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Takes the lead! Jacquelin pays the price. Think JTB might lose a couple of places, he slowed down badly on the last lap on Thursday. Yup, Claude & Laegreid go past on the climb.

Ooh, first miss from JTB - pursuers take advantage. Tarjei Boe right back in it, Jacquelin up to 7th @ 35 secs!

Great old-time photo there.

Wind gauge at last gets some respect. Tarjei Boe 2/5, day over.

Oh! does it by just .008!

We have John Morgan joining Tim on comms today!

He quickly decays when no-one is there to correct him.

Love the bilingual commentary! Very educational.

Biathlon Relays are always strange - even though are red-hot favourites, I still think Norway & Germany will be close. It’s just the way biathlon works, individuals always find that extra 10%. It’s not like athletics or swimming.

See, this is why Protestantism was so popular in the Czech lands before the Defenestration of Prague. We can eat bacon seven days a week now! We don’t have to eat horrible muddy river fish anymore!

How do you tell a good carp from a bad one, as a matter of interest? In Britain we have carp fishing contests live on TV. We catch ‘em, weigh ‘em - then put them back into the lake because we don’t eat ‘em. That would be cheating.

Israel Start-Up Nation appoint first ever female DS at World Tour level, Britain’s Cherie Pridham. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/55189411 She’s been DS at British domestic level for quite a long time, so has done Tour of Britain etc.

First time since 2012, before you ask.

And all it took was several of the biggest countries to stay away! Mind you, we got our man into the men’s race last week on the same principle.

It’s not that vaccines don’t work, or that Americans are stupid. It’s that a vaccine is in itself dangerous to a certain percentage because a vaccine is not a cost-free option. There is always a risk. People die from allergic reactions to vaccines. At one time I used to get cholera vaccinated twice a year, & I was always a little ill afterwards. I knew plenty people who got it worse. If you are in a low-risk group for COVID, it’s perfectly possible in theory that a vaccine is statistically a bigger risk. There just has not been enough scientific work done, and we won’t find out what the true risks are for several years. We are already being told that pregnant women should not take it.

You don’t get Rolls Royces as team cars very often! Another thing is that apart from this Olympics, road racing was actually illegal in the UK at this point, so it looks like the race is being held as a lapped race on private roads around Windsor Castle. And the starting pistol is a proper World War II revolver!

Probably because all Warholm’s feats were on proper TV here whereas most of Cheptegei’s were on obscure streaming. This is a well-known phenomenon in these kinds of sports polls.

Don’t worry, we’ll find a way to mess it up, we always do.

Very high-powered Marathon & half marathon coming up in Valencia on Sunday. Details Here https://www.valenciaciudaddelrunning.com/maraton/maraton/

Stina Nilsson trying to decide between & now.

Not the miracle from Eckhoff 3/5. Think she could have won with 5/5, Oeberg was not great on lap 3.

Game on! Eckhoff clear, but speed is a bit down.

She is also top rapper Cardi B.

Was joking. Strange complaint from a Polish person, though. Oeberg gets the lead, but again was tiring on the third lap Justine can’t make it a double for team Bouchet.

Coward!