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WOMEN'S UNDER 18 DIVISION I GROUP B QUALIFICATION 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Australians advance U18 women’s team wins qualification Australia’s Shiarna Tarasenko and Spain’s Maria Serna battle for the puck in the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship Division I Group B Qualification. Australia swept to victory in the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship Division I Group B Qualification in San Sebastian, Spain, sealing top spot with a game to spare after defeating the host and blanking Mexico for an unassailable lead. Sunday’s game against Romania turned into a procession for Tamra Jones’ triumphant roster, finishing in a 10-0 victory to celebrate that gold medal in style. That victory, and the manner of it, underlined the progress Australia has made in the 12 months since it made its IIHF debut at women’s under-18 level in Austria. Back then, the Aussies needed a shootout to defeat Romania after clawing back a 5-1 deficit; here, they were imperious on their way to gold. Thursday’s opening game against Spain set the tone. The host nation, making its first appearance in an IIHF women’s U18 tournament, was hopeful of making an impact on home ice. The Australians, though, had learned from their experience in Austria last January and, with several returning players, were ready to spring a surprise in the Basque Country. It wasn’t an ideal start – Paula Moreno put Spain 1-0 up inside five minutes after an error from goalie Keesha Atkins – but from that point on Australia proved resolute in defence. Between them, Atkins and her goaltending partner Imogen Perry did not concede again for the entire tournament. Atkins, in particular, recovered from that disappointing start to deal with some serious Spanish pressure, finishing with 28 saves in the opening game. At the other end, despite being outshot by the host, Australia’s finishing proved clinical. Lindsey Kiliwnik tied the scores in the 10th minute, beating Laura Lopez de Ochoa through the five-hole off a pass from captain Natalie Ayris, before two second period goals set up the win. Cleo Mayer got the first on a power play, squeezing the puck inside the post after Lara Azzopardi’s slap shot caused confusion in the slot. The Kiliwnik got her second of the game when Emily Davis-Tope slung the puck across the face of the net, evading a thicket of flashing sticks until Kiliwnik fired it home at the far post. The third period saw Spain desperately trying to find a way past Atkins while Australia dropped deeper to hold on for the 3-1 win. Next came Mexico, another u18 debutant, and Australia produced an assured display to win 5-0. Two goals apiece from Ayris and Nicole le Cren led the scoring, Brittany Mendham completed the scoring. At the other end, Atkins and Perry shared the shutout in a resolute display that allowed just 16 shots on the Aussie net. The other results – comfortable wins for Spain and Mexico over Romania – ensured that Australia’s junior Jills were already assured of top spot before the final game of the competition. But back on the ice of the Txuri Urdin Ice Palace, where colourful murals evoke the giants of 20th-century Spanish painting, there was still something to prove. A year ago, Australia went to its first IIHF championship and struggled to finish seventh out of eight teams by virtue of a hard-fought win over Romania. Now it was time to show just how much progress had been made. An emphatic victory, paced by a hat trick from Madison Poole, saw Romania swept aside. Further goals came from Davis-Tope, Mayer, Emma Steele, Shiarna Tarasenko, Sara Sammons, Rebecca Smith-Birch and Celestine Adams, while the shot count finished 69-9 in favour of the Green-and-Gold. Perry took over the goaltending duties and finished the tournament without giving up a single goal. Sunday’s late game saw Spain defeat Mexico 3-2 to take the silver medal. Victoria Belen Serrano’s goal just before the half-hour mark proved to be decisive. Mexico’s Natalia Amaya added an assist to her six goals earlier in the competition and finished as the leading scorer. Australia’s progress is a reward for several years of effort in establishing its junior women’s program. At present, there are about 80 young players in the system and, with more nations entering U18 women’s teams every year, the Australian Ice Hockey Federation is hopeful that a competitive junior team will feed seamlessly into a strong women’s national team. Last season, when the senior women won Division IIB gold in Spain following the U18’s debut in Austria, offered some signs of that plan paying off; this year, with Australia heading to Korea for its Division IIA tournament on the Olympic ice of PyeongChang in April, the team can already look to its juniors for inspiration. Results Thread

very nice 5th place of Barbara Kantorová in womens Super G

WOMEN ' S UNDER 18 IIHF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 UNOFFICIAL FINAL STANDING RANK NATION 2018 WCh 1 United States A 2 Canada A 3 Russia A 4 Sweden A 5 Finland A 6 Czech Republic A 7 Switzerland A 8 Japan I A 9 Germany A 10 Slovakia I A 11 Norway I A 12 Hungary I A 13 Austria I A 14 France I B 15 Italy I A 16 Denmark I B 17 Poland I B 18 Great Britain I B 19 China I B 20 Kazakhstan I B Q 21 Australia I B 22 Spain I B Q 23 Mexico I B Q 24 Romania I B Q

Womens Under 18 Division I Group B World Championship Qualification Tournament in San Sebastian (ESP) Day 3 (29th January 2017) Final Day 16:30 Australia vs Romania 10-0 20:00 Mexico vs Spain 2-3 Australia won the qualification tournament and qualify for the next years Women´s Under 18 Division I Group B World Championships, they will replace Kazakhstan relegated from this years championship held earlier this month in Poland. Spain finished the home qualification tournament in silver position, Mexico 3rd and Romania 4th. All 3 countries will have to play the qualification also next year.

DAY 0 Sunday 29th January 2017 HIGHLIGHTS

Andreas Wellinger takes the home win in Willingen Andreas Wellinger ended the weekend in Willingen with a triumph in front of his home crowd. After the 21-year-old Bavarian already won the qualification on Friday and was the outstanding athlete in Saturday's team event, he took the indivdiual win on Sunday with 242.3 points, close ahead of the two Austrians Stefan Kraft (242.0 points) and Manuel Fettner (241.0 points). This was the second win in the World Cup for Wellinger, the first on German soil. He celebrated his first World Cup win on January 16th, 2014 in Wisla (POL). Wellinger was already on the podium recently in third and second in Wisla and Zakopane. "It was incredibly close today, 4 athletes were separated by just 2 points. I tried really hard to get over that green line and it's amazing that I could win by 0.3 points. I don't think the conditions today were very difficult. Now I'm looking forward to the Ski Flying event in Oberstdorf next weekend. We are jumping on a new hill and I would like to improve my personal best of 218 m", Wellinger summed up the day and already looked ahead to the upcoming Ski Flying World Cup in Oberstdorf. Despite the fact that he was only 0.3 points behind the winner, Stefan Kraft was very satisfied with his second place. "I'm really satisfied with the weekend here in Willingen, especially the first round was very good today. In the second round it got extremely close. Of course I would have wanted come out on top, but Andi Wellinger's win is well-deserved, he was the best this weekend. We have a really strong team and we are also happy that Gregor Schlierenzauer is back again", Kraft said about the weekend in Willingen. Kraft's teammate Manuel Fettner was also happy about this third place: "This weekend was great for me and for the whole team. I had two very good jumps today and I'm really satisfied with my performance. Maybe I can achieve my first win in the World Cup this winter, that's what I'm working for", said Fettner. 17 600 fans at the Muehlenkopf-hill on Sunday saw a competition under once again difficult and changing wind conditions. Norway's Daniel Andre Tande, who was in the lead after the first round, was struggling with these conditions in the final. After an amazing jump of 149.5 m in the first round, Tande landed already at 134 m in the final and was fourth, only 1.9 points behind the winner. Tande was obviously very disappointed, he wanted to achieve a lot more in this event in Willingen. World Cup leader Kamil Stoch of Poland came in fifth and also thought that it wasn't easy today. "The conditions were really difficult today. The wind was changing fast and often. But I'm really satisfied with my fifth place here in Willingen", said Stoch. Michael Hayboeck and Gregor Schlierenzauer in sixth and seventh provided an oustanding result of the Austrian team of head coach Heinz Kuttin. Schlierenzauer is definitely on his way back to the world's elite. He will already be one of the contestants for top results next weekend in the Ski Flying World Cup in Oberstdorf. Jurij Tepes and Peter Prevc were the best Slovenes in eighth and ninth. Russia's Evgeniy Klimov confirmed his consistent shape this winter in 11th. Klimov is now 17th in the overall World Cup with 246 points, that's really strong. Piotr Zyla, Maciej Kot, Dawid Kubacki and Jan Ziobro were 10th, 13th, 14th and 15th and achieved a strong result for the Polish team, even if it wasn't enough for a top result after their win in the team competition yesterday. Apart from Wellinger's win, it was a disappointing competition for the German team: Second-best German was Markus Eisenbichler in 18th, local hero Stephan Leyhe and Richard Freitag could not meet the expectations in 20th and 23rd, Karl Geiger and Andreas Wank failed to make the cut for the final in 36th and 40th. But still head coach Werner Schuster was satisfied: "It went better and better for our team over the past weeks. We were close to the win yesterday and deserved being on the podium. I'm happy for Andreas Wellinger, he already won before and now he fought back after difficult times. Of course luck also played a role today, but he was the best jumper this weekend. Now I hope that he'll continue working that well." Kamil Stoch leads the overall World Cup with 978 points, ahead of Daniel Andre Tande (853 points) and Slovenia's Domen Prevc (786 points). The World Cup continues next weekend with two Ski Flying competitions in Oberstdorf (GER). Full Results Here

SCHEDULE DAY 1 Monday, January 30th, 2017 (GMT +6) TOTAL MEDAL EVENTS 8/85 Alpine Skiing: Super G M Alpine Skiing: Super G W Cross Country Skiing: 10km Individual Classical M Cross Country Skiing: 5km Individual Classical W Freestyle Skiing: Aerials M Freestyle Skiing: Aerials W Snowboarding: Parallel Giant Slalom M Snowboarding: Parallel Giant Slalom W ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09:00 : CURLING - Women's Round-Robin Session 1 - Sweden vs Switzerland 09:00 : CURLING - Women's Round-Robin Session 1 - Great Britain vs Russia 09:00 : CURLING - Women's Round-Robin Session 1 - Kazakhstan vs Germany 09:00 : CURLING - Women's Round-Robin Session 1 - Norway vs South Korea 09:00 : CURLING - Women's Round-Robin Session 1 - China vs Canada 09:30 : SNOWBOARDING - Women's Parallel Giant Slalom - Qualifiers 10:00 : SNOWBOARDING - Men's Parallel Giant Slalom - Qualifiers 10:30 : ALPINE SKIING - Women's Super G - Final 11:00 : CROSS COUNTRY SKIING - Women's Individual 5km Classical - Final 11:30 : FREESTYLE SKIING - Women's Aerials - Qualifiers 11:45 : FREESTYLE SKIING - Men's Aerials - Qualifiers 12:30 : ICE HOCKEY - Men's Preliminary Round - South Korea vs Russia 12:30 : CROSS COUNTRY SKIING - Men's Individual 10km Classical - Final 13:00 : ALPINE SKIING - Men's Super G - Final 14:00 : CURLING - Men's Round-Robin Session 1 - South Korea vs USA 14:00 : CURLING - Men's Round-Robin Session 1 - Canada vs Kazakhstan 14:00 : CURLING - Men's Round-Robin Session 1 - Great Britain vs Russia 14:00 : CURLING - Men's Round-Robin Session 1 - Sweden vs Czech Republic 14:00 : CURLING - Men's Round-Robin Session 1 - Norway vs Japan 14:00-16:00 : SNOWBOARDING - Women's Parallel Giant Slalom - Finals 14:00-16:00 : SNOWBOARDING - Men's Parallel Giant Slalom - Final 14:00 : FREESTYLE SKIING - Women's Aerials - Final 14:13 : FREESTYLE SKIING - Men's Aerials - Final 16:00 : ICE HOCKEY - Men's Preliminary Round - Sweden vs Czech Republic 16:30 : ICE HOCKEY - Women's Preliminary Round - Canada vs Great Britain 19:00 : CURLING - Women's Round-Robin Session 2 - Russia vs Norway 19:00 : CURLING - Women's Round-Robin Session 2 - Switzerland vs South Korea 19:00 : CURLING - Women's Round-Robin Session 2 - China vs Sweden 19:00 : CURLING - Women's Round-Robin Session 2 - Canada vs Germany 19:00 : CURLING - Women's Round-Robin Session 2 - Great Britain vs Kazakhstan 19:30 : ICE HOCKEY - Men's Preliminary Round - USA vs Canada 20:00 : ICE HOCKEY - Women's Preliminary Round - China vs Kazakhstan

Entries for the Stockholm City Event on Tuesday

Hirscher winning his 20th GS ahead of Olsson and Luitz Lately, the Giant Slalom is marked by a duel between Alexis Pinturault and Marcel Hirscher, the two racers sharing 13 wins in the last 16 races in that discipline. Today’s race on the Kandahar in Garmisch-Partenkirchen was a little different, with Marcel Hirscher claiming the win and continuing the streak, but surrounded by two surprise guests Matts Olsson and Stefan Luitz. Alexis Pinturault had a solid first run, but couldn’t make the decisive difference yet, with only a small +0.09 margin over main contender Marcel Hirscher. In the second run he struggled and fell back in fourth position. The win went to Austira’s Marcel Hirscher, who earned his 20th Giant Slalom win on the Kandahar today. With his 20th victory in slalom claimed last week in Kitzbuehel, Hirscher became the second man to reach 20 World Cup wins in two different disciplines, feat achieved only by Ingemar Stenmark so far. Hirscher also made a big step forward in the Overall standings, where he is in the lead with 1260 points, followed by Kristoffersen with 828 points. Surprising third after the first run, Sweden’s Matts Olsson confirmed his excellent shape in the second run and finished in second place. Coming back from an ACL injury contracted last season, Olsson is signing another strong result, after a 6th place in Adelboden. The Swede’s best result so far was 4th place in the Giant Slalom in St-Moritz 2014, so he will definitively be one to watch in the upcoming World Championships. Local Stefan Luitz delighted the crowd with his 4th career podium. Despite good and constant results last year and this season, the German didn’t manage to create the exploit and climb on the podium again since his third place in Are 2014. But something triggered in front of his home crowd and after a great performance in the first run (5th, +0.96 behind), Luitz managed to hold on to a podium placement and ranked third. With only two Giant Slaloms to go (in Kranjska Gora and at the Finals in Aspen), the fight for the discipline globe promises to be exciting, as Marcel Hirscher is leading with a 97 points margin over Alexis Pinturault, who is eager to claim his first Giant Slalom globe. One last World Cup race is scheduled before the World Championships in St.Moritz: the City Event in Stockholm. The 16 ladies and the 16 men who qualified for the event will meet on Hammarbybacken on Tuesday evening from 17.00 CET on. Full Results Here Marcel Hirscher 2nd Run

Ilka Stuhec slays Cortina d'Ampezzo super-G In the final super-G prior to the 2017 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships set for St. Moritz, Ilka Stuhec secured the first victory of her career in the discipline under blue skies at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. A straighter than usual course set benefited her as well as Italian Sofia Goggia, who finished second, and Anna Veith, who surprised herself on her comeback journey to score her first podium finish since the 2015 World Cup Finals giant slalom. Stuhec selected bib 1 despite having the choice of three numbers in the draw the previous evening and had to watch every challenger come down and threaten her victory. "I feel great," said Stuhec. "It was a great course and felt really, really good to ski so I'm definitely happy with the outcome. It was definitely stressful to stand here and watch everyone coming down, but it's part of the game. At the end, we need to ski fast and show our best no matter what course is set." Goggia, meanwhile, was able to hit the reset button on her super-G season after two previous disappointing performances, bit her run was not without a mishap where she nearly lost her line on the lower half of the track. "It was not that easy coming from two DNFs in the last two super-Gs, and I was happy when I crossed the finish line and saw I made another podium. It was really OK, even though my skiing performance was not pushing at 100 percent, but I think I skied from 75 to 80 percent of what I can do." The surprise story of the day, of course, was Veith's third-place finish. Although she has posted fast splits in previous races, she has struggled to make it to the finish line. "It's pretty emotional. When I came to the finish, I didn't expect that because I was seven-tenths behind and I didn't feel that it was that good of a run because it was very fast. I was fighting for a good position, and it wasn't so easy. Now, I'm pretty happy that all the work has paid off now and I'm on the right way. It's been pretty hard because I know that everybody knows how my skiing was before my injury and I'm not at that point now because my body isn't like how it was before. It was tough the last weeks because it was always fighting against myself. And today, I just wanted to ski fast and nothing more and I'm pretty happy that it paid off," said Veith. Lara Gut was sitting on a perfect season in super-G but failed to finish after hooking her arm on a gate and spinning off course. She had over a half-second lead on Stuhec's time when she skied out. Although she was a little banged up after contacting the panel, she later reported that she sustained no significant injuries and will rest up and prepare for World Championships instead of racing the city event in Stockholm on Tuesday. Mikaela Shiffrin returned to the speed circuit and posted a head-turning fourth-place finish after matching Stuhec's split at the third interval. After skiing through the finish area with a smile on her face, she loudly proclaimed, "I can ski speed!" The result helped Shiffrin maintain an 80-point lead over Gut in the overall standings. The ladies' tour next meets up with the men in Stockholm, Sweden, for a city event parallel slalom on Tuesday evening. Full Results Here Ilka Stuhec

"King" Eric Frenzel has the last laugh at the TRIPLE Seefeld and Eric Frenzel - the love story continues. After having been beaten narrowly by teammate Johannes Rydzek two days in a row, Frenzel retook his rightful place as the „King of Seefeld“ today. He beat Rydzek by 30.5 seconds at the finish of the last 15 km cross-country race. World Champion Bernhard Gruber took the remaining spot on the podium, finishing one minute and 18 seconds behind Frenzel. After two rounds of jumping of the best 30 athletes of the TRIPLE, Johannes Rydzek maintained his lead. The German showed 106 and 105.5 metres and proved he has returned to a steady good jumping shape after struggling in the beginning of January. Rydzek held a total 285.4 points after his two jumps, which translated into a 18-second head start on Austrian Bernhard Gruber. Gruber delighted the audience with two jumps of 107.5 metres, which put the reigning World Champion into the second position. Fellow Austrian Mario Seidl also gained two positions after jumping 107.5 and 109 metres, the longest jump of the day. Title defender Eric Frenzel was also still in the running as he showed 106 and 106.5 metres. With 20 seconds to make up on the 15 kilometres, he started at the same time as Mario Seidl (280.5 and 280.4 points respectively). Yesterday’s podium sensation Samuel Costa from Italy was having slightly weaker jumps today: 106 and 104.5 metres were good but gave him the difficult task to make up 43 seconds on leader Johannes Rydzek. Behind Costa, a bigger gap opened up to pursuer Fabian Rießle. The German had to take on a time disadvantage of one minute and 34 seconds, hard to do but not impossible for the very strong skier on a distance of 15 km. For Akito Watabe and Terence Weber, who ranked seventh and eighth, start delays of around two minutes made the task to fight for the podium very difficult. The long „unusual“ 15 kilometres started out with Johannes Rydzek working alone to keep his advantage approximately until the halfway point of the race. Eric Frenzel, Mario Seidl and Bernhard Gruber started out together with Eric Frenzel stepping on the gas to close the gap to his teammate who was skiing ahead. At some point, the speed got too high for the two Austrians and from then on, it was a fight Germany - Germany for the first two spots on the podium and Austria - Austria for the third place. On the fifth lap Frenzel set an attack and to the surprise of many, Rydzek was not able to follow anymore. The gap between the two got bigger and bigger and while Frenzel skied towards a triumphal finish, Rydzek reached the end of the race with a big distance and was visibly crestfallen. Mario Seidl and Bernhard Gruber fought man to man for the third rank until the finish line - with the veteran edging out the up-and-coming young athlete today. Samuel Costa successfully defended his fifth position against Fabian Rießle. Magnus Krog improved to a seventh position, Ilkka Herola finished eighth, Akito Watabe ninth and Björn Kircheisen entered the Top Ten on rank ten. With today's result, Eric Frenzel also retakes his yellow bib of the World Cup leader. Full Results Here

Number 50 for Sara Takanashi Sara Takanashi won the second competition of the FIS World Cup Ladies Ski Jumping in Rasnov (ROU). With jumps to 96,0 and 97,5 meters Takanashi got 247,3 points and celebrated her 50th victory in the FIS World Cup. After the competition she said: "Finally made it" „I am very happy that I finally won my 50th competition. I was so much hoping I could achieve it in Japan. But Rasnov also is a very special place for me as I am holding the hill record and the people were supporting me so much here.“ On second place Norway´s Maren Lundby could not defeat her leading position after round one. With 95,5 and 93,0 meters and 241,9 points she claimed place two and finished the best weekend of her career after winning on Saturday. Great weekend for Lundby Lundby said: „I am very happy with this weekend. Places one and two are amazing. It was a great weekend. The conditions were close to perfect and we had a great atmosphere with very many spectators.“ Third place went to Austria´s Daniela Iraschko-Stolz, who achieved her third podium of the season with 93,0 and 94,0 meters and 235,4 points. Iraschko-Stolz back on the podium The Austrian said: „It feels good to be back on the podium. Sara, Yuki and Maren gave me a pretty hard time in the past weeks because they were jumping so strong. I had some trouble with my knee here but I am used to it since many years. The atmosphere and the spectators were great. I think, it´s my favourite World Cup event.“ On fourth place Yuki Ito had to end her podium streak after five competitions in the top three. Germans close to the podium With 90,0 and 90,5 meters and 224,1 points Ito stayed one point ahead of Katharina Althaus who finished 5th. Sixth place went to her teammate Carina Vogt with 218,4 points. After a disappointing first competition and place 18 on Saturday, Russia´s Irina Avvakumova came back to the top ten and finished 7th ahead of Svenja Wuerth of Germany. Yuka Seto and Sarah Hendrickson of the USA completed the top ten. Just missing out on the best ten Austria´s Jaqueline Seifriedsberger and Chiara Hoelzl finished 11th and 12th. Nita Englund finished a good weekend after 11th place on Saturday with place 13. Slovenia still struggling Slovenia´s Maja Vtic and Spela Rogelj came in 14th and 15th. Best Italian was Elena Runggaldier on 16th place, Lucile Morat and Lea Lemare came in 21st and 22nd for France, Julia Kykkaenen scored for Finland on 23rd place. Local hero Daniela Haralambie finished 24, just ahead of Canada´s Taylor Henrich. In the overall World Cup Sara Takanashi could expand her lead with now 995 points ahead of Yuki Ito (842) and Maren Lundby (697). Next stage of the Ladies World Cup is Hinzenbach (AUT) next weekend. Full Results Here

Bjoergen records 105th individual World Cup win in Falun Marit Bjoergen recorded her 105th individual World Cup victory with her win in the ladies’ 15 km classic mass start competition in Falun, Sweden. Bjoergen separated from the field early with her teammates Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg and Heidi Weng and it was a three-way battle until the end. Oestberg took up the lead over the final kilometers but was unable to stay with Bjoergen up the final climb before entering the stadium. She crossed the line just +0.5 behind Bjoergen for second place. Weng came across in third +8.1 seconds back. Swedish skiers Stina Nilsson and Charlotte Kalla came 4th and 5th respectably. Full Results Here

Sweet revenge for Iversen with 30 km victory Emil Iversen of Norway who lost yesterday’s 1.4 km sprint competition by just 0.06 seconds came back today in Falun with a big 30 km mass start classic victory. A sweet revenge after yesterday’s disappointment. Team tactics by Norway could be seen early as teammates of Martin Johnsrud Sundby - the current World Cup overall leader - surged forward to take as many World Cup bonus points as possible. Sundby took second place +3.7 seconds behind his teammate. In third to the excitement of the home crowd was Sweden’s Calle Halfvarsson +5.6 back. Halfvarsson broke up a possible Norwegian sweep of the podium by crossing the line just 0.1 seconds ahead of Sjur Roethe. Full Results Here

presidential elections to come ? nice commercial

The traditional outfits

Orange

Did she just said the falg bearer of Czechoslovakia ?

Haha nice

she waved the flag strongly

Parade of Nations

so far very nice ceremony and I just love the outfits

Opening ceremony

Andreas the kamikaze

Still so unusual to see a orange suit in the first relay starting line