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3:55.37 for Summer McIntosh in the 400 free at the US Open. First competition back from illness and goes the 2nd fastest time in history.

Day 3 of Euros and more medals for Freya Colbert took the bronze in women's 200m Freestyle whilst Freya Anderson finished 4th and it was a 1-2 in the men's event with Duncan Scott taking Gold ahead of Jack McMillan. In the other events... Angharad Evans is the second quickest qualifier for the 200m Breaststroke final with a time of 2:18.84. Filip Nowacki is through to the final in the men's equivalent - he was 6th fastest with time of 2:04.07 but will need to find a couple of seconds if he is looking to get on to the podium. In the morning heats, he set a Junior Record time of 2:03.75 GB has the fastest qualifiers for the 100m Backstroke finals - Lauren cox in the women's and Oliver Morgan in the men's.

Tennis update: Kamilla Rakhimova has switched to (her mother is Uzbek). More shocking is Anastasia Potapova switching to

Still think there is a win in there this season.

Was hoping our Kiwi-turned-Eagle Campbell Wright would have placed higher than 27th, but we'll see how he continues to perform.

I will only watch MelFest 2026. I will skip Vienna 2026. ESC as I remember it is gone.

They seem to have changed the priority now, USA women qualified for next year's world cup despite finishing 2nd in the continental. We'll see for the olympic tournament.

Stage 5 in Beever Creek (USA) Men´s Super-G: 1. Marco Odermatt 1:29.84 2. Ryan Cochran-Siegle 1:30.14 3. Adrian Smiseth Sejersted 1:30.53 Full Final Results HERE

Q: Slovakia wanna you return back ? A: Is this thing still going during the hockey worlds ? Q: Probably yes, May as always A: Ah, I see, well, try to fix that and ask next year again then

Finished ahead of Nozomi Maruyama too... I was starting to wonder if anyone would. She kinda came out of nowhere and was CRUSHING everyone this year Strate is putting together a really nice season.

In that case…. go

Good to hear. Would need another listen before I'm happy with my votes.

And Canada possibly

Sets a hill record in round two, she’s always strong in those closing rounds.

RIP Eurovision. New show called "Palestinian genocide" is oficially sponsored by EBU. Main actor State of Israel. Official anthem "Love shine a light". Shame on you EBU, shame on all of you false european democracy and bigest shame on my own country Serbia who decide to stay on this political shit show. As European, I am proud on countries like Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, Slovenia and Iceland.

Abigail Strate wins silver in women’s large hill in Poland!

On the bright side after all this nonsense, EBU seems to be very busy buying some other countries back in. Bulgaria, Romania and even Moldova, which didn't even have money for their own selection process, are now back. Talks still going on about Canada and Kazakhstan, apparently

India on top of women .....a first time ever event

In a way I wish was the host this year, it would have forced more of a reckoning.

EBU pulled a very, very nasty one there. First there was a vote about the new rules, which were made/changed after Israel's voter fraud of this year. However, they actually tied that vote to the Israel vote: if a majority was in favour of the new rules, which was the case, the Israel vote was not even going to happen. It's like they thought "Israel's fraud is the reason for the rule change, so if people accept the rule change, they'd accept Israel's entry as well, no reason to vote". Too bad, even looking purely at Eurovision and not the Gaza situation, Israel (or more specifically, their broadcaster KAN) should already have been in doubt after their nasty behaviour in 2024 and the incredibly shade business of this year in which they nearly succeeded in buying the win. Luckily Austria managed to get it, at least. This whole thing was already decided days/weeks ago by the way, judging by the form that was sent out somewhere stating there'd be 35 countries competing, which is what we're likely to have now.

Depends on how FIH gives priority. In the past the continental qualifiers have always been the highest priority (even higher than the host quota) so they could do that again, even if chronologically these events occur earlier. Still it would be nice to see debut nations in a sport where it is difficult for new nations to qualify (outside of host nations)

will officially compete. will be boycotting. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/arts/music/eurovision-israel-boycott.html

Stage 4 in Wisla (POL) Women´s Individual Large Hill: 1. Anna Odine Stroem 246.0 2. Abigail Strate 240.9 3. Nozomi Maruyama 236.9 Full Final Result HERE

This method could make a difference for some teams like Uruguay/Chile (women's) given USA is qualified.

@OlympicIRL Big thank you. I’m in Sweden’s jury process. I have listened to the songs once. But now I have time for more listening and hopefully a more fair voting.