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Bad news - @brunamoura 3:39 down at end of 1st lap Good news - @brunamoura will be getting a good lump of screen time! Like all the top Norwegian men, @brunamoura goes for the 100% double poling classic technique. And there’s a lot if Swiss fans to see it!

Hofer’s on fire - 30/30 for the week.

Big PB for Charlie Guest - has had a great late season run.

Holdener takes the lead. Nailed on for the win!

Just shows the advantage good skiers get from the fresh piste. Caught at last.

Vlhová’s second run charge is working out for her - is leading with eight to,go, has made up 18 places.

Just lapped a Brazilian, Victor Santos.

He is following the Facebook, Google, Twitter etc business model. Keeps all the profits for himself, avoids paying any taxes & gets North Koreans working at NK Minimum Wage to do all the actual work.

JT Boe already in trouble with two misses. Tarjei OTOH 0 0 in Bib #2 Rastorguevs in trouble with the drug testers with three whereabouts failures over the last year - DNS today. Frankly it’s his optician they need to be questioning. Lucas Hofer finally gets his 0 0 - into third for now.

Quite familiar with this from when I used to live in Asia. The guy who gets his photo in the paper is the local politician, not one of the athletes.

Prresident Biden makes some Defense readjustments. He forgets 1) The name of his Secretary of Defense 2) The name of the building which houses the Defense Department https://youtu.be/lyqhtCMSoGU

Duplantis going for 6.19.

Textbook first 20 metres.

Webb going to need a good lawyer.

Not so fast! Got to go to 2.39 now. Hmm, trying 2.37. Not sure what good that does him.

Simon Ehammer no-heights in the heptathlon PV - heading for a medal, big PB, dunno what the NR is, then blows it!

EAA really ingratiating themselves with the home crowd.

So women’s 800m final is x 3 x 2 Bring. It. On.

Impressive crowds considering football was a very much unknown sport in Japan in those days. Also football at the Olympics was very much an East European monopoly for many years. No professional players were allowed, so officially all the Dynamo Kiev, Dukla Prague & Honved Budapest players were simple steel workers, soldiers & coal miners, who just turned out for their factory team on Sunday afternoon, after spending the rest of the week with their spades & hammers.

Dzhima is not a fast skier though, is a specialist in the Individual.

Great day for her 1 0 & a pursuit start. She has had WC points a few times, but that was the best for a while.

Same thing happened to the German earlier. If you move in your blocks, but don’t leave them - yellow card. If you start early

At the moment it is Denise Lewis because of the multi-events.

Are you kidding? They show hype videos instead of actual races.