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Always FF past the boring bits.

Well, on the opening experimental run, there were some nice ones showing angles, g-force etc. Haven’t seen them since, though. Should mention that overall the Olympics app is much easier to use & navigate especially for live events.

Looks easy enough, I’ve got into by loading the Olympics app on Amazon Prime. Some nice new graphics also.

Yeah, it’s all fun and games till the random three times a year drug testers come a-calling.

Gibraltar is pretty much at 100% vaccination - they’ve got an outbreak. https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1521786/Gibraltar-news-covid-cases-rise-Christmas-lockdown

They get plenty snow. I remember at a Universiade a few years back the nordic skiers were practically skiing through half-pipes at various places.

Curious what the best Turkish result is in any winter sports WC.

Those Swedish sprint races this morning are free to air, like the biathlon last week. https://www.svtplay.se/kanaler?expand=%2Cch-svt1&range=day

At last! We have the great v throwdown for global hilly sports supremacy! women all having a bad day on the short Innsbruck track. Too bad, double win day for , but medals for both Bos & Meylemans!

Greg Rutherford won’t start for Team GB this weekend - shoulder injury. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-sports/59306405 Good news is that Martin Haven/John Morgan dream team are back on YT comms.

First World Cup races of the season from Innsbruck today. As usual, excellent YouTube coverage. https://www.youtube.com/c/IBSFsliding

Laos, Samoa & São Tome e Principe.

European Champs, both Men’s & Women’s starting in Lillehammer on Saturday. Lots of matches available on streaming, more than ever before probably. Here’s the schedule. https://worldcurling.org/2021/11/ecc2021-broadcast/ Streaming won’t be on YouTube, though - World Curling has a new channel. It’s not a free service, but it’s based on paying microcredits per game. Also lots of games on ES as usual. https://the.recast.app/user/5pYk0?referrer=5pYk0

The Luge live-streams get an upgrade. Will be hosted on olympics.com this season, and therefore also via the apps, Fire sticks, Roku etc. https://olympics.com/en/video/watch-luge-eberspacher-world-cup-series?uxreference=playlist

The other three races from Sjusjoen are now up at the same site. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzW0Q4Fc94STsjN-oE418ng

The French version of today’s Sjusjoen women’s sprint is on YT. I’m thinking tomorrow’s pursuits will be posted there also - they had the French summer biathlon races.

Medal places change in both the 2012 Olympic High Jump events after Sergei Ukhov & Svetlana Shkolina get retrospective bans. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/59270135

Aha! Was geo-blocked live, but can now be viewed.

Yeah, but no horses protesting!

Geoblocked! Too bad.

I’ve seen this before. Coverage is…..rudimentary. Kind of like watching a sporting event in a supermarket security room.

Well, all she has to do is head for the Polish border and……oh, yeah.

The whole scandal takes an even more ridiculous turn. Certainly none of these people are going to be winning any Nobel Prizes. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10190593/PSG-Diallo-beating-Five-players-given-security-threatening-calls.html

This is neat, a recreation of the original Greek Olympia complex, home to the original Olympic Games. Now just needs to be incorporated into Age of Empires, or Flight Simulator. https://olympiacommongrounds.gr/

She was in some of the Russian domestic meets I saw last year. Not really a contender in any of them.