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And live on Discovery/Eurosport for the first time in many years. Plenty snow!

Check YT is the quickest way, it shows you when each event starts in your timezone. This shows you the start time in the local timezone and in fact there is a local timezone option, but there are a lot of regional races also. IBSF | International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation: Races & Results

Was watching some CC from Russia on YT today - certainly looked extremely cold for mid-November, so if anyone is taking bets on a 2026 Elfstedentocht I'd get some money down.

NCAA Cross Country finals this weekend. NCAA Finals coming up on Saturday. Division II and III are live on ncaa.com & YT. Division I we will have to wait for the YT replays. Here are the previews - big story this season as far as the US media are concerned has been the emergence of teenage phenom Jane Hedengren of Brigham Young who will challenge the top African imports in the women's race. Some familiar surnames, but with African names you're never quite sure if this is an actual family in our sense or some kind of distant clan relationship. 2025's top individual cross country championship contenders to know | NCAA.com And the team competitions are technically the most important aspect, since it is only the team competition that gets an actual prize. The case for the top 3 men’s and women’s team cross country title contenders | NCAA.com

Great article here about Eugenio Monti, the Italian bobsleigh legend after whom the Cortina track is named IBSF | International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation: Eugenio Monti Olympic Sliding Centre - legacy meets history And congratulations to for getting the track ready so early, the first time since the Emperor Diocletian (284-305 AD) that any Italian major building project has come in ahead of schedule.

And again, first competitions of the season are the season openers from Norway, live on Norwegian TV. Kombinert - NRK TV

Summer Ski Jumping only just over it seems, and we start off again in Lillehammer tomorrow with a full programme of Mixed Team event, on Friday and two competitions each on Saturday and Sunday. FIS | Viessmann FIS Ski Jumping World Cup Competition - Lillehammer (NOR) 2025/2026

Here's the TV link for the Norwegian races from Beitostolen tomorrow Langrenn - NRK TV And for the Swedish races from Gallivare Längdskidor: Gällivare | SVT Play Results are going to be on FIS FIS | Live Results

Live timings for tomorrow's skeleton races now published on YT. IBSF Bobsleigh & Skeleton - YouTube

Two more Season Openers this weekend - from Norway and Sweden. Both will have the same program Friday - Sprints Saturday - Classic TT Sunday - Freestyle TT And if I can read Swedish properly - Kan ses i hela världen - both available globally.

Freestyle Slopestyle season opener at Stubai gets moved forward due to anticipated weather conditions = Quals will start today instead of Friday and Finals will be tomorrow instead of Saturday. Only time for three meets before the close of the Olympic qualification window, so all results will be vital. FIS | Freeski Slopestyle stars reunite for Stubai season opener

Time to start doing some bumping - we have several new season restarts this weekend. First up, chronologically will be skeleton on Friday Morning. It's at the new ir restored track at Cortina, where there will be no spectators because there is still painting, hammering, drilling and swearing in Italian to be done before everything is ready. Previews for skeleton and bob here. IBSF | International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation: Opening World Cup event and warm-up for the Olympics in Cortina d’Ampezzo And will be live on YT as usual. IBSF Bobsleigh & Skeleton - YouTube

Are those shoes legal? Even for going to the shops, I'd expect the police to ask questions.

It says here it is Full Time but I don't believe them.

They're playing , no worries.

You mean all those trillions of £££££s we are spending to appease the weather Gods does not work? Should we be throwing people into volcanoes instead?

These outages tend to be very random and patchy depending on what DNS server you or your nation is going through.

Late changes to the Luge Calendar. The Igls event has been moved to Winterberg - there has been rebuilding work at Igls and the Luge people were not happy. Bobsleigh/skeleton OTOH are fine with it. The test event at Cortina in two weeks time has been upgraded to one of the races counting in the Olympic Qualifier series. Olympic Test Event in Cortina upgraded: First qualifying race for Mila

Let's hope the Slalom in Levi is an omen for the season 4th Laurie Taylor 7th Dave Ryding 27th Billy Major And with Team Mouat very solidly in the position of World Number 1 in Curling, and a Figure Skating Grand Prix win for Fear & Gibson it has been an excellent pre-season.

Long way short of being boring today!

All leftists will ultimately align themselves with criminal gangs. Baked in the cake since Lenin accepted money from Koba\Stalin's bank robbery gang.

lead! But Shiffrin back to her absolute best.

Blimey Kuzmina still going & 0 0!

And we are off in Norway! Normal women's sprint race to start. Unlike , we are going with club runners first then up to internationals. Lots of starters! International feed here. Skiskyting - NRK TV Live results here LIVE TIMING