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Emma Raducanu tests positive for Covid in Abu Dhabi - and will spend the night of the Sports Personality of the Year award ceremony in isolation https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10304655/Emma-Raducanu-tests-positive-Covid-19-despite-fully-vaccinated.html

Shorter than any football match.

British nominations, also from this morning, strangely enough. Tom Daley, Olympic diver Tyson Fury, Pro Boxer Adam Peaty, Olympic Swimmer Emma Raducanu, Tennis Raheem Sterling, Football Dame Sarah Storey, Paralympic cyclist. Raducanu is the strong favourite. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/sports-personality/59607666

In English we say “electricity plant, power plant, nuclear plant”. “Plant” can also just mean mechanical - as opposed to human - resources in general.

Stina Nilsson up to 8th at one point, but 3/5 at final shoot. Eckhoff 1 1 1 3

Nef misses gate 1! Vinatzer misses the last gate in the lead!

Classic v battle for Alpine Slalom dominance! Daniel Yule is of course a mercenary fighting for

French messed up legs 1&2, but now charging on legs 3&4.

Manages to ski home. Planning to start again. Swiss Army in action! Not sure that forest camouflage is going to work today.

European Cross-Country Champs today in Dublin. Some big names in action. Here in It’s on BBC Red Button & streaming.

Women’s Super-G going to be delayed with high winds.

And before that, in the early 2000s, when I first started watching, a Finnish dynasty.

Doesn’t matter how you run the race, Norwegians always win.

Watch the French mess up the relay tomorrow…

Like Homer Simpson skateboarding across the canyon.

Gravity strikes again!

Stop that snickering at the back! https://worldcurling.org/2021/12/oqe2021-broadcast-resumes/

Shows de moffen how it’s done! Not the first WC win in a going-downhill winter sport, Nicolien Saauerbrij had a few & an Olympic Gold

But on the other hand, very good race for , another win for Charlotte Bankes & into the Yellow Bib. Mixed team event tomorrow.

Oh sure: but in the last month they have been in Norway & Sweden.

British ES comms put it down as the transition from low level training - France & Norway - to an altitude race.

Leonidas named after the King of the Spartans, or the Belgian chocolates?

British cyclist Mark Cavendish was assaulted by four armed men during a burglary at his home on 27 November. Cavendish, 36, said he, his wife Peta and their children were threatened "at knifepoint" by the men and he was "violently attacked". https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/59585168

Well, sort of. More than 40 camels have been disqualified from a Saudi beauty pageant after dozens of the animals were given Botox, face lifts and muscle-boosting hormones. The beauties were booted in one of the biggest ever crackdowns at the Abdulaziz Camel Festival where breeders compete for some £49 million in prize money. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10287827/More-40-camels-disqualified-49million-Saudi-beauty-pageant-BOTOX.html

White leftists determined to destroy the Commonwealth Games by imposing an imperialistic moral hegemony on other cultures. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/59571501