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Luge from Park City, Utah Have just noticed that all the Luge events this season have been streamed live and are archived, which is just as well, because there's been hardly anything on Eurosport. |
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It'll be a disaster for Schiffrin if she can't make tomorrow's slalom. Vonn will be out of sight. Strange to see Maze commentating on the men's races.
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It'll be a disaster for Schiffrin if she can't make tomorrow's slalom. Vonn will be out of sight. Strange to see Maze commentating on the men's races.
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Best ever result for Britain's Dave Ryding in the slalom this morning. 12th place - get in Dave
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Best ever result for Britain's Dave Ryding in the slalom this morning. 12th place - get in Dave
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Updating all the things from this coming weekend and the days before Christmas. Some of our sports are on their Xmas break - no bob/skeleton or skating sports until the new year.
Men's Alpine from the Italian resorts, all live on Eurosport Thursday - Downhill training - Val Gardena Friday - Super G - Val Gardena Saturday - Downhill - Val Gardena Sunday - Giant Slalom - Alta Badia Monday - Parallel Giant Slalom - Alta Badia Tuesday - Slalom - Madonna di Campiglio Women's Alpine from the French resorts, all live on Eurosport. Probably another benefit week for Lindsay Vonn. Thursday - Downhill Training - Val d'Isere Friday - Combined Downhill/Slalom - Val d'Isere Saturday - Downhill - Val d'Isere Sunday - Giant Slalom - Courcheval |
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Biathlon from Pokljuka, Slovenia. All races scheduled live on ES except the one I give a time for.
Thursday - Men's Sprint Friday - Women's Sprint Saturday - Men's Pursuit then Women's Pursuit Sunday - Men's Mass Start then 13:15 Women's Mass start Nordic Combined from Ramsau, Austria Saturday - Solo Gundersen Sunday - Solo Gundersen Cross Country from Toblach Italy Saturday - Freestyle Sprint - Can Andrew Young repeat his great result last week? Sunday - Men's 15K Classic Time Trial, then Women's 10K Classic TT. Ski Jumping from Engelberg, Austria Saturday - Men's Individual Sunday - Men's Individual |
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And still more
Freestyle ski and snowboard. Several different things going on, some on Eurosport. Friday & Saturday Ski Cross from Innichen, Austria Saturday - Snowboard Parallel Slalom from Cortina d'Ampezzo Saturday - Snowboard Cross from Cortina Saturday & Sunday - Freestyle Aerials from Beijing Luge from Calgary, Canada. Lots on Eurosport, but recommend the streaming with expert commentary from the riders themselves. http://liveplus.digotel.com/fil/index.html |
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Andrew Young has qualified THIRD!!! for the Cross Country sprints this morning, starting at 11:15 on Eurosport 2. Just WOW!
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Woohoo! And Andrew Young gets third place in the final! Once again a PB and National Record - looked very comfortable all day and easily made his way through the qualifiers. There's surely more to come this season, perhaps even a win.
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Andrew Young interview. Can't get over this; sometimes in winter sports guys get lucky and get a big result they never back up again - this isn't the case with Andrew, he showed today that he has got everything he needs to be consistently successful for many years to come.
http://www.teamgb.com/news/historic-...young-in-italy http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-sports/35141959 |
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Woohoo! And Andrew Young gets third place in the final! Once again a PB and National Record - looked very comfortable all day and easily made his way through the qualifiers. There's surely more to come this season, perhaps even a win.
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Scary incident in the Madonna di Campiglio slalom where a remote-control camera seemed to fall out the sky and came within centimetres of crashing into Marcel Hirscher's head as he skied past. Look for it on YouTube.
And another decent result for Britain's Dave Ryding - he didn't look happy with his two runs, but they were good enough for 24th place on a pretty tough course, keeping him in the WC top thirty, which guarantees regular TV coverage and better start positions. |
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Oberhof Biathlon Cancelled
Noticed on ARD text this morning that the Oberhof event at the beginning of January has been cancelled, due to lack of snow, and it being too warm to make any. The same article said that at present Ruhpolding is also under threat. The IBU is meeting on 27.12.15 and will announce where, if at all, the Oberhof round will be transferred to.
I would imagine the Tour de Ski may also under threat as there really isn't much snow below 2000m at the moment anywhere around the alps. ZDF were however suggesting something a little more seasonal after new Year - but that may be wishful thinking! The way this winter is going it's going to be a nightmare, not only for competitive winter sports, but also for the whole winter sports leisure industry in central Europe. |
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Noticed on ARD text this morning that the Oberhof event at the beginning of January has been cancelled, due to lack of snow, and it being too warm to make any. The same article said that at present Ruhpolding is also under threat. The IBU is meeting on 27.12.15 and will announce where, if at all, the Oberhof round will be transferred to.
I would imagine the Tour de Ski may also under threat as there really isn't much snow below 2000m at the moment anywhere around the alps. ZDF were however suggesting something a little more seasonal after new Year - but that may be wishful thinking! The way this winter is going it's going to be a nightmare, not only for competitive winter sports, but also for the whole winter sports leisure industry in central Europe. |
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They will go wherever there is snow - I remember about one time years ago when there were three consecutive weeks in AUstria.
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Live winter sports start again tomorrow after the break.
Women's Giant Slalom from Lienz, Austra Men's downhill from Santa Caterina, Italy Qualifying for the first round of the Ski Jumping Four Hills from Obertsdorf, Germany Biathlon World Team Challenge from Gelsenkirchen, Germany - ie the one in the football stadium. More to come when I get back to a proper keyboard tomorrow! |
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Biathlon update - both WC4 and WC5 will be held at Ruhpolding, so they should have plenty time to get things ready The scedule of races is unchanged.
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The biathlon should be on TV appx 5.30pm our time. As the ski-jumping's going on there's no indication on Eurosport; but ARD do keep popping over to the stadium and updating us.
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And for Tuesday
Women's Slalom from Lienz Men's Downhill from Santa Caterina Four Hills round 1 from Oberstdorf. |
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More great news for Team GB, Alexandra Tilley gets her first World Cup points ever with a fine 19th place in the Giant Slalom in Lienz. She has been going for it hard, but lots of DNFs so far, so hopefully she will be settling down now.
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Another fantastic afternoons biathlon in Gelsenkirchen yesterday, though it was a shame that some nations, notably Norway, didn't put a team in. This year's field was probably the highest quality they have had since I have been watching it.
I thought the addition of the short sharp climb was a great idea, though the sharp right turn at the bottom of the hill was probably just a bit too tight - made for good TV though. Congratulations to Dorin-Habbert and Martin Fourcard for winning the overall - and also the czechs for coming second. The crowd didn't seem to disappointed that Germany only came third! This format really appears to work. It would be great if there could be some way in which an exhibition event could be held in UK - I'm sure that with the right promotion they could make a go of it. After all, they manage it with another minority sport - American Football. Ideally the venue would need to be both near a major population, and also within striking distance of a "snow dome" where they make artificial snow already. The stadium would ideally also need a roof, which I suppose would limit the locations in UK to Cardiff? It doesn't seem that warm temperatures would be a problem, as The Ruhr as been as warm as much of UK over Christmas! Incidentally, all the (artificial) snow at Gelsenkirchen is being shipped to Willingen to ensure the World Cup Ski Jumping event there early next year - really environmentally friendly that! |
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Another classic "what happened next" moment in the men's downhill today - look out for it on YouTube. Christian Innerhofer of Italy skied into a gate, the gate detached, caught on his chest and he continued with the gate, poles and all, wrapped round his neck. What's more, he even beat quite a few guys!
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Here's this weekends events, a bit late in that they are already underway!
Ski Jumping - the Four Hills Tournament continues Friday - Four Hills Round 2 Final from Garmisch Saturday - Four Hills Round 3 Qualifying from Innsbruck Sunday - Four Hills Round 3 Final Cross-Country skiing - The Tour de Ski, the annual multi-event competition which covers all disciplines and styles of Cross Country to find the all-around best skier. Andrew Young and Andrew Musgrave go for GB, both hunting big results Friday - FreeStyle sprints from Lenzerheide Saturday - Classic long distance time trials from Lenzerheide Sunday - Freestyle middle distance pursuits from Lenzerheide Nordic Combined Having a tough season, both this week and next week are cancelled. |
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Cross-Country skiing - The Tour de Ski, the annual multi-event competition which covers all disciplines and styles of Cross Country to find the all-around best skier. Andrew Young and Andrew Musgrave go for GB, both hunting big results
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