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[hide] Knockout Round January 21st - January 29th, 2017 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match. Semifinals Date and Venue Team 1 T1 T2 Team 2 January 26th 2017, h. 20:45, AccorHotels Arena, Paris France 4 Slovenia January 27th 2017, h. 20:45, AccorHotels Arena, Paris Croatia 2 Norway [/hide]

Hat-Trick for Kristoffersen at the Night Race The slalom highlight of the season gathered over 50‘000 spectators in Schladming for the 20th edition of the traditional Night Race. The event concludes the “slalom month” and Henrik Kristoffersen gets away with another win, the 5th this season. Not far behind, Marcel Hirscher finishes second and Alexander Khoroshilov 3rd. In the lead after first run, and yet to be defeated when in this position, Kristoffersen was the favourite for a third win in Schladming. Despite an unsettled second run, where he clocked only the 7th time, last year’s globe winner was able to raise up the level and cross the finish line as a three times winner at the Night Race in Schladming, a feat only achieved by Benjamin Raich (4 wins) so far. This win is even more important for the Norwegian, as he skied out for the first time in 21 slaloms in Kitzbuehel two days ago. “I actually did not know that the finish bridge lights up green when you're in front and red when you're behind. My teammate Sebastian (Foss-Solevaag) told me this summer. Before the second run, I was like, 'Don't look at it! Don't look at it!' I came through the last split and was like, 'I gotta look! No! it's red, I gotta go!' So I was a little stressed, but I think I charged it at the bottom there so it was pretty good." For the 9th time this season, second place goes to Marcel Hirscher. The Austrian attacked the second run and claimed the best time in every second split to end up with a solid lead. However, even if the gap between the two slalom dominators is getting smaller, Hirscher had the feeling that it would be enough for the win. "I knew it exactly when I crossed the finish line that the last fifteen gates were not good. I was too shy, not enough to go one-hundred percent of risk through the last fifteen gates. It's my personal mistake, but better eighty points in the books than zero points for today. I'm getting closer to Henrik, that it good and he deserved it anyways and skied excellent." Alexander Khoroshilov claims another podium placement, the 9th in career and the 3rd this season. The winner of the Night Race 2015 has a special story with this hill and had a delay in his summer preparation, so he is particularly happy to be on the podium again here. "I really love this hill. It's almost for me like a home race because we are spending a lot of time here and in Reiteralm so I really feel like it's at home. The crowd here gives you so much energy while you ski down, it's awesome. Before the first World Cup, I was a little bit injured so I started to ski pretty late before Levi -- two or three days -- and then I started to train a little bit with Dave (Ryding) and we started to push each other and then I could see how fast I am." Next stop for the men’s World Cup will be Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany, where two downhills (Friday and Saturday) and a giant slalom (Sunday) are scheduled between 27th and 29th January. Full Results Here Henrik Kristoffersen 1st run Henrik Kristoffersen 2nd Run

Federica Brignone surprises for home snow win in Kronplatz The technically demanding ERTA piste with a downward slope of 61 percent at its steepest point challenged the ladies in the Kronplatz giant slalom to ski a clean line. Tessa Worley came down with the early lead in the first run and held it all the way until Federica Brignone, with bib 14, skied with energy from the crowd to cross the line 0.15 seconds ahead of the GS standings leader. Brignone’s teammate Marta Bassino sat a close third at 0.26 seconds off the fastest pace. “My focus was to push to the end of the turns and just get back into really hard mostly on the last part, where it’s a little bit bumpy and there’s a fallaway. For sure I just wanted to make a nice, clean, and attacking run, but I’ll need to push harder in the second,” Worley said. “Normally I’m stressed but today I was really stressed too but I tried just to do my skiing and to enjoy this beautiful slope,” reflected Brignone. “I felt bad – well good, actually – but not so fast. I thought I was there, but not in the front.” Sunshine, an impressively large crowd for a Tuesday morning, and the unique slope made for a festive atmosphere in the first run. During the second run, the sun dipped below the surrounding mountains and cast a dark shadow on the lower third of the course. Still, Brignone was able to bring home the surprise win, even to her, and further impressed the crowd by welcoming Bassino onto the podium in third. Brignone’s only other GS victory on the World Cup came in Soelden in 2005, another venue noted for its pitch. “When it’s tough, I just try to do my skiing because I’m already preoccupied on how to do the slope, so then I like the ice and today was icy,” Brignone said. “So, I just tried my best really to make every turn after every turn. But in the second run, I felt awful and then, I don’t know if you saw me, but I crossed the finish line and said, ‘No, no. It’s never gonna work.’ And then I saw one, and it was amazing. It was incredible.” Brignone was the first Italian woman to win a GS on home snow in a decade, as Karen Putzer was the last to do so in January 2007 in Cortina d’Ampezzo. Brignone even extended her lead in the second run and ultimately bested Worley by 0.55 seconds. Still, the discipline leader was happy to collect her sixth podium finish of the season. “It’s another podium,” Worley noted. “It’s another second place, and Federica really skied so well this last part, and I had a tough time over there. But I mean I fight it until the end and it was totally worth it, so happy with second place.” Bassino finished in third place for the second time this season and in her career, a previous podium coming back in October in Soelden. “It’s amazing,” Bassino admitted. “It’s a dream in Italy with all these people.” Full Results Here Federica Brignone 1st Run Federica Brignone 2nd Run

well that would be a bit unsatisfying. I expected more than 7 alpine skiers in PyeongChang (hope for 9-10)

yay.. but still from 1113 female players is still easier to form a let say competitive "hobby" students team than from 743

GBR has 1113 registred female ice hockey players, we have 743

this feeling when Great Britain has bigger team at winter games than a certain central european typical mountainous country

NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 2016/2017 ITALY Ritten Sport HC 3rd Title ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ritten defends title Third Italian championship in four years The Ritten players celebrate with the "scudetto" for the Italian champion. Ritten Sport defended the Italian championship and beat Asiago, the last team to defend the title in 2011, in the final. It’s the third championship in four years for the South Tyrolean team. This season most of the teams from last year’s Serie A play in the new Alps Hockey League with teams from Austria and Slovenia that don’t compete in the Austrian top league EBEL. There Ritten Sport leads the league ahead of regional rival Pustertal Bruneck and Slovenian team Acroni Jesenice. The best four Italian teams from the league now played the Italian championship during a weekend in Asiago to determine the winner of the Serie A trophy, the “scudetto”, and the right to play in the Continental Cup next season. Ritten with a 5-2 win against SG Cortina and Asiago Hockey with a 3-1 victory against Pustertal Bruneck won the semi-finals on Saturday to set up the final on Sunday. In front of 1,800 spectators host Asiago had the better start. Canadian centre Krys Kolanos scored after just six seconds of play and at 6:05 Davide Conci gave Asiago a 2-0 lead. But Ritten, which outshot Asiago 28-24, came back with goals from two Italian national team players. Alex Frei cut Asiago’s lead at 12:05 and at 12:55 of the second period Tommaso Traversa tied it up for Ritten’s “Buam” (“boys” in the local German dialect). Less than six minutes later Frei scored his second goal to give Ritten the lead. The 3-2 score stayed until the end of the game and the Ritten players earned the trophy for the 83th Italian championship. Ritten recently hosted the 2017 IIHF Continental Cup Final where it started with a 3-2 shootout win against Kazakh champion Beibarys Atyrau but after two losses ended up in last place.

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Tomorrow starts the European Championships in Ostrava (CZE) http://ostrava2017.eu/ 166 athletes from 31 countries will compete for the continental titles. Slovakia will compete in 3 events. Michael Neumann in the mens category, Nicole Rajičová in womens and new formed pair Lucie Myslivečková/Lukáš Csolley in mixed ice dance.

I suppose so, never heard about her to be fair, Segečová is more known name because her brother time by time start in our A team but with very poor results, I think Bruna can beat both of them I don´t know what to expect from this universiade, for example I never heard any of the names from our ice hockey team, never !!! and I live in Slovakia all are from our university league, but I really don´t know how to valuate the level, so I hope for the best but expect the worst maybe Michal Kubaliak in biathlon or Matej Falát/barbora Kantorová in alpine skiing are more known names, but really don´t see any medal comming this time

TEAM SLOVAKIA 42 Athletes (34 M + 8 W) 6 Sports Ice Hockey 23 + 0 Biathlon 3 + 3 Cross-Country Skiing 2 + 2 Snowboarding 1 + 0 Alpine Skiing 3 + 2 Figure Skating 2 + 1 NAME SURNAME SPORT Samuel Košut ice hockey Peter Putec ice hockey Juraj Halo ice hockey Radoslav Gábor ice hockey Martin Uhnák ice hockey Edmund Piačka ice hockey Adam Kasanický ice hockey Peter Gápa ice hockey Jakub Loydl ice hockey René Štrauch ice hockey Peter Bustin ice hockey Samuel Ivanič ice hockey Tomáš Hluch ice hockey Denis Nociar ice hockey Michal Kabáč ice hockey Martin Indrych ice hockey Andrej Sucharda ice hockey Ivan Jakubík ice hockey Jozef Tomčák ice hockey Nikolas Ketner ice hockey Jan Zlocha ice hockey Ivan Brezniak ice hockey Michal Pichnarčík ice hockey Anna Netíková biathlon Andrea Hôrčiková biathlon Alžbeta Majdišová biathlon Michal Kubaliak biathlon Henrich Lonský biathlon Ondrej Kosztolanyi biathlon Miroslav Šulek cross country Rudolf Michalovský cross country Eva Segečová cross country Aneta Smerčiaková cross country Matej Bačo snowboard Matej Falát alpine skiing Martin Hyška alpine skiing Barbara Kantorová alpine skiing Katarína Miklošová alpine skiing Henrich Katrenič alpine skiing Michael Neuman figure skating Marco Klepoch figure skating Miroslava Hriňáková figure skating

same for Sagan well, thats dumb really, but we haven´t this exception in our law, so all athletes (rich or poor) have the same starting line, and their financial support is calculated on the basis of obtained results, and since Domi won the WTA masters (I know it´s a bit stupid but it´s considered as a world champion title in olympic sport in this system) she is entitled to the maximum amount for inividual athlete.

ah ok, cool, thanks. haha well with those "zero" funds, I am affraid that it will not happen so soon

and makes their womens world cup comeback tomorrow in Kronplatz after almost 3 years paradoxically it´s both Nino Tsiklauri and Ieva Januskeviciute who competed the last time and at same race in Kranjska Gora SL 02.02.2014

haha maybe yes just checked about that and watched video on youtube, first time of my life I watched this sport. It looks fast and it must probably hurts a lot to get this ball in the head

Good question as I know, there no qualifications, the thing is to have a tournament of max 12 mens teams and 8 womens teams, so they probably just invite the different countries, plus, remember this is about universiade, so it´s not so easy to form a team of students and send them to play a tournament we have a university hockey league including teams from Poland, Austria, Czech republic and Hungary, so we have not problems to creat a team.

never heard about that before too just found that in the governement file list of funds with ZERO so I assume someone just created the federation but without any mentionable activities who knows, can not even google anything about

not so much, this is the only form of hockey which is not popular and relatively underestimated and mocked about it here

Yes 164 599 EURO. The top 3 lowest amounts received are Rugby 6 738, bridge 9 481, wushu 12 834. btw the sports without funds are aikido, american football , bandy hockey, basque pelotte, dame (chess), dragon boats, fistball, go, mountaineering, ju-jitsu, kendo, cricket didn´t even knew we have a federation, lacrosse, netball, petanque, cheerleading, polo, raquetball, tug war, sambo, savate, sepak takraw, sleddog, soft tennis, sumo, surfing , climbing, fishing, thai box and lifesaving.

well, they are succesfull and win medals almost everywhere our paralympic alpine skiers are usually counted as (between) the best in the world, we won the medal table in Vancouver 2010 alpine skiing and Sochi wasn´t any bad too... The things which shocked me is why the hell they put money to basketball, why ??? well, okay the girls are decent and maybe it´s fine to support youngs but why so much, they absolutely don´t deserve it - lucky bastards and football ahead of hockey is another shock..but surely because of EURO 2016 and our qualification for second round, this costed more than the debacle of our bunch of loosers last year at hockey worlds...but still surprising

yeah, here it is, finally the governement has announced the funds and financial supports for our sports in 2017, In total 168 athletes and teams fullfiled the required criterias last year to be rewarded, there 3 categories of funds, 1st for individual athletes, more than 144 athletes from 33 different sports federations will receive states financial supports, the most are from canoeing (25 athletes) Amounts are in EURO (TOP SUPPORTED INDIVIDUALS) 75 000 LADISLAV and PETER ŠKANTÁR (Canoe Slalom) 60 000 *JAKUB KRAKO and his guide (Paralympic Alpine Skiing) 60 000 *HENRIETA FARKAŠOVÁ and her guide (Paralympic Alpine Skiing) 50 000 MATEJ TÓTH (athletics) 50 000 ANASTASIYA KUZMINA (biathlon) 50 000 *VERONIKA VADOVIČOVÁ (Paralympic Shooting) 50 000 *JOZEF METELKA (Paralympic Cycling) 50 000 *IVANA KRIŠTOFIČOVÁ (Paralympic Athletics) 48 000 *MIROSLAV HARAUS and his guide (Paralympics Alpine Skiing) 45 000 JÁN BÁTIK, TOMÁŠ KUČERA (Canoe Slalom) 40 000 PETER SAGAN (Road Cycling) 40 000 MATEJ BEŇUŠ (Canoe Slalom) 40 000 *PETRA SMARŽOVÁ (Paralympic Alpine Skiing) 40 000 *MARIÁN KUŘEJA (Paralympic Athletics) 40 000 ERIK VARGA (Shooting) 40 000 DOMINIKA CIBULKOVÁ (tennis) 40 000 *PETER KINIK (Paralympic Archery) 40 000 *PATRIK KURIL (Paralympic Road Cycling) 40 000 *SAMUEL ANDREJČÍK (Paralympic boccia) 40 000 *EVA JURKOVÁ (Table tennis) 40 000 *THOMAS KEINATH (Table Tennis) 30 000 VERONIKA VELEZ-ZUZULOVÁ (Alpine Skiing) 30 000 ADAM ŽAMPA (Alpine Skiing) 25 000 PETRA VLHOVÁ (Alpine Skiing) (TOP SUPPORTED TEAMS) 184 000 ICE HOCKEY Men´s UNDER 20 NATIONAL TEAM 112 000 VOLEYBALL Men´s NATIONAL TEAM 100 000 CANOE SPRINT K4-1000m Team (SENIORS) 66 000 *PARALYMPIC TEAM BOCCIA (4-Members team) 60 000 *PARALYMPIC TEAM BOCCIA (2-Members team) 60 000 *NATIONAL MIXED CURLING TEAM 56 250 MIXED BIATHLON RELAY 45 000 *PARALYMPIC TABLE TENNIS Men´s TEAM (Class 6-8) (TOP SUPPORTED FEDERATIONS) FOOTBALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 099 163 they beat hockey !!!! ICE HOCKEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 006 437 TENNIS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 120 113 ATHLETICS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 858 948 CANOEING (SLALOM + SPRINT 50%-50%). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 795 116 AQUATICS SPORTS . . . . . . . . . . 1 759 540 VOLEYBALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 484 506 CYCLING SPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 374 550 HANDBALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 325 805 SHOOTING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 033 569 SKIING SPORTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 929 843 BASKETBALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 908 360 TABLE TENNIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 606 419 GYMNASTICS SPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546 098 BIATHLON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 486 059 BODY BUILDING/FITNESS . . . . . . . 419 458 WRESTLING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376 557 KARATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 145 FLOORBAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 070 JUDO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 194 etc... In total 66 slovak sports federations out of the 97 registred succeeded to receive funds (which means 31 sports federations will not receive any cent this year)

nah, I´m always bad in our prediction contests, nothing surprising

SCHEDULE DAY -1 Saturday, January 28th, 2017 (GMT +6) 12:30 : ICE HOCKEY - Men's Preliminary Round - Slovakia vs Great Britain 16:00 : ICE HOCKEY - Men's Preliminary Round - Japan vs Latvia 16:30 : ICE HOCKEY - Women's Preliminary Round - Canada vs China 19:30 : ICE HOCKEY - Men's Preliminary Round - Kazakhstan vs China 20:00 : ICE HOCKEY - Women's Preliminary Round - Kazakhstan vs Great Britain