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Water is wet, apples fall from the tree to the ground and Mickaela Shiffrin wins ski races.

Awful day for , top place only 20th.

Hey Selina Gasparin, the biathlete is competing today, good for her!

And we had to wait a whole 9 minutes before Theresa trashed everyone.

Did like the expression on Linn Svahn’s face after she fell. Just keep her away from automatic weapons for a few days.

Well done to Haeckel, best result for a Swiss person not called Gasparin for a long time. Brave effort from Wierer to go from 22 to 4th, but Tandrevold will get the yellow bib.

Hard to there is going to be a race tomorrow unless they’ve got truckloads of snow hidden away somewhere.

No snow in Ramsau until about 10 minutes before the race starts.

Amazing crowds today, well done les bouffe-grenouilles!

Bit of history made in the Doubles last night - Caitlin Nash & Natalie Corless were the first ever women to compete in doubles. They did finish, so not quite last techically.

I can actually pinpoint my best moment exactly. 10:00 London Time Friday 3 August 2012. Athletics Stadium. During all the first week of the 2012 the crowds had bern enormous - for the cycling road races on Day 1 & Day 2 the crowds along the way had been so huge that the GPS stats for timing could not work because all the wifi bandwidth was being used by spectators. During the Rowing, spectators crowded the whole 2km length of the bank. On Friday 3rd, I saw something I had never ever seen in all the years I had been watching athletics - since 1970. The 80,000 stadium for the first event of the morning - the women’s 100 heptathlon hurdles - was absolutely jam-packed full. I was so proud to be - not only did we have great athletes, not only did we have magnificent volunteer helpers, but we had a stadium-full of local people willing to pay stupid amounts of money to watch a session of athletics with no medals and just heats & qualifiers.

Woohoo! Zoe is the little sister - 16 years old - of Izzy Atkin, who took bronze in Ski Slopestyle in Pyeongchang 2018. How often do we see in Winter Sports that the younger sibling becomes better than the elder? Anyway, father is British , mother is Malaysian , born and lives in the USA.

Well, this one is not going to be an edge-of-your-seater....

I remember a few years back Canada allowed themselves to fall out of the top 20 through coaches not paying attention. As a result they could only send one athlete per sex to the Vancouver Olympics!

It was strange because he had already beaten him in a couple of races this last month. Just keeping his cards close to his chest, I suppose.

Gontier is why the Italians like the mixed relay so much - it keeps her in the stands.

Dear oh dear, Fourcade not interested.

Straight ski race!

Fourcade takes the first set...

Here we go, JTB against Fourcade...

meltdown, serves them right for being sponsored by alcohol-free beer. They deserve it. N

Finland two penalty loops....

Off we go... Team Slovnakia fully represented.

Very weird that Sweden, a country that has a lot of coldness, has to have an American representing them.

Oi, Kristian Bromley as usual coaching about five different teams, needs to have a big suitcase for all the coats.