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method is not quite like the other countries mentioned - they subsidise young athletes to come to the National Sporting Academy and then adopt them on residency rules. So not much different from . But certainly that method will probably work better with young African sprinters than with Norwegian biathletes.

Your essential how and where to watch page. How to watch and follow the Roma 2024 European Athletics Championships | European Athletics (european-athletics.com)

Horrible day in the Dauphiné today with a huge crash on very wet roads, several riders taken to hospital & stage neutralised. Van Baarle & Kruijswijk seem to be the unlucky ones.

OK , time to ‘fess up about this whole “Niagara Falls” thing. Chinese officials have been forced to apologise after a hiker found a secret waterpipe supplying China's tallest waterfall. The video, posted to TikTok's sister app Douyin on Sunday, showed a large water main embedded at the top of Yuntai Mountain Waterfall, touted as China's tallest uninterrupted waterfall. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13501459/hiker-waterpipe-china-tallest-waterfall.html

BBC Coverage details European Athletics Championships 2024: Who is competing, how to watch & key timings - BBC Sport

Just for viewers, confirmation that the whole champs will be on BBC streaming - but like I say EVS for the dedicated field event coverage. New deal agreed for the European Athletics Championships to be shown on the BBC

Just to confirm that the BBC and EAA have reached a deal for the BBC to retransmit the streaming. New deal agreed for the European Athletics Championships to be shown on the BBC

After many decades of open hostility, sometimes leading almost to war, at long last peace comes to one fo the world's most intractable conflict as and finally agree about something! Peru and Slovakia sign the Artemis Accords - SpaceNews

Anyhow, time to start your planning for the Champs. Here's the Eurovision Sport TV schedule - although the main stream might be geoblocked in your country by your local broadcaster, the special event streams are usually FTA. Eurovision Sport

"Covering" = articles on the website & live radio, clips on the news. There's no actual live coverage scheduled.

Checking the wind speed……-0.8 for the 100m.

Yeah, think so. All he had to do was show his 1500m is not terrible & sounds like he’s done that.

Annex ! Simples.

Hadn't realised that the US Nationals were last weekend. Big names in action in Charleston, West Virginia, nice up & down the river valley course. Main races on YT. And there is no such thing as 5.5 miles. That is 5 miles 4 furlongs, buddy. flobikes - YouTube

I can see a darts biathlon working though.

I’m guessing the Mixed 4x100m is to persuade Thomasbachgoldmedal1976 to cough up another Olympic Gold. What’s the reason with the new weights? Unless you are going to have lightweight categories or using them in multievents or….

So much excitement on Thursday & we go to the second half of our Scandi double header with Stockholm on Sunday. Here’s your programme https://stockholm.diamondleague.com/en/lists-results-stockholm/

Weird mid-season slump this weekend. This last couple of weeks we have had TONS of great athletics, cycling, last-chance Olympic qualifiers.... This weekend....not much of anything. What is there?

She hasn’t run yet!

It’s the Oslo mascot. Or possibly a member of the Royal Family.

Big 3000m for , the giant strawberry certainly enjoyed it.

Wow, come on. So tense, this is a guy with a bad, bad injury history.

European Off-Road Running (ie mountain, trail & fell running) Championships from Annecy, all this weekend. https://eurovisionsport.com/explore/competition?id=Generic-Schedule-Landing-Page&cId=20240531EAAnnecy

@sindo Can we get the European Athletics Championship thread open? Lots of national teams being announced now.

The Russians used to work on the theory that if you doped 'em young, they'd get a ban in their early career, come back, and still have a net gain from the teenage doping.