Again, if you have access to S4C there are 3 hours of it from 4PM on Saturday   EDIT - and an hour from 11pm tonight

Just a reminder that the Track CL this weekend is Friday and Saturday, because we are obviously short of sports to watch this weekend. 

Think it's normal for him to start the year slowly.  It's not like he has to earn his place in the World Championships team, like all the other Norwegians. 

Top8 for Maloney   Quite surprisingly, Kalebo isn't even on the podium.

Surprised  did't send athletes for Powerlifting

And now 14th

Snow and wind in Ruka this morning, so the scheduled Ski Jumping round was cancelled - good news is that they did manage a provisional round yesterday, so that's going to be used as the base for the race later this afternoon.     Nightmare for Ilves  who won in Norway last week - he starts in dead last place, down among the dead men in the Wave.    Viessmann FIS Nordic Combined Provisional Round Ruka (FIN)    

Interesting remark by the  Comms - apparently FIS have restructured their definitions of Cross Country wins, to reduce the impact of all those semi-wins in stage races with a start advantage, so Johaug is now put on 82 wins.   Obviously prompted by Shiffrin on 99....

Only Africa is clean 

Summer/Winter olympic games  Stripped medals by country Country Total  (RUS) 15 21 13 49   (USA) 6 2 5 13   (UKR) 2 4 5 11  (BLR) 2 3 6 11   (KAZ) 6 2 2 10   (BUL) 4 2 1 7   (TUR) 1 4 0 5   (CHN) 3 0 1 4   (ESP) 3 0 1 4   (HUN) 2 2 0 4   (UZB) 2 1 1 4   (ROM) 1 1 2 4  (SWE) 1 1 2 4   (GBR) 0 1 2 3   (ARM) 0 0 3 3   (MDA) 0 0 3 3  (GER) 2 0 0 2   (AZE) 0 1 1 2   (PRK) 0 1 1 2   (GRE) 0 0 2 2   (BRN) 1 0 0 1   (CAN) 1 0 0 1  (IRL) 1 0 0 1   (JAM) 1 0 0 1   (POL) 1 0 0 1  ROC 1 0 0 1  (CUB) 0 1 0 1  (FIN) 0 1 0 1   (GEO) 0 1 0 1  (ITA) 0 1 0 1   (LTU) 0 1 0 1  (MGL) 0 1 0 1   (KGZ) 0 0 1 1   (NED) 0 0 1 1   (NOR) 0 0 1 1  olympic athletes from Russia(OAR) 0 0 1 1  soviet (URS) 0 0 1 1  unified team  (EUN) 0 0 1 1 Total 55 52 55 162     Stripped medals by sport Sport Total Athletics 21 20 13 54 Weightlifting 15 14 23 52 Wrestling 3 7 3 13 Cross-country skiing 5 3 1 9 Biathlon 2 2 1 5 Cycling 1 1 3 5 Equestrian 3 0 1 4 Boxing 0 2 1 3 Bobsleigh 2 0 0 2 Gymnastics 1 0 1 2 Canoeing 0 1 1 2 Judo 0 1 1 2 Shooting 0 1 1 2 Modern pentathlon 0 0 2 2 Figure skating 1 0 0 1 Swimming 1 0 0 1 Alpine skiing 0 0 1 1 Curling 0 0 1 1 Rowing 0 0 1 1 Total 55 52 55 162