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  1. Grassmarket
    Yeah, but they are Bahrain of International Biathlon, about as authentically Belgian as a Lidl wafel.
  2. Grassmarket
    Seems the only international TV coverage will be FINA’s own pay site http://www.fina.org/event/fina-diving-grand-prix-2020 This is the second-tier Diving competition - established stars compete in the World Series, starting in two weeks.
  3. Grassmarket
    Not only was Flo-Jo doped to her fingertips, but the wind-gauge was nobbled as wel. The thing that annoys me the most was that in the early 1990s the IAAF got absolute, definitive, tested in a court of law proof that all the DDR records were fake, but they were too incompetent to remove them. OK, it would have not fixed every single problem, but it would at least have cleared a lot of ground for honest athletes.
  4. Grassmarket
    Horse doping in Olympic Events is by no means a new thing. https://www.horsejournals.com/equine-doping
  5. Grassmarket
    I doubt it: the Olympic PV will probably take about four hours and he might have to jump 7-8 times before he can go for a WR. Both DuPlantis & Lavillenie set their records off pretty artificially short competitions. Dunno how many jumps he did in total - 2 or 3?
  6. Grassmarket
    Outdoor record only 6:14 to Sergey Bubka, 31/07/1994. Think this is the only major WR where the indoor mark is better than the outdoor. I suppose because 1) no wind & 2) much shorter competitions - fresher athletes.
  7. Grassmarket
    A big Mile race in New York last night, NRs & PBs all the way down. https://www.worldathletics.org/news/report/millrose-games-2020-elle-purrier
  8. Grassmarket
    Shortage of snow, so they had to change it.
  9. Grassmarket
    4 0 after 35 mins, i am officially on this one. tomorrow.
  10. Grassmarket
    OK that is the champ, obviously you have the likes of Andreas Wank which doesn’t work in a foreign language, but in your own native language...
  11. Grassmarket
    Bah! That is nothing! In the 1980 Moscow Olympics India fielded an all-Singh* 11 man field hockey team! *Singh is not really a name though, but an honorary title give to Sikhs.
  12. Grassmarket
    Sorry guys, just leads to a message with a lot of ę’s & ł’s which means that you can’t watch out of Poland,
  13. Grassmarket
    Yes, I know, but according to Herman Melville (Moby Dick) a Speksnijder was indeed a blubber cutter. However, in today’s IBU race there was actually an Italian girl called Lardschneider, which is the same thing.
  14. Grassmarket
    And it’s not just Slavic languages where people have weird names. I remember a 70s Dutch footballer called Zuurbier (sour beer) and there are a few Speksnijders - ie blubber cutter on a whaling ship!
  15. Grassmarket
    Have seen that done before! An Israeli (well, probably Russian) guy - can’t remember his name - did the same thing a couple of years ago. Lapped the field in the first 2-3 laps, but crucially settled into the back of the peleton and then hung on easily in the final of a World Cup 1500m race.
  16. Grassmarket
    Khrushchev (Khrush) was also a Ukrainian beetle. There was a Russian lady 400m runner called Krivoshapka - Crooked Hat. Also a few Chernousov/Chernousovas = Black mouth. (It’s because of serfdom - owners would give their serfs insulting names)
  17. Grassmarket
    There’s a new Russian guy in the WC whose name literally means Shooter - Streltsov.
  18. Grassmarket
    Ester!
  19. Grassmarket
    Geez, sad news....Mickaela Shiffrin’s father was killed in a domestic accident this week. Just awful for her, TV cameras always focussed on her mother but seemingly her father also travelled with her to her races, and knew lots of people on the Tour.
  20. Grassmarket
    World Indoor Tour moves on to Toruń, Poland tonight. https://www.worldathletics.org/news/preview/torun-copernicus-cup-preview-2020 There might be live coverage here. All in , but everyone knows that it’s a very easy language to learn. https://sport.tvp.pl/46534985/orlen-copernicus-cup-w-toruniu-transmisja-w-tvp-sport-transmisja-na-zywo-stream-gdzie-ogladac-kiedy-zawody
  21. Grassmarket
    4 3 Final!
  22. Grassmarket
    For those of us in the UK, all the Team GB matches are on the Freesports Channel as usual, which is also streamed on the STV streaming app if you can’t get the Digital Channel.
  23. Grassmarket
    One of sport’s great mysteries is why the world’s skating & field hockey super-power is so verschrikelijk when the two are combined. The only thing they are worse at is penalty shootouts.
  24. Grassmarket
    Filip Ingebritsen gets a 3:36.32 WL in the 1500m, will hold it until his brother Jakob runs his first race of the season.
  25. Grassmarket
    Well, that and the Russians being caught doping a lot more than anyone else.
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