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Back to normal athletics with a Continental Tour Gold meet from Gabarone  on Saturday!  Always good to see big meets in Africa.
 
https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-continental-tour/news/tebogo-botswana-grand-prix-2025

Just the same - it is in Canada.  
 
We need to wait 12 hours.

Day 1 of the English County Cricket season!  Lots of games live on YT if your sleeping patterns are disordered!

FTA live coverage of the Semis and Finals over the weekend on the Olympic Channel
 
Sport Events - Sports Calendar, Schedule & Replays

Federica Brignone just suffered a severe injury at the Italian Championships (GS)   
 
it looks that she might have torn the ACL and broken her leg
 
she's been taken to the hospital by helicopter and everybody's waiting for an update on her situation
 
 

FTA live coverage of the Semis and Finals over the weekend on the Olympic Channel
 
Sport Events - Sports Calendar, Schedule & Replays

TV coverage is on Eurovision Sports, at least here in Europe
 
Eurovision Sport | World Aquatics Diving World Cup 2025 - Stop 1

FTA live coverage of the Semis and Finals over the weekend on the Olympic Channel
 
Sport Events - Sports Calendar, Schedule & Replays

Curling is the only sport played without referees - players are expected to be honest.

So I was watching a replay of China-Germany in between Canada’s game against Sweden and this one against Italy and… it seems like China cheated during it which could’ve been critical in them winning the match? 
 
During the 1st end, Xu with his last rock had an easy hit for the single against three German stones. One of the sweepers for China (I can’t tell which one, this team is quite new to me) “accidentally” kicked their own stone, which redirected one of their own stones into the rings, and Germany only got the steal of 2.

HIS FUCKING FOOT IS TOUCHING THE ROCK
 
Now after, Team Xu was claiming that the stone was picked (it was not) and Muskatewitz was arguing that it couldn’t possibly have been picked. China wouldn’t admit it, and they ended up winning the game 10-9. BOO. 
 
Hope these cheaters don’t qualify for the Olympics. 

Seemingly there will be highlights on YT, probably with the advert frequency set to Maximally Annoying.

Let the lawsuits begin!  
 
Trump declares war on women's sports is OVER as he unveils plan to ban trans athletes from Olympics | Daily Mail Online

Karalis definitely going to be Mondo's biggest rival now.

Only the world championship results. World Cup should be safe because the positive happened at the start of this month.

Certainly when the Left are involved only a fool expects anything in the way of peaceful, orderly and dignified protests.  

Well, this is going to complicate things for us  as some results might need to be scrubbed.
 
"Great Britain bobsleigh athlete Arran Gulliver has been provisionally suspended for failing a doping test."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/clyj04qj4peo#:~:text=Great Britain bobsleigh athlete Arran Gulliver has been provisionally suspended for failing a doping test.
 
 
 
 

Good.
 
World Athletics has approved the introduction of a test to determine if an athlete is biologically female.
Those wishing to compete in women's competition will need to complete the "pre-clearance requirement" once in their career.
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/articles/cwygdvpl88ko

Really a storming run from Lara Gut, Brignone could do nothing about it.

So, JTB and Tarjei had 19 podium finishes in 2024/25, seeing as they're retired and won't be competing next season, thought it would be fun to do a completely unnecessary and inaccurate simulation of what breakthroughs next season might have:
 
The most decorated biathletes of this season without Boes would be as follows:
 
Laegreid: 6-6-3
Perrot: 4-2-2
Jacquelin: 3-1-1
Samuelsson: 2-2-2
Stroemsheim: 2-0-2
Wright: 2-0-1
Fillon-Mallet: 1-5-2
Giacomel: 1-5-1
Uldal: 1-0-3
Soerum: 1-0-2
 
Some interesting things happen, for example, Wright becomes sprint and pursuit world champion, Mandzyn gets a very rare podium for Ukraine at the start of the season. Horn and Frey get their first ever podium in world cup and Riethmueller gets a world cup victory.
 
For the nation medal table, Norway still convincingly takes first place:
 
Norway: 10-7-11
France: 8-11-5
 
And then everybody else fighting for scraps:
 
Sweden: 2-2-3
United States: 2-0-1
Italy: 1-5-1
Germany: 1-0-2
Slovenia: 1-0-0
 
Even without the Boes, only 9 countries on the podium, but Pidruchnyi for Ukraine comes in 4th for three times, other than that, only Finland and Switzerland were close to getting onto the podium. With how things are going, seems like it's going to be Norway's year next year too with all the hungry youngsters with two extra spots on the Norwegian team. 

Six hurdlers within .04 of a second!  

Just caught up, but today's Womens' Pursuit was absolutely the reason I fell in love  with biathlon back 25 years ago.  What a race!  

Just caught up, but today's Womens' Pursuit was absolutely the reason I fell in love  with biathlon back 25 years ago.  What a race!  

They've sent a bloke out to check now.  

Just caught up, but today's Womens' Pursuit was absolutely the reason I fell in love  with biathlon back 25 years ago.  What a race!  

Just caught up, but today's Womens' Pursuit was absolutely the reason I fell in love  with biathlon back 25 years ago.  What a race!