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It used to be Russia v Germany every single week in the relay, it’s much rarer now.

4x6km.

Hanna Sola does!

Lots of lovely fluffy fresh snow at Kranjska Gora, bet it’s the same at Maribor.

All through the last two years Aus & NZ have had special rules so that Hollywood celebs & private jet millionaires can enter & do their quarantine in luxury mansions with servants. The cricket team, playing an ultra-popular series of games in Aus, got three days quarantine & then off to a luxury tropical resort together. So putting Djokovic up in a crummy hotel is indeed a deliberate insult.

As. i thought, Djoko was allowed to come by the Aus Tennis people. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10378173/Novak-Djokovic-Details-tennis-stars-botched-Australian-visa-revealed.html Because there was such an outcry, the Aussies changed their minds & are trying to put the blame on him for not complying with some arcane legalism.

More on that story. Most commentators a bit sceptical about the explanation. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10379145/Italian-junior-shooting-champion-19-dies-accidentally-shooting-stomach.html

I remember winning gold in the women’s skeleton in Salt Lake City after an unauthorised sweeping break between the second-last and last (American) athlete.

Can’t be many places in the world where you get fog & blizzards at the same time.

Not really - British sense of humour. They sometimes have decent skaters.

Problem is country-swapping rules are much stricter now & he may lose out in opportunities by swapping since the original nation can effectively block him for several years, including probably Paris.

Philippine Athletics have only got one world class athlete and they have fallen out with him!

More medals for us then!

And he doesn’t get it, will have to console himself with a suitcase full of Swiss Francs, plus a life-size statue of himself made out of cheese.

Oh dear, Lindvik concedes on the first jump. Kobayashi not quite a certainty for the Grand Slam though.

Eurosport go to the ski jumping, and as soon as they do……

Surely there must be some stock footage of local wildlife, historic buildings & folk music we could be inserting here? Ah, good, major chemical upgrades!

Big outbreak in the town, no doubt thanks to tourists.

More chemicals, that’ll work!

Yeah, off now for sure.

That dog digging is calling all the trouble, get it under control! Here we go again….

Uh oh….

They are very opposed to polio vaccines, even killing vaccine workers, I know that. Don't know about COVID, can't imagine the general degradation of infrastucture helps.

Now this is what I call bad luck. This is the moment a runaway buffalo smashed its way into a restaurant and threw a man into the air in eastern China. Video filmed in the city of Taizhou in Jiangsu Province on December 31, shows the animal charging into the restaurant, ramming into a man and knocking him over. The stricken man, who suffered injuries to his leg, was dragged to safety by his friend while the bull rampaged around the restaurant, overturning tables and chairs before eventually running away. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10371321/Escaped-buffalo-bursts-restaurant-tosses-man-air-video.html

And Kobayashi takes it back.