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YouTube Channel is here. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVZpqbnDjHyScSYGFPMUtYA Geo-blocked in some countries. But whyohwhyohwhy no commentary? Both Bobsleigh and Luge - which have a much lower audience overall - pay for a professional commentator on their streams, and they also pick up various athletes on location to do expert analysis. It makes such a huge difference to the watchability of the streams, to spectator understanding of the sport and also promotes the athlete-commentators as personalities. Sheer foolishness.

Technically Kurdish is part of the Indo-Iranic family, so is related to Farsi, Hindi, Punjabi etc. Which are also part of the large Indo-European family. But even then I don’t think there is a single standard Kurdish, just lots of dialects.

Just go back to Church Slavonic and admit that the last 1000 years has all been a terrible mistake.

Yeah, there’s a lot to learn though, it takes a while to master these events when you don’t have institutional memory.

Comes out for the third and rides like a man whose coach has been shouting at him for the last hour.

Italian had beaten her, but went off the edge of the track.

Kirsten Wild will need to get the floor of her house reinforced, she has so many European medals.

We always change the team about a lot during Years 1-3, then consolidate in Year 4 of the Olympic cycle. So that’s why we get better.

Watched a film of the 1953 TdF. About half the stages finished at outdoor tracks which doubled as football or rugby stadiums. Not many left now, I bet.

The Hawaii Ironman starts in about three hours. Here's a link for live streaming https://www.tri247.com/kona/kona-2019/how-to-watch-ironman-world-championship-2019

New WR for Wei Meng with 59/60 in the Final.

Or Trinidad?

Not surprised, throwing himself on the ground after every throw!

Uganda used to have a lot of very good athletes in the 60s & 70s, then they had a long period of dictatorship, civil war and went for a long time without anyone. The last 10 years things are getting a lot better.

Would have made top-8 here.

Her daughter was LJ Champion in one of the European U-20 or U-23 competitions a few months ago.

Not necessarily, in the straight you only get DQF if you interfere with another athlete.

Belgian girl did cross the line, there.

Standards in the women's 100 hurdles are really tough. Visser ran 12.61 NR and is just hoping for a lucky loser.

dropped the baton on the first exchange!

It was, top 8 qualify for the Olympics even if they walk, but don't qualify if they are DNF of DQF.

Hang on, aren't you the guy who is always accusing everyone of doping? And yet you are disappointed when a Salazar-trained German only gets bronze?

Botswana DQF in the 4x400 Who qualifies instead? Well, mysteriously it is us!

Yeah, he has won a lot of medals for us in the past, but really he should have retired in 2017.

Took them a while to master it, I remember a few years ago the rotational guys could hardly land a throw without fouling.