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ah ok, I missed this...well, really strange, but looks possibly like a Canadian suit, so perhaps he just lost his BIB and got a new one or so

it was BIB 39 Vid Vrhovnik of Slovenia

Finally, I heard this beautiful hymn, somewhere else than in hockey.

Impressive effort from Niskanen today meanwhile very nice race for and

Another 4 clubs from and are officially qualified, after yesterdays 51st round of the Czech Extraliga. Only 1 round of the regular season remaining, it´s now certain that Bílí Tygři Liberec and HC oceláři Třinec will enter the play-offs from the first 2 positions, this also means they are officially the 9th and 10th qualified teams for next seasons Champions league. the 7th and 8th became during the last days also top 2 teams of Regular season of the German league - Adler Mannheim and EHC Red Bull Munich. very close of qualification is also Tappare Tampere in the Finland regular season, they need now just 1 point from the remaining matches to be officially qualified.

Womens Division II Group B World Championship in Akureyri (ISL) Day 2 (28th February 2017) GMT 0 13:00 Spain vs New Zealand 3-2 after OT 16:30 Romania vs Turkey 4-6 20:00 Iceland vs Mexico 2-4

Team Slovakia for World Cup 7th Stage in PyeongChang (KOR) Men´s Matej Kazár Martin Otčenáš Tomáš Hasilla Michal Šíma Women´s Paulína Fialková Jana Gereková Ivona Fialková Terézia Poliaková also the teams are definitely known also for the next last 2 world cup stages in Kontiolahti and Oslo The mens will remains in this quartet also for the next 2 stages For womens, PyeongChang stage will be the last this seasons World Cup Stage for Gereková, Kuzmina will miss the Korean stage but will compete in both last stages (Kontiolahti + Oslo), Both Fialková sisters will compete in all 3 remaining stages and Poliaková now in PyeongChang and in last stage in Oslo.

logical thanks

btw where is the qualification winner ? @dcro ?

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Tomorrows Mens Individual Large Hill Qualification Start List (Top 40 athletes will qualify + 10 already pre-qualified jumpers with BIBs 53-62)

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FIS NORDIC SKIING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Women's 10km Classical Final Results BJOERGEN Marit 25:24.9 KALLA Charlotte 26:05.9 JACOBSEN Astrid Uhrenholdt 26:20.4 Bjoergen takes gold in ladies' 10 km classic Norway's Marit Bjoergen raced her way to her 16th championship gold medal in the ladies' 10 km classic interval start competition. She was the clear winner with a margin of 41 seconds ahead of Sweden's Charlotte Kalla in the silver medal position and Norway's Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen took the bronze +55.5 back of Bjoergen's winning time of 25:24.9. Full Results Here Marit Bjoergen 10km Classical 2017 World Champion Race Replay

Very interesting reading. Great article and work from dutch journalist https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2017/02/24/in-the-land-of-peter-sagan-a1547723

wow very good race from Alena very well done !

Hope and wish for a good result for Alena today, after her frustrating 31st place 0.02s behind the top 30 in the sprint, it´s our last chance to earn something interesting and nice for this sport at this WCh. a top 20 is probably unrealistic but something close to that would be fine and will bring at least a small smile in the face of our nordic skiing

Vladimir Petrov passes away IIHF Hall of Fame member, Soviet legend was 69 Vladimir Petrov was centring the legendary line with Boris Mikhailov (left) and Valeri Kharlamov (right) that dominated international hockey between 1969 and 1981. Hockey legend Vladimir Petrov passed away on Tuesday at the age of 69. According to media reports he died of cancer at hospital at 4am. Petrov won two Olympic gold medals and was a nine-time world champion. He was named to four all-star teams, leading the tournament in scoring three times. He was centring the famous line with Boris Mikhailov and Valeri Kharlamov on the Soviet national team and with their club, army team CSKA Moscow. With CSKA he won 11 Soviet championships, earned four scoring titles. He scored 51 goals during the 1969/70 season in just 44 games. The Krasnogorsk-born player was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in2006. After retiring as a player in 1983 he had some coaching stints and was the President of the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia from 1992 to 1994 and later worked as club manager for Spartak Moscow, CSKA Moscow and SKA St. Petersburg. The funeral will be held on 2 March at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery in Mytishi in the Moscow region.

Vladimir Petrov has passed away in the morning at hospital. died of cancer. He had 69 RIP 2 times olympic champion + 1 silver in 1980, and 9 times world champion. IIHF hale of fame member, 11 times ex-USSR champion with CSKA Moscow, 3 times best scorer and MVP of the former soviet league. Member of the legendary ex-USSR line Kharlamov - Petrov - Mikhailov. one of the best ever ice hockey lines in the whole history of this sport.

Iran’s start in hockey Middle East country gets first experiences Iranian players during a friendly game with participants of the 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo. During the Asian Winter Games, Iran got its first experiences in ice hockey. While not having enough players to compete, they were welcomed by the Asian hockey family by playing four friendly games with and against players from other teams in Sapporo. Iran didn’t officially participate in the ice hockey tournaments of the 2017 Asian Winter Games but collected first experiences in friendly games with countries participating in the men’s Division II tournament. It was about one year ago when IIHF.com wrote about the interest of the vast country to start an ice hockey program with representatives reaching out during the 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games about possibilities to join the International Ice Hockey Federation. Since then first steps were taken with the program such as bringing players of the national inline hockey team to the ice last summer in Asiago, Italy, after an inline hockey tournament. At the Youth Olympics, Iran had two athletes – a male and a female skier. While snow sports have been practised for a long time in the country with mountain resorts, Iran wants to take steps to make ice sports more popular as three small-size ice rinks were opened in the last few years in the capital of Tehran, the second-biggest city of Mashhad and on the island of Kish. “We’d really love to join the big ice hockey family. I hope we can become members and participate in ice hockey competitions in Asia. Iran is a huge country in Asia, we have a population of almost 80 million. Iran can be a really great destination for ice hockey. That’s why we want to work with the IIHF to have a vision for ice hockey in Iran,” Nasser Talebi, Chef de Mission of the Iranian team at the Youth Olympics, said one year ago and also mentioned the 12,000-seat multifunctional Azadi Indoor Stadium that was built for the 1974 Asian Games and could potentially be used for international ice hockey events. While not everybody may think about ice hockey in Iran at first due to the hot summers, it can be said that some areas of Iran have cold winters too. Winters in Tehran tend to be slightly colder than in Hamburg in northern Germany and the winter temperatures in Mashhad resemble the ones of Stockholm. That’s also where one of the most famous hockey players of Iranian descent, the Ottawa Senators’ Swedish national team forward Mika Zibanejad, grew up. “We have had skiing in Iran for 70 years so it’s time to also develop other winter sports. Iran is a huge country, we have cities that have -25°C now and others that have +25°C now. We can have summer and winter sports at the same time,” Talebi said. “We don’t have a championship yet but we have around 100 to 120 players, men and women, and it’s a new policy of Iran to improve winter sports, especially Olympic sports.” The National Olympic Committee planned its international ice hockey debut at the 2017 Asian Winter Games that ended on Sunday, assembled players from Iran and recruited players with Iranian roots from abroad. That’s where the problems began. Despite being warned about the eligibility rules of the Olympic Council of Asia, which governs the Asian Winter Games, the Iranian delegation travelled to Sapporo with many players from abroad who have neither played nor lived in Iran and are citizens of two countries. The Iranians hoped to be granted an exception to compete in the Division II tournament but were treated by the same rules. In the end only eight players were eligible to participate – too few to play the tournament. Luckily for the Iranians the ice hockey family got together and welcomed the remaining players with open arms. After discussions with the organizer in Sapporo, the scheduled games happened as friendly games and with some improvisation. The eight players were boosted by players from the other teams and the games were played without body-checking to make the start easy and do the best to avoid injuries for the new players and the other teams competing in the Division II event. Like that the Iranian players had the chance to play with and against players from Macau, Indonesia, Malaysia and Turkmenistan. It wasn’t the planned official debut yet but still a happy ending and an opportunity to get first experiences in ice hockey games for the players who usually rather put on inline skates. And hopefully it will be the start of something bigger once ice hockey grows in Iran.

Womens Division II Group B World Championship in Akureyri (ISL) Day 2 Schedule (28th February 2017) GMT 0 13:00 Spain vs New Zealand 16:30 Romania vs Turkey 20:00 Iceland vs Mexico Livestream

Womens Division II Group B World Championship in Akureyri (ISL) Day 1 (27th February 2017) GMT 0 13:00 Turkey vs New Zealand 3-5 16:30 Mexico vs Spain 3-1 20:00 Iceland vs Romania 7-2

Not sure if it was already revealed, but surely from october/november 2017 as usual. it´s still too early, for example Sochi 2014 which had the longest torch relay ever started in october 2013

the "official" one.... sorry Poland

Soohorang introducing the 15 winter olympic sports

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