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Try this link, seems to be FTA now https://tv.nrk.no/serie/ski-nm

Yeah, think Skjelbreid was the first in the line. When I first started watching the Norwegian women were well behind the men. Forsberg, Disl & Zubrilova were the stars.

Yeah,I said before Xmas that when the women lose a superstar someone always comes through who responds to the best coaches & slowly gains the confidence to win the big races. Looks like she has arrived just in time

One of the best-ever Women's Relays this afternoon in Ruhpolding. Unfortunately stuck away on a midweek afternoon so not many people will have seen it. Must watch though. No spoilers yet!

Live streams on YT, maybe geo blocked in some countries and at some times. Pairs Short Program | ISU European Championships | Sheffield 2026 | #FigureSkating

7 days free trial on Opera browser with built in VPN?

Olympic medalist snowboarder dies after getting caught up in avalanche in the Alps

Too bad - thing about the Norwegian Champs is that they are for Norwegian Clubs, not exclusively Norwegian nationals. So foreign athletes do take part - Andy Musgrave was sprint champion one year.

OK, the way I see it is this. Lets say you come 20th in race against Germany, USA, GB.....and then you come 20th in race against the Virgin Islands, Thailand and South Africa. Which race gets more points? Obviously, the more difficult race. So by withdrawing some high value athletes from the race, the Canadians made sure that the other athletes could never get enough points to overcome the Canadian's existing advantage.

IBSF's own stupid fault if they have written the rules so badly as to allow something like this to happen. But I am sure there will be an "unsportsmanlike conduct" clause somewhere which will cover it.

One worrying rumour to start your year off is that the organisation that controls the big Italian races - Giro, Strade Bianche, Milan-San Remo etc - is currently out of contract with Discovery/Eurosport etc and is looking to make a deal with a completely different provider so that is certain to be more expense for fans.

Ice hockey test event seems to have been a success. MILAN, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The new Santagiulia ice hockey arena in Milan, which will stage the top matches at the Winter Olympics next month, drew a vote of confidence on Saturday after it finally opened its doors with a test event featuring Italy's top teams. Olympics-new Milan ice hockey arena wins expert approval after running repair on surface

& quietly putting together good teams. Is it too late?

Head to head battle of the Slovs, v the race all Slavonic philologists have always dreamed of.

Magnusson somehow manages to break her rifle! Never seen that done before other than in a big crash. . Goes from first to almost last. And then she does the stupid thing of sprinting to try to get back on to the pack rather than doing it gradually.

I don't know, clear shoots were a lot rarer 30 years ago.

And that's three in a row for Giaco....

Oberhof has two weather conditions - foggy or windy. Today is windy, so we should be in for some drama. And indeed first shoot is slow with.lots of misses.... Lordy, pressure is high to get into the team.... Incredibly after 7 misses Giacomel is back in the lead!

Your obligatory how and where to watch page for the Cross Country worlds https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-cross-country-championships/tallahassee26/where-to-watch?countryCode=GB

Boost for the Games - Olympic Champ Julian Alfred has announced that she will be going. Which of course should encourage some other big sprint names to attend.

Ooops damn.....

Europa Cuo! European Cup was actually today's St Moritz race.

Just found out that here in Scotland it is a tradition to give all the winter road gritting / snowplough lorries individual names. Many are very funny. It's a tradition dating back to 2006, and the names are all created and chosen by schoolchildren. You can track them live! Gritter tracker | Traffic Scotland

National Championships in Beitostolen this weekend - believe that these are going to be the final decisive races for Olympic qualification. Live on Norwegian TV, probably not geoblocked. https://tv.nrk.no/programmer/sport-langrenn/underkategori

Australian break dancers no longer the worst top-level sportspeople on the planet! The organisers of a professional women's tournament which has gone viral on social media because of a wildcard player's dire performance have acknowledged she should not have been allowed to play. Egyptian Hajar Abdelkader, 21, lost 6-0 6-0 and served 20 double faults during the first-round match in Nairobi on Wednesday, with the footage leaving many viewers wondering if she had ever played tennis before. Hajar Abdelkader: Wildcard serves 20 doubles faults and loses match in 37 minutes - BBC Sport