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official. István Lévai will compete in Istanbul. source in slovak http://www.osporte.sk/sk/clanok/levaiova-sanca-na-rio-este-zije/100224265

Thanks, well it´s not an easy job at all, but can´t imagine any better job No, for all athletes qualified before the totallympics database problems last february I just used the news from national NOC websites or wikipedia, so I didn´t counted the athletes not mentioned in those sites. and so, after our restart I have just to add each week only the new qualified athletes

yes you´re right I see where I did a mistake. I counted also both your hammer throwers Ghalenoui and Moussavi, but it was my bad, because I made a mistake and didn´t noticed the q is small behind their names. http://road-to-rio.com/ my apologize. I´ll fix it imediately

Boxing Bantamweight -56kg -1 +1 Boxing Super Heavyweight +91kg -1 +1

Updated as of April 25th, 2016

IIHF Men's Ice Hockey Division I Group A World Championships 2016 Katowice (POL) - 23.04.2016 - 29.04.2016 Austria - Japan 3-1

IIHF Men's Ice Hockey Division I Group A World Championships 2016 Katowice (POL) - 23.04.2016 - 29.04.2016 Poland - South Korea 1-4

IIHF Men's Ice Hockey Division I Group A World Championships 2016 Katowice (POL) - 23.04.2016 - 29.04.2016 Slovenia - Italy 3-1

Updated as of April 25th, 2016

so no 7th olympics in a row for Hilgertová but Kudějová is a quite good medal chance, so good choice for CZE

also the president of our wrestling federation announced that apparently István Lévai will be declared inocent and will be eligible to start in Istanbul at the last OQT...need wait for official clearance though...he said that when István was caught they measured 250 nanograms of substance per ml. However he has just to prove that he didn´t took meldonium after 1st January, which is already in investigation...

Keller named MVP Puljujarvi, Luukkonen join all-stars from champs The best players of the IIHF U18 World Championship have been selected by the tournament Directorate and the media. The U.S.'s Clayton Keller was named MVP. The Directorate hands out individual awards to the best player in each position. Goalie: Filip Gustavsson, Defenceman: Adam Fox, Forward: Tyson Jost, Accredited media votes for the All-Star Team, as well as the tournament’s Most Valuable Player. Goaltender: Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, Defenceman: Adam Fox, Defenceman: David Quenneville, Forward: Tyson Jost, Forward: Jesse Puljujarvi, Forward: Clayton Keller, MVP: Clayton Keller,

Finns golden in Grand Forks Finland tops Sweden for third U18 gold ever Team Finland celebrates after a 6-1 victory over Sweden during gold medal game action at the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship. Jesse Puljujarvi shone with a hat trick as Finland beat Sweden 6-1 to win the gold medal at the 2016 IIHF U18 World Championship in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Welcome to the greatest era in Finnish junior hockey history. After winning gold at both the 2014 and 2016 World Juniors, the Finns have now added U18 supremacy to their resume. "Today everything worked," said Finnish coach Jussi Ahokas. "It was a great, great game. All our guys had a great effort." It is Finland’s first U18 gold since winning back-to-back titles in the first two tournaments back in 1999 and 2000. Finland settled for silver last year in a 2-1 overtime loss to the United States. "The semi-final and this game were unreal," said Finnish captain Juuso Valimaki. "I don’t have any words. We just played so well." Despite the pain of losing, this silver should offer some consolation for the Swedes. It was Sweden’s first U18 medal since earning silver annually from 2010 to 2012. They've never won the gold. "If I look at the whole tournament, I’m really proud of the team, how we played and acted," said Swedish coach Torgny Bendelin. "We got to the final and took the silver medal. But I’m so sorry for the players. They couldn’t show their really strong capacity they have. It just didn’t come out today." For both teams, it was a major accomplishment to make the final when most observers anticipated a U.S.-Canada showdown. Eeli Tolvanen, Otto Somppi and Eetu Tuulola had the other goals for Finland. Janne Kuokkanen had three assists, and Kasper Kotkansalo added two helpers. Puljujarvi is now one of just three players who have won IIHF U18 and U20 in the same year. (Jason Zucker and Jack Campbell also achieved the feat with the U.S. in 2010.) The 2016 World Junior MVP was a force after joining the team for the playoff round. Despite enduring a sore wrist and illness, he notched five goals and two assists in three games. "Puljujarvi had an unreal game," said Ahokas. "Unreal. We need players like that." Lias Andersson scored the lone goal for Sweden. "I think we played a bad game today," said Andersson. "You can’t win a final like that. It just wasn’t there today." Finnish goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen won his third straight game since taking over from the ailing Leevi Laakso, who played all of Finland's group games. Finland outshot Sweden 34-18. Of Luukkonen's all-star performance, Ahokas said: "The boy has no nerves. He just jumps in and plays like that. He was one of the keys to our win." After beating Russia 4-3 in the quarter-finals and dethroning the host Americans with a 4-2 semi-final win, Ahokas’s troops needed another hard-working, two-way effort to capture the big prize. They got it in spades in the first Sweden-Finland final in U18 history. At 1:15, Finland opened the scoring when Tolvanen came down right wing and surprised Swedish starter Filip Gustavsson with a shot that flew over his left shoulder. It was Tolvanen's seventh goal, tying him for the tournament lead. "I almost dumped it deep, but I tried a shot and it went in," said Tolvanen. "I’m happy." Moments later, Luukkonen showed he came ready to play when he stopped an Alexander Nylander shot that popped his mask off. Finland jumped into a 2-0 lead at 15:28. Kuokkanen cut out of the corner and tried to stuff it in, and the puck came loose for Somppi to bang in. Just 51 seconds later, it was 3-0. Tuulola was allowed to curl around the Swedish net and fire it past Gustavsson on the short side. "I thought when we got the 3-0 lead, if we just play our game, we will win," said Ahokas. Finland kept hustling, outshooting Sweden 14-3 in the opening stanza. A banner in the stands said: "Good Luck Finland!" But the Finns were making their own luck. Early in the second period, video review confirmed that Kuokkanen did not score on another attempt to stuff in the puck. The Swedes picked up their tempo, but the Finns still kept them on the perimeter. At 11:01, Puljujarvi scored a back-breaking goal on a great individual rush. He took a pass from Kuokkanen at the Swedish blue line, powered past the defence, and deked to the forehand to score. One minute later, Andersson spoiled Luukkonen's shutout bid, beating him with a shot from right wing that caught the far post to make it 4-1. Regardless, the Finns continued to play with composure. Even at the end of the second period, when they took a bench minor for too many men, they smartly killed it off. Looking for a momentum-changer, the Swedes inserted backup goalie Filip Larsson to start the third period. But the newcomer couldn't stop Puljujarvi. Kuokkanen set him up for a huge slap shot from the right faceoff circle that went five-hole for a 5-1 lead at 5:14. That was it. ABBA hasn't made a comeback, and neither would the U18 Swedes this night. "I don’t want to blame anybody because I am in charge," said Bendelin. "I am the head coach. My job is to make the team be on the top. Probably I failed because the team was dead. No energy. Nothing. We tried to change lines, but nothing." Tuulola infuriated the Swedes when he laid out defenceman Timothy Liljegren with a big hit in the neutral zone with under two minutes to play. A scrum erupted, and Finland got a 5-on-3 to finish off the game. Puljujarvi completed his hat trick with a slick move in tight with 47 seconds left. At the final buzzer, the Finns celebrated wildly in their end as AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" played in the background. "Of course, it’s a big year," said Kuokkanen. "Finland won the World Juniors and now we won this. I think it’s probably the best year ever for us. If we keep working hard, maybe we will win again next year." The Finns will look to defend their gold medal at the 2017 IIHF U18 World Championship in Slovakia. The tournament takes place in Poprad and Spisska Nova Ves. A pre-game ceremonial puck drop featured Jocelyne and Monique Lamoureux, the University of North Dakota hockey stars who won IIHF World Women’s Championship gold with the U.S. in Kamloops, Canada earlier this month.

Sweden - Finland 1-6

Nightmare finish for Canada Host U.S. takes bronze with 10-3 rout USA's Chad Krys #4 and teammates celebrate a first period goal Canada's Beck Malenstyn #11 looks on during bronze medal game action at the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship. The host U.S. ran up a 6-1 first-period lead and thrashed Canada 10-3 to win bronze on home ice on Sunday. It was the biggest blowout in U18 bronze history. The previous largest margin of victory was when Sweden beat Belarus 7-1 in the 2000 bronze game. Even though the Americans did not win their third straight IIHF U18 World Championship in Grand Forks, they captured a medal for the 12th consecutive year, a streak unmatched by any other nation. "It’s definitely heartbreaking when you lose in the semis, but it definitely feels unbelievable to get a medal with the U.S. guys," said U.S. forward Kailer Yamamoto. "I’m going to cherish it for the rest of my life." Logan Brown stepped up with two goals and an assist, and Joey Anderson added two goals. Yamamoto had a goal and two assists. Kieffer Bellows, Nicholas Pastujov, Zachary Walker, Griffin Luce, and William Lockwood also scored for the Americans. Clayton Keller had three assists. Casey Mittelstadt and James Greenway had two helpers apiece. Incredibly, in this rout, shots on goal only favored the Americans 33-32. Many had expected a U.S.-Canada matchup in the gold medal game. In fact, this is the first time since 2001 that neither North American team made the final. Certainly, nobody saw today's result coming. "We just weren’t prepared," said Canadian captain and tournament scoring leader Tyler Jost. "We talked after the loss against Sweden about shelving things, putting it behind us and looking forward to today. We had a really bad first. In the second and third we picked it up. But when it came down to it, we weren’t prepared." It matched the most lopsided U.S. win over Canada in U18 history -- also Canada's worst loss ever. The Americans beat Canada 10-3 in their first meeting ever on April 18, 2002. "I couldn’t be more proud of how the guys came out and played hard and played the right way," said U.S. coach Danton Cole. Canada’s gold-or-bust mentality betrayed it here in shocking fashion. This was a horrendous end to the tournament for a team that had gone undefeated until falling 6-5 to Sweden in a semi-final shootout. William Bitten, Connor Hall, and Owen Tippett scored for Canada, which last won gold in 2013. The Canadians go home without medals for the first time since 2011. Keller, the American scoring leader, looked like he was on a mission the day after his late tripping penalty led to Finland’s winning power play goal in the semi-final. "Not being in that gold medal game is tough, and it’s hard to bounce back and play the next day," said Keller. "But we got together and we just wanted to play our best game of the tournament since it was our last game as a team together." The U.S. drew first blood at 4:40 on the power play. Keller considered his options in the left faceoff circle before feeding it down low to Anderson, who stuffed it past Canadian goalie Stuart Skinner. Just 31 seconds later, the Canadians got their wires crossed in front of their net, and with the goalie out of position, Brown whipped it into the open side. Coach Shaun Clouston called his timeout to regroup, and at 6:31, Canada cut the deficit to 2-1. Mason Shaw stickhandled behind the net and slipped a backhand pass out front to Bitten, who beat U.S. netminder Jake Oettinger. The U.S. made it 3-1 less than a minute later. Greenway pinched in and handed the puck off to Keller in the left faceoff circle. He swivelled and found Bellows coming on the opposite side, and Skinner couldn’t get across fast enough. That was it for Skinner, who was yanked in favor of Fitzpatrick. It made little difference. At 11:10, Brown got free in the slot and whizzed home his second of the afternoon. "All night long, the U.S. had answers for everything we were doing," said Clouston. The fifth U.S. goal came shorthanded at 14:11. Fitzpatrick stopped Keller on a breakaway, but couldn’t prevent Anderson from converting the rebound. "I think we overpowered them, and they couldn’t really handle us," said Keller. At 16:48, it was 6-1 for the Americans, as Pastujov scored on the glove side. Fabbro and Keller exchanged unsuccessful breakaways at the end of the first. If Keller had scored, the U.S. would have equalled the tournament record for most goals in one period (seven). It was a more dazzling display than the laser show at the Ralph Engelstad Arena during the first intermission. Early in the second period, the U.S. went up 7-1 on the power play. Yamamoto banged in a loose puck at 1:27. As the score mounted, the Canadians ran around taking their frustrations out on their opponents. Canada’s Boris Katchouk got a penalty shot at 14:45, but Oettinger calmly pokechecked him. "Obviously, when the score gets that out of hand, you get frustrated and you want to do everything you can to claw your way back into the game," said Jost. "We did take a few penalties, some that were stupid and others that were just from us working hard and trying to get hits." At 4:22 of the third period, Walker got the 8-1 goal on a breakaway, lost his footing, and slid into Fitzpatrick. That sparked a fracas with more penalties. Less than a minute later, Luce gave the Americans their ninth goal with a point drive on a 5-on-3. Rather unkindly, the arena DJ played Tom Petty's "Even the Losers" when Hall tallied for Canada at 7:06 to make it 9-2. At 11:19, Tippett put home a rebound for Canada's third goal. Lockwood rounded out the scoring for the U.S., roofing it with 1:01 left. Even though USA Hockey didn't come away golden, this year's result provides continued validation for its National Team Development Program based in Plymouth, Michigan. "It shows how great USA Hockey has become," said Yamamoto. "It’s been a great experience."

United States - Canada 10-3

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Hungarian U18 moves up Wins Division I Group B in Italy The Hungarian U18 national team celebrates after beating Japan for Division I Group B gold. The Hungarian U18 national team took the gold medal in Asiago with one game left to earn promotion to the IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship Division I Group A for next year. Going into the second game on Friday afternoon were the only two undefeated teams left at the tournament: Hungary, who went down from last year’s Division I Group A and Japan, who finished with the bronze, last season. The favourites heading into the tournament were Slovenia, last year’s silver medallists, along with Hungary and Japan. The first day of the tournament already brought the first upset of the tournament as Ukraine beat Slovenia 3-1 in a game where Bogdan Stupak helped Ukraine with two goals. As expected Hungary got past Korea thanks to two goals each by Bruno Kreisz and Balint Horvath. Japan defeated host team Italy in closely contested game 3-2. On the second match day there were no upsets but a number of close games. Japan got past Korea on a goal by Eisai Arai in a 1-0 victory. Slovenia got back on track with a win over Italy while Hungary stayed undefeated with a win over Ukraine. This time Patrik Kiss was the one who stepped up with two goals. “We played a Ukraine team that was big. We had some penalty problems but our goalie played great and kept us in the game. We had a great compete level and great team spirit. I have never seen the Division IB play at such a high level before,” said Hungary’s head coach Glen Williamson after his team’s win over Ukraine. Early on in the tournament it was clear that the gold medal decision could come down to the game between Japan and Hungary, especially after Japan defeated Slovenia. The Japanese took a 3-0 lead in the first period and held on for the win. Meanwhile Hungary took care of business against Italy with a 7-1 win. This game really showed the balance of the Hungarians offence as all seven goals were scored by seven different players. “We have been running four balanced lines where everyone played great defence and we want everyone to score, all four lines play in every opportunity on the ice,” said Williamson. With the two remaining undefeated teams facing off against each other on Friday afternoon the game became de facto a gold medal game. Japan went up 1-0 on a power play goal from Arai in the first minute of the second period, but minutes later Akos Szigeti pulled Hungary even when he skated in on a break and put the puck past the Japanese goalie. Keitaro Yashuda gave Japan back the lead, however, Hungary tied the game again. This time Donat Szita was awarded a penalty shot that he converted to make it 2-2. Hungary took their first lead of the game on a Renato Toth goal. They would hold on to the win with an empty netter in the last seconds of the game to win the gold. “We learned a lot from last year and we have a young team so we decided to take it game by game. We wanted to play great and to get better as the tournament went on,” said Williamson when asked to reflect on the first four games of the tournament, “With this young team we knew that we would have to work hard because we didn't know how we would stack up against the opponents. The games were very tight all throughout the tournament with the games being decided in the third period. We did get passive during some of the games, and we had to work on that.”

Late reward for Slovenia Remains unbeaten after edging Italy Slovenia took the second win in its second game at the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group A, 3-1 against Italy. The Slovenes outshot Italy, which had a strong start against host Poland the day before, 40-24 but had trouble capitalizing on its chances in front of Frederic Cloutier, who got the start today in Italy’s net. Eventually it was two shots from the blue line that led to Slovenia’s win. “It’s our goal to win all five games and we are one step forward now. It was a tough game for us. We knew that they play really well defensively and don’t make many mistakes. We tried to be very aggressive in the offensive zone from the start and scored the first goal but then we didn’t score the second,” said Ziga Jeglic, who scored the game-winning goal on a deflection. “They got us a little bit in the second half of the second period but in the third period we got better and deserved the win. If we could have scored more goals in the first period it would certainly have been easier for us.” Slovenia was the more active team in the first period and Italy’s first penalty already led to the first goal. At 13:15 Jurij Repe shot from the blue line and beat a screened Cloutier through his five-hole. It didn’t look like the Italians would come back into the game anytime soon at the beginning of the second period but at 6:47 they converted their first shot of the frame to tie the game when Luca Frigo initiated a counter-attack that ended with Giulio Scandella’s 1-1 marker. Later in the period Frigo had a similar scoring chance when the game opened up but none of the teams hit the back of the net for the remainder of the period. “Slovenia started the game really strong and put a lot of pressure in the first period,” Scandella said. “After that we played very well. We just took too many penalties and they scored two power-play goals, I think that killed us today.” The Slovenes had better chances and post shots but didn’t find the means to net the puck until at 5:23 of the third period they were eventually rewarded when Jeglic deflected a long shot from Sabahudin Kovacevic during a Slovenian power play. The Italian comeback attempt was fruitless and Kovacevic scored the 3-1 goal into the empty net with 27 seconds left while Italy was playing 6-on-5 for a short time. Swift return to winning path Korea stuns host, Poland remains winless After losing on the first day it was an important day for host Poland and Korea. The Koreans ended up as the winners, 4-1, thanks to a Michael Swift hat trick. The Koreans made a first step in staying in this group while for Poland the dream of earning promotion and improving from last year’s third-place finish is dwindling. It was the first encounter in an official game in four years for the two teams. That’s when Korea earned promotion to this group the last time by beating host Poland 3-2 for Division I Group B gold in Krynica and Katowice seems to be a lucky place for the Koreans either. The teams played at par, had a similar number of shots – 7-7, 13-14, 13-10 – and of face-offs won throughout the game. The big difference was Michael Swift’s three goals. “I was lucky. I play with great players. We’re all in the system, we’re all doing the same thing and today it just happened to go for me,” Swift said modestly. “We played really well yesterday [against Austria] and deserved to win and we’re happy that we got the win this time. It shows how we built on yesterday and learned from our mistakes.” 24 seconds into the middle frame the Korean fan sector went wild for the first time when Swift scored the first goal of the game. The Koreans passed their way through the Polish defence and after a nice feed from Sanghoon Shin it was Swift, who got the puck in front of the net and made it 1-0. Three minutes later Swift hit the back of the net again. After a turnover from Aron Chmielewski the Koreans got the puck in their zone. They failed to score initially but Shin and Minho Cho battled for the puck at the end boards and after a drop pass to the crease Swift was once again at the right spot to double the lead for Korea. “It was a well-fought match. It came down to the very end. Both teams played very well and it was anybody’s game,” said Paek, who praised the encouraging support from its fans at the arena, most of them Koreans working in Poland for Halla, a Korean conglomerate that is a big sponsor in Korean hockey. The home crowd at Spodek suffered as the players didn’t manage to capitalize on their chances. At 8:54 of the third period it was a lucky punch that eventually brought Poland back within reach. Grzegorz Pasiut capitalized on a terrible giveaway in the Korean zone and beat goalie Matt Dalton for the 2-1 goal. It was short-lived joy though as 82 seconds later Swift made his hat trick perfect. After a long vertical pass from Don Ku Lee, Swift got the puck close to the opponent’s blueline and beat Przemyslaw Odrobny to make it 3-1. “We were trying our best. It wasn’t a bad game for us. We played well. In some moments we were dominating. We had our chances but we didn’t capitalize on them. Our scoring efficiency was poor,” said Polish head coach Jacek Plachta. “We have to calm down and talk because our next opponent Slovenia is I’d say the best team here.” Plachta took his time-out with 132 seconds left and pulled Odrobny, however, Sangwook Kim made everything clear with his shot into the empty net with 75 seconds left for the final score of 4-1. Austria 2, Asia 0 Lebler game-winner gives first regulation-time win After needing a shootout to beat Korea yesterday, Austria also had difficult times against Japan but won the game 3-1 to finish Day 2 in second place. The Austrians outshot Japan 37-27 to get their second win against an Asian team and the first regulation-time victory. Austria had a great start into the game and put a lot of pressure onto Takuto Onada’s net already in the first few minutes. At 2:49 Nikolas Petrik succeeded with a low shot from behind the face-off circles that went in deflected by Japanese defenceman Shinya Yanadori. The Japanese capitalized on the first power play of the game that came late in the first period. Takafumi Yamashita sent off a slap shot into the top-right corner for the 1-1 goal at 17:50 that was touched by Seiji Takahashi. Like in the opening frame Austria created more opportunities than the Japanese in a second period in which none of the teams were able to capitalize on their chances. That changed early in the third period. Raphael Herburger skated along the right boards, sent of a horizontal pass to Manuel Geier, who fed goal scorer Brian Lebler at 3:32. Austria’s third line succeeded against midway through the period when after a Lebler shot Herburger capitalized on a loose puck in the goal crease. Japanese defenceman Kazumasa Sasaki came too late and the chanting, flag-waving Austrian fans started to celebrate in anticipation of the first regulation-time win. The Japanese became more active in the third period than in the 40 minutes before but their opportunities were too few. The best chance came after back-to-back passes of Takahashi and Daisuke Obara but the puck stuck below goalkeeper Bernhard Starkbaum on the goal line and Austria got the three points it wanted.

Day 2 Slovenia - Italy 3-1 Poland - South Korea 1-4 Austria - Japan 3-1

Latvia sends Danes down Smirnovs gets shootout winner to cap comeback Latvia's Deniss Smirnovs #10 high fives the bench after scoring a shoot out goal against Denmark during relegation round action at the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 World Championship. Latvia edged Denmark 4-3 in a shootout in Game Three of the relegation series. The Latvians stay in the elite division for 2017, while the Danes are relegated. Deniss Smirnovs scored the shootout winner low to the stick side. Then Denmark's Rasmus Heine lost the puck when he attempted the same backhand move that had worked earlier in the shootout, and the game was over. "In that moment you just feel so fantastic," said Latvian captain Tomass Zeile. "It’s so huge for Latvia." Latvia rallied late from a 3-1 third-period deficit to force the extra session. "I think we played a pretty good game for the first two periods," said Danish captain Christian Mathiasen-Wesje. "In the last 10 minutes of the third period, we got scared of making mistakes. We messed it up and they scored two goals." Smirnovs also scored in regulation for Latvia. Renars Krastenbergs notched a goal and an assist, and Zeile had the other goal. It's a big relief for Latvia, which won the first relegation game 5-1. Denmark bounced back in Game Two with a 4-1 win. The last time Latvia was relegated was in 2013. "Sometimes in games when we’re losing by two goals, everyone’s head is down and it feels like you’re losing even in the locker room," said Zeile. "I think today we kept our emotions up in the room and helped each other. I think we wanted it a little bit more than them." Oliver Gatz and Andreas Grundtvig both had a goal and an assist for Denmark, and Mathiasen-Wesje also scored. Danish goalie Kasper Krog did his best in a losing cause at the Ralph Engelstad Arena as Latvia outshot the Danes 41-25. "He played a really great game for us," Mathiasen-Wesje said of Krog. "We took stupid penalties and we didn’t block shots for him. We didn’t take the man in front." The Danes have only managed to avoid relegation at the U18 level once before, back in 2004. Discipline was an issue here for the Latvians, who totalled 37 PIM in the 11:00 game on Sunday. With that said, the Danes also took 16 PIM, and it cost them in the third period. "At the end, we were a little too nervous in my opinion," said Danish coach Martin Struzinski. "Mentally, our guys aren’t used to things like this at this level. They experienced a lot through this and hopefully they’ll get stronger out of it as human beings and hockey players." The Danes weathered an early Latvian power play after Magnus Molge was sent off for tripping. They opened the scoring at 11:31 on their first man advantage. During a goal mouth scramble, Mathiasen-Wesje was Johnny-on-the-spot to bang a rebound past Latvian starter Gustavs Grigals. Near the three-minute mark of the second period, Molge was shaken up on an Erlends Klavins hit in the Danish end and received attention from the trainers. His teammates helped him off the ice, while Klavins was ejected with a five-minute major for boarding. Compounding Latvia’s woes, Krastenbergs was sent off for delaying the game after he put the puck over the glass in his own zone. The Danes capitalized on the ensuing 5-on-3, as Krag’s slapper from the top of the right faceoff circle was tipped in by Gatz for a 2-0 lead at 4:05. Denmark continued to press for the third goal as the second period wore on. Jonas Rondbjerg failed to score on a partial breakaway. Krag’s quick release from the faceoff dot was gloved down by Grigals. With Mathiasen-Wesje in the box for tripping, Latvia cut the gap to 2-1 on the power play at 4:57 of the third period. Krastenbergs fooled Krog with a quick wrister through traffic. The Danes soon responded. Grundtvig powered off the side boards to the slot and flung a wrister past Grigals to restore the two-goal lead at 8:17. At 13:56, Latvia capitalized again with the man advantage as Smirnovs whipped one past Krog's glove to make it 3-2. The Latvians got the equalizer and rejoiced wildly when Zeile floated one past Krog from the center point with 1:07 remaining in regulation. "The puck just came to me," said Zeile. "In my head, I said: ‘Just shoot!’ I shot it and it went top shelf." Both sides had good chances in overtime, but couldn't cash in. The Latvians switched to goalie Marek Mitens for the shootout. "We knew he’s a better goalie at penalty shots so we had confidence," said Zeile. "We weren’t so shocked about it." Despite the disappointment for Denmark, there are many positive things happening with their program overall. For the second straight year, the Danish U20 team made the quarter-finals at the 2016 World Juniors in Finland. And Denmark will host the IIHF World Championship for the first time ever in 2018 in Copenhagen and Herning.

Latvia - Denmark 4-3 (GWS)

Fernando Alarza (ESP) won todays World serie race in Cape Town in front of Jonathan Brownlee (GBR) and Dorain Coninx (FRA). Richard Varga with a very nice 9th place, and again won the swimming part. full results here In womens event Non Stanford of Great Britain captured gold, her compatriot Jodie Stimpson won silver and bronze for Flora Duffy of the Bermudas. full results here The updated olympic rankings after todays races are here for mens and here for womens

Kiwis go to Bratislava New Zealand wins Inline Hockey Qualification New Zealand’s inline hockey national team during the 2016 IIHF Inline Hockey Qualification Asia/Oceania in New Plymouth New Zealand will be back at the IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship next year for the first time since being relegated 2012 and will compete in the Division I competition during the 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship that will take place in summer next year in the Slovak capital of Bratislava. This season three qualifiers from three different world regions are to be determined for the last three spots in the 2017 IIHF Inline Hockey World Championship and after Brazil it was New Zealand which can book their tickets to Bratislava after winning the 2016 IIHF Inline Hockey Qualification Asia/Oceania on home soil in New Plymouth. They will join Australia as the other team from the region. In the four-team tournament it all came down to the last game between Japan, which was relegated last year, and the hosts. Both teams faced little trouble on the first two days with wins against Chinese Taipei, which finished in third place, and winless India, which was heavily outplayed in all three games in its inline hockey debut. Ben Thompson opened the scoring against Japan at 6:10 but one minute later Shuntaro Tsuchimoto tied it up for Japan and 59 seconds into the second period Daisuke Ohto even brought Japan the lead. The game was decided in the hosts’ favour in the third period with unanswered goals from Alex Novak, Paul Jameson and Tim Craig. Julian Beardman extended the lead to 5-2 midway through the third period. The Japanese tried to react but only scored with 2:41 left in regulation time and the goalie pulled for the final score of 5-3 for New Zealand. The third qualifier will be determined in a European qualification with Austria, Latvia, Belgium, Bulgaria, FYR Macedonia, Israel, Turkey, Serbia and Ireland. The dates and venue will be announced later. Click here for box scores.