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Anyone know who’s got the TV rights to the Big Air Festival in Chur this weekend? Nothing on Discovery. Is this one of the Viaplay acquisitions?

She’s a national heroine. A large crowd at Tehran airport greeted an Iranian sport climber who competed without a headscarf at a competition in South Korea, calling her a "heroine". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-63309101

First last-minute heartbreak game of the Comp as put down 24-18 with the score 18-18 after 77m.

The complicated history of Greek Rugby League. They invented the word “bureaucracy” https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/63236572

Very weird. All the Samoans are top-level pros, but the played like schoolboys, so many basic mistakes.

Serbia does genuinely have its own league, though - it’s not all just Aussie grandchildren. Red Star - Craven Zvezda - have played internationally.

She has been around biathlon for a few years though.

Thanks for these mate.

He used to restore vintage classic cars as a hobby. When I lived in Glasgow in the 80s I saw him driving around in them a few times.

Good to have a thread, looking forward to this. Not just the three team competition it has been in the past. Like baseball, the small island nations are really the backbone of the professional game now.

Problem is that apart from Starmer, all the rest of Labour are Marxist loons, so I wouldn’t write off the Tories completely.

More Kenyans caught: there’s a trend. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/63261243

They have to hold on otherwise they’d all be fired.

This is German Govt to burn unused COVID masks for fuel this winter. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-07/germany-to-burn-almost-800-million-unused-covid-masks

To make room for women’s events

Yeah, Italy got nothing the times Ganna came to the front. Man-of-the-month Milan did more.

That’s been a good first day!

There lots of questionable starts I thought. Definitely some teams taking advantage of weak refereeing. Tears & hugs in the Dutch Women’s Team Sprint team - rumours of some bureaucratic error. They lose bronze to GBR by .008.

I am working to the old English Julian Calendar, so 26th March = New Year’s Day.

Alpine skiing turns up on my TV programme guide for the first time this year!

That looks very like a fake news site to me, mate.

Why? What’s wrong with Cubans?

So DeSantis is to be blamed because he believed the ultra-rich when they said they were willing to to give housing & jobs to refugees from Communism?

And it’s….Ливерпул! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/entertainment-arts-63175494!

Not quite sure if this new sport deserves a new thread or indeed a whole forum... Anyway, this weekend sees the inaugural UCI Gravel World Championships from Italy. Quite a lot of the dual road/mountain-bike big names involved, including the Notorious vdP, Sagan, Stybar, Fernand-Prevot, but there's also a lot of discipline specialists from the Americas where Gravel Racing has a commercial circuit of its own. UCI Gravel World Championships 2022 - Preview | Cyclingnews