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1956 Olympic High Jump Silver Medallist and former World Record holder Thelma Hopkins of ^ dies age 88 Thelma Hopkins: Olympic high jump silver medallist and ex-world record holder dies aged 88 - BBC Sport

After so many fails nail the double takeout for Gold!

get 2 back for 10-8 but now have the hammer.

's turn to miss key takeouts & give up 4. 10-6 after 6. Some sensible play now please!

More like it 6-4, time for Beyonce & the half-time show.

Shhees undo all their good work with two clean misses 4-4

Not the start wanted 0-3 after they allow to crowd the 4 Foot.

You could appoint some kind of supreme executive power to ensure that everything ran smoothly, wearing special regalia for easy recognition.

Finally, an easy bronze for Canada in the Mixed Curling, 9-3 win.

OTOH the rule is that each sport controls a set number of Olympic medals, so if you have Open categories in certain event, then all those unused medals can then be used for the kinds of disciplines that appear in the World Cup series but don't now get Olympic medals.

So the curling medal games are tonight UK Time 16:00 Bronze Medal v 19:00 Gold Medal v

And there*s the handshake!

pick up a 3 in the 7th endto lead 6-3

3 1 after 4 in.the Curling. italians certainly doing a lot of talking.

So first medals of the Games go to Borkovsky Kuutinen Hak

Narrow miss for Schigol - missed 15 but only 14 minutes down on time so just a little readjustment needed.

And a guy we have not seen once scores 20/20 & takes the lead. Kuutinen

Fisu.tv. Need to register first but it is fta. Also on Discovery Plus.

Lordy, Champion & Favourite Kourales misses 4 on his first shoot.

Off we go with biathlon. As usual at the Universiade. Start list has a heavy east European bias - no Norway & I don't see many known French, Swedish or German names.

First thing I remember would be Jean-Claude Killy in Grenoble 68. For that summer, it was David Hemery in the 400m Hurdles.

Already looking difficult for them.

Bloody hell, I have been there and it is the scariest thing you will ever see. I got about 300m along and turned back. This was about 30 years ago, and it was in rough condition even then. The young Irish woman who died while rock climbing in Spain has been identified as 21-year-old student Eve McCarthy. Ms McCarthy, a physiology pupil at University College Dublin, died after falling about 500ft from the infamous Caminito del Rey pathway, close to the village of El Chorro in Malaga. Pictured: Irish woman, 21, who fell 500 feet to her death in a popular Malaga climbing spot - while male friend saved himself by clinging onto bush-covered rock | Daily Mail Online

State spending creates prosperity to the same extent injecting drugs improves nursing skills.

Ok, short but fun.