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Got the Discovery Plus schedule for Day 1 - Saturday 27th.  Looks very good. We get separate streams for
 
Each badminton court
Each tennis court
Each individual gymnastic apparatus
Each fencing....errm...whatever you call the places where you do fencing.
 
Don't know if they all get their own commentary though, or if there's just a finite number of show courts.

Was the mixed relay.

Last DL before Paris is Saturday in London.  Here’s the timetable & teamsheets.
 
https://london.diamondleague.com/lists-results-london/

Carapaz spritzes idiot spectator!  

Carapaz spritzes idiot spectator!  

So much so that  no longer accepts times set there for Qualification purposes.

Yeah, but athletics is Week 2, so swimmers in week 1

Girl got DQFed because she ran as far down the stairs as the queue for the home-made ice cream shop. True!
 
https://www.marysmilkbar.com/

Tip for everyone in the World Orienteering Championships in Edinburgh: if you are running past my flat you are way off course & need to go back up the hill to the School. Do not stop for fish & chips.
 
https://eurovisionsport.com/explore/competition?id=Generic-Schedule-Landing-Page&cId=20240712IOFEdinburgh

Tip for everyone in the World Orienteering Championships in Edinburgh: if you are running past my flat you are way off course & need to go back up the hill to the School. Do not stop for fish & chips.
 
https://eurovisionsport.com/explore/competition?id=Generic-Schedule-Landing-Page&cId=20240712IOFEdinburgh

About 4km. But not really a beach as most people mean it, just sand at the edge of the sea.

And it is a withdrawal for  Roglić.    Inevitably, the Vuelta looms for him.  But you’ve got to blame the organisers for choosing a corner that was an inevitable problem.
 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/clmy4l2e12ro

Next up is Monaco on Friday and we already have a lot of the entries established.
 
https://monaco.diamondleague.com/en/programme-resultats-monaco-en/

So after going to all that trouble to fix the elections to keep Le Pen out of power, Macron now realises he'd rather have Le Pen than the fanatical Khmer Rouge who he'd just helped to their finest-ever electoral performance.
 
Macronists in turmoil over potential far-right alliance meetings (msn.com)

Maniacal extreme left.  Cheka nostalgic.

Solution is for Joe to step down as candidate.  Dr Jill Biden takes over.  Hunter as Veep.  Dream ticket. 

Solution is for Joe to step down as candidate.  Dr Jill Biden takes over.  Hunter as Veep.  Dream ticket. 

Two good meets early this week.  
 
Istvan Gyulai from 
 
https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-continental-tour/where-to-watch?countryCode=GB&eventId=7189670
 
And the Cork City Sports, Part One of the annual  double bill with Dublin on Friday.  Apart from the Irish stars, always plenty Brits, Americans, antipodeans.
 
 

Has never been shown in the past for sure, certainly not at London, Rio or Tokyo which did show everything else..  But archery & shooting qualifiers are truly the most boring sporting events ever devised.  But it’s possible that your TV might send along a camera to cover some of your stars without covering the whole thing. I bet  do that with their archers!

Also competitors shoot in batches, so if your hero goes in the first batch it's impossible to know who has qualified until everybody else has finished, maybe hours later.
 
Also, is there coverage of the modern pentathlon fencing round robin?  Think that is the same deal. 

This is a post I did a couple of weeks ago on the British Athletics Weekly forum.
 
Here's the situation in , which I believe will be replicated in pretty much all  countries
 
BBC Mainstream Channels - Most important events chapped like thin slices of sushi and mixed up with each other along with plentiful blethering, montages, previews, interviews, reviews and news. Also will be constant channel changing, so if you expect to watch the Big Race starting at 17:59 on BBC1, you will be switched away to BBC2 , then have to sit through credits, blethering, an interview with Keely H, a feature on Keely H's dogs, Gabby, Denise & Jess's opinions about Keely and only then see the Big Race at 18:15 by time you will already know the result.
 
BBC Red Button - A bit better, in that it will be full uninterrupted coverage of your match, session or whatever, with just a quick introductory voice-over before getting on with it.
 
BBC iPlayer - Will only show what has previously been shown on one of the other BBC Channels. Usually slow to post, so if you want to see something that took place at 08:30 expect to wait to about 16:00 before it is up.
 
Eurosport 1 and 2 linear channels packaged on Sky, Virgin etc. Usual Eurosport style. Big solid bleeding hunks of live action. Introductions and reviews don't overlap the main feature, but are shown before and afterwards, or at worst as picture within picture. Nowadays, lots more adverts than there were three or four years ago. Lots of repeats overnight. Familiar well-informed commentators & experts. Advert-free option available if you are paying for Discovery Plus.
 
Discovery Plus Online - The only place to see every single thing being broadcast with dozens of streams going at the same time. Available on all major hardware platforms and devices. You'll need good broadband, multiple HDMI inputs on your TV and home wifi. Apart from the stuff which overlaps with Eurosport commentators will be from the World Feed. That should be OK for Athletics where it should be familiar voices. Also multi-tracks (usually without commentary) for all field events, uninterrupted long races etc. Commentary a bit less reliable for minority sports as New Zealand horse-racing commentators attempt to get to grips with canoe slalom, Australian Rugby League commentators do synchro swimming etc. But you will have to pay at least some kind of monthly fee for the length of the Games, possibly even a longer contract. So start looking out now for bargains and offers.
 

Problem is that the French far left are utter headbangers & they’d bankrupt the country in a week.

It’s not for free, we in Europe are paying for you!    Least you could do is send us a bottle of wine.

It’s not for free, we in Europe are paying for you!    Least you could do is send us a bottle of wine.

Wow, what a meet!