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There’s no worse insult you can throw at a Russian than accusing them of being “Asiatic”, so I doubt they’ll be happy.

Nothing that 10 years in a Siberian logging camp won’t cure.

Thanks but no thanks. Plenty other sporting meets out there this summer.

Norwegian races from today & I guess this weekend are not geoblocked on NRK. We have another of our new generation super-biathletes for us oldies - Kirsti Skjelbreid-Gjelland joins the young Slettemark as a youngster with two biathlon parents. Got a good new shooting graphic - shows you where all five shots fall. Don’t know if it’s got a special Vittozzi mode for when all five shots are on a neighbour’s target, though. https://tv.nrk.no/serie/skiskyting-nm/2022/MSPO40130122/avspiller

Aha! The name’s Abramovich. Roman Abramovich. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ebAssCr990

Tony Nash, British Bobsleigh Gold Medallist at Innsbruck 1964 has died. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-sports/60877376

Are there many Israel to Poland trains?

Very similar - JK Rowling builds hospitals (she financed a whole hospital department here in Edinburgh, named after her mother), Vlad Vlad’itch blows up hospitals. Vladimir Putin has accused the West of trying to cancel Russia the same way it canceled JK Rowling as he launched an extraordinary rant amidst his faltering war in Ukraine. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10652119/Ukraine-war-Putin-defends-JK-Rowling-rant-cancel-culture.html

Macedonian fans celebrating their first victory over Italy since 205 BC.

Brutal Putinesque purge of the Commentary team. The International Skating Union has replaced its World Championships commentators after they made offensive remarks about Canadian former world champion Meagan Duhamel. British commentator Simon Reed called the 36-year-old the "bitch from Canada" at the end of Wednesday's pairs event in Montpellier, France, apparently thinking his microphone was turned off. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-sports/60862927

This is funny. All but one of the people demonstrating for Reparations for Slavery in Jamaica.......are white! Now, I've known quite a few white West Indians in my time, but I know enough not to ask them how long their ancestors were in the sugar business. "Hey, Mark, how come you have the same surname as all the people in the village down there?"

Yeah right.

And Kashmir protects the rights of people all religions to practice their faith. Something has not managed since 14/08/47.

Kind of doping, although Kazakh weightlifters haven’t figured this one out yet. Dog-lovers taking part in Parkrun events in UK will be banned from using harnesses after some competitors said they give them an unfair advantage, a former organiser claims. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10643525/Parkrun-ban-dog-owners-using-waist-harnesses-dangerous-ex-organiser-claims.html

Colbrelli improving. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/60808916

American sport in general is very strange in that lots of people do alpine, cross-country, mountain biking, canoeing etc etc without being in the least interested in the professional version of those sports. Even in athletics this year we saw that USATF has to include high school races in the middle of international meets in order to get a stadium audience

And now Olivia Borlée is no longer the only Borlée with a global gold medal.

Tense moment in the 60m Hurdles as King & Nomoto have identical qualifying times to the thousandth, so we must have a random draw. We won!

Grant Holloway =WR in the 60m Hurdles.

Too bad for - two NRs in the 4x400m, both narrowly beaten out of a finals place by

Massive no jump for Rojas, way over the WR line.

& both beat the time.

Drama in men’s the 4x400m as Isaiah Harris injures himself on the last lap, hobbles to the line. Must wait for a fast loser slot.

Oh Lordy 1 12. We’ve sent the Youth Team & two out of the five are down with the Shanghai Shivers including the skip.

Let’s see his samba moves!