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okay I´m done with this corrupted sport. lol 2 times blindsided during one 2 years period

just found this

I miss the race walk in this tourney the race walkers are always discriminated

Dead Peter Sagan during todays press conference before tomorrows national championship: Journalist: "Peter, you just arrived ! why you even didn´t tried to trains and at least see the tomorrows circuit ?" Peter Sagan: "Hey Juraj (brother sitting with him) ! How many times we will turn the circuit tomorrow ?" Juraj Sagan: "wait (rolling the guide in front of him)...yes, here it is! 7 times, Peter" Peter Sagan to the journalist: "I´ll see the track tomorrow 7 times"

c´mon Matúš don´t even try to say me that you´ll not jump 2.19

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE DRAFT 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number 1. Nico HISCHIER NEW JERSEY DEVILS Number 2. Nolan PATRICK PHILADELPHIA FLYERS Number 3. Miro HEISKANEN DALLAS STARS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hischier makes history Devils take Swiss forward first overall The New Jersey Devils made Swiss hockey history tonight in Chicago when they selected Nico Hischier as the first overall draft choice in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft. The previous high for a Swiss player was 5th overall, Nino Niederreiter, by the New York Islanders. Hischier spent his career in Switzerland until 2016 before moving to Canada and had a superb rookie season in the QMJHL with Halifax, but was nonetheless surprised by the historic selection. “On a surprise scale of 1 to 10, I'd have to say getting picked number one was a 10 because I never expected this," Hischier said. "I had no idea where I was going, but just hearing my name was unbelievable. I hugged my mom first, and she started to cry." Nolan Patrick, the son of former NHLer Steve and long-time favourite for the number-one spot, was taken second by the Philadelphia Flyers, while Dallas selected Finn Miro Heiskanen number three. Heiskanen is expected to return to HIFK Helsinki for the upcoming season to develop further in the comfort of his own developmental system. "He's smart. He's skilled. He makes players around him better. He’ll be a very productive player,” noted TSN’s Craig Button of Patrick. “We’re different players,” Patrick noted of the comparison to Hischier. “He may be a little more dynamic offensively and I’m a little better defensively maybe,” he suggested. Dallas had its highest selection ever since moving to Texas and selected a Finn with a strong background. Heiskanen, a defenceman, won gold with Suomi’s U18 team in 2016 and a silver the next year. He also played for Finland at the 2017 World Juniors. The expansion team Vegas Golden Knights, meanwhile, accrued three selections in the first round through trades and went a long way to establishing the team’s identity. Selecting 6th, 13th, and 15th, the team selected a variety of players intended to bring a winning atmosphere to the team now while adding prospects to the radar to prepare for tomorrow. The team selected taking Cody Glass 6th overall, Nick Suzuki13th overall, and Erik Brannstrom 15th. By nationality, Canada led the way with 11 selections in the opening round, followed by USA and Finland with six and Sweden with four. The remainder of the selections will take place on Saturday. The complete first round: 1—New Jersey/Nico Hischier (SUI) 2—Philadelphia/Nolan Patrick (CAN) 3—Dallas/Miro Heiskanen (FIN) 4—Colorado/Cale Makar (CAN) 5—Vancouver/Elias Pettersson (SWE) 6—Vegas/Cody Glass (CAN) 7—NY Rangers/Lias Andersson (SWE) 8—Buffalo/Caey Mittelstadt (USA) 9—Detroit/Michael Rasmussen (CAN) 10—Florida/Owen Tippett (CAN) 11—Los Angeles/Gabriel Vilardi (CAN) 12—Carolina/Martin Necas (CZE) 13—Vegas/Nick Suzuki (CAN) 14—Tampa Bay/Callan Foote (USA) 15—Vegas/Erik Brannstrom (SWE) 16—Calgary/Juuso Valimaki (FIN) 17—Toronto/Timothy Liljegren (SWE) 18—Boston/Urho Vaakanainen (FIN) 19—San Jose—Joshua Norris (USA) 20—St. Louis/Robert Thomas (CAN) 21—NY Rangers—Filip Chytil (CZE) 22—Edmonton/Kailer Yamamoto (USA) 23—Arizona/Pierre-Olivier Joseph (CAN) 24—Winnipeg/Kristian Vesalainen (FIN) 25—Montreal/Ryan Poehling (USA) 26—Dallas/Jake Oettinger (USA) 27—Philadelphia/Morgan Frost (CAN) 28—Ottawa/Shane Bowers (CAN) 29—Chicago/Henri Jokiharju (FIN) 30—Nashville/Eeli Tolvanen (FIN) 31—St. Louis/Klim Kostin (RUS) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Draft continued today for the 2nd-7th Round, looks like Adam Rúžička is the first Slovak chosen this year as 109th pick and by my favorite team Calgary Flames And another Selected Slovak is Marián Studenič picked by New Jersey as 143rd So still the highest drafted Slovak ever remains Marián Gáborík, 3rd in 2000 by Minnesota Wild

maybe yes, but there still a lot of time and many guys will somehow suddenly improve their times. I still think this qualification standard is too harsh

The declared goal is according to our athletics federation site as a newly promoted newby to "avoid the relegation" http://www.atletikasvk.sk/Articles/Detail?ArticleId=6388 in the bottom of the article there the full team roster... I hope I´ll not jinx it, but it looks that we are in a good way to stay in this division Ján Volko 10.21 ...great result, but still far far away from the dreamed world championships

UEFA attempt for compensation to our U21 team ? Yesterday Portugal needed to score only 1 more goal against MKD to eliminate Slovakia, but then happened this moment by the referee ...yes your guess is right. Slovakian referee

cool we are with Slovenia in the same division, looking how the everything around updating results things work I expect some small mixing troubles to come

The guy is very well informed

May Bug yes they changed the starting time from 14:00 to 13:30 because there a lot (and I mean really a lot) of these beetles flying around the circuit track in the late afternoon. How did you found this information btw ?

Thank you still 2 match balls to survive

[hide] Knockout Round June 20th - June 25th, 2017 12 Nations, Playoff Round, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match, Gold Medal Match Semifinals Central European Time (GMT +2) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 June 24th 2017, h. 18:00, O2 Arena, Prague Spain 7 Belgium June 24th 2017, h. 20:30, O2 Arena, Prague Greece 13 France [/hide]

ah those lovely memories

Slovakia - Sweden 3-0

This was just beautiful ! Great match, great team performance. Our youngs confirmed that their last 2 and half years results and play were not random. I just love this team, since the first minutes of the whole Rio qualification. And this tournament was another proof how special this team is (was)...now probbly this will not be enough, even 6 points and score 6:3, because only 4 teams qualify for the semifinals...so most likely todays football celebration against Sweden (reigning champions) was the very last match of this generation team. Definitely one of the most memorable football Slovak teams of all history (another proof, they were last year nominated for Slovak Team Sport of the year !) A big thanks for all 2 and half years guys !

This is Football Baby !!!

what a start and what a goal for us Go Boys !!!

there also underwater hockey but Inline Hockey is really popular. fast and attractive sport

Inline Hockey Worlds return 4 days until first puck-drop in Bratislava Top Division Canada Croatia Czech Republic Finland Germany Slovakia Sweden United States Division I Argentina Australia Brazil Great Britain Hungary Latvia New Zealand Slovenia The IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship returns this month and will be played at the 10,055-seat Ondrej Nepela Arena in the Slovak capital of Bratislava. The two-tier event will take place at the biggest indoor venue of the country that hosted the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships most recently in 1992 and 2011 and was also home for the IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship once before, in 2008. Here’s what you need to know about the event to get yourself ready for this global summer festival of hockey: Dates: 25 June – 1 July 2017 with the preliminary round taking place on the first three days and the playoff and placement games on the last three days and following one off day. Divisions: 16 teams travel to Bratislava but the event is split into two tiers with eight teams battling it out for the World Championship and further eight teams playing in the Division I tournament and the winner earning promotion. Format: Each division is split into two groups of equal strength seeded according to the ranking of the last Inline Hockey Worlds. Each team plays each of the other three teams during three days. After an off day, the tournaments continue with the quarter-finals followed by the semi-finals, medal games and placement games. The team losing the game for seventh place in the top division will be relegated and be replaced by the Division I winner. The three bottom-ranked teams from Division I will be relegated to the qualification tournaments. Affordable tickets: A day ticket costs only €4 and gives access to assigned seats at the main arena with up to four games a day. Additionally, up to four games a day are played at the second rink of the arena with the Division I tournament. That’s up to eight games a day. Historical favourites: Four countries have done particularly well in the past. The United States are the record world champion with six gold medals and 14 medals in total but were left empty-handed last time in Tampere 2015. Sweden follows closely behind with five golds and 11 medals. Finland improved in recent years and has four gold medals, most recently in 2014, and 13 medals in total. Canada came back from a drought and has now three golds after winning in 2012 and 2015, and eight medals in total. The fifth country that has won gold is the Czech Republic winning it all at home in Pardubice in 2011 and having won four medals in total. The following countries have also won medals but never the world title: Germany (5), Slovakia (1) and Switzerland (1). Host team: Slovakia has had its ups and downs and hopes to improve from a fourth-place finish in the last tournament when the team plays in front of its home crowd. The highlight was in 2008 at home in Bratislava when the team reached the final and won silver, the only medal for Slovakia in IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship history. The lowlight was relegation in 2009 and 2011. Croatia’s premiere: For the first time Croatia is qualified for the top division. Two years ago in Tampere the Croats beat another surprise team, Australia, 5-4 in the final after Igor Jacmenjak’s goal eight seconds into overtime. “It’s a big thing for Croatian inline hockey. We are so young in this sport, we just played five years in this division and [now] we will play in the top division,” Jacmenjak said after that game. Croatia replaces Slovenia in the top division. Free live stream: 25 games of the 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship can be watched live on IIHF.com including all top-division games and the medal games of the Division I tournament. The live stream is available for free and for everybody. A live ticker is provided from all 46 games on IIHF.com. Stars on ice: The IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship includes world-class athletes on inline skates but usually also one or the other ice hockey professional who keeps himself in shape with inline hockey in the summer. Past stars on ice at the IIHF Inline Hockey World Championships include Henrik Lundqvist and Dick Axelsson for Sweden, Ales Hemsky for the Czech Republic, Parick Reimer and Thomas Greilinger for Germany, and Lubomir Visnovsky and Richard Kapus for host Slovakia. Goals and excitement: Inline hockey is fast and many goals are scored during a game. Last year in the top-division event there were eight goals per game in average while remaining the competitiveness level high. The average game had a goal difference of two or three. Only three out of 23 games had a goal difference of five and higher while most of the other 20 games remained open until the end. In the Division I tournament even more goals were scored, 10 per game, but that included some lopsided games as 11 of the 23 games had a goal difference of five or higher. That doesn’t mean there are no close games in the lower division. Of the 12 more competitive Division I games, seven were one-goal games. Comeback of Brazil & New Zealand: Ola Brazil! For the first time since 2014 the country known for football and samba is back in IIHF competition as a qualifier. The same applies to Latvia, which returns after relegation at the last Worlds thanks to its win in the European Qualification, and New Zealand, which will play at the Inline Hockey World Championship for the first time since 2012 after beating Japan 5-3 in the deciding game of the Asia/Oceania Qualification. Good omen for Brazil: When the Worlds took place in Bratislava nine years ago, they won Division I bronze. Puck with holes: The inline hockey puck has similar dimensions like the ice hockey puck with two major differences. Firstly, it is a bit lighter. The Rule Book requires a puck that is 100-120 grams heavy, in ice hockey it’s 156-170 grams. More noticeable for the spectator is that it contains six holes just around the logo in the centre. You haven’t seen such a puck yet? Head over to Bratislava, watch the live stream or follow us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and get the chance to win such a puck. Four periods: A period just lasts 12 minutes in inline hockey but there are four periods. After the first and third period there’s a short rest of two minutes and teams don’t change ends. The same applies after the fourth period if overtime is required. After the second period there’s a half-time intermission of ten minutes and teams change ends. If the game is tied after 48 minutes, an overtime period and if necessary a penalty-shot shootout will be played. The overtime period lasts maximum five minutes (12 minutes in medal games). The shootout starts with three shots for each team. Four-on-four: Inline hockey is played with one goalie and four skaters – usually two defencemen and two forwards – per team on the field. Teams usually play with three or four lines at the IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and can also register two goalies. 90 seconds: A minor penalty lasts 90 seconds in inline hockey, major penalties four minutes. Power-play situations are normally 4-on-3. A team cannot have less than three skaters on the field – except during the last two minutes of regulation time and in overtime – and consequently the start of a penalty to a second player of the same team can be delayed until the other penalty has expired. A two-man advantage (4-on-2) is only possible during the last two-minutes of regulation time and in overtime. Red, no blue: There’s no blue line in inline hockey but there is red line at the centre of the rink, which is also used for the offside rule. A player from the defending zone cannot pass the puck to a teammate in the attacking zone crossing the centre red line. No bodychecking: Opposed to men’s ice hockey, bodychecking is not permitted in inline hockey and will cause a penalty for an illegal hit. This doesn’t entirely take physicality out of the game but makes it more a game of skill and speed. Two-year rhythm: The IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship is now staged with a two-year rhythm. The event with the top-16 teams takes place in odd years, last time 2015 in Tampere, Finland, this year in Bratislava and in 2019 in Canada in a city to be determined. In even years more teams are included in the regional qualification tournaments to expand the horizon and make sure to involve teams from all continents. Global game: Teams from four continents will play in Bratislava. The biggest contingent comes from Europe with Finland, Sweden, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, Great Britain, Hungary and Latvia, ten teams in total. North America is represented with Canada and the United States, Oceania with Australia and New Zealand, and South America with Argentina and Brazil. The global program including the qualification events includes even teams from more continents. Japan, Chinese Taipei and India competed in the Asia/Oceania qualification but New Zealand earned the top spot and promotion ahead of the Asian teams. And South Africa and Namibia made it to the event in the past to represent Africa. This program includes 26 active nations who play either this year in the Worlds or last year in the qualification events. In total 36 different countries have been competing in the IIHF inline hockey system since the ‘90s. Click here for the 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship schedule.

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[hide] Knockout Round June 20th - June 25th, 2017 12 Nations, Playoff Round, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match, Gold Medal Match Quarterfinals Central European Time (GMT +2) Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 June 22nd 2017, h. 12:30, O2 Arena, Prague Spain 7 Latvia June 22nd 2017, h. 15:00, O2 Arena, Prague Turkey 3 Greece June 22nd 2017, h. 18:00, O2 Arena, Prague France 11 Slovakia June 22nd 2017, h. 20:30, O2 Arena, Prague Belgium 2 Italy [/hide]

He deserved it. Already last year he was great. Definitely his best season so far, resulting in the National championship triumph and few months later he and Michael Kolář did a amazing job to help Peter maintain his world title. But as you know Tinkoff had 2 leaders, and selected riders to mainly work for Contador so Juraj was out. This season he started very well too, doing a ton of hard work for Peter, and since this time Bora has a clear "green jersey history" goal, so I expected his nomination.

wow that´s amazing Thank you very much for the news