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Doctor and humanitarian Ninna Kozorog gets Spade of the Year
MARIBOR - A statement encouraging people to seek role models in themselves won physician and humanitarian worker Ninna Kozorog the Spade of the Year award, presented on Saturday evening by Večer for the statement that its readership believe best captured the zeitgeist of last year. "The most important role model is the person who looks at us in the evening from the mirror, when we wash away the mask of the day," is the most apt statement from 2019 selected by the readers of the Maribor-based newspaper. Receiving the award, Kozorog said it meant that there are at least some people left who think that they could be real role models in a different way, with small acts.
France's Fillon Maillet, Sweden's Oeberg win mass start events at Pokljuka
POKLJUKA - France's Quentin Fillon Maillet won the men's 15km mass start event of the Biathlon World Cup meet at Pokljuka, finishing the the race ahead of Benedikt Doll of Germany and Norwegian Johannes Thingnes Boe. Hanna Oeberg of Sweden meanwhile won the women's 12.5km mass start, finishing ahead of Italian Lisa Vittozzi and France's Anais Bescond in what was the last World Cup meet ahead of the world championships in Italy. The best Slovenian competitor was Jakov Fak, who finished 21st in the men's race, as he missed three shots in the process while battling a cold.
Cross-country skier Lampič 2nd in World Cup in Oberstdorf
OBERTSTDORF, Germany - Slovenia's Anamarija Lampič finished second in the women's classic spring event in the Cross-Country World Cup in Germany's Oberstdorf for her fifth career podium finish and fourth in the current season. The the 24-year-old already has two wins this season - in Switzerland Lenzerheide on 29 December last year and in Italy's Val di Fiemme on 4 January. Lampič is currently first in the World Cup standings in sprint with 355 points, 70 points ahead of the second-placed Linn Svahn of Sweden, while she is 9th overall with 528 points .
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