CBJ Today: Look good, play good
Merzlikins has some new goalie swag, plus other news and notes from Jackets land by Jeff Svoboda @JacketsInsider / BlueJackets.com
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The Daily Buzz
It s Thursday, it must be a CBJ gameday. The Blue Jackets are back on the ice tonight for the sixth Thursday of the year with tonight s matchup against Nashville at Nationwide Arena, and get used to it Columbus is slated to have a Thursday game every week until April 29.
Feb 16, 2021
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Today, the World Surf League (WSL) confirmed the updated schedule for the Championship Tour (CT) Australian leg, announcing the three upcoming events in North Narrabeen (NSW), Margaret River (WA), and Rottnest Island (WA). The WSL also announced the cancellation of the 2021 Corona Open Gold Coast pres. by Billabong and the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach.
Australian Leg of 2021 WSL Championship Tour : All tour stops and dates subject to change due to applicable COVID-19 related restrictions, including global travel restric
tions.
Rip Curl Narrabeen Classic pres. by Corona: April 16 – 26
Boost Mobile Margaret River Pro pres. by Corona: May 2-12
2021 World Junior Championships alpine team announced
February 16, 2021
U.S. Ski & Snowboard has named eight athletes to the 2021 FIS Alpine Junior World Ski Championships Team to represent the U.S. Alpine Ski Team in Bansko, Bulgaria, in six events, from March 3-10.
The 2021 squad is derived from the U.S. B, C, D teams, and the U.S. Ski & Snowboard National Development Group, as well as top U.S. Ski & Snowboard club program athletes from across the nation. Headlining this year’s team are 2019 Junior Worlds’ silver medalists and FIS Ski World Cup mainstays, Ben Ritchie and AJ Hurt. Due to COVID, quotas have been halved from a normal year, according to the tea,
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chandigarh, February 14
Baljeet Kaur seemed to have picked up where she left off before the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted the athletics season last year. Having won silver in the junior 10,000 metres event at the 7th National Race Walking Championships in February last year, she was all set to participate in her first world-level event. But the World Junior Championships were postponed due to Covid-19. A year later, the 19-year-old has won two back-to-back silver medals in the U-20 10,000 metres race walk event, achieving the qualifying mark for the World Championships in the process.
Despite the disruption in training and the 2020 season being scrapped, Baljeet has also managed to cut over two minutes from her timing.