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Geez, would you believe the World Aquatics scheduled for Japan in May are off? Just pathetic. https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1118225/world-aquatics-champs-fukuoka-postponed

Egon Bernal in a serious crash. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/60113862

So the Winter Olympic team are not going to be able to travel to Beijing?

No sign of any TV coverage for the Individual or Sprint, but Saturday & Sunday’s races do get covered. Think that’s normal.

Well, 3/5 summer athletes got medals, so it’s a high standard to live up to. As always, a keen rivalry with Andorra, Liechtenstein & Lesotho for the title of the best “Mountains nobody else wanted” nation.

Huge Italian crowd has unsettled her,

Let’s hope they get the commentaries sorted out this time! Took them a couple of days in Tokyo.

More medals for us!

Was looking through a list of Britain’s winter & summer Olympians. As you’d expect, most are athletes/bobsled. Except Percy Legard - Modern Pentathlon 1932/1936 & Nordic Combined 1936!

Was not expecting that, but Dave finally put together two great runs and the weather did the rest. He now becomes the second-most famous person to come from Pendle in Lancashire; the most famous being ten people hanged for witchcraft in 1612.

Windy in Cortina, shortened course.

Abolishing the individual would gradually ruin the whole sport because the people who would prosper most would be the modern equivalent of Lars Berger or Miriam Gossner who skied fast, blasted away fast and were happy if they hit 3/5.

OK, better now than later. Still plenty time to get negative.

Anyway, this is why they’ve got to keep the individual race. It keeps a lot of people in the sport that would not prosper in other race formats.

are officially looking for three-seven medals. For myself I'm thinking of three curling medals of which one gold, one men's bobsleigh medal, one freestyle skiing, one snowboard cross, and at least one out-of-the-blue surprise from somewhere unlikely.

Yes, three silvers will be something to be proud of.

Full team. Official minimum target is three medals, which looks very possible. Alpine skiing Billy Major - Slalom, team event Dave Ryding - Slalom, team event Charlie Guest - Slalom, team event Alex Tilley - Giant slalom, Slalom, team event Bobsleigh Brad Hall - Men's two and four-man Nick Gleeson - Men's two and four-man Greg Cackett - Men's four-man Taylor Lawrence - Men's four-man Ben Simons - Men's (reserve) Mica McNeill - Women's Montell Douglas - Women's Adele Nicoll - Women's (reserve) Cross country skiing James Clugnet Andrew Musgrave Andrew Young Curling Bruce Mouat - Men's and mixed doubles Grant Hardie - Men's Bobby Lammie - Men's Hammy McMillan - Men's (This is Hammy McMillan Jr, old timers! ) Ross Whyte - Men's (alternate) Eve Muirhead - Women's Vicky Wright - Women's Jen Dodds - Women's and mixed doubles Hailey Duff - Women's Mili Smith - Women's (alternate) Figure skating Natasha McKay - Women's singles Lilah Fear - Ice dance Lewis Gibson - Ice dance Freestyle skiing Lloyd Wallace - Men's Aerials Leonie Gerken-Schofield - Women's moguls Makayla Gerken-Schofield - Women's moguls Will Feneley - Men's moguls Ollie Davies - Men's ski cross Gus Kenworthy - Men's ski halfpipe Zoe Atkin - Women's ski halfpipe James Woods - Men's ski slopestyle and big air Izzy Atkin - Women's ski slopestyle and big air) Kirsty Muir - Women's ski slopestyle and big air Katie Summerhayes - Women's ski slopestyle and big air Luge Rupert Staudinger - Men's singles Short track Kathryn Thomson - Women's short track 500m, 1000m and 1500m Farrell Treacy - Men's short track 1000m and 1500m Niall Treacy - Men's short track 1000m Speed skating Cornelius Kersten - Men's long track 1000m and 1500m Skeleton Laura Deas - Women's Brogan Crowley - Women's Matt Weston - Men's Marcus Wyatt - Men's Snowboarding Huw Nightingale - Men's snowboard cross and team Charlotte Bankes - Women's snowboard cross and team Katie Ormerod - Women's slopestyle and big air

And not just 12 misses but a penalty as well! Didn’t just sink the ship, but went back afterwards and sank the lifeboats.

According to the British ES Comms (who are in e-mail contact with Wright’s mentor back in NZ), the NZ federation “always intended to send him, but the news was embargoed till yesterday”. Yeah, right.

Sorry, was joking, don’t know if it’s true. But if the Kiwis had any sense, they’d suddenly develop an internet fault that won’t be fixed until Monday.

Too late, has already snatched up that refused place!

Just found it he has got grandparents - we are claiming him!

British team named. Only one four man team, so Greg Rutherford missed out. Four Man Brad Hall Greg Cackett Nick Gleeson Taylor Lawrence Two Man Brad Hall Greg Cackett Women’s Mica McNeill Montell Douglas - Uk’s first ever female Winter & Summer olympian, also the Beijing Double. Reserves - Adelle Nicol & Ben Simon.

If things like that happened in Men’s tennis every police force in the world would be investigating a global Russian mafia betting scam, but in Women’s it’s just another Thursday.

Incidentally, I know that Jaque Muorao was thinking that perhaps she would be the only person to do the Beijing 2008/2022 double but there will be at least one other - Britain's bobsleigh brakewoman Montell Douglas was in the 2008 100m/4x100m.