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Moment of comedy as Chinese runner’s face shield heads down the track: she doesn’t. Rare glory day as beat in a winter sport.

And after we were all praising Julia Simon’s shooting at Schalke FC what happens?

He & Gianfranco Zola were really the first big-name Italian players to play in England & they both became huge fan favourites - not just at Chelsea - by respecting the traditions of the English game.

Can’t judge anything from a rainy, wet second run race!

@heywoodu & @Jinzha will probably make themselves a little happier if they watch today’s Women’s Skeleton race. No spoilers.

Usually when there’s CC or biathlon in Otepää they’re struggling with the weather compared to the rest of Europe. Not this time - was -16C at the start today & snow everywhere.

I remember during the Olympic baseball & softball the English language commentators always stopped talking during the innings break. The Italians didn’t pause for breath.

Always good to see a rain & melting track second run every now & then.

Ice making machines at the Winterberg track only just keeping pace with the warm conditions.

JTB 9/10 but a huge lead all the same. M Going to be 4 consecutive sprint wins for JTB.

4/5 for both JTB & Laegreid

Big names starting in Group 2 today, so should be a more exiting race. Or a longer one. QFM 5/5

First road racing action of the year comes up tomorrow morning - the Australian National Criterium and Road Races on Discovery Player, overnight and in the early hours of Friday, Saturday & Sunday morning.

Roeiseland just like old times 5/5.

Respectable snow in at any rate. Vitozzi - starts No1 - 4 miss prone!

Not quite doping but…. Cameroon's Under-17s face a race against time to field a team for regional African Cup of Nations qualifiers after more players failed age tests ordered by Samuel Eto'o, president of the country's governing body, Fecafoot. The former Barcelona and Inter Milan striker's insistence on using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) screening saw the squad ravaged at their training camp in Mbankomo, on the outskirt of Yaounde. Of the initial 30-member group, 21 failed the tests. But BBC Sport Africa now understands Cameroon have suffered a fresh setback as 11 new players also failed tests on Tuesday, with coach Jean Pierre Fiala struggling to find replacements. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/africa/64154037

Not since the Sochi Olympics.

No, still exist every year, just not on Polish TV. http://www.xgames.com/aspen/article/34918376/x-games-aspen-2023-returns-jan-27-29

In films & on TV, arsonists start fires by splashing lots of petrol around in a confined space. This is not how it works in real life. Suspected arsonists set Bakersfield business, and themselves, on fire https://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/suspected-arsonists-set-bakersfield-business-and-themselves-on-fire

Leftists believe that passing a law will stop all the bad things from happening. It’s the same principle that stops criminals buying guns, or the Chinese from building coal-fired power stations.

Hey, if you can have the Asian Games in Saudi Arabia you can have a race in Zagreb.

Please do not tell me any other context in which it might be a resource.

By all means assume that if it makes the world bearable.

Try typing “North Korea Tapeworm” into any search engine & see what you get.

Yeah, I can see how completely rebuilding every single sewer & every single building we’ve built over the last 170 years might take a few years’ work.