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Not a pig: not from Guinea.

Wow, what a great format this Pursuit is! Excitement all the way!

What was the name of the German guy that happened to in a relay? Had to retire with heart problems, about 20 years ago.

Tandrevold absolutely blown.

Everyone misses tons of targets except Triril Eckhoff.

She didn’t have the best waxing team, but did have the best lawyers.

They won’t be able to get to Parliament. It’ll have to be a Truckers’ Jury.

need a coup d’état: this skip Retornaz is absolutely rubbish. Depose him, exile him to Monte Cristo island & replace him with Amos Mosaner who won the Mixed.

Great result for , but still not enough to allow her back into the country. M

Bos has a bronze!

And the rest are trans.

Model railways. You know those miniature narrow-gauge railway lines at seaside resorts that have working steam engines that children can ride behind? Well, exactly the same technology is also used for bobsleigh start tracks. Just lay a few hundred metres of miniature railway & you have a world class loading facility.

Or Latvia who cashed in during the Golden Age of Soviet concrete-pouring.

be snapping at ‘s heel like giant crocs in the saltwater marshes of the Northern Territory.

These are pretty massive gaps in the sprint, so it’s going to be a two-for-the-price of one offer for JTB.

40 sec lead for JTB with one miss.

Tsvetkov first to 0 0 Boe one miss but still fast.

I am growing increasingly worried about the recent absence of Thomas Bach (Olympic Champion, Fencing, 1976). Where is he? During the first few days of the Olympics he was, like Superman everywhere at once, but I haven’t seen him at all since this whole Russian skating moppet controversy started. Is he trapped in a lift at the Beijing Mandarin Oriental? Perhaps locked in the cabin of his private jet? Off on a secret mission to broker peace between Moscow & Kiev? An anxious world need to be reassured!

According to the BBC just now, when Charlotte Bankes left for , she took the wax tech guy with her!

Same crap maximum gap rules as parallel slalom.

Ok, everyone walked away, Oh no, judges!

We had the brilliant luge relay yesterday. Today we have the utterly rubbish snowboard cross relay.

Yeah, yeah. I’ve read The Day of the Jackal, I know how easy it is to get fake documents.

Think there is some legal restriction or rule of the sport which means you can’t run skeleton till you are 18. Something like that. Anyway, it wipes out Germany’s natural advantage.

Confident that Thomas Bach (Gold, Fencing 1976) will soon be on top of this once he has sorted out the thorny issue of inadequate room service in the Mandarin Hotel, Beijing.