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And a Gold for ! 15 athletes total in the Women's Shot, 13 athletes total in the Women's 400m!

Brookes in the Pentathlon has a big afro hair-do which just cost her distance in the LJ by hitting the sand behind the rest of her! And again! Actually I think.they changed the rule after the Blessing Okugbare wig incident.

Athletes here in Nanjing do not have the mountainous climb out of the track that they did in Apeldoorn!

Wow, Dos Santos DQF from the Triple Jump for wearing.stacked shoes, loses Bronze Medal which goes to Zango https://worldathletics.org/en/competitions/world-athletics-indoor-championships/nanjing25/results/men/triple-jump/final/result

Wow & I thought I was in a crisis when I was three weeks behind on cycling! Never mind, we have six weeks gap coming up.

Catchingup from this morning.....as predicted, Nanjing's schoolkids get the morning off double maths to watch sport.

That's confirmed! We'll have to wait for the exact route, but it could possibly go right past my window!

get Eurovision voting every year so we are used to the idea that we will never win any kind of international awards.

He's the man who gives out the money, so he will always be treated like Louis XIV at Versailles.

The French already have one. It's much smaller.

Impressive debut win for 19 year old Matthew Brennan of Visma in the Grand Prix de Denain, a pretty tough cobbled race along part of the Paris-Roubaix course.

Ah but what will her Official Chron Title be? Kristi Coventry Septuple Olympic Swimming Medallist? Kristi Coventry Gold Medal Swimming Athens 2004 Gold Medal Swimming Beijing 2008? Kristi Coventry Double Olympic Champion 200m Backstroke? I can see there being a lot of arguments between now and Milan.

And your usual "How to watch in my country" page Where to watch | Nanjing 25 | World Athletics Indoor Championship

Just picking up on the fact that we have the Kabaddi World Cup going on in at the moment - first time it has ever been held in Europe (or so close to Europe) If you've never seen it, compare it to indoor rugby, but without a ball. Home - Kabaddi World Cup 2025

Preview for the Worlds & BBC coverage details. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cm2j9g077g8o

The meteorite.

Or who participate in the ranking tournaments organised by WB. Whether those are open to non-members I do not know.

Easy enough to organise when the winners are picked by committee.

Under the Authority of World Boxing, not the old corrupt IBA.

No, Oslo definitely dropped out because of the ludicrous demands for Taylor Swift treatment by the IOC. Oslo bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia

Even Norway & Sweden did not want to bid with all the nonsense, so we ended up with Sochi & Beijing.

team MOGULS Cali Carr* Makayla Gerken-Schofield Mateo Jeannesson FREESKI PARK & PIPE Zoe Atkin (Halfpipe) Tom Greenway* (Slopestyle & Big Air) Chris McCormick (Slopestyle & Big Air) Kirsty Muir (Slopestyle & Big Air) James Pouch* (Slopestyle & Big Air) Liam Richards* (Halfpipe) SNOWBOARD PARK & PIPE Mia Brookes (Slopestyle & Big Air) Maisie Hill* (Slopestyle & Big Air) Txema Mazet-Brown* (Slopestyle & Big Air) Katie Ormerod (Slopestyle & Big Air) Siddhartha Ullah* (Halfpipe) SNOWBOARD CROSS Charlotte Bankes Huw Nightingale SKI CROSS Ollie Davies Scott Johns*

British Team for the Freestyle Ski & Snowboard World Championships next week. Definitely some medals to come. https://gbsnowsport.com/18-athlete-squad-named-for-st-moritz-engadin-freestyle-world-championships/

All those grandiose & expensive Winter Games that made it impossible for smaller countries to bid I'd say.

Steam still ruled the railways, there was one TV channel & Elvis was still working as a delivery boy.