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Here's a bit more about what's behind it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/ce8d033z430o

I doubt that. It will mean only a doping rubber stamp and a promise not to swear at the ice skating moppets in public,

So, kind of forgotten about at the end of the summer season, we have two events to go in the World Triathlon Championship Series, the last WTCS regular season races of the year in Weihai , then the Final in in mid-October. All to play for because there are double points up for grabs in the last race, so effectively nothing really decided yet. Races are tomorrow morning time, so pretty much overnight in Europe. Races are full Olympic length and apparently a hilly cycling course. Here's the situation and preview for the Men. World Triathlon Championship Series Weihai ready for another epic Wilde vs Yee battle | World Triathlon Championship Series And for the women Women's World Triathlon Championship Series rankings to heat up in Weihai | World Triathlon Championship Series

Info is at that link now. It's really more of a promo than a meet. But it's on YT anyway. ATHLOS - YouTube

TV insists, I am sure. Also puts the team weather forecaster out of a job.

Just an early heads-up - the two races in the Triathlon World Series from this weekend are both on Friday morning Europe time, so plan accordingly! More details later.

Also early season Short Track Speed Skating! US Speedskating - YouTube

Nationals and qualifying races for the World Cup Series* live on YT this weekend! US Speedskating - YouTube *Eh, what's that you say? Speak up, man and stop muttering! Short Track World Tour you say......

BBC will have lots of coverage of the World Road Championships, both Para & Standard. And even on pukka BBC2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/c8xejdly5z4o

For non baseball fans this is like being a dual discus\200m medallist.

Quite a few things going. Summer ski jumping, summer biathlon, snow Freestyle WC from New Zealand have already been going for a while. We also have a lot of curling and the Figure Skating Junior Grand Prix Series is in week 3 or 4 or something.

Road Running and Marathons for the next few weeks, but we also have the Third Edition of the European U-20 Club DNA shootout from Portugal this weekend. The Format is 12 teams from different European Countries, two quick (circa 150 mins for a range of events) Cup Matches of 6 teams each on Saturday, then a B Final and A Final on Sunday. All live on YT. DNA U20 Clubs Pombal 2024

Kind of a slow weekend, I think, but we are into the play-off season in both Antipodean and Normal Places Rugby League.

Seemingly it is home solar energy panels now.

Hezbollah's failure to keep up payments on their maintenance contracts continues to create problems, and not just annoying phone calls from the Call Centre. Hezbollah's handheld radios explode in second wave of remote-detonated attacks on terror group (nypost.com)

Had a very strange career. Was really considered a decent but second rank player prior to 1990. Became a global superstar in 1990. After 1990........went back to being a decent but second rank player again.

Plenty of 2G phones on the market still, will cost you about $20. Or a bit more with the special falafel sauce.

The story calls it a 60 year old technology - the first real fax machine predates cinema! But yeah, as I thought, German laws on signature authentication are more rigorous than ours. I bought my flat with a phone call, signed a few days later.

No need to ask which brand of pagers, though.

Really? How odd. I remember they were a great wonder at my work when we started using them in the late 80s, but even by about the mid 90s they were sitting in dusty, forgotten corners. I guess there must be some legal requirement. Or maybe Germans are just nostalgic for the whole Berlin Wall / Scorpions / Rudi Voller's haircut era.

OK, so now Hezbollah have to go back to communicating by....[checks Wikipedia]....fax machine. Thousands hurt by exploding pagers across Lebanon, health minister says - BBC News

Will be strange having someone who's never been a Gold Medallist in anything doing the job, but will save a lot of pixels in the captions.

Haven't been joining in these discussions because I wasn't optimistic about this because I know that both the & the Governments are broke right now, Good news is that it looks like these Australian guarantees are going to mean it goes ahead in some form. Glasgow set to host 2026 Commonwealth Games - BBC News

Jakob Ingebritsen's Half Marathon debut in Copenhagen was not really an roaring success. I'm sure he'll put a bit more planning into it next time. He set a 10k road record on the way, but seems to have turned down the thermometer after that. Sawe and Kipkemboi claim Copenhagen Half Marathon crowns | REPORTS | World Athletics

I am sure I have read somewhere that drowning is a common form of death in the Sahara. When rain does fall, there is lots of bare rock, so it produces very rapid flash floods that can sweep away unwary travellers.