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4th group of Athletes departed today to Beijing. 12 Athletes were expected to fly to China today, however in the end only 10 boarded the plane this evening The Full Biathlon Team (8) Paulína Fialková (3rd Olympics) her younger sistre Ivona Fialková (2nd Olympics) Henrieta Horvátová & Veronika Machyniaková (Both Olympic Debuts) among women and Michal Šíma & Šimon Bartko (2nd Olympics) Matej Baloga and Tomáš Sklenárik (1st Olympics) among men and 2 of the 4 originally expected Alpine Skiers to fly today Adam Žampa (3rd Olympics) and Rebeka Jančová (Debut) The 2 missing Alpine skiers were Adam´s younger brother Andreas Žampa and another debutant teenager of our female NT Petra Hromcová had both a couple of days ago tests with questionable results, but both from then had negative test(s), but in order not to unnecessarily endanger the other members of the delegation both skiers will stay another couple of days in Slovakia, accumulate hopefully another negative tests and then fly at later date to China. Hromcová first event is the GS on Monday and Andreas first race the M Super-G is on Tuesday. Biathlon squad before the departure Good luck guys, Stay healthy, enjoy the games and try your best !

Does not look very likely right now, so I voted No. but yeah you never know with yuesey, they can finish pretty well with more

Ester Ledecká another Gold double-double

Updates from Hockey bubble in Bratislava: Another coronavirus case was added to the Slovak national hockey team the day before Wednesday's departure for the Olympic Games in Beijing. Forward Michal Krištof also had a positive test. Peter Cehlárik, whose infection was reported by the team's management on Monday, continues to show a positive result. From the team Staff, also the goaltenders coach Ján Lašák tested positive in the Bratislava "bubble". "After testing, we had two more cases. Mišo Krištof was positive, but his load of infectivity is quite satisfactory. We will follow him further, we will see how it will develop. Peter Cehlárik still has a positive result. Our colleague from the team staff, Ján Lašák, also had a positive test, but he also has a relatively low charge. I talked to him, he shows practically no symptoms, he feels 99 percent healthy, he only has micro-fatigue, "said assistant general manager Oto Haščák during an online press conference. According to him, the team management does not panic in this situation either: "We assess the situation from hour to hour, we are patient in the way we proceed. Even today we have moved the training to know the results of the morning tests. Only players who will negative and will have a charge that meets the requirements of the IOC will take part to the training session. " According to Haščák, defender Mário Grman also had higher values in the tests: "It is currently being investigated whether Covid is in his final or beginning phase. He is in a position that he will not be able to train today, but we are waiting for the result of the next test." TASR reminds that players need a five-day quarantine and four negative coronavirus tests before departure. Without Cehlárik and Krištof, 19 players should leave Slovakia on Wednesday. The national team management is preparing for all possibilities, including the scenario that both Cehlárik and Krištof will not be able to play at the Olympic Games. "It is the two players from the starting line-up who are our priorities. Cehlárik as the leader player also of our Power-Play special team, We will be patiently waiting for the situation to develop. If necessary we will inform you about eventual alternates. But, We are still patient," Haščák emphasized, adding that the results of Tuesday's (Todays) tests would be important. About the Alternates: 3 out of the 6 names were so far revealed, Róbert Lantoši and Adam Liška (Forwards) and the Croatian-Slovak Mislav Rosandič (Defence). The guys should be prepared if needed to join the team if necessary.

After Cehlárik (our best player) todays results in the Bratislava bubble reported another positive case, Michal Krištof... ffs... 2nd line center...ffs now iT IS TIME TO PANIC

beat in todays test match 5-3 First 2 periods were played 2x20 minutes but rough time without breaks and the 3rd period the teams exchanged power-plays

and (but will obviously rooting for the Czechs)

sort of instant porridge product new TV add with the Fialková sisters

As mentioned in the Hockey thread. Peter Cehlárik Ice Hockey, he´ll stay in solation in the Bratislava bubble and the team will evaluate his case on daily basis, the deadline to arrive to Beijing for our players is 7th February, if any player will be not able to that date a alternate (6 guys isolated in another special bubble) will have to replace him(them) Cehlárik missing will be very bad for us, he is without doubts our best player of this roster...and it is not even close

Peter Cehlárik had positive test in the Bratislava bubble (obviously our best player...) All remaining players had two negative tests and were wllowed to start training today, the other 7 players who arrived yesterday had all negative test, but have to wait for the 2nd test to be allowed to train tomorrow Cehlárik stay in isolation and the team will evaluate his case on daily basis, hopefully he will turn negative and will be able to join he team in Beijing, where the 4 remaining guys from Czech league will arrive the 4th February directly The team will have another practice session in Bratislava tomorrow (hopefully with the remaining 7 guys) and on Wednesday will travel from Vienna at 19:40 to Istanbul and from there to Beijing. If Cehlárik (who was elected best forward of last year World Championship in Riga according to the directoriate of the tournament) will have enough negative tests he will fly to Beijing later. The 7th February (3 days before our opening match at the games) we play a test match in Beijing against Germany and it is the deadline when we would like to have the complete team in place

yeah haha, my mistake, sorry buddy. The mask is basically a commonly used slang term. the more official name is the face-cage (wire cage)

Also rumors saying 2 members of ehm sorry Bobsleigh 4-Man were tested positive, but not sure how trustworthy this news is (from our medias)

Yes, every U18 ice hockey player must wear a special facemask protection during the match (mandatory in every country controlled by IIHF or NHL) The day of your 18 birthday you are allowed to play without it. which is obviously the goal and special day of every ice hockey player on the planet So when you will watch a mens ice hockey match and you´ll spot guy(s) wearing this, they are U18

First Beijing 2022 Birthday "celebration" in our team today. Our sole female Luge representative at the Games Katarína Šimoňáková celebrated her birthday by exploring and memorizing the Olympic sliding center, Tomorrow starts the first unofficial trainings Fun fact one of the other birthday guys in Beijing is Šimon Nemec who will have 18 yeasr the day of the Ice Hockey Round of 16, would be great if he´ll celebrate it with some good outcome on the ice + will be fun to see, 2 days before playing against with the U18 mandatory facemask and then finally playing his first careers match without facemask right in the Last 16 round at the Olympics the day of his birthday. Happy Birthday Katka

Sara Hector and by big margin I am afraid

Nothing so far from our team, everything works well apparently, but we have only a couple of athletes and their staff in Beijing now. but in sites I read some funny satements of their chef de mission https://www.idnes.cz/oh/peking-2022/cesky-olympijsky-tym-cesta-do-pekingu.A220126_171322_olympiada-peking-2022_ald "Transportation doesn't work very well yet, but it was said there were similar problems before the 2008 Summer Games as well before everything started," says Martin Doktor. "At that time, they also drove six hours to a place distant one hour , because the driver was lost. The closed Olympic bubble, on the other hand, works perfectly here, and no one really gets outside. ” The Czech expedition also received Chinese assistants. Martin Doktor praises that most of them speak English and are very diligent. "We just have to come to terms with the fact that there is a different culture. If you tell one of them to go check the room to see if there is a repaired window, for some reason all five will go check it together. " but really, it looks for now everything is perfectly prepared, lets just hope the covid will not destroy this wonderful sport holiday we are all waiting for

I heard also about Bobsleigh Markus Sammer and Žan Košir Snowboarding Today another 37 cases were discovered (8 of them among athletes and Team staff members)

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Our TV made an Interesting trip to the past How looked the uniforms since Nagano, Man I completely forgot how ultra-ugly was Salt Lake Interesting how the fashion changed in the last 20-25 years

Also not sure if it is only some practice uniforms or it is actually the official jersey of for the tournament, but it does not look so ugly as the previous one at all

had to change the head coach Jeremy Colliton is the new coach he had to replace Claude Julien who was injured when he broke his ribs after falling on the ice.

Stage 16 in Willingen (GER) Men´s Individual Large Hill: 1. Marius Lindvik 243.8 2. Karl Geiger 238.7 3. Cene Prevc 235.6 Full Final Result HERE

Bychenko Figure Skating or Bykanov Short Track