Dragon

Offically she's still on a maternity break after the birth of her daughter in 2024 but it does seems unlikely she'll ever return to competition.

My friends at the "Keep the Flame Alive" podcast have a review of "The Fire Inside" https://flamealivepod.com/movie-club-the-fire-inside/

The world is full of mad people. I am happy that Sweden does not encourage them to act on their crazy insticts but it is impossible to stop all of them

"World Boxing is set to be officially installed as the new international governing body for the sport in time for Los Angeles 2028 at the International Olympic Committee Session in Costa Navarino next month. Officials from the breakaway organisation and IOC are both frantically working to put the finishing touches to a deal that will guarantee boxing’s Olympic future and officially end the International Boxing Association’s right to govern the sport in the Games after more than 80 years."

I wonder what's the record for most overall winter WC wins for Britain in a year?

I'm sorry, I know this is very silly but I'm having too much fun with ChatGPT drawing these for me...

Meanwhile at the Vatican Ski Cross championships we see the Bishop of Monza seconds before being wiped out in a crash with the Bishop of Frankfurt...

https://www.olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-president-bach-in-private-audience-with-the-pope Following Bach's meeting with the Pope the Vatican City have made their intention to compete at Milan-Cortina known

Also the guy who invented the "Superstars" TV programme

More bad news in skating. Dick Button, 1952 Olympic men's champion has died.

American coaches and skaters Spencer Lane, Jinna Han, Franco Aparicio, Everly and Lydia Livingston, Sean Kay, Angela Yang, and Eddie Zhou are also believed to have died in the crash

Sad news. Iris Cummins, the American swimmer who was the final survivor of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, died over the weekend. She was 104 years old.

https://www.espn.co.uk/olympics/story/_/id/43356953/german-bobsledder-simon-wulff-tested-positive-race-win

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Bosisto This sounds like an Italian name, correct? Maybe he's qualified too? https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/will-bosisto-the-lost-boy-of-australian-cricket-finds-his-way-in-the-bpl-1470740

Just to note, Friedrich is liable to lose 2 2-man wins and a 2nd place in the 4-man because his brakeman tested positive in Winterberg so it looks good for an overall World Cup win for Hall

Just wanted to mention this. This week's edition of the Keep The Flame Alive podcast will feature an interview with Bruna https://flamealivepod.com/ Will be available late on Thursday European time.

6 Professionals on the men's team but this is the first woman...

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jan/25/inside-race-biggest-job-in-sport-can-sebastian-coe-win-ioc-presidency

I'm not confident that it's a very good predictor...

I asked the chatgpt AI to predict the medal table for 2026. It came back a little strange Rank Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 Norway 18 10 8 36 2 Germany 14 9 11 34 3 United States 12 11 9 32 4 Canada 11 9 12 32 5 Sweden 10 8 7 25 6 Switzerland 8 7 6 21 7 Netherlands 7 6 8 21 8 Italy 6 9 7 22 9 China 6 7 6 19 10 Austria 5 8 9 22 11 France 5 6 8 19 12 South Korea 4 5 6 15 13 Japan 4 4 7 15 14 Russia* 3 7 8 18 15 Finland 3 5 4 12 16 Czech Republic 2 4 4 10 17 Great Britain 2 3 2 7 18 Australia 2 2 3 7 19 Slovenia 2 2 2 6 20 Poland 1 3 2 6 21 Hungary 1 2 3 6 22 Slovakia 1 2 1 4 23 New Zealand 1 1 1 3 24 Belarus 1 1 1 3 25 Kazakhstan 1 1 0 2 26 Ukraine 0 1 2 3 27 Latvia 0 1 1 2 28 Estonia 0 1 0 1 29 Belgium 0 0 2 2 30 Spain 0 0 1 1

While you're waiting, enjoy some good news for Poland

And here it is...

That would be the Winter Games...