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Music’s coming home. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC have confirmed that the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest will be hosted in the United Kingdom on behalf of this year’s winning broadcaster, Ukraine’s UA:PBC. https://eurovision.tv/story/united-kingdom-host-eurovision-song-contest-2023?fbclid=IwAR0NytYf7kaSdLK_vM6vyXdlathbNi_ytwsp6CRLWbwL-jk7GEfBR6wawSk

6.21!

6.06 CR to warm up….

The good news for Champion Allison is that he will be allowed to keep his name. Bronze pour le plat pays!

Apparently she did not even have the qualifying mark for the champs, only got here through an invitation to make up the numbers!

Obiena Heading for their first-ever medal. Confirmed!

Usually there is a one WR per session rule. So Jonathan Edwards only beat the Triple Jump WR once in Gothenburg, even though he did two WRs in the competition.

Oro Melo lands one legit jump. Huge PB, goes home with bronze! & leave it late for their only golds. Can still go wrong for Mayer, though.

Russian chess robots just as reliable as Russian everything else. A chess-playing robot broke a child's finger during a tournament in Russia last week, with the incident being captured in CCTV footage. The robot grabbed the seven-year-old boy's finger because it was confused by his overly-quick movements, Russian media outlets reported, quoting the President of the Moscow Chess Federation - who seemingly blamed the child. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11043807/Chess-robot-breaks-finger-seven-year-old-boy-tournament-Russia.html

Based on the 13th Century position, of course.

Exciting stuff, duels for both Gold & Bronze in the last lap.

You have never heard of Culicoides impunctatus. They’re small, but kill more people annually than boa constrictors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_midge?wprov=sfti1

Munich 1972. John Akii-Bua won Olympic 400m Hurdles Gold & set a WR running in Lane 1.

BBC daily preview. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/62222629

Three good changes often beat four fast guys.

Michael Johnson thinks USA are DQF on last change.

Not going to let you edit that!

3 90m+ throws!

Daryll Neita ran the fastest 4th leg split!

Promoted, you mean. Relegated = Down.

For sure, spiking is just a racing incident, happens all the time in distance races. Silver for Zango in the TJ.

Damien Warner hamstring goes in the 400m, so a big shock win for someone. Lead, Owens-Delerme. Still in second, but nobody expects that to last.

They can get a solo re-run like Zagre.

First runner just dropped it on his own before it even got to the exchange.

Rare victory for ! According to Michael Johnson on BBC, Dutch were out of their lane (first exchange) & impeded France, so that’s why. Sorry, that’s not right, was 2nd exchange, just obstruction.