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That makes no sense at all? USA wants to put even more weight on Diggins?

Women's shot put: Two-time African Games & two-time African Champion from becomes European Champion for

Femke Bol 51, 18 and that looked like a training run.

Justyna Swiety 51.34 NR Klaver with some good pacemaking

A lot of bumping in SF2 and Janezic just makes the final by 0,01. All Dutch with outside lanes in the final.

Stefan Kraft leads after Round 1 by a rather comfortable margin. He was already winning all the training sessions so gold seems out of reach. Great effort from Vitali Kalinichenko to make the second round!

I suppose the revival of 5km distances has helped RL Roponen a lot. She's older than Raisa Smetanina when CIS relay won Olympic gold in 1992

Gold and silver decided, Diggins vs Parmakoski for bronze.

I don't think Nepryaeva can make up 20 seconds on Fossesholm.

She's his niece

Kalla is absolutely toast. Probably no medal for Sweden. Andersson & Karlsson will have a mammoth task to claw this back.

50 seconds in and Lithuania is 25 meters behind already. Langsam aber sicher as the Germans would say

Finally a better jump from Kupczak. It's gonna be a challenge for him to stay in Top 20 though.

I hope FIS won't wait 4 years to put Jasna on the calendar again? I mean Nove Mesto is usually a sell-out in biathlon so I have no idea what stops FIS from milking Vlhova's career peak?

Apparently no injury, just all-in on the 4x400 relay. However it would make sense to at least put Lesiewicz in the individual. Due to her lack of experience I think she won't make the relay despite finishing 2nd at the Polish indoors.

Malwina Kopron said Swoboda got infected in Spala from one of the training athletes that don't take part in indoor sports. Second positive test for Swoboda. She's out 100%. Meanwhile Malgorzata Holub is pulled from the 400m individual races and won't be replaced by anyone leaving Swiety-Ersetic as the lone entry. Then what's the point of having SIX 400m runners if there only will be a relay final contested

Yep, can't blame anyone for being smarter than everyone else. If Latvia can convince Baiba Bendika to help them with FIS points (and 10k was in freestyle) then it's understandable Lithuania fields a relay team when they can - even if they probably finish dead last anyway.

Maren Lundby wins gold. Sara Takanashi silver, Nika Kriznar bronze. Big favorite Marita Kramer blew the second jump and finishes 4th.

It's Norway. They will be allowed to compete

Yeah, I remember that one, IBU used the Finnish umlauts or whatever that's called and FIS used the "ae" anglicized versions. There was also the infamous Jarkko Maeaettae in ski jumping

pushes off the podium

Obviously. Greenland & Faroe Islands aren't members of IOC

Baiba Bendika finished 35th

Must be a new lipstick?