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btw if interested here the youtube channel producing livestreams and replays from the womens Division II Group B qualification tournament https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC968p_IkHQxt-kHSITLfj6w/feed

Women's Division II B Qualification in Taipei City (TPE) (GMT +8) 15:30 Hong Kong - Belgium 0-7 19:00 South Africa - Chinese Taipei 1-7 day off - Bulgaria

Biathlon Qualification Standing after Event 6/22 Mens 1 France 2032.0 2 Germany 1901.0 3 Russia 1846.0 4 Norway 1790.0 5 Austria 1681.0 6 Czech Republic 1575.0 7 Ukraine 1498.0 8 Switzerland 1482.0 9 Italy 1401.0 10 Bulgaria 1276.0 11 Canada 1267.0 12 Sweden 1213.0 13 Belarus 1159.0 14 USA 1122.0 15 Slovakia 1086.0 16 Kazakstan 1081.0 17 Slovenia 1073.0 18 Romania 940.0 19 Estonia 862.0 20 Finland 836.0 21 Latvia 815.0 22 Lithuania 801.0 23 Poland 698.0 24 Japan 564.0 25 South Korea 321.0 26 Belgium 291.0 27 Croatia 139.0 28 United Kingdom 122.0 Womens 1 Germany 2066.0 2 France 1996.0 3 Czech Republic 1715.0 4 Ukraine 1652.0 5 Russia 1638.0 5 Norway 1638.0 7 Sweden 1554.0 8 Belarus 1463.0 9 Austria 1459.0 10 Italy 1447.0 11 Switzerland 1363.0 12 Kazakstan 1349.0 13 Poland 1242.0 14 Finland 1189.0 15 Canada 1168.0 16 USA 1034.0 17 Slovakia 968.0 18 Slovenia 882.0 19 Japan 865.0 20 Bulgaria 841.0 21 Estonia 734.0 22 Lithuania 642.0 23 South Korea 628.0 24 Romania 557.0 25 Latvia 384.0 26 United Kingdom 243.0 27 Spain 135.0 28 Hungary 83.0 29 Bosnia and Herzegovina 25.0

as expected Gereková will replace Poliaková in Nove Město. Team Slovakia for World Cup 3rd Stage in Nove Město Na Moravě Men Tomáš Hasilla Martin Otčenáš Matej Kazár Michal Šíma Women Anastasiya Kuzmina Paulína Fialková Jana Gereková Ivona Fialková

Schedule 13th December 2016 Women's Division II B Qualification in Taipei City (TPE) (GMT +8) 15:30 Hong Kong - Belgium 19:00 South Africa - Chinese Taipei day off - Bulgaria

Men's U20 Div. I A in Bremerhaven (GER) (GMT +1) 13:00 Kazakhstan - France 1-3 16:30 Belarus - Norway 4-2 20:00 Austria - Germany 3-0 Men's U20 Div I B in Budapest (HUN) (GMT +1) 13:00 Italy - Ukraine 1-2 after OT 16:30 Great Britain - Hungary 1-5 20:00 Poland - Slovenia 5-3 Men's U20 Div II A in Tallinn (EST) (GMT +2) 13:00 Japan - Croatia 11-2 16:30 Netherlands - Romania 2-6 20:00 Lithuania - Estonia 7-1

Women's Division II B Qualification in Taipei City (TPE) (GMT +8) 15:30 Belgium - South Africa 8-1 19:00 Chinese Taipei - Bulgaria 13-0 day off - Hong Kong

Schedule 12th December 2016 Women's Division II B Qualification in Taipei City (TPE) (GMT +8) 15:30 Belgium - South Africa 19:00 Chinese Taipei - Bulgaria day off - Hong Kong system the same as usual, 5 teams, round robin, the first nation will qualify for next years womens Division II Group B world championship.

Schedule 12th December 2016 Men's U20 Div. I A in Bremerhaven (GER) (GMT +1) 13:00 Kazakhstan - France 16:30 Belarus - Norway 20:00 Austria - Germany Men's U20 Div I B in Budapest (HUN) (GMT +1) 13:00 Italy - Ukraine 16:30 Great Britain - Hungary 20:00 Poland - Slovenia Men's U20 Div II A in Tallinn (EST) (GMT +2) 13:00 Japan - Croatia 16:30 Netherlands - Romania 20:00 Lithuania - Estonia

Men's U20 Div. I A in Bremerhaven (GER) (GMT +1) 13:00 France - Belarus 3-6 16:30 Germany - Kazakhstan 5-3 20:00 Norway - Austria 3-6 Men's U20 Div I B in Budapest (HUN) (GMT +1) 13:00 Ukraine - Poland 2-4 16:30 Hungary - Italy 5-2 20:00 Slovenia - Great Britain 4-3 after OT Men's U20 Div II A in Tallinn (EST) (GMT +2) 13:00 Romania - Croatia 3-4 after GWS 16:30 Estonia - Japan 2-6 20:00 Lithuania - Netherlands 5-0

Taekwon-Do world champ scores Amalia Koleva with her equipment for ice hockey and taekwon-do. The 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship Division II Group B Qualification starts on Monday in Taipei City. The host Chinese Taipei will make its debut in the competition and the other participating countries are Belgium, Bulgaria, Hong Kong and South Africa. One player to watch at the Annex Ice Rink is Bulgarian forward Amalia Koleva. Koleva scored the most goals (3) for her national team a year ago when the qualification was held in Sofia and this was her best showing on the international stage. Well, not really. It’s better to say “on international ice” because she has over 80 (eighty) medals from World and European Championships in Taekwon-Do (ITF) since 2001. In 2016 Koleva won the European title in power test and silver medal in the team sparring competition in Thessaloniki. The 36-years-old athlete has a collection of 4 World (individual sparring under 57 kg in 2009, team special technique in 2011, team sparring in 2013 and individual power test in 2015) and 15 European titles. On top of that she has two more bronze medals from the 2013 WAKO World Championships in kickboxing – kick light and light contact under 55 kg. And she competed successfully in savate (French boxing) and muay thai (the combat sport of Thailand). At one time she was on the Bulgarian national team in four different sports – taekwon-do (ITF), ice hockey, kickboxing and savate. “Since this year I have concentrated only at taekwondo and hockey, but my schedule is so busy as before,” says Koleva, who is an international instructor and is working with 40-45 kids in three different groups. Some of them are following into her steps practising a second sport, although not ice hockey. “I was lucky with my discovery of ice hockey, because I had some kind of background after practising figure skating as a kid. Everything happened by chance. Eight years ago, during a free skate, I was approached by Tina Lisichkova. At that time she was the captain of the Bulgarian national women’s team and was looking for new players,” recalls Koleva. After one month she was playing international games. The beginning was quite difficult with nightmarish losses at the Olympic Qualification in Latvia. It must be hard for her to accept defeats on the ice after so much success in taekwon-do. “Actually, hockey is relaxing for me. It’s a great pleasure to play this exciting game and to know that you can count on your teammates. In taekwon-do you’re alone and you suffer from every error that you make. I don’t like to lose, but I know the reality in Bulgarian women’s ice hockey. Most of the girls have started at age 17-18 and that’s too late for hockey. Now the top players have to train and prepare the next generations from very early age and then we’ll see a difference,” says Koleva, but she doesn’t think that she is quite good to be a hockey coach. Contrary to the expectation Koleva thinks that hockey is giving her some edge in taekwon-do instead of the opposite: “We are under enormous pressure in taekwon-do, because everyone thinks that we have to win medals and if you don’t do it – it’s a tragedy. I have the opposite situation in hockey and now I’m bringing this mental approach to my taekwon-do career – it is not a big deal if I screwed up. Not that happened to me recently.” Koleva is 160 cm tall and stands quite strong on her skates. When there is a physical contact, the opponent is falling on the ice almost every time. “It comes from inside of me. I have the flair for this stuff, how to approach these situations. Taekwon-do and hockey are contact sports, although in different aspects,” thinks Koleva. Body-checking is not allowed in women’s hockey, but sometimes she can’t resist the temptation and then has to sit in the penalty box. Koleva still has the motivation to practise two sports (taekwon-do at ABC Fight Club and hockey at NSA) and is joking that she even has free time: “The stress on the body is different, the time of the practices and the competition period too, so I can combine the sports. There are days in which I have to work with the kids and to practise taekwon-do or ice hockey, but one day a week I have all three commitments. During the weekend I’m working at an artificial ice rink in the mall.” For some time Monday was sort of her off-day with only one taekwon-do practice. The Bulgarian national women’s team flew to Taipei City yesterday and the main focus is to stop the streak of seven straight defeats in the IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship program. The last win dates back to 21st March 2014 – 4-2 against Hong Kong. “Our best chance is the first game on Monday against the hosts as they are making their debut. Hong Kong already had two games in the Olympic Qualification this season and we didn’t participate, so they are ahead in the preparation for sure. We had some good moments against them and South Africa last year, but lost both games. I hope that it will be closer this time around,” said Koleva before leaving for her first trip to Chinese Taipei.

I really doubt he will play anywhere else, He mentioned it many times he want spend all his career there.

nah, surprises sometimes happens in sport

ok, another day and another bad day. There were some expectations to attack the top 10 for our girls, but unfortunately they were visibly too much nervous today and failed. 2 loops in relay is too much for us, with 2 loops in relay SVK can not fight for higher place...unfortunately even Anastasiya who was supposed to lead our team failed in the prone shooting and Terézia Poliaková presented one of the worst running time of the whole todays race, must admit her shooting was excellent, absolutely excellent but c´mon at this level lost 2 and half minutes in 6km leg is a horror performance and since Ivona Fialková added our 2nd loop even with her combativity and decent run we couldn´t finished better than 16th... this is very very bad, in Nations Cup we are 17th...and we will likely have huge troubles to remain in top 20, since it´s already confirmed that we will not compete in the new years 4th stage in Oberhof and questionable are also the 8th and 9th stages in PyeongChang and Tyumen. most likely we will miss both stages....I´m afraid it will have fatal consequences for our ambitions to be in the NC top 20. Men´s relay...we expected nothing, boys fighted well, avoided penalty loops and finished 14th, not bad, we must see it in realistic view, this is prbably the maximum these guys can achieve, so fine. if they will be able to repeat it also in the next relays we should maintain our 15th place in the Nations Cup. even if we must calculate that we will miss Oberhof and most likely also PyeongChang and Tyumen. The positive thing is a very nice 4th place of Jana Gereková in IBU cup pursuit today only few seconds behind podium, but still 4th place wow...something we didn´t knew for a while... Janka will be back next weekend in Nove Město Na Moravě, still not known who she will replace, coach will announce it soon, but most likely it will be Poliaková

After this 105th goal at 1:20 Marek Hamšík is now 10 goals behind Maradona in the battle for the Napoli best ever top scorer

World Floorball championships Gold Medal Match Finland - Sweden 4-3 after GWS Bronze Medal Match Switzerland - Czech Republic 8-5 5th Place Match Denmark - Norway 5-4 after GWS 7th Place Match Germany - Estonia 5-4 and will play the World Games Floorball 2017 tournament. World Champion 3rd Title the winning moment 30:00 to go in the video

Kamil Stoch and Maciej Kot take double victory for Poland Double Olympic Champion Kamil Stoch of Poland took his 16th win in the World Cup in a difficult competition in Lillehammer. This was the first World Cup win for Stoch (134 m and 130.5 m; 289.9 points) since January 2015 (Willingen). With his second place, only 0.6 points behind the winner, Stoch's teammate Maciej Kot (129.5 m and 136 m; 289.3 points) secured the first double victory for the Polish team and their head coach Stefan Horngacher. The third place went to Germany's Markus Eisenbichler (128.5 m and 135 m; 286.2 points). For him this was, just like for Kot, the first podium result in the World Cup. The day's form decides "It's been a while since my last win. After my second jump I didn't expect to be on the podium, I thought I would be fourth and fifth again", Stoch said after his triumph. "We (Stoch and Kot) were already jumping on a high level yesterday, but the others are so strong at the moment that it depends on your shape on the exact day of the competition whether you are on the podium or close behind." Maciej Kot, who already showed what he's capable of last summer, was very satisfied after his second place. "This was a very difficult competition for me today, especially the first jump. Of course I'm happy that it was enough for the podium, but the season is still young and we still have a lot of work ahead of us", Maciej Kot said about the best result of his career in the World Cup. For 25-year-old Eisenbichler the first podium result of his career was a bit of a surprise, but after his performances over the past weeks many experts considered Eisenbichler one of the contestants for top results. "It feels great to be on the podium. I didn't expect that it would go that well today. I'm more than happy right now and it's still a bit hard to believe. The first jump was not that good today, but I will not complain", Eisenbichler said after the competition. Andreas Wellinger (10th), Karl Geiger (14th), Stephan Leyhe (18th), Richard Freitag (23rd) and Severin Freund (26th) completed the result of the German team. Severin Freund had bad wind conditions, the winner of the competition in Kuusamo had no chance to achieve a top result and now has to move on after today's disappointment. Top athletes with tail wind in the first round The conditions were extremely difficult for the last group of competitors in the first round. So Domen Prevc, Daniel Andre Tande of Norway, Stefan Kraft and Severin Freund had practically no chance to be among the best. Tande with a highlight Norway's Daniel Andre Tande, currently second in the overall World Cup, had really bad luck. Despite a top jump he was only 23rd after the first round. In the final the 23-year-old then showed what he's capable of right now. With the best jump in the second round (141 m) he moved up from 23rd to fourth overall. "I was so mad after my first jump. For the first time I had two good jumps today and then I had no chance with such bad conditions", said Tande, who could still feel like one of the winners today after his outstanding performance in the final round. Austria's Stefan Kraft was not as strong as Tande today, but still he did very well. He was 21st after the first round due to the tail wind and moved up to eighth with his second jump. With Manuel Fettner in 6th and Michael Hayboeck in 11th it was a good day for the team of head coach Heinz Kuttin. Switzerland, Finland and France not in the final The second day of competition in Lillehammer turned out to be a big disappointment for the Swiss athletes. A 38th place for Simon Ammann and the places 49 and 50 for Kilian Peier and Gregor Deschwanden are of course not good enough. Now the team of coach Ronnie Hornschuh has to make amends next weekend in their home event in Engelberg. Vincent Descombes Sevoie of France also became a victim of the difficult conditions at the end of the first round. With a 43rd place today he lost his Top 10 spot in the overall World Cup and is now 12th. Janne Ahonen already failed to make the cut in the qualification, Ville Larinto was 35th and missed the final of the best 30. Domen Prevc in the lead, Freund now fourth A sixth place today was enough for only 17-year-old Slovene Domen Prevc to defend his lead in the overall World (360 points). Daniel Andre Tande is second with 308 points) and Maciej Kot (247 points) is now third, followed by Severin Freund (233 points). Next weekend two World Cup competitions will be held in Engelberg (SUI). Full Results Here

Falla and Ustiugov win Davos sprints Maiken Caspersen Falla NOR wins Davos sprint 2016 Maiken Caspersen Falla (NOR) and Sergey Ustiugov (RUS) have won the 1.6 km sprints at the FIS World Cup competition in Davos, Switzerland. For both Falla and Ustiugov it was their first victories of the season. Falla was already the Sprint World Cup leader coming into Davos after two second place finishes in the previous sprint competitions this season. She now leads her teammate Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg by 70 points in the sprint standings. Sweden's Hanna Falk continued her strong start to the season with another third place finish. Like today's podium Falk sits third in the overall sprint standings just 24 points behind Oestberg. Russia's Ustiugov was comfortable to push the pace all day and in the finals it was only Finn Hagen Krogh (NOR) who was able to keep it close just +0.59 seconds behind for second place. Sindre Bjoernestad Skar (NOR) the day's third place finisher was +3.29 seconds after Ustiugov. Ustiugov moves into second in the overall sprint standings with his result today. He now sits 22 points behind Norway's World Cup sprint leading Paal Golberg. The FIS Cross-Country World Cup tour now moves to La Clusaz, France for competitions on the 17-18 December, 2016. Full Results Women and Men

Sundby wins 30 km free in Davos Martin Johnsrud Sundby of Norway notched his second victory in 30 km free technique in Davos, Switzerland. Sundby previously won the same event in 2015. He joins his countryman Petter Northug Jr with two victories at the 30 km distance. Only Bjorn Daehlie, Torgny Mogren, Vladimir Smirnov and Gunde Svan have more with 3 victories each. In second place was Norway's Anders Gloeersen was second today +13.7 behind Sundby's winning timing of 1:07:31.6. Gloeersen improved on his previous best results in the same event from 2015 where he was 3rd. Finland's Matti Heikkinen rounded out the podium after a blistering final 5 km to take third +25.7 back of Sundby. Full Results Here

Oestberg gets first of season victory in Davos Ingvild Flugstad Oestberg of Norway has won her first FIS Cross-Country World Cup of the season in the 15 km free technique in Davos, Switzerland. For Oestberg it was also her first win at the 15 km distance in her career. Her teammate Heidi Weng was second place and remains the Overall World Cup leader by 70 points ahead of Oestberg. Finland's Krista Parmakoski took third place for only her second ever podium in free technique of her 9 total career top 3 finishes. Today's podium matches the Overall Distance standings. Marit Bjoergen (NOR) was the distance World Cup leader after the Lillehammer mini tour but is not competing in Davos and has fallen to 4th in the standings Full Results Here

Takanashi back on top Sara Takanashi ahead of Daniela Iraschko-Stolz and Jaqueline Seifriedsberger Sara Takanashi is back on top. The three times World Cup overall winner came back after 92,5 meters and a fourth place after the first round with a fabulous effort to 98,5 meters and scored 250,7 points. Daniela Iraschko-Stolz, who was still in the lead after round one, scored 244,1 points with jumps to 95,5 and 94,5 meters and came in second. Teammate Jaqueline Seifriedsberger put the cherry on the top for the Austrian team, scored twice 93,5 meters and finished third with 237,0 points. Takanashi said: „I am so happy today. My second jump was very good and it feels good to be on top of the podium again.“ Austrian battle The two Austrian ladies where happy as well: „We´ve had a nice battle today. Especially my first jump was great and it feels really good sharing the podium with a teammate“, said Daniela Iraschko-Stolz. Jaqueline Seifriedsberger added: „I am very satisfied with this weekend. Yesterday I was a little unlucky with the conditions. I hope we can continue like this in the new year.“ Yesterday´s winner Maren Lundby just missed the podium by 2,1 points and finished fourth. Russians with strong performance Right behind her Irina Avvakumova lead a strong Russian team in front of the home crowd with 225,5 points and place five. Teammate Alexandra Kutsova, only 25th after the first jump, used the nearly perfect conditions in Nizhny Tagil with her jump to 95,0 meters in the final and finished 11th. Anastasiya Barannikova and Sofya Tikhonova came in 16th and 24th and scored as well. Morat impressive The 15 year old French girl Lucile Morat performed her best World Cup result so far finishing 6th and missing out the fifth place by only 0,1 points. Ema Klinec once more was the best Slovenian on the 7th place, leaving Yuki Ito and the best German Katharina Althaus behind her. Sarah Hendrickson made it back to the top ten finishing on 10th place. Maja Vtic, finishing 13th behind Yuka Seto, rounded up a descend result for her Slovenian team together with Nika Kriznar on 17 and Spela Rogelj on 23. While Svenja Würth could be happy with her 15th place, teammate Anna Rupprecht paid her 14th place with some pain. She fell after the landing in the final round and injured her knee. Rupprecht will fly back to Germany with her team on Monday and will be examined in Munich. Pesatova with knee injury Even worse the competition ended for Zdenka Pesatova from the Czech Republic. She also fell and suffered a knee injury. Anyway, she is also planning on leaving the hospital on Sunday night and go back home with her team as well. Romania´s Daniela Haralambie meanwhile proofed her good shape and finished the last competition before Christmas 18th. Manuela Malsiner was the best Italian like already on Saturday coming in 19 just ahead of Canada´s Taylor Henrich. Julia Kykkänen saved two world cup points for Finland finishing 29th. The next Ladies World Cup will take place in Oberstdorf (GER) from January 6th to 8th. Full results Here

Shiffrin wins by over one second in Sestriere slalom Another tight ladies' race seemed to be developing during the slalom in Sestriere, Italy, on Sunday, but Mikaela Shiffrin turned on the jets to ultimately claim victory by over one second. After leading the first run by 0.12 seconds over Veronika Velez Zuzulova and 0.30 seconds over Frida Hansdotter, the American focused on having fun in the second run and it paid off with a 1.09 margin of victory over the Slovakian. "It was not perfect, that’s for sure," Shiffrin said of her first run. "I was pretty stiff, so I was a little bit bummed with my skiing. But I have another run, so we’ll see what happens." On the second run, she held nothing back and crossed the finish line with obvious happiness, first punching both fists down and then one across her body with a smile to mark her 23rd career victory and her sixth straight in slalom. "I took some free runs before second run and tried to find a solid feeling that I could rely on. And then when I went out of the gate second run, I just tried to make speed on every gate and never let up, and that mentality helped me a lot," she reflected. Wendy Holdener of Switzerland, who sat fifth after first run, fought hard in the second run to move onto the podium in third, 1.21 seconds off the winning pace. Hansdotter finished the day a close fourth, just 0.08 shy of the podium. “I had some troubles in the course, so I’m happy that I fought for the podium. But I could do it better,” Holdener said as she continues to hunt down her first victory in slalom. Tour veteran Velez Zuzulova was pleased to finish on the podium after she lost time in the second run, but she has her eyes set on a victory this season. "Second run I had a really good start, but on the lower part, I think I was too straight and there was a little bit more terrain than I was expecting, so I lost a lot of time," she noted. "I will go back to training and I will push it even harder and ... I will try to catch [Mikaela]. I can't be happy to always be second, so for sure I want more and I will push for that." The ladies' tour moves onto Val d'Isere, France, for alpine combined, downhill, and super-G next week. Full Results Here Mikaela Shiffrin 2nd Run Velez Zuzulová 2nd Run

Slalom prince Kristoffersen is back in Val d'Isère For his first slalom of the season, Henrik Kristoffersen claimed the win on the challenging course of the “Criterium de la Première Neige” in Val d’Isère, ahead of his biggest rival in the discipline Marcel Hirscher and Russia’s Aleksander Khoroshilov. The results of the first run promised an interesting second leg, with a surprise guest in the lead: the skier of Courchevel Alexis Pinturault, who won the GS on the same hill on the day before. However, the slalom aces didn’t allow the Frenchman to win two consecutive races on “La Face”. After sitting out the first slalom of the season, Henrik Kristoffersen jumped from 3rd place to the highest spot on the podium, to claim his 10th slalom win. Already last year the Norwegian was topping the field in Val d’Isère, but this years’ victory is special for Kristoffersen as he had difficult start in the season due to personal reasons. "It's a really good feeling. With all that's happened in the last month and a half, too, this is really good. I hope you can expect me to ski good. As long as I can do that, I'm happy. I'm a little bit relieved. It's nice to slap some plastic again." It’s the other way round for Marcel Hirscher. He has been on the podium in every tech race he participated in since the beginning of the season, and today again, he earned a second place in the slalom. "You never can expect anything in alpine ski racing, especially not in the technical events, it is nearly impossible. From parts, it was an amazing weekend, from the positions, it was brilliant, but from the feelings I had during skiing, it was not the best weekend I've has so far in my career. Now Henrik is back and he is showing us who is the real big king in slalom skiing. I thought I have done a pretty good job during the summer, but right now I am searching for some slalom tricks to come closer to Henrik." In third place, Alexander Khoroshilov skied a very strong first run and limited the damage in the second. The Russian athlete, who never performed better than 8th place in Val d’Isère, grabbed his 7th career podium. “First run was really great. The second run, it was just surviving for me and maybe I think it's not only for me, but I'm really happy I'm on the podium again. I had a really good feeling and in the second run it was just a little more bumpy so I was a little more stiff. Really, I was just braking and surviving." The ladies will take over the hill in Val d’Isère with speed races next week-end. The men’s Tour is travelling to South Tyrol for the so-called “Italian Block”, where Val Gardena will start by organising a super-g and a downhill on Friday and Saturday. Full Results Here Henrik Kristoffersen 2nd Run

THIS !!! this is what I was pointing