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British Sports Personality of the Year nominees Jude Bellingham - Footballer Keely Hodgkinson - Athletics Luke Littler - Darts Joe Root - Cricket Sara Storey - Paracycling Alex Yee - Triathlon Sports Personality of the Year 2024 nominees: Bellingham, Hodgkinson, Littler, Root, Storey and Yee - BBC Sport

Afraid so. When you have an revolution made up of an alliance of psychos & westernised liberals, the psychos will always win.

My understanding is that some of the rebels are Kurds, so people in their areas will be better off. Unfortunately the others are mostly from the crazed head-chopping tendency, so nothing good can be expected.

As always, plenty of medals for in Turkey this morning. We did not manage a medal for every single runner, which we have done a couple of times before, but certainly either a team or individual medal in every single race. Antalya 2024 - Live Results

And here's the final medal table... Antalya 2024 - Live Results

And another Double Gold for the U23 Women!

Double Gold in the first race of the European Cross Country, U20 Girls.

Early victory bid from Davidova..... Looking like she has got it....

24th @ 1m44s is the live score with only a few to go. And that is final. 5th ranked American though.

Seems to be the same everywhere this week. Altenberg, Kontiolahti & Lillehammer have all had good falls.

I notice also that Simmie Amman is still jumping - presumably have no juniors coming through.

Out at the first round. Just needs to get his tactical brain working.

Just an early warning if you are in catchup mode - one heat race in the women's skeleton today, action starts at about 1h50m in the YT clip. Heavy snow!

So in the final Mugrave 11th Davies 16th PB Andrew Young 43rd Gabriel Gledhill 51st on his debut Pretty good - was worried that after the two Andrews came to their career end we'd struggle, but seems not.....

For one brief moment 3rd & 4th at the finish of the Cross Country!

Handy guide for Christmas morning.

Got the full schedule for the Cross-Country Europeans now. They have taken the logical step of running all the races firsts, and then holding the medal ceremonies.....has only taken them about 40 years to come up with this genius new idea. Antalya 2024 - Live Results

Mirela Rahneva / skeleton slider retires after 11 years on the World Cup circuit. IBSF | International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation: Two-Time Skeleton Olympian Mirela Rahneva retires

Just a bump and a reminder that after two skeleton only weekends, we have bobsleigh back as well over Saturday and Sunday. IBSF | International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation: PREVIEW: IBSF World Cup with opening bobsleigh races and mid-way point in skeleton

Think most nations now know that if people want a long-term career, you need to give them a quiet year - usually Year One of the cycle.

New events happening. There will be a mixed 4x100m, starting 2025 Official Walk distances from 2026 will now simply be Marathon & Half Marathon. https://worldathletics.org/news/press-releases/world-athletics-council-action-against-gender-based-violence

I don't think things are that bad for the women's team - 4th in the relay with Dorro & three in their early 20s.

What I don't see yet is a timetable, which is good to have because these races are usually run in blocks and there can be large gaps between them for medal ceremonies, tears'n'hugs, dimwitted "and how do you feel about tripping just before the line, blowing a certain Gold and finishing fourth"-type questions etc.

BBC have got the rights to this and are showing it online at least. Don't know about geo-blocking yet European Cross Country Championships: Watch live athletics on BBC Sport - BBC Sport

The European Cross Country meet from Anatolia, Turkey Anatalya, Turkiye will be on Sunday 8th of December. Quite a few familiar names in action at all levels. Here's a preview. Preview | Ingebrigtsen seeking glorious end to adventurous year at Antalya 2024 | European Athletics And here's the full official Start List - completed about a week, so there may be changes since. EXCH2024 - FE - Athletes List By Event.pdf And the default TV coverage is FTA on European Athletics website = you'll need registration and usually a browser that does not have adblocking by default. SPAR European Cross Country Championships Antalya 2024 Live Stream