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Reichelt clocks fastest time with bib #1 The last speed race before the World Championships in St. Moriz took place today on the Kandahar in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER), following yesterday’s replacement race from Wengen. The fastest man on the hill for this second downhill was Austria’s Hannes Reichelt, ahead of Italy’s Peter Fill and Switzerland’s Beat Feuz. A back surgery in late summer prevented the defending Super-G World Champion to start the season at his very best level, but already in Val Gardena he claimed his first Top-10 of the season and in Santa Caterina he grabbed a second place in the Super-G. The 36 year-old Austrian proved that he is in a great shape in yesterday’s downhill already, with a fourth place despite a big mistake in the upper part. Today, coming down with a clean run with bib number 1, Reichelt held on to the lead until the very end of the race and claims his 12th career victory. In second position, South Tyrolean Peter Fill earns a second podium placement in two days and takes the lead in the downhill standings. Confidence is definitively there for last year’s globe winner, who has been skiing at a constant very high level lately and claims his third podium of the season podium. Beat Feuz was already on the podium in Garmisch-Partenkirchen last year, and after crashing on the Hausbergkante with the fastest split times, it was important for him to show that he is in a great shape and ready for the upcoming World Championships in his home country, on the course where he won both the Super-G and the downhill at the Finals last season. The men’s speed racers are now enjoying a short break from the World Cup Tour, before coming back to action for the FIS Ski World Championships in St.Moritz from the 6th February on for the first of four downhill trainings. The Super-G will kick off the WCS competitions on 8th February. Full Results Here

Gut gets first downhill victory of the season Swiss Lara Gut claimed her first downhill victory of the season and seventh of her career on Saturday at Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, propelling her to within 30 points of Mikaela Shiffrin in the race for the overall title. Home favorite Sofia Goggia sat in the lead prior to Gut besting her by a slim 0.05 seconds. "The top wasn't really clean and I didn't trust myself to push 100 percent on the skis, so after the second split I really had the feeling that I had to change something. I tried to ski a little bit smoother and it worked out. I'm happy. I knew that if I did what I can, I could be really fast,” Gut said with a smile. Runner-up Goggia was fighting to get back on the podium streak she started early in the season. "I think I made a great performance today in the downhill. I'm pretty happy with my skiing but still a little bittersweet for the last interval. But still, it's really OK. I'm trying to push every race close to my limits. It's ok when you try and fail, the important thing is not to lose the confidence you have earned during the season,” Goggia reflected. Downhill standings leader Ilka Stuhec of Slovenia also recorded a podium result for the first time since December in Val d’Isere. "My run felt OK, not perfect, because I know that I made some mistakes and lost some time. That's why I'm not winning, I guess. But for sure, it's a beautiful day to ski. And here is always very, very nice because we've done two trainings and a race and there is no track in the snow – no nothing – so it is perfect, and I love it,” Stuhec said. The venue hosts a super-G race for the ladies on Sunday. Full Results Here Lara Gut

Photo finishes decide both sprints in Falun Stina Nilsson (SWE) and Federico Pellegrino (ITA) have won the 1.4 km free technique sprints in Falun, Sweden. It’s the first time we have seen free technique sprints on the sprint course designed for the 2015 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. It took a photo finish to decide both competitions. Nilsson and Norway’s Maiken Caspersen Falla continued their sprint duel with a thrilling 0.01 separation at the finish. They have now split victories in 10 of the last 11 sprints with 5 wins each. Overall World Cup leader Heidi Weng of Norway took third place +1.88 back. In the men’s sprint Pellegrino won his first free technique sprint since January 2016 by just 0.6 ahead of Norway’s Emil Iversen. Sindre Bjoernestad Skar took third just 0.47 back and just 0.03 ahead of local boy Sweden’s Oskar Svensson. Full Results Men and Women

Rydzek stays on top in the Nordic Combined TRIPLE Johannes Rydzek has also won the second event of the Nordic Combined TRIPLE. Again, he wrestled down Eric Frenzel in a finish line sprint and finished one second ahead of his teammate. Samuel Costa with another amazing performance captured the third place again and followed yesterday's third place with the second podium result of his career. The results after the jumping event couldn’t have been tighter if they’d tried: Johannes Rydzek won the event with a 0.1 point lead on Bernhard Gruber and Samuel Costa who tied for the second intermediate place. 133.4 points for Rydzek after a 103.5 metre jump and 133.3 points for Gruber and Costa (both 106.5 m) meant all three athletes started at the same time in the 10 km cros-country race. Eric Frenzel was in an excellent position to attack, just 4 seconds after the leading trio. Teammate Fabian Rießle was also overjoyed with his jump of 105 metres which meant an intermediate position six for the German and just 23 seconds to make up. Akito Watabe followed on position seven with +0:41. Full Results Here

Lundby wins in Rasnov Maren Lundby took the win in the first FIS World Cup competition in Rasnov (ROU). The Norwegian performed jumps to 97,0 and 99,0 meters and scored 259,0 points. Places two and three went to Sara Takanashi and Yuki Ito of Japan. Lundby still sees room for improvement Lundby, who was already in the lead after the first round, said afterwards: „It was a very good day for me, I am really happy with my jumps. But still it was not perfect. There are always a few little things to improve.“ Sara Takanashi came the closest to Lundby after jumps to 93,0 and 98,0 meters with 249,8 points. The World Cup leader said: „I am working on very many little details to get my jumps back to the best performance. But the result is very good form e and a step in the right direction.“ On third place teammate Yuki Ito jumped to 91,0 and 93,5 meters and got 238,5 points. Ito with best jumps The three-times World Cup winner said: „My jumps in the competition were much better than in the training and in the trial round. That’s very good. I am still struggling to find the right timing at the take-off.“ Six points behind Ito Germany´s Carina Vogt again just missed out on the podium and finished fourth after jumps to 91,0 and 93,0 meters. Her teammates Svenja Wuerth, with 229,8 points on 5th place and Katharina Althaus, who finished 6th equal with Austria´s Daniela Iraschko-Stolz, helped her delivering a great team result for the Germans. Wuert with career best For Wuerth it was the best World Cup result so far. Chiara Hoelzl finished 8th and was the second Austrian in the top ten. Behind her Maja Vtic came in 9th and was best Slovenian. Japans Yuka Seto completed the top ten. On 11th place Nita Englund of the USA had a season best, same goes for Lea Lemare of France on 12th place. Runggaldier best Italian Elena Runggaldier was best Italian finishing 15th behind Jaqueline Seifriedsberger and Sarah Hendrickson, Julia Kykkaenen came in 20th for Finland behind the best Russian Irina Avvakumova and Ramona Straub. Local hero Daniela Haralambie came in 24th, Taylor Henrich scored for Canada on 29th place. The second competition starts on Sunday at 12.30 (CET). Full Results Here

Kazakhstan - China 22-0 loooool..I don´t know what to think about this result, I see some relatively famous names among the Kazakh scorers but still I´ll not say that they are something special, but probably it´s just the Chinese who are weak as hell

yes, she just made my day Ivona was supposed to be our great talent, even bigger than her sister Paulína, but so far she struggled with bad shooting, also she had many times when it finally started to be something good a very hard luck, hopefully this ECh will be the good new re-start for her

Japan winning point with Latvia is also not something happening regularly in the first womens match a expected blow out from the Canadians against China 9-1

10th place very nice perf Ivona

cmon Ivka !!! cmooon for this top 10

@heywoodu Bruna just behind one of those terrible suits

haha what is this ?

first video of the universiade . looks like we will have great attendances and interest in the country

Day 2 of the Women´s Under 18 Division I Group B Qualification Tournament is scheduled today Womens Under 18 Division I Group B World Championship Qualification Tournament in San Sebastian (ESP) Day 2 Schedule (28th January 2017) GMT +1 16:30 Australia vs Mexico 20:00 Romania vs Spain Livestreams

Medal for Latvia and Loginov wow. damn, he is very strong wonder if he will compete at WCh and win easily too, definitely a thing to follow from behind

[hide] Knockout Round January 21st - January 29th, 2017 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match Bronze Medal Match Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 January 28th 2017, h. 20:45, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Slovenia 2 Croatia Gold Medal Match Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 January 29th 2017, h. 17:30, AccorHotels Arena, Paris France 5 Norway [/hide]

you know Kazakhstan is number one

exact, also I´m very interested by which criterias was provided the draw of this competition we are in the same group with both North americans, and in other group there for example both Japan and South Korea in the same group, we´ll see the real level next days, I suppose Kazakhstan will be also with Russia the top favorites, there are always at universiades.

but lol in 1994 the pool C teams was Slovakia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and only 1 year before 1993 also Latvia you can immagine the feelings of all other countries to suddenly got all this bunch of opponents in their divisions Anyway at least there was a great lobby work from our president and ice hockey federation + old stars which worked very hard and succesfully got the invitation for us to play the Lillehammer qualification (which we thankfully won) and organize the C pool WCh at home (which we won) and next year again to organize the B pool WCh (which we won) again at Home and in the minimum possible time of 2 years advanced to the top dividons in all mens categories.

well 61-13 SOG it´s really something we don´t see so often at international level. but I´m not familiar with the real levels of the teams here, I know our players play the relatively solid university league, some of them play in our second/third tier championship clubs. and we really rarely (or never) play matches against second or lowest divisions hockey countries, so it´s nice to see this comming at least at the universiade. if my knowledge is correct this was only the second SVK-GBR official match in history, the first one was7-1 in September 1993 in Sheffield during the Lillehammer 1994 olympic qualification, just 1 year after our independance when IIHF incomprehensibly and shamefully forced us to play the C pool (Equivalent of todays Division II)

45-7 shots on goal so far ! this british goalie must be absolutely fantastic, maybe just performing the match of his life

So, the brief review of yesterday, Evgenia Medvedeva the 17 years old Russian marvel defended (in a new World record 150.79 in free skate and 228.56 in total) her title and became once again european champion in front of her teammate Anna Pogorilaya, Bronze medal go to Italy after another epic performance of the Sochi 2014 bronze medalist Carolina Kostner. Once again I must mention the historic best result of slovak women figure skater with a beautiful 6th place of Nicole Rajičová. Evgenia Medvedeva Free Skate In the mens competition Javier Fernandez of Spain is clearly going for his 5th european title in a row he already has 10 points advantage after the short program in front of the Russian Maxim Kovtun, currently 3rd is Alexey Bychenko of Israel. Javier Fernandez short program Today is the last day of the European Championships with the free dance afternoon and mens free skate scheduled this evening.

I hate when I can not watch our hockey teams playing