russians like Ovechkin who repeatedly said: sanctions or not, he´ll go doesn´t matter the NHL final decision will be). for example our coaching stuff is already working with both variants making 2 preliminary large rosters

Todays Mens Juniors Super-G results , thats what I call a close result 1. Alphand (FRA) 1:17.91 2. Haaser (AUT) 1:17.92 3. Bissig (SUI) 1:17.93 4. Mulligan (CAN) 1:17.95 5. Morse (USA) 1:17.99

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FIS FREESTYLE SKIING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Men's Moguls Final Results HORISHIMA Ikuma 88.54F2 CAVET Benjamin 87.11F2 KINGSBURY Mikael 82.85F2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Women's Moguls Final Results COX Britteny 83.63F2 LAFFONT Perrine 82.51F2 DUFOUR-LAPOINTE Justine 80.74F2 Moguls competition starts Sierra Nevada 2017 on a high The Sierra Nevada 2017 Freestyle Ski & Snowboard World Championships got off with a shot on Wednesday afternoon’s single moguls competition, where 2016/17 World Cup winner Britt Cox (AUS) continued her run of dominance this season with a gold medal performance on the ladies side, while 19-year-old Ikuma Horishima (JPN) shocked the world by charging to the men’s victory against some incredibly tough competition. Conditions in Sierra Nevada have been balmy all week, with steady sun and spring-like temperatures greeting competitors once again on Wednesday. Despite warmth and the signs of melt surround the venue, the La Visera moguls course was in excellent condition, allowing for a world championships-worthy competition. In the ladies’ competition there was no question that Cox was the favourite coming into Sierra Nevada, although some may have wondered how the pressure of expectation placed on her after her seven-victory, crystal globe-winning season would effect her. As it turns out, all the pressure seemed to do was help, as Cox lead from qualifications, through the first run of finals, and right across the line on her last run of the day in super finals, earning herself a score of 80.23 and the first-ever single moguls gold medal for Australia, as well as the first world championships gold for an Australian lady. “It feels so good,” Cox said, smiling from the finish area, “I’m so happy. This has been my best season to date on the World Cup, but in the back of my mind I was always focusing on Sierra Nevada. And so to come here and ski the way I did just a couple of minutes ago…I couldn’t be happier. “This season, I wouldn’t say that things ‘clicked’ for me. I would say that it’s more just the training that I’ve been doing over the last number of year all coming together. My coaches are huge advocates for mastering the basics and perfecting the essentials, and that takes time. My coaches taught me that to be successful consistently you have to have those basics and fundamentals, and I think I’m finally seeing that pay off for me.’ Second and third on the day went to Perrine Laffont (FRA) and Justine Dufour-Lapointe (CAN), respectively, as the ladies moguls world championship podium stacked up as a carbon copy of the World Cup season’s final ranking. Both Laffont and Dufour-Lapointe skied exceptional runs in the tricky conditions, with Laffont in particular looking like she might have the stuff to make things difficult for Cox. In the end Laffont’s run fell just short of the mark, with her faster speed offset by Cox’s better jump and turn scores, and the 18-year-old finished with a score of 82.51 and the silver medal. Dufour-Lapointe, with a score 80.74, took bronze for her fourth world championships medal. Horishima stuns Sierra Nevada field with win We didn’t have to wait long for the first big surprise of Sierra Nevada 2017, as 19-year-old Ikuma Horishima from Japan laid down three blistering runs to take the first men’s gold medal of the world championships. Coming into Sierra Nevada, six-time Freestyle overall winner and two-time world champion Mikael Kingsbury (CAN) was the odds-on favourite, especially considering the seven-consecutive World Cup wins he had registered leading into Wednesday’s competition. However, in qualifications, Horishima came out guns blazing, besting Kingsbury at his own game to head into the first finals run in top spot. There, however, Kingsbury fired back, edging Horishima by less than a point but earning himself the honours of last to drop in the super final. In the superfinal Horishima did not back down, earning a score of 88.54 with another hard-charging run and sending the pressure back up to Kingsbury at the top of the course. Kingsbury’s final run appeared to be on its way to gold until the second jump, were the Canadian got into the backseat after launching a massive corked 720 and lost any chance he had at his third world championships gold in the process. "I went for aggressive skiing, and I felt good today," Horishima said with his coach acting as interpreter, "I felt a lot of pressure today, as I ski on the World Cup against Mikael Kingsbury and Ben Cavet and I know how good they are. So, I'm very happy to get this win." Kingsbury would end up dropping all the way down to third, as Ben Cavet - second overall on the World Cup season - would take the silver medal with his score of 87.11. Kingsbury would just be able to hold on to the bronze position with his score of 82.55, edging a disappointed Marco Tade (SUI) by just .21. Sierra Nevada 2017 competition continues on Thursday with the dual moguls competition back on the La Visera course. Ladies’ qualifications kick things off at 9:50, followed by the men at 11:20. Dual moguls world championship finals will begin at 14:00. Full Results Men and Women Britteny Cox 2017 Womens Moguls World Champion and Ikuma Horishima 2017 Mens Moguls World Champion

Nilsson and Brandsdal win Drammen classic sprints Sweden’s Stina Nilsson and Norway’s Erik Brandsdal have won the 14th edition of the Drammen sprints. Nilsson took the win in a time of 3:07.57. Finland’s Krista Parmakoski took second place +0.42 seconds behind. Hanna Falk of Sweden was third +1.26 back of Nilsson. On the men’s side Erik Brandsdal of Norway won in a time of 2:39.35. Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo also of Norway finished in second place +2.55 back. Russia’s Sergey Ustiugov came third +3.28 off of the winning time. The World Cup now moves up the road to Oslo for the Holmenkollen weekend with 30 km and 50 km competitions in classic technique. Full Results Men and Women

Sharpe and Ferreira win in Tignes halfpipe; Martinod and Rolland take globes The FIS Freestyle Skiing World Cup halfpipe finals went down in Tignes (FRA) on Tuesday, where, despite an incredible sequence of delays and drama, Cassie Sharpe (CAN) and Alex Ferreira (USA) took the final wins of the season, and Marie Martinod and Kevin Rolland gave the huge French crowd a reason to go wild by winning the 2016/17 halfpipe World Cup titles and crystal globes. The weather had organizers and officials were scrambling to get the competition off, as an unbelievable three meters of snow fell on Tignes in two and a half days leading up to Tuesday evening, which in turn lead to an inbounds avalanche that saw judges and other officials involved in the World Cup competition digging out resort patrons caught in the slide. Thankfully, there were no serious injuries. With the pipe finally cleared of snow and the lights blazing over the Tignes venue, action on Tuesday night was solid, with Cassie Sharpe leading the way in the ladies competition at the venue where she scored her one other World Cup win two seasons ago. Spinning both way and linking tricks throughout her run, Sharpe’s combination of flairs, stylish 900s, and a groundbreaking switch corked 720 put her well out in front come time for tallying the results. Sharpe’s score of 90.80 put her nearly 5 points ahead of two-time crystal globe winner Ayana Onozuka’s (JPN) 86.00. “I was feeling good from training in Korea and managed to qualify first,” said Sharpe following her win, “We weren’t sure the finals were going to happen because it snowed over two feet today, but the crew did a great job of maintaining the pipe and around 4:00 p.m. the clouds parted and it was blue skies. “I landed the switch cork 720 in Korea, and kept it a secret,” Sharpe went on, describing her run, “When I saw that I was in the lead dropping into my third run, I decided to put it all on the line and landed the first ever switch cork 720 by a woman in a contest run,” Third on the day with 84.00 points was Martinod, who entered competition in Tignes free of pressure after locking up this season’s crystal globe with wins in all three of this season’s previous World Cup competitions. Martinod’s 2016/17 World Cup title was the second of her career, coming an incredible 14 years after her first. After that first win the French standout spent nine seasons away from the World Cup tour and became a mother, before returning to competition in 2012/13 ahead of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games, winning the silver medal in Sochi, and reestablishing herself as one of the best in the world. Ferriera takes the night, Rolland takes the globe in a nail-biter The USA’s Alex Ferreira stepped up to take the second podium and first victory of his World Cup career, with a run punctuated by a left double corked 1260 mute followed by a right-side flat 900 to finish things off that earned him a score of 93.20 and the final win of the 2016/17 season. Ferreira was joined on the podium by his teammate Taylor Seaton, who took the best result of his World Cup career with a score of 89.40. Just behind Seaton, by the barest of margins, was Kevin Rolland, whose second podium of the season was overshadowed by his come-from-behind World Cup halfpipe overall victory and second-straight crystal globe. Heading into competition on Tuesday night it was Torin Yater-Wallace (USA) leading the way, followed closely by his teammate Aaron Blunck, then Ben Valentin, and finally Rolland sitting in fourth, with all four of those skiers separated by just 39 points. However, with Yater-Wallace injured and Blunck unable to put down a clean run in finals, it came down to a battle between the two close friends Valentin and Rolland. When the final results saw Rolland in third, just .20 points ahead of Valentin, a second-straight crystal globe was his. Full Results Men and Women 2016/17 Halfpipe World Cup Final Ranking Men and Women

WOMEN'S DIVISION II GROUP B WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Viva Mexico! Div. II B gold highlights women’s rapid progress The Mexican women’s national team sings their national anthem after winning a game at the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Division II Group B in Akureyri in northern Iceland. It’s only a few years since headlines about women’s hockey in Mexico expressed amazement that such a thing could exist but five years after setting up the national team program, the country is celebrating its first ever gold medal at a full IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship event after winning the qualification tournament in 2014. Mexico won out in the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Division II Group B in Akureyri, Iceland, topping the six-team group with a game to spare. Victories over the top-seeded Spanish and the host nation set the team on the path to gold, then shutout successes over New Zealand (1-0) and Romania (6-0) put Mexico in an unassailable position before the final day. Not even a 6-5 defeat against a Turkish team battling to avoid last place could dampen the mood ahead of the medal ceremony. It’s been a long journey in a short space of time – literally, as well as metaphorically, given that the team has traveled to Spain and Iceland to compete in the last three seasons. But head coach Diego de la Garma believes there is more to come from the roster that has just clinched promotion to next year’s Division II Group A. “Our team is almost like an under-20s roster with five or six senior players added,” he said. “Five of our girls were playing at the U18s in Spain last month, so we’re sure there’s a lot of potential to compete at a higher level next season.” Many of Mexico’s ice hockey players made the transition from inline hockey when the country decided that the long path to reaching the Olympics might be more realistic for a women’s team. That was in 2012, and the story began with two exhibition games against Argentina (W1, L1). Now, though, de la Garma sees a new generation of players whose experience begins on the ice. “Our program has been growing every year,” he said. “We’ve got lots of new players, young players, who are taking up the sport – and I think Mexico is falling in love with that. “It used to be a bit of a taboo here if women played something that is seen as a men’s sport, but people can see how they play the game, how the girls give their hearts to the game, how they have had a lot of success in a little time. That’s a big deal, especially in team sports, because Mexico’s national teams haven’t had much success recently.” With the country’s football teams, traditionally the biggest source of sporting pride, enduring a relatively fallow period, other sports get a chance to make a mark. “Watching a women’s team winning a tournament, at any level, inspires people,” added de la Garma. “It gets everybody dreaming. It’s won us a lot of fans, not just in Mexico but in Latin America and even around the world. The girls play with so much passion, so much heart, and people respond to it.” Back home in Mexico – at least 12 hours of flying time away, depending on connections – fans have been following the news from Iceland enthusiastically. “I think our team has really won the hearts of fans back home,” de la Garma added. “Everybody involved with the game has been watching the streams and following the stats, and they’ve been messaging us on social media. The team feels like a big family, and fans respond to that.” The youth of the team is eye-catching, but there’s solid experience involved as well. First-choice goalie Monica Renteria, 29, had an impressive tournament, giving up just three goals in three games and stopping 96.34 per cent of shots. Claudia Tellez, who finished with 4+4=8 points to claim second place among the team’s scorers is another who was involved from the start, and was a 2016 CWHL Draft pick for the Calgary Inferno. However, she was pipped for the top scorer honours by Maria Chavez, who celebrated her 22nd birthday during the competition. The Rojas twins, Joanna and Giovanna, also had productive tournaments with five and four points respectively: they are two of the four players on the roster who were born in the 21st century. Once back in Mexico, the immediate focus is on June’s Pan-Am tournament. For Mexican hockey, it’s a valuable chance to showcase the game on home ice, but de la Garma admits that it can be a mixed blessing for the women. “In the men’s competition, countries like Colombia bring good import players, but for the women it’s not so strong if we don’t have a team from the U.S. or Canada,” he said. “But it helps give our juniors a taste of international action. The under-18s play as a Mexico B team. They experience the pressure and the atmosphere of wearing our country’s jersey, and it gets them dreaming about doing it at a World Championship.” Other chances to play are limited, a common problem for emerging hockey nations. The women play in the men’s u18 championship to gain extra experience, and have a team in the second division of the five-tier national Sunday Night Hockey league, but opportunities to take on teams from more established hockey nations are rare outside of World Championship trips. The journey to Iceland included a stopover in Toronto and an exhibition game against a local team, an experience that de la Garma feels was invaluable. The 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Division II Group B concludes Sunday night with Iceland, New Zealand and Spain battling for the silver and bronze medals. Turkey finished in fifth, buoyed by its final day win over Mexico. Romania, without a victory, drops down to next year’s qualifying group. Results Thread

Womens Division II Group B World Championship in Akureyri (ISL) Day 5 (5th March 2017) GMT 0 Last Day 13:00 Mexico vs Turkey 5-6 16:30 New Zealand vs Romania 9-3 20:00 Spain vs Iceland 3-1 Mexico won the tournament with 12 points and is promoted to the womens Division II Group A World Championships next year, in the Div. II B they will be replaced by the last team of the Womens Div II A tournament which will be played the first week of April in South Korea. Spain won silver with 11 points, New Zealand took the bronze medals gaining 10 points throughout the tournament, Iceland the home team finished out of the podium 4th with 6 points. Also the 5th ranked country Turkey finished with 6 points but the H2H match won by Iceland 6-0 decided that the host country finishedhigher in the final ranking. All teams remains in womens Division II group B World Championships also for the next years edition. Romania finished last pointless and will be relegated to the womens division II group B Qualification tournament next year. they will be replaced in Division II group B next year by Chinese Taipei, winner of this years division II group B qualification played already in december.

Biathlon Qualification Standing after Event 18/22 Mens 1 Germany 6308.0 2 France 6253.0 3 Russia 6200.0 4 Norway 6072.0 5 Austria 5833.0 6 Ukraine 5328.0 7 Czech Republic 5169.0 8 Italy 4666.0 9 Switzerland 4576.0 10 USA 4422.0 11 Bulgaria 4368.0 12 Sweden 4104.0 13 Canada 4087.0 14 Belarus 3732.0 15 Kazakstan 3656.0 16 Slovakia 3581.0 17 Slovenia 3319.0 18 Romania 2923.0 19 Estonia 2863.0 20 Latvia 2740.0 21 Finland 2686.0 22 Lithuania 2578.0 23 Poland 2384.0 24 Japan 2154.0 25 South Korea 1358.0 26 Belgium 1048.0 27 Croatia 467.0 28 United Kingdom 416.0 29 Serbia 151.0 30 Greece 103.0 31 Hungary 70.0 32 Australia 47.0

Biathlon Qualification Standing after Event 18/22 Womens 1 Germany 6825.0 2 France 6443.0 3 Ukraine 5650.0 4 Czech Republic 5532.0 5 Italy 5492.0 6 Norway 5242.0 7 Russia 5164.0 8 Sweden 5135.0 9 Belarus 4848.0 10 Poland 4376.0 11 Kazakstan 4367.0 12 Switzerland 4285.0 13 Austria 4068.0 14 Canada 4043.0 15 USA 3811.0 16 Finland 3791.0 17 Slovakia 3664.0 18 Japan 3107.0 19 Bulgaria 2732.0 20 South Korea 2567.0 21 Slovenia 2383.0 22 Estonia 2272.0 23 Lithuania 2245.0 24 Romania 1677.0 25 China 1439.0 26 Latvia 1002.0 27 United Kingdom 642.0 28 Spain 359.0 29 Hungary 282.0 30 Bosnia and Herzegovina 144.0 31 Moldova 104.0 32 Greece 64.0

Thompson and Leman close out season with Blue Mtn wins The 2016/17 Audi FIS Ski Cross World Cup season came to a close in spectacular fashion on Sunday afternoon, with Canada’s Marielle Thompson and Brady Leman capping off a ski cross celebration for the host squad with victories at the World Cup finals in Blue Mountain (CAN) Sunday was the first ski cross World Cup competition at Blue Mountain in five years, but in an interesting case of history repeating itself the final result was a carbon copy for the Canadians, with Thompson and Leman on top and Chris Delbosco coming in second in the men’s competition, just as those three found themselves back in February 2012. This time around, however, things were made even sweeter, as those three and the rest of the Canadian team found themselves awarded with the ski cross Nations Cup trophy by competition’s end. Thompson tops off crystal globe-winning 2016/17 with home win With the 2016/17 ski cross World Cup title and crystal globe all locked up before even dropping in on Sunday - the third crystal globe of her career - the only pressure on Thompson’s shoulders was the expectations of the Canadian fans, and she lived up to those expectations with aplomb. Lined up against Sandra Naeslund (SWE), Fanny Smith (SUI), and Brittany Phelan (CAN) in the big final, Thompson pulled what was probably her slowest start of the day, falling in behind Naeslund and locking into an early battle with Smith. However, heading into the icy, diving third corner of the Blue Mountain course, Thompson took a daring high line, setting herself up for a pass on Naeslund around the next corner and grabbing hold of a lead she wouldn’t let go. Naeslund pushed Thompson right to the very end, but just couldn’t find a chance to make a move on the smooth Canadian. Holding her lead over the final jump and across the line, Thompson took her seventh victory of the season and the 20th of her career at the venue where it all got started for her five years earlier. “It feels really good to win on home soil, with a repeat of last time we were here,” Thompson said from the finish area, globe in hand, “To take the win and get the globe here in front of my friends and family is indescribable. “I did not crush the start in the big final and I got stuck behind Sandra,” Thompson went on when asked to describe her race, “But I knew on this course I just had to be patient and wait it out for the right moment. My coach said that I was a little gutsy in my choice of timing for that pass, but it was all just in the heat of the moment. Sandra’s an awesome competitor, so to be able to pass her and take the win is big.” Naeslund would hold on for second, while Smith would round out the podium in third, as the top three ladies of the 2016/17 season finished the competition in Blue Mountain in just the way they would finish up on the final Audi FIS Ski Cross World Cup rankings. For Phelan, the 2016/17 ladies Rookie of the Year, the fourth place result on the day was the best of her career and the highlight of a strong season that saw her make finals in every competition, earning six top-8 results. Leman and Delbosco make magic happen with 1-2 result The men’s competition featured one of the most dominant performances we’ve seen by any competitor all season by Leman, as the 30-year-old lead from top to bottom in every one of his heats for an impressive victory. And it wasn’t a lightweight big final he found himself in at the end, either, with Delbosco, reigning world champion Filip Flisar (SLO), and Terence Tchiknavorian joining him in the gates. All three of those athletes came into the final on the strength of some fine skiing of their own through the lead-up heats, with none more impressive than Delbosco and his fourth-to-first-place pass in the semi-finals. However, no one would be able to touch Leman in the big final. Pulling the fastest start, he made his way smoothly and easily through the tricky top section of the course before putting down the pedal and pulling away through the snaky middle section. Delbosco fell in behind Leman to fend off several attacks from Flisar, while Tchiknavorian was largely shut out of any opportunity to make his way into podium position, and the finish line would see the Canadians in first and second, with Flisar in third and Tchiknavorian denied a podium for France. “It was a perfect race,” said Leman from the finish, “It doesn’t happen very often that you can lead top to bottom for four runs in a row. Everyone’s so good these days that usually you’ve gotta make some passes at some point. But I was able to keep finding a little extra speed at the top and a little extra motivation from the home crowd. “It’s an amazing day for our team,” Leman went on, “Del and I going one-two for the men, Marielle and Britt bit taking first and fourth for the ladies... We just showed that our team is deep and everyone’s still rolling strong at the end of the year. Taking home the Nations Cup is something that means a lot to our team. We work a lot on team values and team culture even though ski cross is an individual sport. It’s great for us to reach this goal.” With the win, Leman was able to lock down second overall on the 2016/17 Audi FIS Ski Cross World Cup leaderboard, finishing with 721 points - 42 back of the 763 held by crystal globe winner Jean Frederic Chapuis (FRA), and 82 points ahead of third overall Alex Fiva (SUI) and his 639. Chapuis wasn’t on hand to claim his crystal globe in Blue Mountain, electing to rest at home ahead of the upcoming Sierra Nevada 2017 Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships. However, it should not be lost in the mix this was the third consecutive World Cup title for the 28-year-old - making him the first man to accomplish the feat in ski cross World Cup history. The men’s Rookie of the Year honours went to Italy’s Siegmar Klotz, the former Alpine standout who made the move to ski cross at the start of this season at immediately settled in to his new discipline, making it through to finals in nine of 14 events and recording three top-10 results. Full Results Men and Women 2016/17 Ski Cross World Cup Final Ranking Men and Women

Moioli and Vaultier victorious in La Molina SBX Michela Moioli (ITA) and Pierre Vaultier (FRA) have prevailed in the 2016-17 season's penultimate snowboard cross World Cup event which was staged in foggy conditions in La Molina, Spain today. Moioli, fresh off a first and sixth place finish earned at the last World Cup stop in Germany underlined her current form by keeping her rivals in a thrilling women's finals at bay. “The final was pretty difficult. We were pretty close together in the first bank, I gave my best to keep the lead I had gained in that turn. Now I'm happy about the win. That was a good confident boost for the world championships,” Moioli stated. The 21-year-old from Alzano Lombardo had crossed the finish line first ahead of Eva Samkova (CZE) who therefore took over the World Cup lead with a total of 4,370 points from former top rider Belle Brockhoff (AUS; 4,060) who lost some precious ground today finishing in seventh position. “It feels good to be first in the World Cup ranking after finishing second last season. But it's still super close, and it will be a tough fight in Veysonnaz,” explained Samkova. Chloe Trespeuch (FRA) rounded out the podium in third with 2015 La Molina winner Charlotte Bankes (FRA) placing fourth. Over in the men's event which featured a lot of passing manoeuvres, tight battles from start to finish and several photo finish decisions, it was Olympic champion Pierre Vautier earning his career's 19th win ahead of Austria's Lukas Pachner who therefore wrote his history. The 25-year-old became the first ever athlete from Vienna to podium in an individual World Cup competition. Nick Baumgartner (USA) finished in third position while Omar Visintin (ITA) came in fourth after being the last to be back on track after Pachner, Baumgartner and the South Tyrolean had crashed down in the first left berm of the course therefore paving the way to an easy win for Vaultier. Baumgartner was the first to go down and recapped the situation like this: “I knew that it would be a battle going on, especially as I'm not known for my starts. So I knew I would have to pull something out. So I went to the inside to make something happen, and that turn just deteriorated. There was a big hole on the inside, and unfortunately I went down. And then I saw the guys go down next to me, and they got tangled up but got up fast again. So I was just doing everything I can to get on that podium.” Nevertheless, the race for the win was already decided. “I didn't expect to win here. The start of the season was complicated but then I figured out to be back on the podium in the last races. This win prior to the world champs is great. I'm feeling really good”, Vaultier said. “I had a good start in the finals, and then I noticed that everybody was falling behind of me. But I tried to stay focus for the rest of the run,” he added. Although he didn't podium today, Visintin had enough reasons to be OK with the result as he took back the lead from Alessandro Haemmerle (AUT) who had missed today's knock out finals placing only 53rd in yesterday's time trials. Ever since the season's second race the lead has changed back and forth between both riders with Visintin now leading the World Cup ranking with 3,470 points ahead of Vaultier (3,450) and Haemmerle (3,114.60) – with only one last race to come. However, before it's time for the showdown in Veysonnaz (SUI) from March 24 to 26, when an individual as well as team snowboard cross race will be staged, it's time to go for Gold, Silver and Bronze at the 12th FIS Snowboard World Championships which are slated to take place from March 7 to 19 in Sierra Nevada (ESP). The snowboard cross is scheduled for March 11 and 12 with the first ever world championships team SBX event following on March 13. Full Results Men and Women

Ledecka and Prommegger triumph in season's last PGS Ester Ledecka (CZE) and Andreas Prommegger (AUT) have come out victorious of the 2016-17 World Cup season's final PGS which was staged in Erciyes-Kayseri today successfully repeating their last year's triumph on the Turkish volcano. It was an uncommon race both prevailed in as the parallel giant slalom race originally scheduled for yesterday got interrupted after several delays due to heavy fog and low visibility. But Ledecka and Prommegger dealt best with the situation keeping the motivation high over night. The competition finally resumed this morning with the quarter finals under a blue bird sky and the reigning PSL world champion underlined her claim on another gold medal at the upcoming world championships which will take place in Sierra Nevada (ESP) from March 7 to 19. In a heart beat women's final, Ledecka edged off Tomoka Takeuchi from Japan by the tiny mere of 0.03 seconds bringing home her career's ninth. “It was a great race, although yesterday was pretty tough. But that's nature. But his way, it was interesting with the race taking place on two different days. It was a new experience. I happy that I have another good result. It was a good training for Sierra Nevada. I'm looking forward to competing at the world championships,” Ledecka said. Ramona Hofmeister (GER) rounded out the podium as third beating Austrian champion Daniela Ulbing in the small final. Over in the men's event, history was made as Sang-ho Lee and Bo-gun Choi secured the first ever medals for Korea in an alpine snowboard World Cup event finishing as respective second and third behind of Andreas Prommegger who celebrated a back-to-back win after his victory in the Olympic test event in South Korea three weeks ago. Thanks to his career's 15th win, Prommegger took over the lead in the parallel overall World Cup standings from Radoslav Yankov (BUL) who finished 17th today but claimed the PGS World Cup title. “It's been two pretty tough days. They tried to finish the race yesterday but it wasn't possible due to the sleet. But yeah, I'm really happy. I won here last year, and I was able to pull of this feat again. It was pretty close but I'm very relieved. Of course, the focus is on the world champs now but the overall World Cup ranking is also one thing I'm going for,” he explained knowing that it will be a tight battle with Yankov for the overall crown. The Austrian veteran is currently sitting in first with 4,350 points but the defending champion is close behind with 3,950 points while Benjamin Karl can also nail it on the last day of the season with 3,600 points. However, it's the Bulgarian superstar Prommegger has to have an eye on first. And Yankov is still motivated for more: “I'm happy. I managed to take home the Crystal Globe in the PGS, and I'm really happy with this, even though I didn't do well here finishing 17th. Now I'm focusing on competing in the Sierra Nevada which are the most important races of the season. And then Winterberg will bring a pretty tough showdown for the overall win with the Austrian guys. But first, it's the worlds.” Alena Zavarzina (RUS) brought home her career's first Crystal Globe also leading the overall standings of the women with only one more race to come. However, before finally putting her hands on the coveted Crystal Globe, the 2014 Olympic bronze medallist had to go through some hard times: “The delay yesterday and re-scheduling of the race was very stressful for me as I was going for the Crystal Globe and didn't have much of an advantage [on Patrizia Kummer]. This waiting situation was nerve-wrecking. It was like the worst day of my life. I tried to make the best of the situation but almost puked this morning after breakfast. But I kept going. It was dramatic, I was hoping to finish on the podium in the last race. I was waiting for this moment, and of course I'm happy and very proud. It was my goal ever since I started my career. It definitely took away the stress prior to the world champs.” The alpine snowboard World Cup tour will wrap up things with the final parallel slalom and parallel slalom team event slated to take place in Winterberg (GER) from March 17 to 19. However, the 12th FIS Snowboard World Championships are up next for the raceboarders with the pgs medal decisions scheduled for March 14 and the ones for PSL for March 15. Full Results Men and Women 2016/17 Parallel Giant Slalom World Cup Final Ranking Men and Women

Lassila and Zhou win at Moscow aerials World Cup final The 2016/17 FIS Freestyle aerials World Cup season came to a close in spectacular fashion on Saturday night, with Lydia Lassila (AUS) and Zhou Hang (CHN) earning victories after a night of close competition, and Xu Mengtao and Qi Guangpu topping off a resurgent year for the Nations Cup-winning Chinese aerials team by claiming the respective ladies’ and men’s crystal globes. Despite pervasive warm and wet conditions in Moscow throughout the week, teams and organizers managed to keep the 47-meter-tall scaffold competition venue in Moscow in prime condition, and excellent jumping was seen throughout the night. Ladies’ winner Lassila was unstoppable on on Saturday night, notching the top scores in qualifications, semifinals, and in the super final, where an essentially flawless double full, full, earned her a score of 100.11 to handily beat the the 94.11 earned by runner-up Xu. “I’m happy with my jumping today,” said Lassila following her win, “I got better throughout the night. I’m really happy with my super final jump. To get over 100 points was one of my goals, and I got another win, so it’s great. And to finish the season ranked third overall, getting three wins in five events this season after not competing in three years is a good comeback for me. I’ve gotta keep it going next week for world championships.” Third place went to Lassila’s Australian teammate Laura Peel, giving the reigning world champion her first podium since the 2015/16 season opener in Ruka. The win was the third of an incredible comeback season for Lassila, and the 35-year-old who returned to the World Cup in 2016/17 after three years away from competition suddenly finds herself as one of the favourites for gold come time for the Sierra Nevada 2017 Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships. Despite being bested by Lassila on Saturday night, Xu walked away from Moscow as the biggest winner of them all, as her second place performance was more than enough to surpass Danielle Scott (AUS) in the race for the 2016/17 aerials crystal globe. Scott and Xu came into Saturday’s competition separated by just two points, and when Scott crashed on her full, double full in the super final, Xu knew that all she had to do was ski away from her attempt and the third World Cup title of her career would be hers. “Today was very exciting,” said a beaming Xu, “It was an unbelievable day. I got my first win eight years ago in Moscow, and now I get the third crystal globe of my career here. And I do it one year after my ACL surgery…I’m very excited.” Scott finished the night in Moscow in fifth place and finished the season in silver medal position on the aerials rankings, giving the 26-year-old her third consecutive top-3 result in the in the aerials standings. Scott’s teammate Lassila joined her in the overall podium, giving Lassila now a total of seven World Cup medals. Zhou tops in explosive men’s final, Qi takes second career crystal globe The men’s competition in Moscow was a much more seesaw affair than was the ladies, with three different athletes leading each phase of the competition, capped off by China’s Zhou putting it together when the pressure was on in the big final. Before Zhou’s win, Maxim Gustik (BLR) stood atop rankings in the qualifications, while Jonathon Lillis bested the field in the semifinals. However, come time for the superfinal, Zhou would stand head and shoulders above the rest. With his spotless full, double full, full, Zhou earned himself a score of 125.22 - the highest for any athlete all day and nearly 15 points better than runner-up Gustik’s score of 110.97. The victory was the second of Zhou’s career, and moved him into fourth of the final aerials rankings. “It’s really good,” Zhou said of his feelings following the win, “It was a crazy day. From me it was difficult. My training wasn’t good. But I made a plan with my coaches and they gave me lots of help, and I thank them for that.” Behind Gustik in third place on Saturday was Maxim Burov (RUS), scoring a well-deserved podium for the host Russian squad in front of an enthusiastic crowd. On hand for awards but not competing on Saturday night was Qi Guangpu, as the two-time reigning world champion had already locked up his second career World Cup title with a second-place result at last weekend’s competition in Minsk (BLR). Qi finished the season with 440 points - 112 points ahead of the next-best athlete despite only competing in five of the season’s seven competitions. Second overall went to Mac Bohonnon (USA), as the 2014/15 crystal globe winner rebounded nicely from a disappointing 2015/16 season that saw him finish 10th overall. On Saturday, however, Bohonnon was at the centre of the scariest moment of the day, when the 21-year-old over-rotated on his super final jump fell and heavily in the landing. Though he appeared to momentarily lose consciousness as a result of the fall, Bohonnon was able to walk off the course under his own power and attend the final awards. Third place on the final season standings went to Anton Kushnir, as the reigning Olympic gold medallist, like Lassila on the ladies’ side, made an impressive return to competition after three years away from the sport. Kushnir managed three victories in just four contests entered, and had he put in a full season it seems likely he would have been challenging Qi for top spot. Powered along by Xu and Qi’s crystal globe-winning seasons, China took aerials the Nations Cup honours for 2016/17. As well, the aerials Rookie of the Year honours were announced on Saturday, with China’s Shen Xiaoxue and the USA’s Christopher Lillis coming out on top in the voting. Shen had five top-10 results on the season, and took a second-place podium at Phoenix Park in the test event for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games. Lillis, meanwhile, earned four top-10 results on the season. Full Results Men and Women 2016/17 Aerials World Cup Final Standing Men and Women

FIS NORDIC SKIING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Men's 50km Mass Start Freestyle Final Results HARVEY Alex 1:46:28.9 USTIUGOV Sergey 1:46:29.5 HEIKKINEN Matti 1:46:30.3 Canada's Alex Harvey is 50 km World Champion Canada's Alex Harvey won the men's 50 km free technique mass start competition to end the 2017 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Harvey won team sprint gold in the 2011 Oslo World Championships with teammate Devon Kershaw but this was his first individual gold medal. In the silver medal position was Russia's Sergey Ustiugov just +0.6 seconds behind. He now ties Bjorn Daehlie and Petter Northug as the only male athletes to win 5 medals at one Championship. In the bronze medal position to the thrill of the home crowd was Finland's Matti Heikkinen +1.4 seconds back of Harvey. Norway's Martin Johnsrud Sundby over the final kilometer did what he could to narrow the field down but he was unable to get away from Harvey and Ustiugov. Heikkinen was slightly gapped but came back to the leading three in the stadium and on the same corner where he went down in the men's relay he overtook Sundby for the bronze medal position. Britain's Andrew Musgrave also overtook Sundby on the homestretch to take 4th place, a best ever finish for a British cross-country skier. Full Results Here Final Medal Standing Here Alex Harvey 50km Mass Start Freestyle 2017 World Champion Race Replay

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Maiden victory for Michael Matt at Kranjska Gora As forecasted, uninterrupted rainfall marked the night between yesterday’s Giant Slalom and today’s Slalom in Kranjska Gora, but thanks to the efforts of the experienced course crew, the Podkoren slalom hill offered great conditions for today’s Pokal Vitranc slalom. Austria’s Michael Matt was the one that handled the conditions the best and could celebrate his first career World Cup win. After a podium at the beginning of the season in Levi, Matt also came close to an exploit at the World Championships, where he was 3rd after the first run but finished 8th after some struggles in the second run. Here in Kranjska Gora, the 23 year old athlete seemed to fly over the ruts and laid down a fantastic second run, that no one after him would be able to beat. "It's amazing, it's unbelievable when you stand out there in the finish area. When you're second after the first run and then the green light is in the second run when you're in the finish, it's amazing. I watched (the other racers) at the World Championships in St. Moritz and that wasn't good, so I didn't watch today. I didn't watch anyone, I just focused on me and my skiing and I'm really happy. I'v had a good experience in European Cup here on this hill and last year as well. I just like the hill and love to ski here." One athlete particularly impressed in the first run, it’s Stefano Gross. The Italian had a season with lots of ups and downs. He scored some very good results, including a third place in Madonna di Campiglio, but failed to be constant as he skied out three times this season. In Kranjska Gora, he found his pace in both runs and managed to hold claim a second place, only +0.30 behind the winner Mario Matt. "It feels extremely good because I've had a really difficult season. Unfortunately, I had a bad back problem in January and then the best race I could have done was when I was second after the first run in Kitzbuehel and in the second run, I straddled a gate right at the top. That could have probably totally changed my season if something had gone well at that point but it's been a terrible season for me and it really feels very good to be back on the podium this season. I had a great first run, but in the second run I had a few problems. It was bumpy, it was really hard to hold the line, but I was well prepared for the conditions with training in salty, spring snow." In third place, Germany’s Felix Neureuther confirmed his good shape from the World Championships, where he collected a bronze medal. With two solid runs, he was able to secure the third spot on the podium, the 3rd in this World Cup season. "It feels very good. I don't know how may times I've been on the podium here but it's a very, very special hill, technical, tough and the conditions are always tough too so I am very happy to be on the podium again. I had some problems at the beginning of the season until just right before the World Championships; I was struggling with my setup so I couldn't ski as I wanted but now, since the World Championships, it feels really good again." The metronome Marcel Hirscher earned a 4th place in today’s race, enough to secures him the discipline globe, as he is now 110 points ahead of Henrik Kristoffersen with only one race to go. A huge mistake prevented the Norwegian to qualify for second run and score points for the cup today. On the men’s side, this was the last regular World Cup stop of the season. After a week-end off due to travelling, the 25 best racer of each discipline are moving over to Aspen for the World Cup Finals from 15th to 19th March 2017. Full Results Here Michael Matt 2nd Run

Repeat podium on second day in Jeongseon Sofia Goggia opened the floodgates with her inaugural World Cup victory on Saturday and proved it was no fluke with a follow-up win the ladies' super-G at Jeongseon, South Korea, on Sunday. For the second day in a row, she bested Lindsey Vonn by mere hundredths, and Ilka Stuhec finished third on a challenging set with big turns and high speeds. “It feels great because also I think yesterday in the downhill, [Vonn] is the major speed queen. [Stuhec] is the world champ and the queen of the future, so the three most fast," said Goggia of her fellow podium mates. "It feels amazing because super-G this year was pretty difficult to me. I never found the right balance between pushing and to use the tactics. And today, I really tried to ski. There were some tricky points. I came by and it was really OK. I really tried to push.” With her third-place finish, Stuhec took over the lead of the super-G standings and will head to Aspen with a 15-point advantage over Tina Weirather. "I had a funny feeling from the start house and later on it got a bit better. Yeah, it was a fun course actually because you had to do a lot. It didn’t do anything itself, so it was nice. I like it," said Stuhec. "The only nerves getting to Aspen I have is sixteen hours time difference that we have from here to there. So that’s the only thing. Otherwise, I’ll go like always, race for race, and do my best.” Vonn once again found herself oh-so-shy of the win, this time finishing 0.04 seconds off Goggia's pace. She pointed to the Italian in the leader box after crossing the finish line and shook her head. "It’s definitely the best super-G performance I’ve had all season by a long shot, so it’s nice to see that I still have the speed and it’s coming back around," said Vonn. "Definitely frustrated with the amount of time that I’m getting second place by. But you know, if I’ve learned one thing in ski racing, it’s that those hundredths always come back and I’m hoping that they come back next year for the Olympics. So I’ll bide my time. I’ll be patient, and everything will work out the way it’s supposed to.” The ladies' tour now heads to Squaw Valley, USA, to contest giant slalom and slalom races on Friday and Saturday this week. Full Results Here Sofia Goggia

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