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Maria Orlova pips Yarnold for the win in Altenberg by four hundredths to claim her first victory in the Skeleton World Cup; Elena Nikitina had a medicore first run, but her second run was the day's fastest and enough to get her on the podium. First and third for Russia, and surprisingly, not a single German on the podium!
McGrandle and Deas finished in 8th and 10th place respectively. Today was also the first time that Nikitina, Marina Gilardoni (SUI) and Deas competed in the same World Cup event - so the fact that Deas finished this meet as the fastest pusher (all three beat the preceding Start Record) is an achievement in itself. Whether she can produce consistently good runs to the end is another thing altogether. |
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Forgot to add that Deas' second run was affected by a paper fan on the track (!) - she was given the opportunity to redo it, but decided not to.
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Forgot to add that Deas' second run was affected by a paper fan on the track (!) - she was given the opportunity to redo it, but decided not to.
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Men's biathlon sprint switched to 13:30 today, Eurosport 2
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Wow, don't recall ever seeing a world cup race take place in such poor conditions, womens Super G from Bad Kleinkirchheim. There is almost no snow on the race piste. Even as a recreational skier there is no way I'd be on that, would wreak your skies.
In better news looks like Dave Ryding could be on for more world cup points having made the second run of the mens slalom in Adelboden. |
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Well Done Andrew Musgrave
Andrew Musgrave finished 20th in the final leg of the Tour de Ski today, a great result for him.
Will he get a mention on the BBC Sportsday round-up? I won't be holding my breath; the BBC seem interested solely in football, rugby, cricket plus any other sport they are covering; which is a disgrace for the national broadcaster. |
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Andrew Musgrave finished 20th in the final leg of the Tour de Ski today, a great result for him.
. Dave Ryding finished 24th in the Adelboden slalom today - he's now 24th in the Slalom World Cup as well, so will now be getting better first run starts, especially in the Worlds next month. Not sure why the Brits did not put out a 4-man Bob team today - we have been having some excellent results recently. |
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Great news from Ski Sunday - the BBC will be showing all the finals from the Freestyle World Champs on the Red Button, starts on Friday. I'll get a schedule posted before then.
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Biathlon - Another doping scandal looming?
Reported on ARD and ZDF text this morning, the IBU is expected to announce more athletes have been found using banned, performance enhancing substances following the introduction of new tests.
It's not clear whether they are ex-athletes or from current competitors, but further information is expected later this week - probably at, or ahead, of Ruhpolding which starts on Wednesday. If current athletes are involved, I fear it could be the Russians (again). The quite sudden improvement of Anton Shupilin in particular worries me. Given the incandescent rage that Uwe Mussegang was in after Sachenbacher-Stehle was found out, I doubt the German's a will be involved, nor the Norwegians. The pressure under which the Russians operate (from the "very top" downwards) makes taking the easy (illegal) route all to appealing I would have thought. |
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Reported on ARD and ZDF text this morning, the IBU is expected to announce more athletes have been found using banned, performance enhancing substances following the introduction of new tests.
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Dunno if this is something different, but Alexander Loginov RUS and Sergei Sednev UKR are the athletes involved - it involves reanalysis of already suspicious samples.
Just what i was going to post this a.m. Confirmed by ARD text this morning. Possibly more to follow, but I sincerely hope not. What I don't understand is why Russia (and the other ex USSR states) still see it as OK to cheat.Also this morning noted that Miri Goessner will not be on the German women's team for Ruhpolding this week, even though she won an IBU Cup sprint last week. I wonder if perhaps her antics involving a photoshoot, and a lack of clothing earlier in the year may be working against her - though Germans are not half so prudish as we Brits. |
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Also this morning noted that Miri Goessner will not be on the German women's team for Ruhpolding this week, even though she won an IBU Cup sprint last week. I wonder if perhaps her antics involving a photoshoot, and a lack of clothing earlier in the year may be working against her |
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Story here about UK Luge seeking to emulate the success of the other slide sports.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-sports/30779827 I've noticed that there have some British results this season. Luge works differently than the other sports in that there is always a Nations' Cup qualifying race before a World Cup race but as far as I can see none of the Brits have got near to qualifying yet. |
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UK Olympic Funding
I noticed in the linked webpage regarding Luge, there is table of funded sports for the upcoming Olympics.
Ski and Snowboard gets £ 4.89m. Does this include Nordic as well as Alpine, and if it does how much does our (excellent) Nordic team - Musgrave and Young - get of this cake? They ought to get a decent chunk as they are performing really well just now, and with the right support could have a real impact. |
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Ski and Snowboard gets £ 4.89m. Does this include Nordic as well as Alpine, and if it does how much does our (excellent) Nordic team - Musgrave and Young - get of this cake? They ought to get a decent chunk as they are performing really well just now, and with the right support could have a real impact. |
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Here's the main events for the Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Champs starting today in Kreischberg, Austria and running until Sunday 25th. Coverage is not 100%, but most of the main finals are live on BBC Red Button and live or delayed on Eurosport 2. There are also lots of qualification runs scheduled, but none of them seem to be getting any TV coverage.
http://www.kreischberg2015.at/en/program/race-program/ The finals and medal runs are 15 Jan: Freestyle Aerials 17:00 16 Jan: Snowboard Cross 10:45 17 Jan: Snowboard halfpipe 17:00 18 Jan: Solo moguls 13:00 19 Jan: Dual moguls 11:00 21 Jan: Snowboard slopestyle 10:00 21 Jan: Ski slopestyle 13:00 22 Jan: Snowboard PS 12:00 22 Jan: Ski halfpipe 17:00 23 Jan: Snowboard PGS 12:30 24 Jan: Snowboard Big Air 15:00 25 Jan: Ski Cross 11:00 |
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Another packed weekend.
Bob and skeleton from Kongissee, Germany. BBC and YouTube Friday 13:00 Women skeleton 1 14:30 Women skeleton 2 16:15 Women's bob 1 17:45 Women's bob 2 Saturday 10:30 Men's skeleton 1 13:00 Men's skeleton 2 14:30 2-Man bob 1 16:00 2-Man bob 2 Sunday 14:40 4-man bob 1 16:00 4- man bob 2 |
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Eurosport World Cups - see earlier post for the Freestyle World Champs
Incidentally, there is a YouTube channel for the Freestyle Worlds - but it is Geoblocked on the UK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VWMbAaCxak Alpine - Women from Cortina, Men from Wengen Friday 08:15 Women's downhill 09:30 & 13:00 Men's combined Saturday 09:15 & 12:30 Men's slalom 10:30 Women's downhill Sunday 10:00 Women's Super-G Nordic Combined from Seefeld Friday 10:30 & 12:15 Gundersen Sunday 09:15 15:30 Gundersen Biathlon from Ruhpolding Friday 13:45 Women's sprint Saturday 13:30 Men's sprint Sunday 11:30 Women's mass start 14:30 Men's mass start More to come... |
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Ski Jumping from Zakopane
Saturday 16:00 Team event Sunday 12:45 Solo Cross country from Otepaa, Estonia Saturday 10:30 Classic solo sprint Sunday 10:45 Team sprint Luge from Oberhof As ever, the red-headed stepchild of the Eurosport schedules, squeezed in at odd times when there is nothing else happening. |
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With the Skeleton races now being live on BBC Online, YouTube are now geo-blocking them - Bob races are on as normal.
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If you use the hola.org plugin, geo-blocking shouldn't be an issue.
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Yarnold claimed her second WCu victory of the season in Königssee by seventy-one hundredths - she dominated the field. Anja Huber-Selbach (racing on her 'home' track for the last time) was the runner-up, and Orlova also made it to the podium. Deas and McGrandle finished 11th and 14th respectively (the latter cost herself the best part of 10 places after nearly crashing at the chicane).
The fastest pusher in this race was Gilardoni, who broke her own Start Record. She was third after the first run, but couldn't hold on to a podium spot. |
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I think even new viewers can see that Yarnold is a class apart from the others at the moment, just so much less movement on the sledge than everyone else. It's really a year for the rookies, lots of people alternating one good and one poor run in the same race.
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Hopefully she will maintain that form all the way to the World Championships.
If there's perhaps one thing she could improve on this season, it's her starts. She is generally a good pusher (second fastest quartile), but in the 2014 Olympics she was as quick as Gilardoni off the blocks, with only Nikitina above her. |
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Some weather issues - too much snow at last. Women's downhill from Cortina cancelled today, will reschedule for tomorrow, Super-G on Monday.
Looks like Dave Ryding has qualified for the second slalom run in Wengen again, currently 26th, but the other riders now into the high 60s. Run 2 at 12:45. |
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