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Like all leftists, our friend is very good.at lofty declarations of principle, not so good at practical reality. I’m presuming he’s not volunteering to do the gathering & spreading.

Because that works so well in North Korea, the world’s most progressive country.

It’s too bad - I was just thinking what good crowds the ladies got this last week, way better than normal

These things take years to finalize.

Just caught up. Got to agree with that, Simon’s standing shooting was up there in GOAT territory.

Watching my first live sports in three weeks. Tour de Ski Cross Country. Still have big backlog of NCAA Volleyball. Alpine, Luge, Biathlon & Ski Jumping.

Just old enough to remember the 1970 World Cup.

Haven’t done a complete survey, but of the sports from A-C….. Alpine, Biathlon, Cross-Country & Curling (late stages only) are all on Discovery+ at least, which is perfect. If anyone wants to cross-check the full list, go to the All Sports section of Discovery+ & click Upcoming.

Have been away from home this last two weeks, so I still have 75% of the events from 15th Dec-present to watch this weekend.

Jessica Gardirova - Gymnast. World Floor Gold, Team Silver, All-Around Bronze & also European Gold & Silver. Also nominated as a Junior. Beath Mead - Footballer Golden Boot & MVP in the European Championships. Big favourite. Eve Muirhead - Curler Olympic Gold & Mixed Doubles World Championship Gold. Ronnie O’Sullivan - Snooker Won his 7th World Championship Ben Stokes - Cricket Captain This time last year England were terrible, but since then won the World T20 Championship & 9/10 International Test Matches. Jake Wightman - Athletics 1500m World Championship Gold, beating red-hot favourite Jakob Ingebritsen.

This is funny. Bear steals the fried stuff, leaves the salad. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11547581/Black-bear-steals-30-Chick-fil-nuggets-large-fry-porch-Florida.html#comments

Mad Matt clears his name. Dutch cyclist Mathieu van der Poel has had his conviction for assaulting two teenage girls in Australia overturned. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/63968918

Is that on TV though? Don't know if they have now inherited the shaky handhelds that the IBU Cup used to have.

Spoilt for choice again this weekend 15th-18th Russian Cup from Ufa on YT IBU Cup from Val Ridanna World Cup from La Grande Bornande.

Can confirm that the eurovisionsports.tv stream works in - you need a confirmed username/password registration, but nothing more than that.

Official list of broadcasters by country here. https://www.fina.org/where-to-watch/europe

NHL’s attempt to promote transgender hockey produces predictably unhappy results. A female-to-male transgender hockey player was left concussed after being flung to the floor by a much larger male-to-female trans opponent during a controversial NHL-backed tournament. Danny Maki was knocked down and left concussed following what appeared to be an accidental rough hit at the Team Trans Ice Hockey draft in Middleton, Wisconsin, late last month. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11531705/Moment-trans-woman-hockey-player-concusses-trans-male-rival.html

Yeah, it's always a bit boring when one person dominates. C'mon Wendy, stop being so selfish & give the other girls a chance!

Always good to see one less abbreviation in the world.

Lampić makes up huge amount of ground on first two laps…..2 penalty loops on the stand. Can Vittozzi win it? Simon not giving anyone a glimpse of failure. Italy heading for bronze.

Classic standing shoot from Doro.

In the CC Men’s U-20, Tragedy for as Griggs, in a certain gold medal position, stumbles just 30m from the line & gets caught by

In Russia things never change. The exact same thing happened to Boris Pasternak in 1959. A Russian human rights activist has told the BBC that he was ordered to turn down the Nobel Peace Prize by the Russian authorities. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-63927607

Seems the whole team were…. Germany and Bayern Munich captain Manuel Neuer's season is over after the goalkeeper broke his leg skiing. The 36-year-old, whose side failed to qualify for the knockout stages at the World Cup in Qatar, said "I was trying to get my head clear" on the trip. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63928729

It’s the same debate with relay events in all sports. Do you go with the best four athletes on a given day, like US track & Russian biathlon or do you have a specific relay team like British track or French biathlon? I don’t think there is a single answer.