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It appears that Jon Ossoff and Radical Socialist Raphael Warnock (as he was called by his opponent) have won the regular and special senate elections in Georgia, respectively. This means Democrats will have control of the US senate by the narrowest of margins, 50-50 with the vice president being the tie-breaker.

I think the animated pictograms will be a big improvement over the still pictograms for broadcasts.

I thought the crash happened at the start of the banked turn, may be wrong though.

You really miss out on that kind of unintended comedy when you watch the commentary-free clean feed on Peacock.

Okay, the men’s 15km has sold me on having ski cross elements in the cross country course - the near fight between the two Russians who crashed into each other was fun xD

Shows just how much faith they have in Young xD

I know this is just an exhibition, but it was actually a seriously impressive shooting display.

Looks both very old school winter Olympics and distinctively Chinese. I like it.

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Very fun if ill advised run by Cochran-Siegle.

This is very reasonable. The whole “super final” concept was always really confusing. Either the 3000m should be run as a standalone distance or it should be eliminated. Why does that coach have such a hate-on for the 3000m Steeplechase which is, once again, the best race on the track?

I feel really bad for Chinese athletes, this pandemic has really affected them in a hugely negative way.

Kind of funny that Ledecká got her first Alpine world cup win before Gisin, I’m sure we all predicted that at the time.

Has Slovakia not discovered Zoom yet? :P

So it looks like the number of athletes (taking into account the max of 3 per country) that have the qualification time for the men's marathon way exceeds the stated quota. What happens then?

How hard can it be to find a competent Mandarin / English interpreter anyway?

Off topic, but I'd be extremely interested in a "mind sport" Olympics, featuring esports and games like Chess and Go.

Asian game inclusion is huge for the Korean esports scene. Time for some stars to earn military service exemptions!

World Athletics is really going to do everything in their power to avoid having a relay on the road >.>

It’s a shallow talent pool, but honestly it looks better than when women’s ski jumping got it’s first world championships. The big Nordic Combined athletes have started taking the women’s events seriously at the junior level so we can expect the level to get much better very quickly. Today wasn’t a great competition but it was very encouraging.

What this competition showed to me is that women’s Nordic Combined isn’t ready for the Olympics yet but absolutely will be by 2026 given all the young athletes that are coming up. Very happy for Geraghty-Moats. She is a real pioneer of this sport and I am glad she will go down as a world cup winner.

Perez to Red Bull is confirmed. https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/55367539

Can we at least wait for evidence of a a country having systematic state sponsored doping before we start discussing those countries having the same punishment that Russia got? Almost every country has a doping problem. If it turns out that, random example, Sir Andrew was doping and the UK government helped cover it up them we could talk about the UK facing consequences like Russia’s. But even if you assume the worst allegations around Sky / Ineos are true it doesn’t reach that level.

If France and Russia don't qualify it will be a major f-up on their end.

In sports that are dominated by a single country or a very small number of countries I am actually very okay with seeing those questionable nationality change, and honestly if Canadian curling pros start getting poached by other countries it would make international competitions more interesting. The Qatari and Bahraini long distance runners do add to the spectacle, even if their presence feels a little artificial. Ahn, IMO, was pretty justified in changing nationality. His national federation didn’t want him anymore, so in his mind it was clearly a choice between going elsewhere or retiring. Both the men’s and women’s number 1 Canadian table tennis players were born in China, too (Mo Zhang and Eugene Wang).