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Germany unstoppable again: Kircheisen wins in Sapporo There is no end to the German domination of the Nordic Combined World Cup. This time, it was veteran Björn Kircheisen who stepped up and narrowly beat Japan’s Akito Watabe on home ground (+0.7). Norwegian Mikko Kokslien was overjoyed to return to the podium, finishing 32.1 seconds behind the winner. Team Japan ruled supreme in the jumping part of the event with youngster Nagamine taking his next jumping victory. Starting with number two, the 19 year-old was not to be beaten by anybody else in the jumping round after setting 136 metres (135.9 p.). Coming closest to this performance was team leader Akito Watabe. Being the last starter of the round, he landed at 134 metres and 129.1 points meant a time behind of 27 seconds which made Watabe into the top favourite for the victory of the day. Fellow Japanese Taihei Kato rounded off the great jumping performance of his team on rank three (135 m; 125.5 p.) and followed his teammates out on the track 42 seconds after Nagamine. Björn Kircheisen continued his series of good jumping performances this winter with 132.5 metres and 125.3 points. This gave him the task of catching up 42 seconds as well and set the stage for an exciting fight between Watabe and the German for the podium. Denifl followed on rank five with 48 seconds of delay. Other skiers to watch were Klemetsen on rank seven with one minute and six seconds to overcome, Tim Hug on rank eight (+1:07) and fast skier Mikko Kokslien with one minute and 40 seconds of delay. Watabe and Kircheisen found each other early at the head of the field, when Kircheisen closed the 20 second gap he had on the Japanese during the first lap. After this, Kircheisen needed to rest and so Akito Watabe also had to do his share of leading work. Ultimately, the two stayed together for the whole duration of the race and the decision was made in turn on the final stretch when the German got the favourable position on the inside of the curve. Kircheisen gained some metres on Watabe, who was not able to counterattack on the final stretch. So the veteran set the 17th victory of his career, the first since his success in Almaty in 2013, while Watabe had to be satisfied with yet another second place. Behind the two, a larger group of pursuing athletes were skiing together until fast Norwegian Mikko Kokslien caught up with Hug, Watanabe, Denifl and the others. Bringing young German Jakob Lange with him, Kokslien gave it his all as he went to claim the final spot on the podium. Also for Kokslien it has been a long time: his last individual podium was in Ramsau am Dachstein in 2014. Lange achieved a career-best fourth place in the end, Swiss Tim Hug collected another good fifth position. Hideaki Nagai, Takehiro Watanabe and Yoshito Watabe completed a very strong Japanese result with four athletes in the Top Ten. Jumping winner Hisaki Nagamine ultimately ended up on the 21st position. Full Results Here

Brief recap of todays international results, The Euro Hockey tour continue this weekend with the Sweden Hockey Games. The round-robin tournament started with first 2 matches Russia defeated Finland 2-1 and Sweden the Czech Republic 5-2. Sweden and Russia leading the tournament with 3 points, Finland and Czech Republic follows with 0 points, In the cumulative standing. Russia increase their lead now with 18 points, Czech republic and Sweden are with 9 points and Finland with 6 points. the tournament will continue Saturday with matches Finland vs Czech Republic and Sweden vs Russia. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Challengers, Today started also the 3 challenger tournaments of this international break, In Goyang, South Korea, Hungary won against Japan 2-1 and South Korea defeated Denmark 4-2. South Korea and Hungary leading the standing with 3 points, followed by Japan and Denmark with 0 points, Tomorrows schedule Japan vs Denmark and South Korea vs Hungary In Graz, Austria, France lost to Norway 1-4 and Austria won against Slovakia "B" 2-1 after overtime. Norway top the standing with 3 points, Austria second with 2 points, the Under 23 team of Slovakia is third with 1 point and France 4th pointless. Tomorrow Slovakia "B" face France and Austria will meet Norway. In Katowice, Poland, Ukraine won against Italy 4-3 after overtime and Slovenia against Poland 4-1. Slovenia leading the tournament with 3 points, Ukraine just behind with 2 points, Italy 3rd with 1 point and Poland 4th at 0 points. Tomorrow Poland vs Ukraine and Slovenia vs Italy. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friendly Matches, 9th February 2017 Mens Czech Republic U16 - Sweden U16 4-2 Germany U18 - Switzerland U18 4-5 Czech Republic U19 - Germany U19 4-2 Russia U17 - USA U17 3-4 Finland U18 - Czech Republic U18 3-2 Russia U16 - Finland U16 1-3 Slovakia U17 - Denmark U17 1-3 Slovakia U18 - Belarus U18 5-0 Slovakia - Russia "B" 1-3 Czech Republic U17 - Sweden U17 3-4 after GWS Finland U19 - Sweden U19 4-0 Germany U17 - Switzerland U17 2-3 Sweden U18 - Russia U18 3-1 Womens Finland - Sweden 3-2 after OT

FINAL QUALIFICATION ROUND Tournament 1 Arosa (SUI) - 09.02.2017 - 12.02.2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Czech Republic - Norway 5-0 Czechs follow suit Easy win vs. Norway underlines Olympic ambitions Czech player Tereza Vanisova is followed by Norway's Helene Martinsen After Switzerland’s opening win against Denmark, the Czechs follow suit with another five-goal victory against Norway in the Olympic Qualification. The Czech women’s national team will play in the top division of the IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship for the third time in a few weeks in Plymouth near Detroit, USA, but it has never qualified for the Olympic Winter Games. It’s something they want to chance in the Final Olympic Qualification Group C in Arosa, Switzerland, and their 5-0 blanking of Norway underlines these ambitions as they moved up to Switzerland in the Day 1 standing winning their game with the same margin. Denisa Krizova, one of the Czechs playing NCAA college hockey, scored two goals en route to the clear victory. It was her who opened the scoring too. Katerina Mrazova sent a nice pass to the blue line allowing Krizova to skate alone to the net of 16-year-old rookie Ena Nystrom beating the Norwegian netminder top-shelf at 4:15. It was a period with chances on both ends but with 2:35 left the Czechs made it 2-0. Vendula Pribylova shot on a loose puck from ten metres and Michaela Pejzlova scored on the rebound. The Norwegians had chances too such as a crossbar shot in the second period and a Line Bialik shot deflected up into the air but the Czechs were more dangerous and more efficient on the other side. After a centering pass from Alena Polenska, Aneta Ledlova made it 3-0 at 12:09 of a second period that followed a similar pattern like the afternoon game as the Czechs netted three goals in seven minutes. At 15:35 Aneta Tejralova sent of a hard point shot during a Czech power play and Krizova was in perfect position to make it a four-goal lead. And it wasn’t enough yet. The Czechs got another power play and they converted it again when Lucie Povova reacted fastest on a loose puck close to the Norwegian net.

FINAL QUALIFICATION ROUND Tournament 1 Arosa (SUI) - 09.02.2017 - 12.02.2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Denmark - Switzerland 1-6 Easy start for Swiss Stalder shines with hat trick vs. Danes The Swiss players celebrate a goal in the Final Olympic Qualification opener against Denmark The Swiss women’s national team had a successful start into the Final Olympic Qualification Group C on home ice beating Denmark 6-1. The Swiss dominated the game for two periods and earned a deserved opening win. Lara Stalder scored a hat trick and collected five points. “We planned to enter the tournament step by step and stick to our game plan and it worked. We were a bit nervous in the beginning but then played well for two periods. In the third period we allowed them to come back into the game and they scored a goal, which shouldn’t happen, but we learn from that so that it’ll be good against Norway,” Stalder said. Already after 82 seconds it was Stalder, who had the first chance of the game. The Swiss didn’t manage to capitalize on their chances in the first minutes but at 9:18 they were lucky when a long shot from Alina Muller unexpectedly found the way into the Danish net. After that goal the Danes had to work more on their offence but they struggled and sometimes became an easy target for breakaways. Five minutes after the first goal Christine Meier capitalized on a rebound during the Swiss’ first power play to make it 2-0 following a video review by the officials. At the end of the period the Swiss had a couple of chances including Alina Muller with a penalty shot. She tried to deke Danish netminder Lisa Jensen but didn’t succeed against her. “The discrepancy is probably the reality. We knew they’re a good team, we’ve never played them before,” Denmark captain Henriette Ostergaard said. “We knew we had to work hard at our end but that being said I don’t think they were that much better than us. I think we had good chances we should have scored on. They had a few lucky goals in the beginning, which kind of set us back a little bit. We knew we had to play defensive hockey and that’s what we did. I think we did a good job in our own end but we just lacked the last little bit.” In the middle frame the Swiss became more dominant and gained momentum. They didn’t let the Danes create a single chance for a while and kept the puck in the Danish zone even when playing shorthanded. The Danes managed to keep the score low until the Swiss netted three goals in the second half of the period. At 13:18 Stalder was free on the right side to make it 2-0 and two-and-a-half minutes later, seconds after a Danish penalty had expired, Sabrina Zollinger scored for Switzerland. With 60 seconds left Stalder scored a shorthanded goal on a breakaway for the 5-0 score after two periods. The Swiss also outshot Denmark in the last period in which Jeanette Langsager scored the consolation goal for the Scandinavians before Stalder completed her hat trick with a penalty shot. The Swiss, supported by a vocal crowd of 450 fans in the mountain resort of Arosa, will continue the tournament against Norway on Saturday. Tonight the Czech Republic will play Norway. “The teams from the Nordic countries are always athletic and fast. We analyzed Denmark as we will analyze Norway and go step by step,“ Stalder said.

Tomorrow Womens 7.5km Sprint Start List

The World Championship program will continue Tomorrow with the Womens Alpine Combined. Here is the Start List

FINAL QUALIFICATION ROUND Tournament 1 Arosa (SUI) - 09.02.2017 - 12.02.2017 Round-Robin 4 Nations, Round-Robin Tournament, 1st Nation will Qualify to the Women´s Ice Hockey Tournament at the Winter Olympic Games 2018 Day 1 Results Denmark 1 - 6 Switzerland (Score by Period: 0-2, 0-3, 1-1) 9th February 2017, h. 16:00 (GMT +1), Sport und Kongresszentrum, Arosa Czech Republic 5 - 0 Norway (Score by Period: 2-0, 3-0, 0-0) 9th February 2017, h. 20:00 (GMT +1), Sport und Kongresszentrum, Arosa Round-Robin Provisional Standing After Day 1 RANK NATION GAME WINS W(OT) L(OT) LOSE SCORE POINTS 1 Switzerland 1 1 0 0 0 6:1 3 2 Czech Republic 1 1 0 0 0 5:0 3 3 Denmark 1 0 0 0 1 1:6 0 4 Norway 1 0 0 0 1 0:5 0

Once again so close to the top 10 but again ...nothing. but well, what can we do, without Kuzmina this is our probably real positions peak.. just pitty we lost with Kazakhstan one of our main opponent in the Nations cup. Very pleasant performances especially from our girls, both presented very good efforts keeping our top 10 dream realistic for quite long while, especially Paulína with her 4th fastest skiing time. The good news is that we finally managed to avoid penalty loops in the mixed relay...so overall satisfying and good result, just pitty the lost with Kazakhstan In the mens standing we moved up to 16th place ahead of Slovenia, womens remains 17th still on danger only few points in front of Japan. remember that top 17 countries can enter 4 biathletes per event next world cup season.

FINAL QUALIFICATION ROUND Tournament 2 Tomakomai (JPN) - 09.02.2017 - 12.02.2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Austria - Japan 1-6 Japan overpowers Austria Veteran Kubo scores a hat trick Japan's Ami Nakamura and Akane Hosoyamada celebrate a goal against Austria. Japan relied on its speed and conditioning to overwhelm Austria 6-1 in its first game of the Final Olympic Qualification Group D. Veteran Hanae Kubo scored a a hat trick for Japan which is bidding to qualify for its third Olympics following Nagano and Sochi. "We got off to a bit of a slow start but were able to find our rhythm as the game progressed," Japan coach Takeshi Yamanaka said. "This was a good way to start the tournament and will give us a lot of confidence going forward." Kubo put Japan ahead early in the first period but Austria equalized on a goal by captain Esther Kantor in the final minute of the opening frame. It was all Japan after that. Shiori Koike widening the lead just under three minutes into the second period and Kubo put Japan firmly in control with her second goal of the night midway through the period. Shoko Ono put the game out of reach at 4-1 when she deflected a centering pass by Chiho Osawa four minutes into the third period. Kubo completed her hat trick on a powerplay with with 3:10 remaining and Akane Hosoyamada completed the rout late in the third. "I had a wide-open net and it was just a question of tapping it in," Kubo said of her third goal. "I give a lot of credit to my teammates who got me the puck." One team in Group D will qualify for the Pyeongchang Olympics. Germany beat France 3-2 in Thursday's first game. Manuela Anwander and Andrea Lanzl scored in the shootout for Germany after Marie Delarbre tallied in the final minute of regulation to tie the game at 2-2. Eight nations will play in the women's tournament at the 2018 Games. The United States, Canada, Finland, Russia and Sweden have already secured places, along with Korea which earns a spot as the host nation. Japan will France in its next game on Saturday while Germany takes on Austria.

FINAL QUALIFICATION ROUND Tournament 2 Tomakomai (JPN) - 09.02.2017 - 12.02.2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Germany - France 3-2 after GWS Germany 3, France 2 Anwander scores shootout winner in thriller Germany's Manuela Anwander scores the shootout winner against French goalie Caroline Baldin Germany scored late in regulation and twice in the shootout to beat France 3-2 in their opening game of the Final Olympic Qualification Group D. Lore Baudrit scored four minutes into the third period to give France a 2-1 lead. It looked like the game would end in France's favor but with just over a minute left in regulation, Marie Delarbre beat France goalie Caroline Baldin from a tight angle to send the game to a 3-on-3 overtime. Neither team scored in overtime and the game went to a shootout. Manuela Anwander scored Germany's first goal of the shootout, deking Baldin and Andrea Lanzl added another by beating Baldin five-hole from close range. France didn't score on any of its shootout chances. "We never gave up and I think today's result shows our character," Germany captain Julia Zorn said. "This was the first step and we want to keep improving with every game." One team from Group D will qualify for the Pyeongchang Olympics. The other teams in the group are Japan and Austria. Eight nations will play in the women's tournament at the 2018 Games. The United States, Canada, Finland, Russia and Sweden have already secured places, along with South Korea which earns a spot as the host nation. France took a 1-0 lead late in the first period when Marion Allemoz picked up a loose puck on a goal-mouth scramble and fired past German goalkeeper Jennifer Harss. Germany was penalized three times in the first period and the first goal came on a delayed penalty. "We took too many penalties in the first period," Germany coach Benjamin Hinterstocker said. "I talked to the players in the first intermission and told them we have to play a full 60 minutes, period by period." Germany equalized on a power-play goal at 14:58 of the second period. Sophie Kratzer grabbed a rebound and lifted a backhanded shot over Baldin. Germany dominated play in the third but was unable to take advantage of their power-play opportunities. The Germans had a 5-on-3 midway through the third period but couldn't find an equalizer. When they did get a shot on net, Baldin was there to make the save.

Paulína with 4th fastest ski time of 1st legs but this shooting....

FINAL QUALIFICATION ROUND Tournament 2 Tomakomai (JPN) - 09.02.2017 - 12.02.2017 Round-Robin 4 Nations, Round-Robin Tournament, 1st Nation will Qualify to the Women´s Ice Hockey Tournament at the Winter Olympic Games 2018 Day 1 Results Germany (GWS)3 - 2 France (Score by Period: 0-1, 1-0, 1-1, OT: 0-0, GWS: 1-0) 9th February 2017, h. 14:30 (GMT +9), Hakucho Oji Ice Arena, Tomakomai Austria 1 - 6 Japan (Score by Period: 1-1, 0-2, 0-3) 9th February 2017, h. 18:00 (GMT +9), Hakucho Oji Ice Arena, Tomakomai Round-Robin Provisional Standing After Day 1 RANK NATION GAME WINS W(OT) L(OT) LOSE SCORE POINTS 1 Japan 1 1 0 0 0 6:1 3 2 Germany 1 0 1 0 0 3:2 2 3 France 1 0 0 1 0 2:3 1 4 Austria 1 0 0 0 1 1:6 0

Also for Adam the championships is over...he is in hospital but lol "I feel like after 3 rounds in the ring with Conor McGregor"

So tomorrow begin the final battles for PyeongChang, the first match between France and Germany will start at 6:30 AM our central european time in Tomakomai, Japan. Remember only the tournament winners will qualify to the olympics, we will use the IIHF traditional rules, so since each match must have a winner the main tie-breakrer in case of points equality is the head 2 head confrontation result, so every game will be important and can be decisive at the end. Good luck to all last 8 contenders.

nah he love the mountains so he will be super happy to have the Tatras and me ? I´ll be even more happy to have the highest point of the country somewhere around 2 metres above the sea

or just swap with netherlands, they will be happy again with Belgium and Mordor

but I want the czechs back

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DAY 10 Wednesday 8th February 2017 HIGHLIGHTS #1 HIGHLIGHTS #2

Another big try ...

but apparently the store they visited had only the womens department

The World Championships 2017 starts tomorrow. Here the Start List of the first Event the Mixed Relay Start List Unfortunately Anastasia Kuzmina is still not fully recovered from her illness and will start at only 1 or 2 events here (Sprint and one of the Pursuit/Mass Start if she qualifies) which means she will not be part of our relays this time so our mixed relay legs are as follows Paulína Fialková Janka Gereková Tomáš Hasilla Martin Otčenáš let´s hope for the bet we really need some good result somewhere around top 10

Adam Žampa

FIS ALPINE SKIING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Men's Super-G Final Results GUAY Erik 1:25.38 JANSRUD Kjetil 1:25.83 OSBORNE-PARADIS Manuel 1:25.89 Canada dominates St. Moritz super-G It was the men’s turn to make their debut at the 2017 Alpine World Ski Championships in St. Moritz, and all everyone could say was ‘Oh Canada’. Canadians Erik Guay and Manuel Osborne-Paradis entered the race as unlikely victors and ended up taking home the gold and bronze medals, respectively. Norwegian Kjetil Jansrud took silver in the action-packed race. Guay won his second career World Championship medal, with a matching set after he last won the gold at the 2011 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. While Guay is a steady force on the World Cup tour, he was not considered a big favorite to take the gold medal today, with just one super-G podium all season. He has had a steady stream of injuries over the past several years that have kept him just out of the spotlight, but today it was his turn to shine. At 35 years of age, Guay also make history as the oldest-ever alpine world champion. “It’s incredible,” said a clearly awestruck Guay after the race. “With the whole history with all of my injuries and even the crash last week in Garmish, it’s just amazing to be standing here as a world champion. I’m having a hard time finding words to express what this means and how I feel. To be on the podium today with two of my good friends Manny and Kjetil makes it even better.” Jansrud looked to be poised for gold after a great run gave him the lead as the ninth skier down the hill. His toughest competition came when his teammate Aleksander Kilde stormed down the mountain and looked to take over the lead, but came out 0.09 seconds shy. But before the Norwegian duo could get too comfortable in the leader’s box, Guay was the next skier down with a flawless run which survived as the rest of the field could not come close to the gold-medal pace. Birthday boy Osborne-Paradis provided the final surprise of the day when he shuffled the podium one last time, blazing down the course with bib 26 and ultimately taking third place, bumping Kilde out of medal contention. It is the Canadian’s first-ever world championship medal. “I made a big mistake in the middle and I knew if I wasn’t perfect the rest of the way down that I had no chance,” said Osborne-Paradis. “But that’s the great thing with racing, you never know until you cross the line. Erik called me just before I raced and said, 'Don’t think, just go’, which is what I did and it worked.” Compared to yesterday’s ideal conditions for the ladies’ super-G, the men had mostly cloudy skies. The day was also cloudy for the Swiss men’s team, who entered the race with high expectations but came away with only one racer, Carlo Janka, in the top 10. Tomorrow, there are no medal events on the schedule as both the men and ladies have their final downhill training scheduled. Full Results Here Erik Guay Super-G World Champion 2017 Race Replay Erik Guay 31:34 Kjetil Jansrud 19:55 Manuel Osborne-Paradis 58:45