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Good German meet on FTA tomorrow. It’s a Pentecost meet, so everyone in the world will see it in their own native language* *Obscure theological joke here.

Yeah, but it’s a remarkable thing that the current British Olympic team has four world class athletes with one & one parent - Alex, Joe Choong (modern pentathlon) & the Atkins sisters (ski halfpipe).

Yeah, everyone seems trapped in super-domestique roles at the moment.

Roglič takes it!

Roglič home…. Thomas down…

Roglič mechanical!!!!! Has to stop & swap bikes.

Pinot takes the lead! OMG Thomas slipping.

Thomas changes both bike & helmet - gets heroic push from fat bloke mechanic.

Roglič bike change, gets it right this time.

Dominating the stage rankings anyway.

Right, here we go….after many postponements, we finally get a decisive stage!

Men’s race comes down to a running duel between Wilde & / Yee. Only one winner when that happens!

Wow, great triple finish for the men’s eight! Just time their final stroke right to beat &

Comfortable win for Georgia Taylor Brown in the end. However, as bad as could be for Gwen Jorgensen - lapped & last-placed finisher.

For sport I pay for: Discovery Plus Now (ie UK Sky on Streaming) Viaplay UK BT Sport (part of the cable package) Also ESPN Player, but not year-round, certain months only For free I get NCAA Mountain West Conference.

Ok, just going to triage a bit here…. I’d drop the surfing from El Salvador, the Brazilian Swimming & the…..Ice Hockey

VP often a bit slapdash at keeping their online schedule maintained. It has now appeared live at 21:00 Saturday, then the FTA repeat on Sunday morning. Can’t help with the RL though!

Got a nicely varied weekend coming up Triathlon from Sardinia Rowing from Slovenia Athletics from three continents Cycling - 2 women’s tours, 3 men’s tours & Belgian one-dayers. Rugby League

Think we’d have a very different approach if Evenepoel was still there. But leaving it to the last 1500m? OK, I understand why, but it’s very very textbook.

Well the snoozefest continues. We go to the ITT tomorrow with Thomas having a slight edge over Roglič.

Race 3 this weekend from Cagliari . Big news is that Rio 2016 Champion Gwen Jorgensen returns on Saturday morning. https://www.triathlon.org/news/article/olympic_medallists_jorgensen_and_zaferes_ready_to_heat_up_the_action_in_cag Men’s race on Saturday afternoon features Yee v Wilde again. https://www.triathlon.org/news/article/yee_and_wilde_ready_for_a_running_battle_at_wtcs_cagliari

And of course this is the Gotzis Multi-Events weekend. Usually this stream is not geo-blocked. https://tvthek.orf.at/livestream/LIVE-Mehrkampfmeeting-Goetzis-2023-Tag-1/14229284

Mire good news on streaming coverage - European Athletics has signed up a whole lot more meets over the summer, including many from the French & German domestic calendar. Full list here. https://www.european-athletics.com/news/european-athletics-to-offer-extensive-streaming-of-world-athletics-continental-tour-events-in-2023- Some are on Facebook - I refuse to sub to spyware - but others are on YT. Nordic Championships from Copenhagen this weekend.

Looks like the day has settled down now - big group of odds’n’ends away. Gee & Nielsen the best-known. Some duelling between Pinot & Healy to get away but that’s ended in a 0-0 draw. Hugh Carthy DNS this morning - he certainly looked off-form yesterday.

Only sensible decision. Let’s hope other Feds follow suit - sadly the looks like a lost cause.