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ya Czechia is strong in the womens teams tennis space

Sure, they are most likely the best pair in the world right now, but this is Fed Cup, a special competition, and Strýcová/Plíšková already won one important final doubles against more favorized opponents

Are you really trying to say me that you think that France can win against CZE in the doubles ?

Following it ofc just somehow didn´t send any post yet but yeah ofc cheering for the girls, Barbora can now tie the final and move it to the doubles

ofc Sandra

yes, I thought the short track it looks they are really developed

The home player Norbert Gombos won the Slovak Indoor Challenger open in Bratislava defeating Marius Copil (ROU) in todays final 7:6 (8), 4:6, 6:3 in 2 hours and 9 minutes.

Sounds really nice , Good luck, I´ll cheer for all mentioned athlets to achieve their dream

Marcel Hirscher takes the first SL win of the season in Levi Behind superstar Marcel Hirscher, the usual slalom hierarchy has been shaken up today in Levi, for the first slalom of the 2015/16 season, featuring Michael Matt and Manuel Moelgg with podium placements. The magical atmosphere from yesterday and the northern lights from tonight turned into a windy, humid and cold winter day on Sunday. Despite challenging weather condition and poor visibility, the course itself was in a great shape to host the slalom on the Levi Black, and the action was not lacking. For example super star Marcel Hirscher, who claimed the win despite several setbacks. First he suffered an infection of the inner ear and wasn’t sure he would even be able to participate in the race. Then, as many other athletes, he experienced iced up goggles in the first run, because of the frozen fog that was sitting in the upper part of the course. And finally he laid down an agitated second run. Nevertheless, Marcel Hirscher knows how to handle tricky situations and pushed hard to grab his 40th World Cup win. "I am very thankful that I am able to ski here today and compete in this race, but yesterday it was not that good. Today, it was already in the morning clear that I can compete today, so this is amazing that I can be in this race and what is great is just to see my team colleagues so close by my side." The first run already announced an Austrian duo at the very top of the ranking, as Marco Schwarz finished second of the first run right behind Hirscher. The Madonna di Campiglio and Yuzawa Naeba podium finisher struggled with the conditions and skied out. However, another Austrian young gun was able to make a jump in the ranking and finish 2nd: Mario Matt. "It was amazing," said Matt. "Training has gone really well, I was always fast and I'm really happy that I could show my good skiing on the race today. I'm more than happy with the second place. In the first run, I was a little bit more nervous. Second run, I felt that the skis were doing what I want and then if you can push and ski the way you want, then it's not that difficult anymore. Watching Marcel and all them on the TV and now you're in the middle of the ski World Cup, it's amazing." In third place, Italy’s Manfred Moelgg finally found his way back to the podium. The South Tyrolean has been waiting for this since January 2014, when he podiumed in Bormio’s slalom and finished 5th and 6th in Adelboden. After winning the slalom globe in 2008, he may be back on a performance streak that leads him back into the Top 15 of the World. "It's fantastic," said Moelgg. "It's been a long time and I'm happy to be on the podium. It was a tough race, always a tough hill, but I am happy about that and we will see about the next race. I had a little bit of a mistake in the last part and I saw one hundredth and was not so happy, but that was the performance so after that to stay on the podium is very nice." The men’s slalom concluded the racing week-end in Levi, Finland. After a week-end off, the World Cup is scheduled to move to North America for tech event in Killington (ladies) and speed events in Lake Louise (men). 2nd run replay

and what about Mexico ? Sarah Schleper should easily qualify in women´s alpine skiing among men´s I don´t know if Hubertus von Hohenlohe is thinking about another olympics ?

also looks like there another Algerian hope for PyeongChang a young female figure skater with Algerian-Canadian origin http://bledweb.over-blog.com/2014/08/medaille-d-or-pour-nour-houda-foura.html

That´s really sad to hear about I think their participation is more unrealistic than possible... assuming they didn´t entered the ice hockey qualifications at all, it´s a sign I guess

That´s awesome news, Good luck to your athletes

THANK YOU !!! PS do you know something more about the skier ?

Marcel Hirscher won men´s Levi Slalom in front of another Austrian Michael Matt, Italian Manfred Moelgg finishing 3rd full results here

Adam Žampa´s typical silly mistake

Hirscher wow, this was once again...just outstanding race

So close of the podium but still huge result for Ryding

Also hope the cross country skier will qualify this time, If I remember correctly he did qualify for Sochi but Algerian Olympic Comittee refused to send him, If I´m not wrong ?

That would be amazing for our Bolivian friend, going to follow all his qualification period, but I think yeah, he will manage to qualify and return his country for the winter games also I wonder if South Africa will remains in their harsh qualifying standards also for the winter games ?

Any picks for a debuting nation and sport ?

Debuting Nations Nations which have never participated in any Winter Olympic Games and will make their debut in PyeongChang 2018 Ecuador Eritrea Kosovo Malaysia Nigeria Singapore Coming Back Nations Nations which have already participated in a Winter Olympic Games edition but did not participate in Sochi 2014 Bolivia Colombia Ghana Kenya Madagascar North Korea Puerto Rico South Africa Returning Nations Nations which participated in Sochi 2014 and will participate also in PyeongChang 2018 Albania Andorra Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bermuda Bosnia and Herzegovina Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile China Chinese Taipei Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Iran Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Latvia Lebanon Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Mexico Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Netherlands New Zealand Norway Pakistan Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Thailand Timor Leste Togo Tonga Turkey Ukraine United States Uzbekistan Missing Nations Nations which participated in Sochi 2014 but will not participate in PyeongChang 2018 British Virgin Islands Cayman Islands Dominica Nepal Paraguay Peru Tajikistan Venezuela Virgin Islands Zimbabwe

I did not say nothing about top 30, I meant in the normal start list, but anyway I´m still pretty sure that we deserve at least those 2 places in the start list...maybe even 3 but well, that´s not the topic... head up, Croatia has a bright future, even if next time you´ll have only one skier, he can win points (today it was really only about luck, this time he was unlucky, maybe next time he will have more) and thus open immediately the door for another your skier for next race. thats still only the start of the season..so keep faith dude