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Helps if you are good at shouting.

They’re up! https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blink+festival+2020

Can also be done with the Rowing Eights, but only if you are small.

I believe there is an undercard of Finnish domestic, U-18 events etc & that the International broadcast starts a bit later.

Do they come down a different side of the mountain?

There’s five Nobel Prizes, given out every year, and up to three winners so that’s 5x4x3 chances to win which equals......errrr,, ummm, well, not a very big number anyway. High 50s, low 60s, say. OTOH 306 Summer Golds & 102 Winter, so obviously a lot easier to win the Olympics.

Might vary by country, I guess. Here in the UK they had the live rights.

Entry lists for Monaco DL, yes, that is the Proper Actual Diamond League, not a load of kindergarten sports day made-up events. https://monaco.diamondleague.com/en/programme-resultats-monaco-en/ The bad news is that Eurosport are not covering it so it will be hard to follow in many countries.

World Athletics live feed for Turku tomorrow night. 17:00 18:00 etc etc.

And to Siberia.

Well, if the Ain is a prediction for the TdF, it’s going to be a dull race. Ineos go the the front, drive up the climb. Jumbo-Visma go to the front, drive up the climb. 500m from the top, Ineos & J-V fight it out for the win & bonus secs. Anyway, today Roglić - no hang on, that’s not right - Roglič takes the stage & the Tour.

And nobody lost any money gambling on the results!

And close it out after looking hopeless four hours ago!

Lordy, England closing in on a very unlikely win against . Could still go either way, though. N

We in Great Britain are now obliged to wear a mask if we visit aquariums. Not quite sure if this includes Chinese restaurants, or what happens if you have an aquarium at home.

Roglić gets the win & the yellow jersey, followed home by Bernal & Conti. Sets up a big finale on the HC climb tomorrow.

Setting up a good battle between Ineos & Jumbo-Visma in L’Ain just now.

As the Marballympics reaches its climax, the Marbulla-E season resumes with a visit to Berlin.... No spoilers, but an exciting race & a lot more changes of lead than you will ever see in the four-wheel version of the sport.

Yeah, it was a tragedy that she broke her legs & could not compete in ski cross in Korea. Had a good chance if a dual medal as well.

Wow, absolutely incredible sporting story I have just heard! Eddy Alvarez, who took Silver for in the 5000m ST in Sochi made his Major League Baseball debut for the Miami Marlins on Wednesday! Played 2 games against Baltimore. He’s the first, needless to say, Winter Olympian ever to play in MLB. https://www.si.com/mlb/2020/08/06/marlins-eddy-alvarez-olympic-speedskater He is from a Miami Cuban family - and was in fact the first Cuban-American ever to make the Winter Olympics. Since Sochi had been playing pro Baseball in the minor leagues eventually rising to the AAA level - ie one level below MLB. Marlins have been hard-hit by COVID, so that’s probably why, but an incredible achievement. There’s been lots of dual skaters-cyclists but.....

Don’t want to get into a political argument, but there are lots of people saying that the incessant politics is a huge turn-off for many traditional fans. Anyway, noticed today that as well as the cardboard fans everyone else has they now have computer-generated fans in the stands celebrating home runs etc. Hoping they’ll have virtual fans throwing imaginary beer mugs on the field when the away pitcher head-hunts the home slugger.

Has been a terrible season. Whole team, all backroom staff & ownership deserve to end up in charity shops.

Cool win from Richard Carapaz . Jumped with about 400k before the sprinters started, just held on for the win.

Agree with that. Day -2 & -1 you get some action, then day 0 comes & there’s nothing going on! Plus they are always a phenomenal waste of money that just deters cities from bidding. London 1948!

Now off to Pologne. Medium climbing day.