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This page - scroll down to the bottom - shows you which nations are covering which days. https://allathletics.tv/championships/ea-team-silesia-2023

Anyway, all up early for tomorrow's start! Looking forward to it. expected to apply an -type steamroller to everyone in Div III in the morning session, expected to do the same to Div II in the evening. Here's your results and schedules page - just click on the small Change link to get your local times. These are usually pretty reliable. Daily Schedule - Athletics | European Team Championships 2023 (european-athletics.com)

Seems to have been as badly organised as the Women’s Tour of the Pyrenees. Victory for , though. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12209795/Porn-star-winner-European-Sex-Championships-gives-new-details-chaotic-event.html

Out of hospital today & going home for a rest. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/65942944

Full entry list all Divisions & events. https://european-athletics.directus.app/assets/cb387bcc-9945-45ba-8366-d35ff9057ffe/ETCH 2023 - 1st - FE - Athletes List by Event and SB.pdf

Not much of a football fan, but two goals in the last five minutes against the Viking bastards who raided all our monasteries & stole our best-looking women will do for me! And the Norwegian goal was an Olympic quality dive by Haaland!

Scary moment in the Tour of Slovenia as Filippo Zana also comes off the road on a fast descent & falls into a gully. Fortunately, no damage done & he resumes.

They got Eswatini right, though.

With all this cricket going on?

Final line-ups for all three Athletics divsions. https://www.european-athletics.com/news/11-european-champions-headline-final-entries-for-1st-division-in-silesia

Well, this is a depressing story. If you can’t trust a stripper, who can you trust? A Miami stripper has been arrested after allegedly plying a client with tequila during a raunchy lap dance while covertly funneling over $60,000 from his bank accounts. Yannelin Rivera-Bosaw, 34, was one of several dancers who performed for the unwitting victim in a private VIP room at Miami gentlemen's club Playmates last week, police say. The strippers then relentlessly supplied him with tequila shots, until he became so drunk he couldn't stand up to leave, according to the police report. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12204869/Stripper-34-arrested-plying-man-tequila-funneling-62-000-accounts.html

Tons of meets all over Europe this weekend, with several nations having U20 & U23 selections. This one from (the flat bit) looks good for a midsummer Saturday night.

Yet another of those strange sports where lots of people do it for fun, but not many people go into the Olympic event.

Lordy, that’s not good!

Yeah, so probably World Feed comms on just one of each, transmitted to the stream. Then individual nations can add their own comms if want to cover all their badminton players or whatever. Also if there is a huge bench-clearing punch-up on the B Court of the beach handball.

Less interesting than even solo karate?

I’m not so pessimistic - as far as I can see in BBC are not showing anything on mainstream TV - 100% Tennis, Glastonbury etc - just online streaming only. When that happens, they don’t normally enforce the geo-block.

Ah OK & promotion/relegation will work as usual.

Here’s a bump for this if we haven’t already had it. The three athletics divisions. Remember, there are team (as usual) & individual medals. The individual medals are taken across all three competitions, so I can see or Gega picking up medals from Div III. https://www.eurolympic.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/App1_ETCH2023_Grouping.pdf

Looking at it in more detail.....not much. We don't get prelims of archery (never ever have, even at London 2012), shooting prelims or the fencing round robin of Modern Pentathlon. I guess for sports like table tennis, badminton etc there is just one main show court, not every single concurrent match like at the Olympics. Ditto for the beach sports. Otherwise, pretty much the lot.

The updated website is promising multiple simultaneous live broadcasts (as we know not everything is going to be covered live) plus full on-demand replays of everything that has been live, and easy to navigate by sport so....Click on the Programme button to see what is on every day. European Games TV

W Series put out of its misery. Always thought it was a bit of a con, women did the glamorous driving bit, but no women did the difficult "get up at five in the morning and rebuild the suspense system" bit. W Series: All-female championship enters administration after failing to secure funding - BBC Sport

All fun & games until it falls off mid-jump and wipes out his Gold Medal leap.

Nuguse does get the AR!

Ta Lou takes an old meeting record off the books, always a Good Thing.