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Wonder if the Austrians and Hungarians would be interested.    Or if the Habsburg family could come in as a title sponsor.

Thanks for the invite, but I never do prediction contests.  
 
If I lose, it makes me look stupid.  
 
If I win it makes me feel stupid for not betting & winning lots of money.  

Thanks for the invite, but I never do prediction contests.  
 
If I lose, it makes me look stupid.  
 
If I win it makes me feel stupid for not betting & winning lots of money.  

Private jet.

Now, if this was motorcycle speedway she’d be allowed to go and dig up that rut.  

Aagh, Jelinkova lost it on last two!

First ever WC points for  Charlie Guest, well done to her.  
 
Unlike Vlhova, who is sponsored with a private jet, she is sponsored by a Scottish railway company.  Of very limited use for an Alpine skier.  

It’s a strange sport - you can be all-conquering one year, then utterly nowhere the next.
 
Boyd-Clowes takes the lead, quick, grab a screenshot!

Spent years working in a University whose American students could never understand why their documents would not print on our laser printers.

First ever WC points for  Charlie Guest, well done to her.  
 
Unlike Vlhova, who is sponsored with a private jet, she is sponsored by a Scottish railway company.  Of very limited use for an Alpine skier.  

What happened to the Anna Fernstädtová who competed for  last year?   Didn’t make the team this time?  

Good luck to them: my 88 year old mother survived after five weeks in hospital & is now very much back to normal.

Track sprinters are an expensive luxury, they don’t usually double up on the road.  Distance riders always do road as well, but track races are very tactical & difficult to learn.

The ruler of Turkmenistan has unveiled a 50ft golden statue of his favourite dog breed in the country's capital.
 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8941969/Turkmenistans-ruler-unveils-50ft-golden-statue-favourite-dog.html#comments
 
 
Still got a way to go in the “Madder than a Roman Emperor” stakes, though.

That’s football for you.  Any game between two evenly-matched teams can be great.

thank you...now I understand what kind of race it is...

Now this is funny.  
 
The Trump campaign is posting obituaries of some of the people who rose from the grave & voted last week.
 
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/media/victims-of-voter-fraud-initial-announcement-of-deceased-georgians-used-to-vote-in-2020-general-election/
 
Naturally they start in Georgia, where The Walking Dead is filmed.

False. Stalin invaded Finland in 1939, Mao started the Korean War & war with India in 1962.

Political correctness is an angry God: like the Gods of the Aztecs, it demands regular human sacrifices.
 
Fejzulai had been jailed in April 2019 for trying to join Islamic State but he was granted early release in December under juvenile law because he was 19-years-old at the time. He was not deemed capable of carrying out an attack, according to a report.   
 
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8906871/Shots-fired-near-synagogue-Vienna-police-say-major-operation-underway.html
 
Bet the judge, politicians & civil servants who took that decision have armed bodyguards.
 

Used to play it a long time ago.  Yeah, it’s fun.  You need four, though.  Don’t gamble, though. You can lose a lot of money quickly!

Are you saying that the Eurosport Commentator is wrong?  No, obviously the timings are wrong! 

First World Cup.  There’s usually some pre-season races from Norway to be found round the Internet. Same for cross country.

Do you know how many breweries there are along that route?  

That’s true.  Hasn’t been to Dakar for about 20 years.  At least they dropped the Paris bit.  Come to think, the Paris-Roubaix doesn’t go near Paris either.

It’s a weird experience travelling through Los Angeles by bus.  There’s 3-4 stops where all the shops, and everyone who gets on & off are Armenian, followed by 3-4 stops of Thailand, 3-4 stops of Guatemala etc etc.