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This looks splendidly crazy. A look at the fascinating 'Temple Of All Religions' in Russia that combines the architectural styles of different faiths https://www.dailymail.co.uk/galleries/article-10183291/A-look-Temple-Religions-Russia-combines-architectural-styles-different-faiths.html

Young female cyclist, based at the UCI in Switzerland, Desiet Kidane Tekeste, yet another victim of a car collision. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10182047/Cycling-star-Desiet-Kidane-Tekeste-21-killed-training.html

Yeah, someone said that to get onto Norwegian TV you need a Norwegian mobile number. So not really easy.

Idre has been available un-geoblocked in the past & biathlon is scheduled this weekend. Sjusjoen has turned up on YT, though not always live. https://www.svtplay.se/kanaler?date=2021-11-13&range=day

Scientists confident that the sixth round of vaccinations will do the trick!

Another two marathon day tomorrow, both live on ES. Barcelona in the morning, and the big one, New York in the afternoon.

Hate it when that happens Man's penis rots after being bitten by a COBRA while sitting on the toilet during a safari tour in South Africa https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10033283/Mans-penis-rots-bitten-cobra-sitting-toilet-safari-tour.html

Sounds like there is division in the heart of the UIPM and the different factions are using leaks to the media to conspire against each other. My solution. Go to the IOC and beg it to make MP an early Olympic-schedule sport rather than being stuck at the end. That way the two long and not-terribly-commercial fencing rounds can take place on day -2 & day -1 when only obsessives like ourselves are watching. The more exciting and understandable medal finals then take place on Day 1 & Day 2 in a time-slot when no other medals are being decided and when general public enthusiasm for obscure Olympic sports is at its peak. Rather than insisting on the very debatable "privilege" of running the events on days 14 & 15 when everyone is tired & jaded, and global media interest has swung to the semi-finals and finals of the big mass-appeal team sports.

Final Triathlon WS meet of the year is tomorrow (points counting to 2022, remember) from Abu Dhabi. Sprint races for both men & women, with pretty much all big names except Kristin Blummenfelt. There’s also the Para-Triathlon World Championships running as well. https://abudhabi.triathlon.org/spectator_schedule/

Just throwing out a wild & crazy idea, but I'm thinking one-on-one tug'o'war.

US track coach Rana Reider investigated for sexual misconduct. He has worked with & national team sprinters in recent years. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/nov/03/leading-athletics-coach-rana-reider-to-be-investigated-over-sexual-misconduct-claims

We used to have them here in Britain, but they withdrew about twenty years ago - there weren’t many, mainly in London. Their gimmick is square burgers. How is that even possible?

Some stories can only happen in 2021. A stripper going by the name Pole Assassin has strongly defended her 'emotional support monkey' after the animal bit a child visiting the haunted house in her garden on Halloween. The performer, real name Danielle Thomas, has been dating a University of Texasfootball coach, Jeff Banks, for the past four and a half years. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10158475/Stripper-Pole-Assassin-hooked-Longhorns-coach-defends-emotional-support-monkey.html

Crazy, all the people I talk to on another board who only ever watch MP at the Olympics love the show-jumping. It’s fencing that is killing the sport as a spectacle. Five or six hours of a round robin whose results can be over-turned in a single lap of the run-shoot. All the rest of the events can take place in a single place in a couple of hours of action.

Adam Peaty has a previous engagement, in case you are wondering. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10099885/Strictly-fans-wild-theyre-convinced-Adam-Peaty-Katya-Jones-nearly-KISS.html

Live TV coverage on Eurovision Sports. https://aquatics.eurovisionsports.tv/home?id=J037sbwGmvZ09MGIIZxXtLeaN

Ineos signings for 2022 - Viviani, Freile & two youngsters. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/59126106

My flat is actually in this picture! It’s the one with the dirty windows. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10152465/CNNs-Wolf-Blitzer-reports-Glasgows-Cop26-Edinburgh.html

Of course not all Delegates to the Climate Change conference are jet-flying hypocrites. At least one did their bit to save the planet by arriving in a propellor plane. And I’ve just seen a few car-loads of delegates relaxing from the hectic, exhausting schedule of the first morning of the Conference by coming to Edinburgh to look at the Castle. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10152027/Hypocrite-airways-Jeff-Bezoss-48m-gulf-stream-leads-parade-400-private-jets.html

Exciting days for us here in as even some of the poorest & least developed countries in the world are able to send their private jets to our airports and fill up our five-star hotels as part of the Global battle against Climate Change. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59114688

Damn, should have taken that 50-1 bet when the bookies offered it.

First-ever victory for in a World Cup race - Blanka Vas wins in Overijse. She obviously likes Belgium, was fourth in the Road Worlds a few weeks back.

Was shut off here in in 2012.

Screen dumps from Teletext? You’ll be carving the results on the walls of Pyramids next.