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Takanashi a class of her own Sara Takanashi won the first of two single competitions of the FIS World Cup Ladies Ski Jumping in Oberstdorf. The Japanese outclassed her competitors with jumps to 131,0 and 129,0 meters and won with 283,4 points ahead of Russia´s Irina Avvakumova and teammate Yuki Ito. Takanashi satisfied Sara Takanashi said: „I am very happy with my jumps today. The conditions have been quite difficult but I’ve tried to stay in the right position. One of my main goals for this season was the right approach at the take-off and it worked very well today.“ Avvakumova achieved her first World Cup podium this season with 117,5 meters in the first round and the furthest jump of the day with 132,0 meters but still was 22,9 points behind Takanashi. This was mainly because the Japanese had an up to 6 gates lower inrun then some of her opponents. Avvakumova loves the big hills Irina Avvakumova stated: „It is a great result for me. I’ve tried to show my best possible jumps. I really love the big hills, I have a much better feeling in the air. I wish we would have more competitions on big hills for the ladies.“ Third place went to Yuki Ito 121,5 and 131,5 meters. The Japanese got 259,7 points and was beaten by Avvakumova by only 0,8 points. The Japanese said: „My first jump was not so good, I was a bit late at the take-off. The second jump was much better and I am happy with my result. Local heroes just behind the podium On place four and five local heroes Katharina Althaus and Carina Vogt could celebrate their best season results even though they missed the podium clearly by points. Althaus finished with 242,3 points, Vogt was another 6,8 points behind. Best Austrian of the day in front of more than 2.000 spectators was Chiara Hoelzl on 6th place ahead of the two Slovenians Ema Klinec and Maja Vtic. After heavy snow fall brought a lot of hard work for the organisers in order to prepare the hill and the infrastructure, the weather still was not on its best ski jumping mood. Tricky conditions A strong tail wind, especially in the first round, did not allow very far jumps. Sarah Hendrickson from the United States proofed herself unimpressed with the conditions and made it back to the top ten, finishing 9th just ahead of Jaqueline Seifriedsberger from Austria. Daniela Iraschko-Stolz, twice second at the last World Cup stage in Nizhny Tagil couldn’t fin her best jumps today and finished 12th behind Japans Kaori Iwabuchi. The good result for the German team was finalized by Svenja Wuerth and Luisa Goerlich on places 13 and 15, Maren Lundby jumped in-between and finished 14th. Thanks to Taylor Henrich and Atsuko Tanaka on places 18 and 30 Canada scored twice while Lea Lemare on 19 was the only French girl in the points. Julia Kykkaenen finished 22nd for Finland, Manuela Malsiner saved the Italian honour on 29. The second competition in Oberstdorf starts on Sunday at 4.20pm (CET). Full Results Here

Francetastic

Nilsson & Sundby win thrilling stage 6 of Tour de Ski Stage six of this year's Tour de Ski brought perhaps two of the most exciting competitions we have seen in many years. The ladies' 10 km classic mass start competition won by Sweden's Stina Nilsson saw Tour favourites Heidi Weng and Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg both of Norway struggle on the stage and both slip in the overall standings. With Nilsson's victory she now has a 19.2 second lead of Weng and Oestberg fell to 4th in the overall +1:23.3. On the podium with Nilsson was Finland's Anne Kylloenen in second place +3.0 for her first podium of the season and in third was Charlotte Kalla (SWE) who recovered from an early fall and finished +3.7 behind her teammate. Krista Parmakoski (FIN) also fell in the same turn as Kalla and fought her way back to take 4th place and with that result moved into 3rd in the overall standings +53.9 back from Nilsson. In the men's competition 2-time Tour de Ski champion Martin Johnsrud Sundby (NOR) stopped Sergey Ustiugov's (RUS) Tour stage win streak at 5 by winning the men's 15 km event. Ustiugov held on for second place +2.2 back but gave up 23 seconds in his overall lead. Sundby now sits 1:11.9 back in second place in the overall standings. The men's race saw team tactics from both Norway and Russia as each protected their top skiers during bonus sprints on course and at other times lifting or slowing the pace. In third place on the day was Finland's Matti Heikkinen +2.8 off the lead and jumped up the overall standings to now sit 4th behind Switzerland's Dario Cologna. Canada's Alex Harvey had his worst day of the Tour finishing 19th +38.7 back and slipped to 6th in the overall behind Heikkinen and France's Maurice Manificat. The battle for 3rd in the overall Tour will perhaps be the most interesting with 4 athletes being separated by just 50 seconds with just the final climb up Alpe Cermis left. Full Results Men and Women

again 3rd, what apitty for this last jump, if she landed it better she would have won..but ok, still huge result for her and us. her second this seasons podium Congrats babe and what a win for congrats

Not so much, but it happen sometimes in IBU cup. The thing is that each Biathlon weekend must have 3 mens and 3 womens races, the redistribution of the different events take place prior to the start of the season, in IBU cup there more sprints than other events so sometimes it happen that 1-2 stages have 2 sprints.

Great show in Adelboden, with Pinturault taking the win The legendary Chuenisbärgli has a new champion! Alexis Pinturault won the Giant Slalom in Adelboden, after a very exciting second run where he beat out his main challenger Marcel Hirscher by +0.04 and Austria’s Philipp Schoerghofer. With his 19 World Cup wins, Alexis Pinturault definitively surpassed Jean-Claude Killy’s French record today. The skier from Courchevel had a +0.70 margin from the first run, but he had to push hard and ski at the limit in the second run, as just before him Marcel Hirscher laid down an impressive run. "I thought when I crossed the line that it was long enough for me today, one or two gates more and I would be maybe behind so I'm really happy about those four hundredths. It's a victory, so it's something very special. I heard the crowd but it was more or less like every time; you make the first run and then you have to make also the second run and push even maybe harder in the second run." In second position, Marcel Hirscher writes history again, and step by step, keeps breaking records. He now has 100th World Cup podiums, a feat achieved only by ski legend Ingemar Stenmark so far (155 wins). He was very close to the victory, and he probably believed in it after crossing the finish line with an advantage of almost two seconds, but today Pinturault was stronger and Hirscher is still satisfied with this. "You know, I'm super, super happy with my second run today, another eighty points in the books. For sure, first run was with this mistake not what I was hoping for and if I want to search for four hundredths of a second, this was the mistake in the first run, that is for sure. I am super happy with my skiing in the second run, that was amazing and it felt great and so it is a good day." Austria’s placed another athlete on the podium today, with Giant Slalom specialist Philipp Schörghofer claiming his 6th World Cup podium. The 36 years old racer is only 24th of the second run, but a brilliant performance in the first run allowed him to grab the last spot in the Top3. "It was a great day for me. It was a big target for me to be on the podium today. I always want to be on the podium in Adelboden as a GS specialist. It's so cool here to be on the podium, the crowd is so amazing and the hill is great. There's a lot of tradition here so I am very happy with my third place here." Tomorrow, a slalom will be held on the Chuenisbärgli in Adelboden, starting at 10.30 / 13.30 CET. Full Results Here Alexis Pinturault 1st Run Marcel Hirscher 2nd Run Alexis Pinturault 2nd Run

yes this weekend in IBU Cup there 2 sprints and 1 pursuit races scheduled, all 3 races counts for the IBU Cup

and she did it again https://data.fis-ski.com/pdf/2017/SB/7389/2017SB7389RLQ.pdf

GS battle intensifies as Worley wins Maribor Tessa Worley of France started off her new year back on the top step of the GS podium and maintaining the discipline standings lead with a blistering second run in Maribor, Slovenia. After a first run where everyone had to make adjustments to rhythm changes on course, Mikaela Shiffrin held a slim 0.07-second lead over Sofia Goggia. Worley was lurking in third, at 0.20 seconds off the lead pace. “The course is great. The surface is really nice to ski on. I was attacking. I made a bit of a mistake, but it seems everybody had a bobble somewhere in the course. So it’ll be a good fight second run,” Shiffrin said between runs. “I felt I was attacking pretty hard, so just trying to continue with that mentality and maybe bring a little bit more smart skiing into the middle section but keep that aggression." But Worley fired up the jets harder than her competition and crossed the finish line with a solid green light. Then she waited as Goggia and Shiffrin each took their turns, but neither could pass her blazing final split. “It’s intense, but it’s awesome because it’s only in skiing that you can feel this feeling,” said Worley. “I was so happy at the end to see that I was winning. It’s a great fight and I’m really happy that all the girls are wanting to win every race and making it so hard. I’m happy because it pushes me to get to my best level.” Shiffrin ultimately finished fourth as Swiss Lara Gut edged her out for the final podium position in third. “It’s always cool to be on the podium. I had a little bit too many mistakes in the first run, so I can be not really happy, but the podium is always great. So take that and keep on working and hopefully – soon – I will get the feeling of winning again back,” said Gut. “It was really straight. It was just the way to go to the race. To me, it’s an easy course. It’s an easy slope. So you’ve seen in the first run, with two seconds you are top 30, no more. You have to push, and I think you also have to risk.” After four DNFs in a row in past races, Goggia seemed once again poised for a shot at her career first victory, but the champagne will have to wait for another day. Still, the Italian had reason to celebrate. “I’m pretty happy with today’s podium actually because it is an important race because it is the last one of Tina Maze, which was my idol in past years. So I was really touched and excited for that. I thought after the first run I was going to win, but still it’s OK like that,” Goggia said. “I was crying like a baby, and … it’s [been] some years since I [was] crying for someone with emotion like this. I was really touched in my heart because it was really something important to me.” Maze said her farewell to the World Cup circuit with a hard charge out of the start in the first run, but she pulled up after the first intermediate time to greet her partner Andrea Massi and former coach Valerio Ghirardi. Stopping just before the finish line and crossing it on foot, she officially recorded a DNF but spent a considerable amount of time thanking fans for their support over the course of her World Cup career which spanned 18 years after beginning in Maribor on Jan. 2, 1999. The venue was also the site of her first podium, notched in the GS race in 2002. “When I came to the World Cup she was already one of the best, and she’s been helping me so much. So thanks, Tina, for everything you did for me, for all the other athletes, and for the sport,” Gut announced to the crowd. The ladies will race a slalom in Maribor on Sunday with starting times at 9:15/12:15 CET. Full Results Here Tessa Worley 1st Run Tessa Worley 2nd Run

former coach of Anastasiya Kuzmina she won both olympic golds coached by him

Frenzel dominates, Hirvonen surprises in Lahti German superstar Eric Frenzel continues his winning streak from 2016 also in 2017 and takes the victory in the first of two Individual Gundersen events in Lahti. Behind him, Finnish youngster Eero Hirvonen skied to his first podium result (+4.1) after having already shown ambitions for the podium with a fourth place in Ruka earlier this year. Yellow bib bearer Johannes Rydzek lost the overall lead to Eric Frenzel but salvaged a third place today, finishing 26.4 seconds after the winner. Norwegian Jarl Riiber dominated the jumping round upon his return to the World Cup after an extended period of sickness. He jumped 128 metres from gate 7. After a coach request, this was two gates lower than the rest of the field. In the points total this meant 135.2 and a one minute and six second-head start on runner-up Eric Frenzel who landed at 125.5 metres (118.8 p.). Local hero Eero Hirvonen delighted the audience with the intermediate third position after showing 120.5 metres (113 p.) He had to to make up a time disadvantage of one minute and 29 seconds. From ranks five onwards, the gaps between the athletes were quite small, putting Johannes Rydzek still in a striking distance for a podium rank with a time behind of two minutes and 34 seconds. In the top group for the race, strong jumpers Samuel Costa, Willi Denifl, Maxime Laheurte, Terence Weber and Leevi Mutru and Espen Andersen were present as well as Francois Braud and Switerland’s Tim Hug who all started between +1:38 and +2:30. Legend Hannu Manninen began his comeback race from rank 37 and with three minutes and 52 seconds to make up, this shaped up to be a long way to the head of the field for the 38-year-old. Full results Here

wow !!! Pinturault won by 0.04 . what a race we have just experienced !!! this is skiing baby ! and the french day continue Congrats Krýzl, Zubcic and Andreas for nice race and good points

oh man, this was what a race by Hirscher !

wow what a scalp for Andreas to beat Jansrud

maybe it´s for more competitions according his last answer http://www.fis-ski.com/nordic-combined/news-multimedia/news/article=looking-forward-compete-with-the-top-athletes.html

another French day ? Fourcade and Tessa done....Pinturault ? Dorin ?

Annaaaaaaaaaa

haha ofc its just a namesake, not family related but still, thats really unusual, imagine whats the chance that something like that happen, a girl of your family will marry someone named like you

btw just noticed that, not only Anna Fenninger (Veith) did married this summer in the Austrian team, but also Michaela Kirchgasser did it too and the best thing is that she definitely will not confuse anyone because she married to her longtime boyfriend nammed ...guess how ? yes she married to Sebastian Kirchgasser ! oh dear, this is beautiful looks like Kirchgasser is really common surname in Austria

Andreas Žampa again in GS 2nd round, 3rd time this season, definitely his best careers season so far

2 points for Kazár. at least something this weekend for our mens

poor our young Kubaliak...lapped by Fourcade right before last shooting in his first careers top category pursuit

Fourcade what a legend...you might don´t like him but he is really a living legend

WOMEN'S UNDER 18 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Livestreams of all matches available here https://www.youtube.com/user/hokejcz/featured

WOMEN'S UNDER 18 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Women’s U18 back in CZE Return to 2012 venues promises drama The 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Women’s World Championship begins tomorrow in Zlin and Prerov, Czech Republic, the two cities that hosted the same event five years The Czechs then set an attendance record, which was broken by Canada last year, and hope to have a good atmosphere at the arenas again. All games will be streamed live on the official event website u18worldwomen2017.iihf.com, which is available in English and Czech language. That year Canada defeated the U.S., 3-0, for gold, and Sweden claimed the bronze with a 4-1 win over Germany. Last year the Americans beat Canada, 3-2, in overtime and the Swedes beat Russia, 2-1 for the bronze. This year, the two North American nations are expected to return to the gold-medal game and, as usual, it’s a coin toss to figure out which might win. The race for the bronze is wide open as the European nations are developing better players all the time. The defending champs will once again be coached by Joel Johnson, but he won’t have Natalie Snodgrass back. She scored the golden goal in 2016 and was second in tournament scoring last year. Back is goalie Alex Gulstene, who played in three of five games last year, including the gold-medal win. Half the defence is not returning, leaving veterans Cayla Barnes, Gracie Ostertag, and Madeline Wethington to lead the blueliners. Up front, however, the team has seven returnees, making for a very strong core that will be capable of defending their crown. Jesse Compher, Catherine Skaja, Taylor Wente, and Grace Zumwinkle are among the players to watch. Canada looks to have an equally strong team as well. Incoming coach Troy Ryan replaces Lisa Haley, and his first job will be to determine a number-one goalie. There are several strong candidates including Edith D’Astous-Moreau, but last year’s main goalie, Stephanie Neatby, won’t be in the Czech Republic this year. In all, Canada has only six returning players, so Ryan will have to get his players working as a team quickly. Sophie Shirley, lithe and fast, will pace the attack. Other returning players include Amy Potomak, Emma Maltais, Daryl Watts, Ashton Bell, and Olivia Knowles. This should be a skilled, offensive team that can give the U.S. a run for gold. Sweden remains strong under returning coach Ylva Lindberg, although goalie Emma Soderberg won’t be back. There were many 2000-born players in camp, so it might be a young team as well. Jessica Adolfsson, the team’s leading scorer, is no longer eligible to play but Celine Tedenby, another offensive threat, will be. Sofie Lundin will also be counted on to score some goals despite still being only 16 years old. If Linnea Johansson makes the team, the 14-year-old will be among the youngest players ever at the WW18. Russia lost the bronze medal game last year to Sweden and rookie coach Yevgeni Bobariko will be without last year’s sensational goalie Valeria Tarakanova. He will, however, have a Tretyak on the roster—Milena Tretyak, that is. His big worry will be scoring. Last year the team relied heavily on Fanuza Kadirova, but she’s no longer eligible for U18. The only player returning who showed offensive flair is forward Daria Beloglazova, but she’s going to need some help. Nearly half the team is back from 2016, but scoring and keeping the puck out of the goal are significant challenges this year. Coach Jari Risku is back behind Finland’s bench and will likely consider returning goalie Johanna Oksman his number-one puck stopper. There are seven skaters returning, so last year’s 6th place might well be improved upon this year thanks to wisdom gained from a year’s experience, especially for the likes of Petra Nieminen and Jennina Nylund. The host Czech Republic will be guided by Jan Fidrmuc, back for a fifth straight term as coach. His greatest challenge will be finding goals. Klara Hymlarova is one of eight returnees, and she tied for the team lead last year with only two goals. Grouped with Switzerland, Japan, and Finland, their task will be to avoid relegation. The Swiss will be without last year’s tournament scoring leader, Alina Muller, who now plays for the senior team. This combined with a young roster, could be problematic for the Swiss who have finished seventh the last two years. France was demoted last year and Japan, winners of Division I in 2016, will be up, but can the Asian nation remain in the top pool? The talent level is spread thin but the Japanese may be able to challenge some of their Group B opponents. Almost all Japanese play on teams at home, but Sena Takenaka plays at the Ontario Hockey Academy in Canada. They will be in a fight to avoid relegation.