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I was thinking maybe it is to do with the unbelievable snow winter we are getting. There’s a huge speed difference between the fast, prepared icy pistes and the slow, snowy edges. Injuries come not from speed, but from sudden deceleration.

Yeah, the Netherlands are like the Classical Athens of trash television.

If there is one single solitary blessing that COVID-19 has brought us, it is that we will be able to enjoy Kitzbuhel 2021 tomorrow morning without endless reaction shots to Bernie fecking Ecclestone, Arnold bloody Schwartzenegger & a heavenly host of minor ruddy Austrian celebrities nobody outside of Mozartland has ever even heard of.

Money is crystallised sweat. Remove the link between money & work and whatever you once called money becomes mere paper, and something else becomes money. Denying this is like denying ice is cold. A whole century of history bears this out. Anyone who says the contrary is either a fool or is bent on destruction.

Sad news. One of the all-time greats, any sport, Hank Aaron has passed away. https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/braves-legend-hank-aaron-dies-age-86-according-former-city-official/JXDCLYDFFVHNPC2KRNX2KBKIEM/ For most people, the true non-doped Home Run King.

Everybody likes it until they work out they are the ones who are going to have to pay for it.

It would be a disaster for the sport if we did get rid of it. Every race would be won by the equivalent of Lars Berger or Miriam Gossner who ski fast & shoot at 80%.

Ozaki 20/20 goes into 24th, first ever WC points!

Another screenshot moment - Scott Gow leads! Unfortunately has a classic sixth shot crisis. Leif Nordgren misses the chance to go 0 0 0 - still good though. Simon Eder first to go 0 0 0.... Loginov also 15/15 Jesper Nellin 4 misses on shoot 4! Eder 18/18 & then....19/20 blows a certain podium. Loginov first to 20/20! Might still be vulnerable to 19/20 from a fast skier. QFM bears Hofer to third by 0.1 of a second. David Komatz also 20/20 but well down on time.

Any particular small country in mind?

Not so much the last shot as such, but the last shot when you are in a medal winning position. So it’s one of those cases in sports where the normal statistical analysis doesn’t give you the answer. Like baseball players with low batting averages who get ninth inning hits or HRs.

Team news for next month’s season-opening* UAE Tour https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/5575672 *Or first big event at least.

Don’t mean to be rude, but you are being naïve. All these anti-whiteness, diversity training sessions are directly inspired by Maoism. Ditto the destruction of historic monuments, the revision of University syllabuses, mass struggle against Professors - all classic Maoism, created and designed by lifelong Maoists like Bill Ayres & the Weather Underground.

Great 4x400m race from the US college circuit last weekend https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9172327/Incredible-moment-University-Michigan-freshman-track-star-makes-stunning-comeback-4x400-relay.html Not as good as the GOAT From the Depths of Hell Race though.

Yeah, but Americans don’t know that. It just sounds better to say “We want Swedish-style socialism” than it does to say the truth which is “We want Chinese-style Socialism.”

This is funny & revealing. Whoever is controlling the Bidenbot speaks into his earpiece to tell him to “Salute the Marines” as they present arms to him. Instead of saluting, he just says “Salute the Marines.” https://nationalfile.com/video-bidens-earpiece-says-salute-the-marines-so-he-says-salute-the-marines-out-loud-doesnt-salute-them/ Kamala Harris must be tearing the pages off her desk calendar.

And are indeed not there. Or at least have not entered any events.

Ask your grandparents. “Biden”* is attempting to turn the USA into the kind of country Poland was 1945-1989. *in inverted commas because it’s not his decision. He just sign whatever his handlers put in front of him.

Oh dear B-Bouchet 0 0 0 4 Hauser looks like the win if she doesn’t take a detour!

We missed Dzhima only person so far to 20/20, but not fast.

C-Bouchet only 19/20, but still way fastest. Hauser 19/20 but will lead.

Hettich 19/19, misses The Hardest Shot In Biathlon. Zdouc ditto!

Roeiseland has a terrible second shoot - misses two & slow. Eckhoff also misses two, but faster shooting. Joanne Reid gets some airtime! Tandrevold 0 0 0, heading for the hardest shot in biathlon.... Roeiseland finishes with 0 2 1 1, probably has the best ski speed. Tandrevold does a Frode Andresen (2002 Salt Lake Olympics) 17/17, misses three.

It’s possible are there - the problems they had were with paperwork only - not failed tests. They might have been able to fix them. Didn’t want to end up like tennis players!

I see we are listed as starting. There was a report a couple of weeks back that we would not be able to start because COVID, so I don’t know if this is still the case.