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Pinturault takes the first win of the season in Sölden's GS On Sunday, the men took over the Rettenbach Glacier in Sölden for their 2016/17 season opener. After a thrilling second run, Alexis Pinturault earned the win with a margin of 0.70 over second-placed Marcel Hirscher. Germany’s Felix Neureuther rounded out the podium 1.37 seconds off the pace. Slightly changing light conditions marked the first part of the second run, and some athletes were able to take advantage of this and laid down fast runs. Benedikt Staubitzer (GER) for example, qualified for second run by a narrow margin before ending 12th of the final standings and Luca De Alprandini (ITA) stayed in the leaderbox until the five-times World Champion Ted Ligety took over the lead. But even though Ligety had an impressive pace in the second run, which is promising for the future as he’s just coming back after he tore his ACL in January, he couldn’t completely keep up with the fastest racers of the day and finished 5th. Alexis Pinturault already proved it last season, and he will be one of the very best GS-racers this season again. He came back strong from the summer break, and won both runs to end the race with a 0.70 second lead over his closest contender Marcel Hirscher. He grabbed his 16th World Cup win and set the tone for the season to come in the process. "In the beginning, you never know where you are,” Pinturault said. “You never know if you are skiing fast or not and just after Soelden, you can see where you are more or less. One thing that is easy in skiing is that there is never strategy, you just have to push and push even harder for the second run." The duel between Pinturault and Marcel Hirscher is going to be very interesting to follow this season. Challenged by Pinturault who was leading after the first run, the five-times Overall World Cup winner made a mistake in the middle of the second run. The great champion he is didn’t get destabilised by this incident, he pushed even harder at the bottom and was able to earn second place. "I'm super happy because the pressure is definitely on my shoulders, especially at the first race of the season,” Hirscher said. “If I am skiing good, everything is fine, but if I am skiing bad, it is never fun so I am super happy and a lot of pressure has gone away.” Germany’s Felix Neureuther can also be proud of his season start in Giant Slalom. The slalom ace skied strong and crossed the finish line 1.37 seconds off of Pinturault’s pace. After several years with chronical back pain, that prevented him to claim the absolute top spots on a regular basis in GS, this podium placement will give him lots of confidence for the season to come. "For me, a perfect start to the season,” Neureuther said. “Being here on the podium is really something special for me, especially in giant slalom. I think I did two very solid runs today without too many mistakes. There's still some work ahead of us, Alexis and Marcel were the two dominating guys today so we'll try to close the gap in the next weeks.” Sölden is kind of a prologue to the World Cup, as the racers are going on a two weeks break before the next World Cup race in Levi on 13th November 2016. After such an exciting Giant Slalom opener, we are excited to see what’s awaiting us in Slalom.

Day 3 of the Continental Cup Second Round Group Jaca- Nottingham Panthers (GBR) - HK Liepaja (LAT) 3-1, Zeytinburnu Istanbul (TUR) - CH Jaca (ESP) 7-3 Final Standing: 1-Nottingham 9pts, 2-Liepaja 6, 3-Istanbul 3, 4- Jaca 0 Nottingham Panthers advance to the 3rd round. Group Tychy- Acroni Jesenice (SLO) - Dunarea Galati (ROU) 3-2 after GWS, GKS Tychy (POL) - DVTK Jegesmedvek Miskolc (HUN) 5-2 Final Standing: 1-Tychy 7pts, 2-Miskolc 6, 3-Jesenice 4, 4-Galati 1 GKS Tychy advance to the 3rd round.

women´s Tennis I can´t... can´t believe that I started to watch this.. ok, back to hockey

amazing skier, legend.

Pinturault Great start of the season, wow what a race now again 3 weeks break before Levi

half-podium for

what a race for Kranjec. unbelievable, this is the biggest surprise for me. Congrats

oh poor Myhrer, he was so close of his first careers GS WC podium

Hyvä Sandell

absolutely

Kranjec looks very well prepared for this season

wow this was huge finish of Ligety, these last meters, just wow De Aliprandini still 2nd from 22nd afer run 1 and now Odermatt

btw only 3 racers with BIB above 30 managed to qualify for the second run, thats just say a lot about the level and how the start number is extremely important in mens alpine skiing

Breitfus (BOL) managed to finish his race and actually was faster of 3 other skiers that also finished the 1st run The žampa´s well, let forget that and looks ahead for the slalom in Levi

Zubcic

Also very good 1st run for Kranjec

Very good 1st run for Sandell

Lara Gut holds on for commanding win at Soelden opener Lara Gut of Switzerland kicked off the 2016/17 FIS Audi Alpine World Cup tour with a commanding giant slalom victory, the second of her career at the Soelden opener. After holding a 1.42-second lead following the first run, she maintained nearly the same margin of victory over runner-up Mikaela Shiffrin, who was 1.44 seconds back when all was said and done. Gut admitted she was a little nervous heading into the first race of the season as the defending 2016 overall title winner, but she took the advice of Marcel Hirscher and her support team. “It’s always special in Soelden, and you know it’s my first time coming as an [overall] winner,” said Gut after the run. “I had a tough time this morning, I was just thinking all the time today – like Marcel [Hirscher] told me yesterday just to ski. My team exactly told me the same. So I tried just not to think and ski.” After laying down a significant lead over the field in the first run, Gut was under some pressure to maintain her lead. "Finally, this morning, I was just like, ‘It’s a beautiful day. I love the slope. I have to enjoy that.’ And yeah, this was the key. I just tried to ski. And sometimes it’s horrible, You get in the race and start thinking instead of just skiing, but yeah, I’m happy and I’m glad I had a fast first run because the second one was a fight." The American Shiffrin, who started the race outside of the top seed in bib 16, gave chase in the second run but couldn't quite catch Gut. Still, she was proud of her fight in the race but still feels she has more to give. "I definitely like second. I like first better, but it is nice to start off on this foot and it was really a tough day for a lot of girls, I think," she reasoned. "Lara was the only one who really skied as hard as she could and I’m happy with where I’m at. I took more risks than I ever have in a GS, but I can do better. I can do more and better.” Securing her career first podium finish in third place was 20-year-old Italian Marta Bassino whose teammates ran out to the finish area to congratulate her. She sat in third place after the first run and was able to hold onto the podium position. “I’m so excited, and it’s the first podium. I’m so happy, it’s like a dream," Bassino exclaimed. Of additional note on the day was Slovakian Petra Vlhova, better known for her past success in slalom, who skied the fastest second run for a career-best giant slalom finish in eighth after starting from bib 55.

Day 2 of the Continental Cup Second Round Group Jaca- Nottingham Panthers (GBR) - Zeytinburnu Istanbul (TUR) 12-1, HK Liepaja (LAT) - CH Jaca (ESP) 10-2. after Day 2 Nottingham and Liepaja has 6 points and will play tomorrow the decisive "do or die" match for the win in the group and ticket for 3rd round, Istanbul and Jaca are already out both still without single point and tomorrow will play together their last this seasons europeans club competition match. Group Tychy- DVTK Miskolc Jegesmedvek (HUN) - Dunarea Galati (ROU) 5-1, GKS Tychy (POL) - Acroni Jesenice (SLO) 1-2 after overtime. After Day 2 Miskolc is in the lead with 6 points, Tychy in second place has 4 points, Jesenice 3rd with 2 points are already out and 4th Galati without points as well. Tomorrow Miskolc play against Tychy for the qualification for the 3rd round, Tychy will qualify only if they win in regular time, each other result will qualify the Hungarian champion. Jesenice play Galati in their last match in this seasons Continental cup.

and Swaziland here at 5:50 just before Taipei and Czechoslovakia

ah ok haha great. btw here it is at 9:30

where did you find that ? I want see at least picture of her from the games

Absolutely incredible stuff and what to say abouth Honduras in Cross Country skiing

The last Winter Olympics for Czechoslovakia only 3 Bronzes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia_at_the_1992_Winter_Olympics