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Pre-season starting with National races. https://www.ibsf.org/en/news/detail/olympic-and-world-champion-grotheer-wins-german-skeleton-championship-for-the-first-time

There's discussions on the Short Track Forum about broadcast rights. Came across this page a few days ago when I was looking into biathlon news. Seemingly there's going to be a mess with Alpine rights in with races going onto the expensive pay TV service Viaplay. Was looking on another forum and a Norwegian guy was saying he couldn't see anything for this weekend..... Program vintersport 2024/2025: Full oversikt over skiskyting, langrenn, kombinert, hopp og alpint – NRK Sport – Sportsnyheter, resultater og sendeplan

Everything worked perfectly for about 20 years and now it's all a mess. Same thing happened with biathlon a couple of seasons back.

Just got to pass the language test now, so she'll be eligible by about 2050.

British Shot Putter Geoff Capes. Was most active in the 70s and 80s, when shot putting was in a very drug-enhanced era, so never won the big prizes, but was pretty much a national hero in Britain from his appearances in reality tv shows as well as his athletics career. Geoff Capes: World’s strongest man and British shot put record holder Capes dies aged 75 - BBC Sport

Tour moves on to Incheon, for the weekend. First heats in the early hours of tomorrow morning, at 01:30 and 11:30 in British Planetary Time. Eurovision Sport | Aquatics

And more on that 9 Major sports left out as 2026 Commonwealth Games scaled down in Glasgow

It was something of the kind. Rather like Kristian Bromley who went from studying ice sliding theoretically as a PhD student to being skeleton World Champion.

Got our first Gold Medal of the season - Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson winning the Free Dance at Skate America last weekend. Fear/Gibson (GBR) clinch Ice Dance gold at Skate America - International Skating Union (isu.org)

Awards time! Here's the World Athletics nominations for Track Runner of the year. Nominees announced for Track Athlete of the Year 2024 | World Athletics And for Field Event athlete of the year, although both of these choices are pretty bloody obvious. High demand for yellow and blue flowers, put it that way. Nominees announced for Field Athlete of the Year 2024 | World Athletics

Yep, confirmed. We have Marcelletje for , Lindsay Vonn and Lucas Pinheiro Braathen for . However, Vonn and Hirscher will be wild cards, so starting down with the Chileans and the Iranians in the first leg. Snow conditions are good though. Vonn, Hirscher & Braathen Returning To Racing At World Cup Opening - InTheSnow

Happened to the rock guitarist Wilko Johnson. He was also given a short time to live but survived for nine years.

400m runner Pavel Maslak. Nobody really wants to be remembered as an indoor World Champion & nothing else, but it's more than 99% of runners achieve. https://worldathletics.org/news/news/pavel-maslak-retirement

Only four weeks to the season opening weekend in Norway - 16/17 November

Pretty impressive retirement credentials for track cyclist Dan Bigham - he goes off to become head of engineering at Red Bull-Bora! So not just your usual punch-drunk ex-sportsman.

Long way to go before you catch up with track athletes turned drug mules.

Just had a quick look, everything in order. And a reminder to everyone: Eurovision Sport does NOT work if you have any kind of adblocking enabled, so you might have to switch to a new browser.

It's on YouTube!

Will speed things up. There's no point in debating whether this fall was better than that fall.

Well done for a proper derny bike for the keirin!

Not quite sure why more countries don't have open air tracks. All you need is a 30cm deep pond & a week.of frosty nights. OK, not world class but good enough for a training group. Would work even in

All on YouTube, but probably geo-blocked in some countries Skating ISU - YouTube

Kicks off tomorrow with Skate America, all takes place between now & Xmas. https://www.isu.org/figure-skating/news/news-fsk/15070-isu-world-champions-malinin-chock-bates-usa-to-kick-off-isu-grand-prix-at-skate-america?templateParam=15

Well, these people always say they want to be martyrs. Glad at least somebody got the job they wanted to do when they left school.

Swimming World Cup from Shanghai live on Eurovision Sports this weekend. Morning Sessions live at 02:30, Evening Sessions live from 11:30 in Proper Time. Eurovision Sport | World Aquatics Swimming World Cup 2024 - Stop 1