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Youtube link for Oslo. Some territories may be geo-blocked.

Don’t want to be pedantic but.....

Summary of various worldwide tennis events coming up in the next few weeks. Novak Djoković’s Adria Tour gets lots of Eurosport coverage this weekend. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/52784833

Convenient. Just in time for the 2040 Olympics. And the horse? We have heard those excuses before from horses. I never trust ‘em.

Actually the Impossible Games are on BBC Red Button 19:00 on Thursday. Probably somewhere else as well.

Kontiolahti is guaranteed snow though. Or at least extreme cold.

Some action over the weekend! https://www.worldathletics.org/news/report/krista-tervo-hammer-spanovic-halasz https://www.worldathletics.org/news/report/korte-1284-lahti And more good news - seemingly the BBC are streaming at least some of the Oslo Impossible Games from Bislett on Friday, which probably means there will be other streams as well.

Actually it is not....she had already missed three tests before the last World Championships, so should not have been running there at all, if the rules had been properly applied.

The problem all sports have is that it is impossible to get rid of the guy that controls the money. National Federations know they’ll get cut off if they vote him down at meetings,

Seemingly she missed four tests, and it was well before the pandemic. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/52956011

Sort of. “It was all a mistake, but the Norwegians were worse!” Usual stuff.

See, you shouldn’t be soft about that kind of thing. Dig your heels in! Learn from the North Koreans! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-18991619

Well, that’s me sorted for the next couple of hours. The 2019 European Tram Driver Championships from Brussels. Geez, not wanting to give away any spoilers, but if I ever go to Stockholm, I’m sticking to the bus. They must have a lot of amputees.

Women get their own pseudo e-race, to replace the Women’s Tour of Britain. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/52922599

The three key findings from an independent report into the IWF https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/weightlifting/52922604 1) IWF is monumentally corrupt. 2) Positive doping results covered up. 3) The sky is still blue.

Plans to restart the NBA season at the end of July. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/basketball/52924523 Will depend on the basketball players’ Union being less stupid than the baseball one.

Exactly. The other events are just the Marbling equivalent of indoor five-a-side football or pre-season friendlies. Only the Marble League is the prestige event.

Would you believe that Jelle’s Marble Runs are now being shown on ESPN Sports here in the UK? Talk about barrels being scraped!

International Cricket to restart on July 8th, with England playing the West Indies. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cricket/article-8380393/Cricket-England-play-West-Indies-three-Test-series-July.html

ITV4 in the UK.

2015 Women’s Volleyball World Cup Final, China v Japan in a packed stadium in Tokyo. Should be good!

Some of the regular athletics meets are restarting this coming week, probably with mainly domestic fields. Details at the link. https://forum.athleticsweekly.com/forum/current-events/132-live-streaming-links/page11#post22611

Damn! There was live archery today! Proper Archery, no gimmicks, no garages, everyone in the same place at the same time. English commentary & everything. Watching it now, seems to be all Turkish archers, but both compound & recurve finals shown. Also weird traditional Turkish archery. These guys aren’t going to be overwhelming many Byzantine cataphracts by the looks of it. Oh dear, not wanting to give anything away, but it’s just as well there were no spectators for the women’s traditional bronze medal match. Never mind face masks, they’d have needed full chainmail.

Hmm, got me to wondering.... ....and in fact I find out that the Visma Ski Classics app is on a free trial till June 30th, which means that we can catch up with last season’s races, none of which I have seen! OK, I grant you sometimes the racing is more like some avant garde art movie with a small group of figures slowly making their way over an all-white landscape for five hours, but at least it is something to watch! https://play.vismaskiclassics.com/visma-ski-classics/signup?returnUrl=%2Fvisma-ski-classics%2Fhome

OTOH, no problems keeping a 2m distance from the other competitors.