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3x3 pictogram is easily the worst. Letters/numbers/logos should stay away from the pictograms.

Overview of the qualifiers from the remaining leagues. As ever, we will have to wait and see how many of these minor league athletes will be taking up their invitation for the Finals. Arab League (North Africa) Abdel Said Mohamed Sadek Arab League (Middle East) Ramzy Al-Duhami Abdullah Al-Muhairi Khaled Almobty Australian League Aaron Hadlow Kate Hinschen Caucasus-Caspian League Masoud Mokarinezhad Central Asian League Kamil Sabitov China League Liu Tongyan Japan League Shino Hirota New Zealand League Tegan Fitzsimon South African League Lisa Williams South American South League Luiz Felipe Alves Jose Roberto Filho South East League Siengsaw Lertratanachai

This weekend we had the first 4* eventing competitions of the year. Red Hills International Horse Trials (short) Selena O'Hanlon (Foxwood High) - 30.80 (26.80+0.00+4.00) Clayton Fredericks (FE Ophelia) - 38.90 (30.50+8.40+0.00) Jessica Phoenix (Pavarotti) - 43.70 (28.50+14.80+0.40) Barroca Horse Trials (long) Karin Donckers (Fletcha van't Veerahof) - 29.50 (26.70+1.60+1.20) Harry Mutch (HD Bronze) - 39.20 (35.20+4.00+0.00) Emma Hyslop-Webb (Waldo III) - 50.70 (42.70+6.80+1.20) Barroca Horse Trials (short) Francisco Gavino Gonzalez (Source de la Faye) - 47.00 (36.60+6.40+4.00) Barbara Sayous (Opposition Filmstar) - 48.90 (31.30+5.60+12.00) Joris Vanspringel (Imperial van de Holtakkers) - 51.50 (39.90+3.60+8.00) Athetes from not already qualified nations receive their first Olympic rankings points.

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World Cup Final Qualifiers - North American Leagues East Coast Beezie Madden Molly Ashe Cawley Wilhelm Genn McLain Ward Laura Kraut Devin Ryan Lucy Davis Georgina Bloomberg Conor Swail Shane Sweetnam Sharn Wordley Beat Mandli Mattias Tromp Nicole Walker Mario Deslauriers West Coast Richard Spooner Eve Jobs Nayel Nassar Kelli Cruciotti Salvador Onate Eugenio Garza Perez

Impressive win for the 17-year old Moggre. North American League East, Stage 7 (Ocala, Florida) Brian Moggre (MTM Vivre le Reve) - 0/0/41.29 Andre Thieme (Aretino) - 0/0/41.56 Sharn Wordley (Casper) - 0/0/43.96 Full results... NAL East Standings NAL West Standings

And now we have a German rider taking down the wall...

Two riders in a row got eliminated for refusals at the Mexican wall.

Central European League, Stage 14 (Zhashkiv, Ukraine) Inna Logutenkova (Don Gregorius) - 76.025% Inna Logutenkova (Fleraro) - 75.920% Maksim Kovshov (Flirt) - 69.840% Full results... Central European League is now completed. Regina Isachkina and Stanislav Cherednichenko qualify for the Gothenburg finals.

Istok and Elias qualify for Andorra.

We have four of them in the second run.

These records are about as exciting as the swimming records from 2009. Meaning not. Outrageous inflation, they are almost meaningless.

Lithuanians really came here for that funding.

Late Mike Tucker (also known as "BBC's voice of equestrianism") partly got me into the sport. His commentating in Rio was priceless, when together with almost equally witty Ian Stark he delivered lots of briliant, old school humour and remarks . Tucker passed away suddenly last year, almost immediately after going into retirement. Lucinda Green is another legendary equestrian commentator. Among other commentators, Martin Haven and John Morgan are an excellent duo for bobsleigh/skeleton. Singer (aka luge announcer) is good too, but honestly I kind of prefer when Bree Schaaf takes over. Controversial Winterton/Dixon are not bad, but sometimes they get too cheery for my liking. FEItv has a nice duo for dressage world cups with lots of chemistry (paralympian Natasha Baker and Spencer something), but occasionally they talk too much. Among the active athlete-commentators, Emily Sweeney and Judy Reynolds are the two standouts... Arturs Darznieks is funny too. As for the Croatian commentators... I wouldn't really know. There is one edgy commentator who screams a lot during the football matches. Others are just bad. My attempts at watching Rio 2016 / Pyeongchang 2018 on national TV were dreadful. Opening ceremony of Rio 2016 was particularly cringeworthy, since the commentating duo simply ignored the nations whose names they couldn't translate into Croatian. There used to be some very fine commentators around, but almost all of them have kind of retired at this point.

Same was with men's. That must be the narrowest giant slalom course ever.

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Am I watching a replay from Sochi 2014 or what?

Maloney is coming for top 20.

Who on earth are Bucher-Johannessen, Turtveit, Hoel, Gunnulfsen, Stock...? Basically all men in black.

I have no idea how Zubčić's Bib has improved in the last couple of races. He hasn't done anything remotely notable all season (save that fluke 13th place in Val d'Isere...).

Maloney is on course to getting some WC points.

Guess who is not tired from Seefeld 50?

Bos is on the move. I really like how the track looks. It's almost as quiet as St. Moritz!

Figure skating commentator is quite different. I randomly tuned in for a competition, but stayed watching longer than planned mostly because of her. Extremely impersonal/indifferent, but also very knowledgeable. No sugar coating and cheering, just telling like it is. It was a nice change of pace from the usual knowledgeable hypers or indifferent scoreboard readers.

Bree Schaaf is coaching mothers?