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It’s the NCAA Cross Country regionals this weekend. Sadly most on Pay TV only, but a few FTA. Southern Region.

Better to have too much snow than too little!

Looks good for the weekend - they got all 82 down on the first training run at Zermatt this morning.

Normal thing in countries with PR. Biggest winner gets first chance.

Norwegian TV is odd. If you start from this page it usually works without VPN. https://tv.nrk.no/serie/skiskyting/202311/MSPO40360223/avspiller

Your week is sorted! The World Bowls Tour Scottish Indoors runs till the weekend! Top high-adrenaline action. https://youtube.com/@WorldBowlsTour?si=4_GdYldZdTq0KK3k

Next year - dustbowl disaster hits Turkmenistan because the soil has dried up & blown away due to tree roots absorbing all the water from the subsoil acquifers.

I am reserving judgement - in previous years I've seen funny things happen if you try to access the event before it starts, but if you create a fresh connection after the stream starts it works.

Yep, both. Usually on FTA TV, will post details nearer the time. Both have many international guests on training work.

And that is the whole thing. A single EU team would destroy whole sports like handball, rowing, both canoeing, ski jumping etc et etc.

Not the case for the hockey teams, the women’s football team or the rugby 7s squad, which are always subject to lobbying.

Well, your obvious flaw is that under a pan- flag, about 20 of the 27 pre- countries would never send any sportspeople to the Olympics at all.

Big event of the weekend is the New York marathon on Sunday on ES/D+. On the undercard on Saturday, the US 5km Road Racing Championships. https://www.usatf.tv/gprofile.php?mgroup_id=45365&mgroup_event_id=2519&year=2023&do=videos&video_id=367317

Wow, back in the olden days on the BBC his black-and-white routines with Belousova in the 60s always used to be shown as the epitome of classical elegance in ice skating.

Following the success of the UCI Glasgow “All kinds of cycling all at once” meet this summer, the FIS propose a similar deal for their sports in 2028. Engadine & Lillehammer keen to host. https://www.fis-ski.com/en/international-ski-federation/news-multimedia/news-2022/two-candidates-apply-to-host-fis-games-2028

No they wouldn’t, because a Pan-EU team would be picked on political lines, so you’d gave Maltese sprinters, Cypriot ski jumpers, Irish baseball players, Lithuanian rugby players etc etc.

The season’s first snows have frosted the Rocky Mountains, the northern Plains, the Great Lakes and northern New England over the past week, resulting in the most extensive early-November snow cover in at least two decades. On Wednesday morning, snow was on the ground in 17.9 percent of the Lower 48, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. And I’m guessing 100% of the Upper 1. https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/snow-cover-in-the-lower-48-is-at-record-levels-as-november-starts/ar-AA1jdZxe

Just a reminder - season starts Saturday 11 November with the first Norwegian domestic races!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. A strong cold snap is currently spreading across the US - bringing with it potential record lows for much of the country. Already felt in places like Denver, the abnormal chill will affect wide swathes of the Midwest, South, and East, forecasts show - including almost all the Lower 48 states. A bone-chilling Halloween! US braces for the big freeze as 60 MILLION are set to be blasted by frost or snow from the North East as far as Texas and New Mexico | Daily Mail Online

Big Cross Country meet in Atapuerca tomorrow morning. Rather a ermmmm risqué poster!

Well, like I said, big interest for & In the women’s race. Just click on the stream & rewind if you want to watch it.

Got a few things Various NCAA Cross Country meets Alpine skiing from Rugby League Test - v - great match last weekend Berlin Track Cycling Champions League Maybe some NCAA Volleyball, Cyclo-Cross, other YT oddities.

It’s the NCAA Conference Cross Country Champs this weekend. Most of the primo ones are on pay TV, but PAC-12 should be a good one, probably involves some of your own young athletes & is FTA. Live at 18:00 UK time tomorrow.

In English it’s probably “questioned under caution”. Basically, an official notification that you are being investigated and it’s time to seriously rethink the “abducted by aliens and replaced by a body double” defence strategy.

No. But if the Government thinks it does not have to repay , what chance is there they will repay their own citizens? Tanzanian & various other African states have a 60-year history of borrowing money & not repaying it. That’s why they are poor, because ultimately all economic success is based on honour & obligation. Communist-style theft only works in the short term.