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There’s only one way he could have been sure it was empty.

OK lots of people are not there, but if you want a podium you’ve still got to do the basics right & beat decent athletes,

Good to know that all the deep-seated bitterness arising from the Batavo-Slovak War of the 1920s had been forgotten.

Just to sum up the Russian winners that @justonywas asking for. Relays were by Russian regional teams but don't have members listed so I haven't included them. Styles were the same as for the Worlds. Women Sprint - Natalya Nepryayeva Pursuit - Natalya Nepryayeva Team Sprint - Elizaveta Pantrina & Ekatarina Smirnova 10k - Veronika Stepanova 30k - Natalya Nepryayeva Men Sprint - Sergei Ustyugov Pursuit - Aleksandr Bolshunov Team Sprint - Aleksandr Terentyev & Aleksandr Bolshunov 15k - Aleksandr Bolshunov 50k - Aleksandr Bolshunov

Cool, have enough unwatched biathlon to last me till the FourcadeFest in August.

She is Andrew Mugrave’s gf so c’mon Andy, do the right thing & get this girl a passport immediately!

Вот, результаты нашёл! Full results are here. Videos are geo-blocked though, unlike the biathlon ones. https://news.sportbox.ru/Vidy_sporta/cross_country/stats/turnir_20580

I don’t know how it’s done elsewhere, but in we have Olympic aptitude events. Promising young athletes from any background sport can do a range of tests & they will be offered places to train on the less-well known Olympic Sports. That’s how double gold medallist Lizzy Yarnold got started on skeleton. Plenty of rowers, triathletes & pentathletes have come through that.

Yeah it’s poor value given that the WC Final & the World Champs go out FTA on the Olympic Channel.

Jaz Sawyers gets 7.00 WL!

Yeah, historically the problem has been that all their pole vaulters have to wear oxygen masks.

Belgian 800m runner is going to hear from the judges, I think.

Tribute to the Latverian medical team.

Belgian Tornadoes leave devastation in their wake.

Wow, some unusual nations on the leader board here. Hold on!

Lampič clear prone shoot - she’s going to take the lead this lap. And then…. Perfect shoot - 0/8 5 penalty loops.

Heavy snow in Kvitfjell - women’s Super G has started, but not clear it’ll finish. Doubt anyone is going to get near #1 Flury And as soon as I type it Shiffin +0.10. Well, the snow stopped, the course got better & when Goggia started….

Traditional celebration required.

He traded up, that’s for sure! Is sitting in the BBC studio at the moment.

Åksag also going for the perfect XXXXXX in the TJ!

Very impressed with this guy Watrin!

Ok, this 800m guy Tecuceanu is a Dacian at least.

He got a feature on the BBC. Problem is he’s such a big guy he was literally ripping the blocks off the floor. Reminds me of British track cyclist Craig McLean who sometimes destroyed his front gear wheel.

Unlike the & athletes competing in Istanbul, all of our guys do have at least one legit British parent. This weekend alone we have shared two medals with , for example. (Alex Yee & Zoe Atkin). But we also lose medals to other nations - Fanny Smith & Doug Yule both have two British parents.

Beat 11-4 for Bronze - had not realised just how young these guys are, one of them is only 15!