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Eurovisionsport.com has live streaming in English Results here https://live.skidskytte.se/6212#result@52452@1@9 Looks like the big names have gone first & Hanna Ōberg dominates with 0 0 & a fast time. Vittozzi 4th with one miss. All the Germans slow skis. But a very non-standard event so hard to draw conclusions.

We are off in Sweden with the women's special sprint. There has been a bit of fresh snow.

Dodgy Russian language coverage of the finals here.

With all finishers home after the prelim round, Bruna is 46/71 - 40.11 down on the Laura Gimmler in the lead, about 20 off 30th. Actually beating a decent number of the Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian club skiers. Importantly, also beat all but one of the minor nations - Aussies, Lithuanians, Icelanders and the other Brazilian, veteran Jaque Mourao. Guess we have to wait to get final points score, but if she were I'd call that a really good day.

British Athletics sometimes use the excuse that having athletes on the teams with no realistic prospect of medals dilutes coaching resources better used elsewhere. Counter-argument is that using all place rewards athletes for a lifetime's dedication.

Paralympics looking to follow the IOC - in the past they have taken a softer line. Paralympic bosses prepare ground for potential ban on trans women competing in women's sports

Plenty snow!

races from Gielo will be on nrk.no - remember, Norwegian TV has two opening points, one of which is works Internationally and the other is Domestic. This is usually the International one. Timing seems to be they don't overlap too much. Skiskyting - NRK TV Saturday Women's Sprint Men's Sprint Sunday There are actually four mass start races, but I imagine only the high-class races will be shown. Mass Start Women Mass Start Men Season Opener at Geilo | Geilo Entries List Sesongstart Skiskyting 2025

Preseason weekend is here! Races from Idre Fjall, and Geilo . First up, Good news and bad news. First of all, it's on Eurovisionsport! Swedish Premiere Biathlon | Eurovision Sport Bad news is that they are struggling for weather, so it is just scabby last-year snow, a narrow ribbon, and some changed races. Featuring Saturday Men Sprint Women Sprint Sunday Men Sprint Women Sprint And they don't even have enough for a penalty loop, so it will be 22 sec penalties for each miss. Biathlon | Two sprints without penalty laps: the full programme for the Swedish opening races at Idre Fjäll | Nordic Mag | N°1 Biathlon | Nordic skiing

Aha, this one will be something to do with boyfriends, I absolutely guarantee it.

Big weekend for Winter Sports coming up - Alpine Slalom from , pre-season biathlon from & , and cross-country from on pay TV and possibly dodgy Ukrainian feeds on YT. Speed Skating from Salt Lake City, which is where the early season record times are always set,

Think most of us oldies know this but maybe some new arrivals don't. How has mastered the art of preparing pistes with early season snow. Alpine skiing-Frozen in Time: Levi's farmed snow sets stage for Shiffrin

And this is why the IOC ban is so important. Without it, the well-financed TG lobby will simply launch global lawfare and destroy governing bodies one by one.

This is pretty damn impressive, actually. I had veteran friends in orienteering who would all train exceptionally hard the first couple of years they got into a new age group category, so for a complete outsider to become a World Champion is really Former Olympic road race champion Greg Van Avermaet has added a 70.3 Ironman age category world title to his list of career achievements – something he never managed to achieve on the bike. Former Olympic cycling champion Greg Van Avermaet wins 70.3 Ironman world title in his age group

UK Athletics' funding plans for the next year. With Commonwealths and Euros coming up, no excuse for missing targets. 2025/26 OLYMPIC WORLD CLASS PROGRAMME ATHLETES ANNOUNCED | British Athletics

Time to go back to steam, electric trains make drivers careless. Knowing that they will be the first to be burnt to death in any accident keeps concentration levels high.

1.5 hours of viewing, 12 minutes of racing!

OTOH the Ski Classics races are always very long, so you get a lot of skiing for your money. Much more than a BMX Channel, let's say.

Looks like the IOC is finally about to the right thing in protecting Womens' Sports. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-15276409/Olympics-set-ban-transgender-athletes-Imane-Khelif-DSD.html

Nah, I will bet that the Cross Country running events, if they ever happen, will be staged gratis for the public at low altitudes in Grenoble or Annecy city centre where there won't be much snow.

It's the big season-ending Championship day in the National Junior College Cross Country Running event. Teams are in place, Track is in perfect condition. And then, all of a sudden...... attacks!

And if you reverse that list you get a list of the countries with the BEST serial killers.

Things not clicking yet for Team Edin - just seen them give up a 5 on the 7th end to team McEwan . Long way to go yet, but the old air of perfection just not there.

Live on the Olympic Channel. https://www.olympics.com/en/sport-events/2025-wr-rowing-beach-sprint-finals-antalya

No quotes from the opposing team, I notice.