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Ah... 10 months before the end of the beautiful Czechoslovakia...the last winter olympic participation of the czechs and slovaks under one flag The team won 3 Bronze Medals. Petr Barna in M Figure Skating Tomáš Goder/František Jež/Jaroslav Sakala and Jiří Parma in Team Ski Jumping and bronze in Ice Hockey after a memorable win 6-1 over the USA in the Bronze medal game. last epic olympic tournament of players from both our nations including a very sweet win 4-3 against former USSR in the preliminary round, the only team that beat them in the whole tournament

Katharina Truppe is the last racer added to the list of skiers that will have to miss the WCh because of injury. after todays injury during slalom training Let mention some names, who will not compete here because of injury.. Sofia Goggia, Nicole Schmidhofer, Nicole Ortlieb, Ricard Haaser, Anna Swenn-Larsson among womens and Aleksander Aamodt-Kilde, Lucas Braathen, Atle-Lie McGrath, Tommy Ford and Mauro Caviezel among mens did I forgot someone ?

Qualified. Returning to the Euro after 4 years. (Already the 12th participation of our womens NT at the Euro since the independence. in other side the mens with Big Zero participations and not even close to change it in the near or distant future ) The girls had to beat by at least 10 points to qualify, they did it (by 11) winning 61:50

Yeah, was definitely No the ideal time to get it...

Stage 18 Park City (USA) - 4 February 2021 - 6 February 2021 Men's Dual Moguls (5/6) Non-Olympic Event Final Results KINGSBURY Mikael -Big Final GRAHAM Matt -Big Final CAVET Benjamin -Small Final Full Final Results HERE

Stage 18 Park City (USA) - 4 February 2021 - 6 February 2021 Women's Dual Moguls (5/6) Non-Olympic Event Final Results OWENS Kai -Big Final SOAR Hannah -Big Final JOHNSON Tess -Small Final Full Final Results HERE

Stage 27 Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER) - 3 February 2021 - 6 February 2021 Men's Downhill (6/8) Final Results PARIS Dominik 1:33.81 FEUZ Beat 1:34.18 MAYER Matthias 1:34.21 Full Results HERE

Stage 19 Hinzenbach (AUT) - 5 February 2021 - 7 February 2021 Women's Individual Normal Hill (3/9) Final Results KRIZNAR Nika 237.4J1:89.0|R1:118.9|J2:90.5|R2:118.5 KLINEC Ema 236.6J1:90.5|R1:120.1|J2:86.5|R2:116.5 KVANDAL Eirin Maria 226.6J1:84.5|R1:110.7|J2:90.0|R2:115.9 Full Results HERE

Stage 18 Park City (USA) - 4 February 2021 - 6 February 2021 Men's Moguls (4/6) Final Results KINGSBURY Mikael 88.10F2 CAVET Benjamin 86.25F2 GRAHAM Matt 84.44F2 Full Final Results HERE

Stage 18 Park City (USA) - 4 February 2021 - 6 February 2021 Women's Moguls (4/6) Final Results LAFFONT Perrine 83.23F2 KAWAMURA Anri 80.94F2 SUMIYOSHI Kisara 79.55F2 Full Final Results HERE

Women's Individual Normal Hill (3/9) Final Results KRIZNAR Nika 237.4J1:89.0|R1:118.9|J2:90.5|R2:118.5 KLINEC Ema 236.6J1:90.5|R1:120.1|J2:86.5|R2:116.5 KVANDAL Eirin Maria 226.6J1:84.5|R1:110.7|J2:90.0|R2:115.9 Rank Athletes Nation Jump 1 Round 1 Jump 2 Round 2 Result 1 KRIZNAR Nika 89.0 118.9 90.5 118.5 237.4 2 KLINEC Ema 90.5 120.1 86.5 116.5 236.6 3 KVANDAL Eirin Maria 84.5 110.7 90.0 115.9 226.6 4 KRAMER Marita 87.0 113.4 85.5 110.2 223.6 5 AVVAKUMOVA Irina 79.0 102.5 85.5 114.7 217.2 6 IRASCHKO-STOLZ Daniela 79.0 100.7 84.0 114.5 215.2 7 PAGNIER Josephine 79.5 100.9 84.0 110.0 210.9 8 OPSETH Silje 80.0 100.2 82.5 110.6 210.8 8 BOGATAJ Ursa 81.5 106.0 81.0 104.8 210.8 8 EDER Lisa 81.0 102.1 83.0 108.7 210.8 11 VOGT Carina 82.5 103.2 82.0 107.1 210.3 12 ALTHAUS Katharina 78.5 101.7 82.5 107.8 209.5 13 HOELZL Chiara 77.5 99.0 77.5 103.6 202.6 14 MARUYAMA Nozomi 78.5 98.8 76.0 97.5 196.3 15 TIKHONOVA Sofia 77.5 95.0 77.0 99.5 194.5 16 BRECL Jerneja 77.0 96.5 76.0 97.7 194.2 17 CLAIR Julia 79.5 96.8 77.0 97.1 193.9 18 RUPPRECHT Anna 79.0 97.7 76.0 96.0 193.7 18 ROGELJ Spela 76.0 93.6 77.5 100.1 193.7 20 SORSCHAG Sophie 74.5 91.3 80.0 101.5 192.8 21 STROEM Anna Odine 75.0 92.2 79.5 100.5 192.7 21 SETO Yuka 79.5 96.9 75.5 95.8 192.7 23 PROKOPIEVA Kristina 81.0 100.7 74.0 91.1 191.8 24 MUEHLBACHER Julia 76.0 93.3 75.5 94.6 187.9 25 HARALAMBIE Daniela 76.5 91.0 79.0 94.7 185.7 26 RAUTIONAHO Jenny 74.0 89.3 77.0 93.4 182.7 27 KYKKAENEN Julia 75.0 91.2 75.0 89.5 180.7 28 MALSINER Jessica 77.5 92.5 73.5 87.9 180.4 29 TWARDOSZ Anna 74.0 87.1 76.0 92.9 180.0 30 INDRACKOVA Karolina 76.0 88.6 75.5 91.0 179.6 31 IWABUCHI Kaori 73.5 86.4 - - 86.4 32 SHPYNEVA Anna 74.0 86.3 - - 86.3 33 GOERLICH Luisa 72.0 82.3 - - 82.3 34 REISCH Agnes 71.5 82.2 - - 82.2 34 KABLUKOVA Ksenia 74.0 82.2 - - 82.2 36 KOMAR Katra 69.0 79.0 - - 79.0 37 RAJDA Kinga 68.0 75.3 - - 75.3 38 JONES Paige 69.5 73.8 - - 73.8 39 KONDERLA Nicole 65.5 67.7 - - 67.7 TAKANASHI Sara - - - - DSQ1

Men's Downhill (6/8) Final Results PARIS Dominik 1:33.81 FEUZ Beat 1:34.18 MAYER Matthias 1:34.21 Rank Athletes Nation Result 4 FRANZ Max 1:34.23 5 INNERHOFER Christof 1:34.53 6 JANKA Carlo 1:34.83 7 GANONG Travis 1:34.91 8 ODERMATT Marco 1:34.93 9 HEMETSBERGER Daniel 1:34.96 10 CLAREY Johan 1:34.99 11 KRIECHMAYR Vincent 1:35.04 12 SCHWAIGER Dominik 1:35.17 13 JANSRUD Kjetil 1:35.23 14 BAUMANN Romed 1:35.34 15 HINTERMANN Niels 1:35.37 16 STRIEDINGER Otmar 1:35.57 17 BAILET Matthieu 1:35.87 18 GOLDBERG Jared 1:35.94 19 ALLEGRE Nils 1:35.96 20 MONSEN Felix 1:35.99 21 BENNETT Bryce 1:36.04 22 MARSAGLIA Matteo 1:36.05 23 THEAUX Adrien 1:36.13 24 SANDER Andreas 1:36.18 25 JOCHER Simon 1:36.59 25 DANKLMAIER Daniel 1:36.59 27 SEJERSTED Adrian Smiseth 1:36.70 28 ROEA Henrik 1:36.74 29 SCHMID Manuel 1:36.77 30 BUZZI Emanuele 1:36.78 31 CATER Martin 1:36.79 32 THOMPSON Broderick 1:36.82 33 READ Jeffrey 1:37.00 34 ARVIDSSON Erik 1:37.02 35 MANI Nils 1:37.09 36 SCHIEDER Florian 1:37.11 37 WEBER Ralph 1:37.21 38 CRAWFORD James 1:37.29 39 SEGER Brodie 1:37.35 40 MORSE Sam 1:37.38 41 KLINE Bostjan 1:37.44 42 NEUMAYER Christopher 1:37.45 43 ROULIN Gilles 1:37.57 44 TONETTI Riccardo 1:37.79 45 THOMSEN Benjamin 1:38.39 46 PICCARD Roy 1:38.63 47 ZAZZI Pietro 1:38.96 48 PFIFFNER Marco 1:39.20 49 BENDIK Martin 1:39.90 ETXEZARRETA Adur DNF HROBAT Miha DNF ROGER Brice DNF WALDER Christian DNF ROGENTIN Stefan DNF RAFFORT Nicolas DNF REICHELT Hannes DNF FERSTL Josef DNF MUZATON Maxence DSQ

Men's Dual Moguls (5/6) Non-Olympic Event Final Results KINGSBURY Mikael -Big Final GRAHAM Matt -Big Final CAVET Benjamin -Small Final Rank Athletes Nation Result 4 SUGIMOTO Kosuke -S.F. 5 KELLY Brenden -QF 6 ELOFSSON Oskar -QF 7 FJALLSTROM Ludvig -QF 8 SUMMERS Brodie -QF 9 HORISHIMA Ikuma -R16 10 WILSON Bradley -R16 11 WALCZYK Dylan -R16 12 DUFRESNE Gabriel -R16 13 SUIRE Martin -R16 14 REIKHERD Dmitriy -R16 15 THEOCHARIS Sacha -R16 16 LEWIS Alex -R16 17 TADE Marco -R32 18 ELOFSSON Felix -R32 19 WOODS-TOPALOVIC Cooper -R32 20 CHUNLAUD Kerrian -R32 21 KOBER Jordan -R32 22 HOLMGREN Albin -R32 23 BEAUREGARD Ian -R32 24 FUJIKI Goshin -R32 25 AHVENAINEN Akseli -R32 26 WILLIS Max -R32 27 PAGE Nick -R32 28 KOLMAKOV Pavel -R32 29 ANDRINGA Jesse -R32 30 GERKEN SCHOFIELD Thomas -R32 31 MATHESON James -R32 32 VAILLANCOURT Elliot -R32 33 FENELEY William -R64 34 JEANNESSON Mateo -R64 35 MATSUDA So -R64 36 JUNG Daeyoon -R64 37 ROMANOV Sergey -R64 38 BONDAREV Anton -R64 39 BELLUCCI Massimo -R64 HEDRICK Joel DNFR64 ANTKIEWICZ Wyatt DNSR64

Women's Dual Moguls (5/6) Non-Olympic Event Final Results OWENS Kai -Big Final SOAR Hannah -Big Final JOHNSON Tess -Small Final Rank Athletes Nation Result 4 GALYSHEVA Yuliya -S.F. 5 LAFFONT Perrine -QF 6 GERKEN SCHOFIELD Makayla -QF 7 TOMITAKA Hinako -QF 8 CABROL Camille -QF 9 GORODKO Anastassiya -R16 10 HOSHINO Junko -R16 11 ANTHONY Jakara -R16 12 AMRENOVA Ayaulym -R16 13 DUFOUR-LAPOINTE Justine -R16 14 KAWAMURA Anri -R16 15 SCHWINGHAMMER Maia -R16 16 COX Britteny -R16 17 GIACCIO Olivia -R32 18 KAUF Jaelin -R32 19 YANAGIMOTO Rino -R32 20 RADWAY Kenzie -R32 21 GERKEN SCHOFIELD Leonie -R32 22 SUMIYOSHI Kisara -R32 23 IHARA Haruka -R32 24 CASS Sabrina -R32 25 WEESE Hanna -R32 26 GILBERT Valerie -R32 27 NUNN Skyler -R32 28 HOGG Madison -R32 29 CARROLL Avital -R32 30 ASH Sophie -R32 31 MEILINGER Melanie -R64 32 RAMSAUER Katharina -R64 33 MAYER Lena -R64 34 WEESE Sophie -R64 GASPARINI Nicole DNSR32 BROWN Berkley DNSR32

Men's Moguls (4/6) Final Results KINGSBURY Mikael 88.10F2 CAVET Benjamin 86.25F2 GRAHAM Matt 84.44F2 Rank Athletes Nation Result 4 FJALLSTROM Ludvig 81.28F2 5 HORISHIMA Ikuma 80.50F2 6 REIKHERD Dmitriy 74.19F2 7 WALCZYK Dylan 82.55F1 8 SUMMERS Brodie 80.68F1 9 KOLMAKOV Pavel 80.22F1 10 ANDRINGA Jesse 79.86F1 11 SUGIMOTO Kosuke 77.99F1 12 WOODS-TOPALOVIC Cooper 77.29F1 13 KELLY Brenden 75.42F1 14 TADE Marco 67.53F1 15 FENELEY William 14.48F1 16 WILSON Bradley 11.92F1 17 ELOFSSON Felix 73.89Q 18 HOLMGREN Albin 71.69Q 19 LEWIS Alex 70.80Q 20 GERKEN SCHOFIELD Thomas 70.40Q 21 ELOFSSON Oskar 70.01Q 22 THEOCHARIS Sacha 69.58Q 23 PAGE Nick 68.85Q 24 MATHESON James 68.78Q 25 BEAUREGARD Ian 63.76Q 26 FUJIKI Goshin 62.20Q 27 BELLUCCI Massimo 60.36Q 28 KOBER Jordan 60.08Q 29 ANTKIEWICZ Wyatt 58.19Q 30 ROMANOV Sergey 57.65Q 31 VAILLANCOURT Elliot 56.00Q 32 DUFRESNE Gabriel 43.16Q 33 WILLIS Max 37.66Q 34 HEDRICK Joel 36.60Q 35 MATSUDA So 25.32Q 36 BONDAREV Anton 20.39Q 37 CHUNLAUD Kerrian 17.43Q JUNG Daeyoon DNFQ JEANNESSON Mateo DNFQ SUIRE Martin DNFQ AHVENAINEN Akseli DNFQ

Women's Moguls (4/6) Final Results LAFFONT Perrine 83.23F2 KAWAMURA Anri 80.94F2 SUMIYOSHI Kisara 79.55F2 Rank Athletes Nation Result 4 OWENS Kai 77.35F2 5 GALYSHEVA Yuliya 77.31F2 6 ANTHONY Jakara 77.12F2 7 HOSHINO Junko 78.16F1 8 JOHNSON Tess 77.49F1 9 SOAR Hannah 76.99F1 10 GAGNON Sofiane 75.36F1 11 DUFOUR-LAPOINTE Justine 74.81F1 12 BROWN Berkley 74.47F1 13 SCHWINGHAMMER Maia 72.41F1 14 TOMITAKA Hinako 71.39F1 15 GILBERT Valerie 70.47F1 16 KAUF Jaelin 35.68F1 17 IHARA Haruka 64.62Q 18 CARROLL Avital 64.47Q 19 GORODKO Anastassiya 63.83Q 20 COX Britteny 63.69Q 21 GERKEN SCHOFIELD Makayla 62.58Q 22 GIACCIO Olivia 62.11Q 23 YANAGIMOTO Rino 60.72Q 24 GERKEN SCHOFIELD Leonie 59.64Q 25 CASS Sabrina 55.31Q 26 CABROL Camille 55.03Q 27 HOGG Madison 54.27Q 28 MEILINGER Melanie 48.56Q 29 GASPARINI Nicole 47.38Q 30 RADWAY Kenzie 47.34Q 31 AMRENOVA Ayaulym 45.54Q 32 ASH Sophie 36.05Q 33 WEESE Hanna 33.90Q 34 NUNN Skyler 14.62Q 35 MAYER Lena 6.59Q WEESE Sophie DNFQ RAMSAUER Katharina DNFQ DUFOUR-LAPOINTE Chloe DNFQ

Qualification (3/9) Results Event Link Click on the logo to open Women's Individual Normal Hill

Official Training Results Event Link Click on the logo to open Women's Individual Normal Hill

Qualification (18/24) Results Event Link Click on the logo to open Men's Individual Large Hill

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

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