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Ok. so our Biathlon site wrote an article about the Olympic qualification, here is the translated one Link to the article in slovak https://www.slovenskybiatlon.sk/spravodajstvo/slovensko/1420-casto-piseme-o-vybojovani-si-styroch-miesteniek-na-oh-ako-prebieha-kvalifikacia Time to look closely to the new Biathlon Qualification process. First let took a closer look at how the qualification actually takes place. If you classify yourself as a PRO level fan (you know almost everything in biathlon), you can skip the first five paragraphs. Qualification for previous Olympic Games was very simple and practically identical to both World Championships qualification and World Cup qualifiers. In each Individual, sprint and relay races, the points of the three best competitors of every nation are counted in the Nations Ranking. The winner gets 160 points, the second 154, the third 148 points ... and from the eleventh place to the eighty it goes down by one single point down, so it stops at 61 points for the eighty ranked bathlete. But then it breaks and every other competitor has two points less than the previous one, so the 110th biathlete has only one point and then everyone who crossed to the finish line gets 1 point as well. In the relays, the winning country gets 420 points and then it gradually decreases. For the tenth place it is, for example, 220 points, for the twentieth 120. Scoring is the same in mixed relays, with the difference that men and women divide those points in half. So, for example, if the Norwegians win the mixed relay, women will get 210 points, and men will get 210 points. There is no difference whether it is a 2 + 2 mixed relay or 1 + 1 mixed singles relay. In the current season, 25 World Cup events are counted for the Nations Ranking for both women and men, including the World Championships in Pokljuka. At the end of the season, the final counts looks like this: The first five countries can enter six competitors in the World Cup for the entire following season, countries from sixth to tenth enter five, from eleventh to seventeen-four, from eighteenth to twenty-third three, and 24th and The 25th country will receive two places. The IBU can still award a wild card to eight other countries, which can fiels one competitor at a time. Thus, a total of 113 biathletes from 33 countries can compete in one WC race, but they also have to fulfilled personal result quotas. This is quite difficult to calculate, we will not explain it here. Briefly, the competitor needs at least one 50-60 place in the IBU Cup to qualify for the WC race. But for the world championships, quotas are stricter for stronger countries and more benevolent for the weakest. In practice, this means that up to the first fifteen countries they are allowed to enter four competitors, then the national teams from 16th to 25th place three, from 26th to 30th place two and the IBU still reserves the right to another ten wild cards for smaller countries. So a total of 110 biathletes from up to 40 countries can compete at a WCh race. At the same time, the performers need to meet the required personal quota, but is also easier to achieve, you only need to place around 80-90. places in the IBU Cup. Every race is different, so it is not possible to determine exactly. It is therefore true that in the 2020/2021 season, Slovakia is fighting hardly for quotas for next year's World Cup races. Based on last year's ranking, we can enter three men and three women, because last year we finished on the 20th, respectively. 18th place. It is therefore logical that we want to reach the Top 17 so that four biathletes can start. Men are currently in 18th place and women in 20th place. And now lets move on the Changed qualification to WOG Beijing 2022 Usually there would be a parallel fight for quotas like for the world championship, ie as you read above, with exactly the same system, only the amount of quotas deadline are only again with slightly shifted deadlines. Due to the coronavirus pandemic and the need for a more up-to-date reflection of the performance of different countries in competitions under the five circles, the IBU decided to make a change and the qualification model for the Beijing Olympics 2022 was modified and approved just before the new season, the 28th of November 2020. Again, the Nations Ranking decides, but not its ranking at the end of the 20/21 season as it was originally planned, but each country counts only the twelve best results from: 6 sprint races 1 individual race 3 relay races 1 mixed relay race 2 + 2 and 1 single mixed relay race 1 + 1; from the whole season 20/21, as well as the first six stages of the World Cup 21/22. The qualification will therefore end after the Ruhpolding stage on 16 January 2022. The breakdown is as follows: The first twenty countries will get four places to start in all races, including relays. And the IBU will award twelve wild cards to the strongest athletes whose countries have not qualified. Maximum two places per country. Thus, a total of 92 women and men should start in each individual race at the Olympics. Interestingly, the document does not say anything about the host country, China, which is not competing at all this season. It is therefore absolutely crucial for our biathlon that we somehow manage to finish into the Top 20 in both categories, because not having the relays at the Olympics could be a significant breakthrough in our biathlon, also in terms of its funding (contribution from the governement + sponsors), which would was very difficult to get. The pandemic is currently helping but also harming us at the same time, as the Fialková sisters were left out and we are completely on the edge with women, although the virus has also affected other countries like Bulgarians, Slovenes and Chinese women cannot fully entered some races. In mens the Bulgarians. If we take a closer look at these qualifying criteria, we will find by logical reasoning that about a third of the starts will count, and as has been said, only the best ones. Many average or below-average races will therefore be irrelevant. In practice, this means, for example, that our men have three decent relays behind them, in which they won 16th, 13th and 12th place. Since three are counted, they are only interested in the result of 15th and higher. And with this model, it is better to totally ruin two starts in individual disciplines, but to score massively in one with all three competitors. And we have the biggest problems with that. If we get to a better result, usually with only one competitor, the other two will only help him cosmetically. That is the only way we can lose the relays at the Olympics but at same time we can also be in the 17th or 18th place in the classic nations ranking. As the qualification is about one third right now, and it wasn't until Anterselva that the first weaker races began possible to be cut, the standings look almost identical to the classic nation rankings. If this starts to differ, we will inform you and publish the rankings from time to time. It is true that after each race we will continue to publish the traditional nations rankings, whom on the basis all the quotas for WC races are determined. MEN OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION CURRENT STANDING 1. NOR NÓRSKO 4714 0 2. FRA FRANCÚZSKO 4316 -398 3. GER NEMECKO 4060 -654 4. SWE ŠVÉDSKO 4021 -693 5. RUS RUSKO 3880 -834 6. AUT RAKÚSKO 3532 -1182 7. ITA TALIANSKO 3468 -1246 8. BLR BIELORUSKO 3195 -1519 9. UKR UKRAJINA 3096 -1618 10. SUI ŠVAJČIARSKO 2962 -1752 11. SLO SLOVINSKO 2920 -1794 12. CZE ČESKO 2890 -1824 13. FIN FÍNSKO 2860 -1854 14. CAN KANADA 2700 -2014 15. USA SPOJENÉ ŠTÁTY 2649 -2065 16. LTU LITVA 2316 -2398 17. BEL BELGICKO 2003 -2711 18. SVK SLOVENSKO 1955 -2759 19. EST ESTÓNSKO 1859 -2855 20. LAT LOTYŠSKO 1795 -2919 21. POL POĽSKO 1714 -3000 22. JPN JAPONSKO 1574 -3140 23. BUL BULHARSKO 1543 -3171 24. KAZ KAZACHSTAN 1290 -3424 25. ROU RUMUNSKO 1023 -3691 26. MDA MOLDAVSKO 647 -4067 27. SRB SRBSKO 338 -4376 28. GRE GRÉCKO 216 -4498 29. CRO CHORVÁTSKO 181 -4533 WOMEN OLYMPIC QUALIFICATION CURRENT STANDING 1. SWE ŠVÉDSKO 4303 0 2. FRA FRANCÚZSKO 4248 -55 3. NOR NÓRSKO 4247 -56 4. GER NEMECKO 4156 -147 5. RUS RUSKO 3961 -342 6. BLR BIELORUSKO 3770 -533 7. AUT RAKÚSKO 3521 -782 8. ITA TALIANSKO 3499 -804 9. UKR UKRAJINA 3378 -925 10. SUI ŠVAJČIARSKO 3183 -1120 11. CZE ČESKO 3046 -1257 12. USA SPOJENÉ ŠTÁTY 2817 -1486 13. POL POĽSKO 2711 -1592 14. CAN KANADA 2706 -1597 15. EST ESTÓNSKO 2455 -1848 16. FIN FÍNSKO 2371 -1932 17. JPN JAPONSKO 1974 -2329 18. KAZ KAZACHSTAN 1664 -2639 19. SVK SLOVENSKO 1591 -2712 20. KOR KÓREA 1586 -2717 21. BUL BULHARSKO 1471 -2832 22. SLO SLOVINSKO 1370 -2933 23. LTU LITVA 995 -3308 24. LAT LOTYŠSKO 924 -3379 25. BEL BELGICKO 613 -3690 26. ROU RUMUNSKO 446 -3857 27. MDA MOLDAVSKO 292 -4011 28. GBR VEĽKÁ BRITÁNIA 217 -4086 29. CRO CHORVÁTSKO 158 -4145 30. AUS AUSTRÁLIA 107 -4196 31. GRL GRÓNSKO 84 -4219

Russian Ice Hockey federation want "Katyusha" to be played instead of the national anthem after wins at the world championships wrote Championat.com citing sources from the Russian Ice Hockey federation. The official even added : "Katyusha will be Russian anthem,The details how it will exactly looks will be clarified later." Remember at the IIHF WCh events the national anthem is played only after the end of the match and only for the winner of the game. The site also claims Russians are also considering to ask the IOC to have Katyusha played instead of the Russian national anthem in Tokyo and Beijing during the upcoming Summer and Winter Olympic Games medal ceremonies after eventual gold medals of Russian athletes.

IIHF confirmed the dates for the FQT. Also the biggest robbery of all times the host quota for (Apparently China is already trying to include couple of north-americans with more or less distant chinese ancestry to their team...to name a few of them Brandon Yip Cory Kane Lucas Lockhart Greg Squires Zach Yuen Victor Bartley Brayden Jaw Still will not help to justify that scandalous free quota) so no changes there, the 3 final tournaments in and will be played as schedulled from 26th to 29th August this year. Womens have still all 3 qualifying rounds remaining, the 1st round in August (same date as M FQT), the 2nd round in early October and he final qualifiers in November in and Canada already announced the name of the M team GM, Doug Anderson will coach the team in Beijing (If the NHLers will play), however NHL and NHLPA in the past also have already commited to participate in the next 2 WOG (Beijing & Cortina). Obviously it is still not official and definitive.

Provisional Competition Round Results Event Link Click on the logo to open Men's Individual Gundersen Large Hill

Official Training Results Event Link Click on the logo to open Men's Individual Gundersen Large Hill

Qualification Results Event Link Click on the logo to open Men's Moguls Women's Moguls

Results Update Event Link Click on the logo to open Qualifying Round Week 3, Day 2

Training 2 Results Event Link Click on the logo to open Men's Downhill

Team Slovakia Men Tomáš Hasilla Michal Šíma Šimon Bartko Matej Baloga Women Paulína Fialková Ivona Fialková Veronika Machyniaková Henrieta Horvátová

Training 1 Cancelled

Results Update Event Link Click on the logo to open Qualifying Round Week 3, Day 1

and the first 33 pages rulebook is on. basically what we already knew, mask wearing, testing every fourth day, and ban of leaving the Athlete village for other reason than transport to training and competition.

Due to the already mentioned ban of our Skiing federation Our National Olympic Committee will officially send our delegation and will be the representative institution of our athletes in this competition as well, so the Slovak NOC today announced the roster for the World Championships Team Slovakia Men Adam Žampa (Parallel Giant Slalom, Giant Slalom, Slalom, Team Event ?) Andreas Žampa (Parallel Giant Slalom, Giant Slalom, Slalom, Team Event ?) Martin Bendík (Super-G, Downhill) Filip Baláž (Super-G, Parallel Giant Slalom, Giant Slalom, Slalom) Women Petra Vlhová (Alpine Combined, Super-G, Parallel Giant Slalom, Giant Slalom, Slalom, Team Event ?) Petra Hromcová (Parallel Giant Slalom, Giant Slalom, Slalom, Team Event ?) *Eventual Participation in the The Team Event will be reconsidered at place, but it is more likely we will withdraw from this discipline.

Alpine Skiing FIS World Championships 2021 Cortina d'Ampezzo (ITA) - 11 February 2021 - 21 February 2021 Official Website Programme Results System Results Database Facebook Page Discussion Thread

Official Schedule Central European Time (GMT +1) Olympic Event Final | Non-Olympic Event Final Thursday, February 11th 10:45 Women's Super-G 13:00 Men's Super-G Friday, February 12th 10:15 Women's Downhill Training 1 10:30 Men's Downhill Training 1 13:00 Women's Downhill Training 2 Saturday, February 13th 11:00 Women's Downhill Final 13:00 Men's Downhill Training 2 Sunday, February 14th 11:00 Men's Downhill Final Monday, February 15th 09:45 Women's Alpine Combined Run 1 11:15 Men's Alpine Combined Run 1 14:10 Women's Alpine Combined Run 2 15:20 Men's Alpine Combined Run 2 Tuesday, February 16th 09:00 Women's Parallel Giant Slalom Qualification 09:00 Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Qualification 14:00 Women's Parallel Giant Slalom 14:00 Men's Parallel Giant Slalom Wednesday, February 17th 12:15 Mixed Team Event Thursday, February 18th 10:00 Men's Giant Slalom Qualification, Run 1 10:00 Women's Giant Slalom Run 1 13:30 Women's Giant Slalom Run 2 13:30 Men's Giant Slalom Qualification, Run 2 Friday, February 19th 10:00 Men's Giant Slalom Final, Run 1 13:30 Men's Giant Slalom Final, Run 2 Saturday, February 20th 10:00 Men's Slalom Qualification, Run 1 10:00 Women's Slalom Run 1 13:30 Women's Slalom Run 2 13:30 Men's Slalom Qualification, Run 2 Sunday, February 21st 10:00 Men's Slalom Final, Run 1 13:30 Men's Slalom Final, Run 2

Happy belated Birthday, then... I guess

Our federation officially confirmed we booked a whole complex in one of the hotels in Dublin, Ireland as our bascemp during the tournament. without announcing which one exactly

and here is the goal. Dalibor Dvorský. First goal in seniors Extraliga at his 15 years, 7 months, 18 days.

Exactly 1 year to go ! The 2nd of February 2022 will start the competitions with the first draw of the Curling mixed singles doubles

and Tamberi won the mens competition with 231

yeah, well, last time he was here, he had is half beard

a fully shaved Tamberi... something is wrong with this world

and today the kid rewrote the history of our hockey, he scored a goal in Banská Bystrica win over Nitra, at the age of 15 years 7 months and 18 days he is now the youngest scorer of Slovak extraliga, beating the previous record of a certain Marián Gáborík from 1998

what would happen if yuesey lost by some accident the semifinal (I know not very realistic, but hypothetically), will they rechange the schedule in that case or it is definitive ?