Grassmarket

Summer Biathlon season is underway. World Championships from Otepaa are next weekend. Already had the AIN Belarus races!

Coming out of our Olympics haze.....Eurosport has a whole lot of Summer Ski Jumping from Courcheval this weekend.

GB also fourth on the Top 8 Finishes table. NOC points total top8 USA 1193 226 CHN 846 155 FRA 699 150 GBR 681 136 ITA 556 120 AUS 541 109 JPN 532 115 GER 491 117 NED 382 76 CAN 341 79 KOR 333 66 ESP 296 69 BRA 247 57 HUN 238 51 NZL 232 53

Certainly illustrates the importance of having corrupt & violent mafiosi controlling the judging pool.

Well, here in Britain we have Diving Clubs and even an annual national regional cup series. So there is a grassroots scene.

Thanks for doing this btw, I found it very interesting & actually useful because it demonstrates which nations compete in a broad range of sports & which are specialising in a small number.

I’d say she deserves everything she gets. According to Twitter - I’m not a member so can’t link directly - Professor Gunn herself & her husband created the Australian Breaking Association. When the IOC (at third hand) asked her, as a “neutral”expert, who the official representatives of Australian Breaking were, she named her own self-created Association. And then this Association held a qualifying tournament which Professor Gunn won, and her husband was appointed national Team Coach. Presumably all financed by the Australian Government. Which seems to have a pretty good case for fraud. (We had a similar case in London 2012 when a guy & his Ukrainian wife {who tbf did have some wrestling experience} created a UK Wrestling Association & got away with large sums.) Full story on a crazed right-wing website. https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=411013

Catching up with the long ago and faraway world of about two weeks ago Young rider FDJ Sam Watson got his maiden pro wing on Stage 5 of the Tour de Wallonie - classic Belgian cobbled climb finish as well!

Seems to be that way here in also - however, willing to bet that it is a lot easier to use a VPN to bypass this national IP-based copyright protection system than it would be to crack into a paid service.

Team, as announced about three weeks ago. https://www.britishathletics.org.uk/news-and-features/gb-ni-squad-announced-for-the-world-athletics-u20-championships-lima-2024/

Pretty sure it has been that way in the last few games.

Login process is a bitt more complicated that I remember, but otherwise all seems to be working.

Sure, like all the countries where built railways, lighthouses & sewage systems.

Not right away, catching up on non-Olympic sports this week, and then we are into the Olympic sports end-of-season rush. But maybe during the dog days of October & November….

Already a cauchemar for Clouvel.

Ketenza almost 40 secs off the lead…..fortunately Clouvel us a pretty poor runner.

Oh dear, 14 faults for Bryson

Oteiza - you could tell it was going to be a disaster right from the start.

First disaster for Laura Heredia - just plain bad riding.

Zillekens finally gets a clear ride in the Olympics.

Even if you wear your legs down to bloody stumps you go for solo gold!

Ok, know enough that 6-3 is nothing in tkd.

Damn, how did we as a nation get so hung up on the GSB arrangement of the medals table? It is perfectly obvious that the total number of medals is the only true measure of sporting excellence.

Another miracle! We have been nowhere in this sport for 40 years.

Incredible thing is she could have had silver if she had not been hypnotised into showing Hull & Kipyegon so much respect.