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  1. Grassmarket
    For sure both: as it is the small nations - ie outside the top 20 - never get to practice mass start races.
  2. Grassmarket
    I did notice a few blood-stained knees & elbows yesterday.
  3. Grassmarket
    Think it would be a good idea to have the SuperSprint in the World Champs as a pre-qualifier race for the small nations or IBU Cup Athletes. Similar to the short races they do in the Cross-Country Ski Worlds.
  4. Grassmarket
    We do have a few teenage ski jumpers now, some doing well at age group level.
  5. Grassmarket
    I’m think the NCAA finals in March, msybe?
  6. Grassmarket
    Ice hockey got a lot of work to do to make themselves more popular in Africa. And very odd that basketball is not popular in Africa, yet there are lots of African pros.
  7. Grassmarket
    Watching the Morton Games from Dublin. They’d put on a mixed 4x400 to try to get some Doha times registered. Dutch 400m runner (think it was LeeMarvin Bonificia) led off and forgot to carry the baton! Don’t know how he did it, presumably he’d been given one and had put it down when taking off his kit. Obviously drug problems in Dutch Athletics go deeper than we thought.
  8. Grassmarket
    And to think his ancestors got all the way to Easter Island!
  9. Grassmarket
    Actually I think that’s a bad thing, it shows that it’s long past time to go to a full Decathlon for the women. The event is not supposed to be won by a great performance in one single discipline. Decathlon Men are never international class in a single discipline, they are true all rounders.
  10. Grassmarket
    Got time off from his day job as bass player for Grand Funk Railroad.
  11. Grassmarket
    Does happen in cycling about once a season. The other classic error - which can only happen in small races where there is no radio - is some guy goes off on a long solo breakaway, wins the stage. Then the sprinters in the peleton do not know he has gone, race it out for second place, think they’ve won, celebrate....
  12. Grassmarket
    Actually I remember it being a very important week for Kaisa because she got her first wins there after doing both biathlon & cc for a while. Then I think at the first WC that year she got a snow win as well, so it was a big confidence booster.
  13. Grassmarket
    Oh, yeah, also out-of-favour Russians trying to get back into the national squad.
  14. Grassmarket
    Usually the 4 main races at the weekend get streamed live. Some nations take it more seriously than others. Norwegians, French & Germans don’t often bother. Poles & Ukrainians mostly do. Home nation generally send their best.
  15. Grassmarket
    It is only the last competition of the year that matters!
  16. Grassmarket
    Olympic Quals for the top 8 - but I think Asadaskaite was already qualified earlier, so top 9.
  17. Grassmarket
    I think I have watched all the Modern Pentathlon events this year and never once have all the computer graphics worked properly! They should have had a timer on the line.
  18. Grassmarket
    Incredible fourth shoot from Asadaskaite, is clinging on for the win.
  19. Grassmarket
    Kate French into the lead after two shots.
  20. Grassmarket
    Oh dear, Elodie Clouvel just does not agree with English horses. After her nightmare at London 2012, another three refusals in Bath today.
  21. Grassmarket
    Yeah, I reckon they must have had some approximate idea of the time just from the TV replay, so would have known that the Hungarians were not near Ireland's 3:08.
  22. Grassmarket
    Wow, there were no timings for the second 4x400 so Ireland have been awarded the win!!!!! All the teams in the A Race given No Mark. https://www.european-athletics.org/competitions/european-athletics-team-championships-first-league/2019/athletics/event/mens-4x400-relay/phase=flm404100/index.html?intcmp=[#]-schline-calltoaction
  23. Grassmarket
    Typical Norwegian inefficiency!
  24. Grassmarket
    The Timing system has broken down, there are no times for the second 4x400. Nothing on the website
  25. Grassmarket
    All 40 events, to be fair.
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