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Where would one find it?

NOS shows it as well, although....yeah, you know, 'our focus is the story' so they'll have lots of talking while there's sports going on But as always, the Olympics for me is never a one-stop-shop in terms of where to watch. Some sports I'd certainly prefer on HBO (cross-country skiing, ski jumping, for example), others certainly on NOS (speed skating, 100%) and yet others might be on German TV (alpine, perhaps). It all just really depends on who is the commentator I like most or am used to the most for a certain sport. Like I always hate it when watching and enjoying sports year in, year out with a certain commentator (Martin Haven, for example, for bobsleigh/skeleton), and then suddenly at the biggest moment of them all there's someone I'm unfamiliar with...I find that really distracting. I've grown up with speed skating on NOS, and the commentators nowadays are somewhat worse than they used to be, but it still feels super weird to watch it with the commentary of someone on HBO or something where you just know they are not generally involved in the sport.

Are you sure about that, mate? If the cross-country World Cup would end with a 50k in March in New Zealand, you're absolutely certain there were not going to be questions? No people raising an eyebrow and thinking 'huh, that is odd'? I beg to differ, awesome as it'd be to see the World Cup go to Mount Hotham, Ushuaia/Bariloche or Portillo/Termas de Chillan

That's just the usual pre-Tour de Ski break that we see every winter. Quite normal to have three World Cups weekends, then an off-week and then continue the World Cup with the Tour de Ski Awesome to see the Tour de Ski going back to being a little bit more of an actual Tour de Ski now with three countries Hopefully we'll also get some of the cool stages back like we used to have (like a long A to B race between towns and such).

This is somewhat unfortunate. Like, I like the bright colours, but why put them in a spot where they will largely be covered by bibs? It's like so many countries always completely forget that there are...you know...large bibs covering large parts of the design. Same with Brazil all the time, they so often go with some boring white stuff that has some blue/green accents but then they put those in a place covered with a bib so nobody sees them. Didn't see Brazil's choice yet but I'm putting some money on 'largely white, unrecognizable as Brazil and with blue and green little triangles', meh.

Finland. Meanwhile, the designers for the French jerseys were told they had to design one and had 2 minutes to complete the task or what happened there?

No.

To anyone going to any cross-country skiing, have you made or thought out your travel arrangements for race day yet?

Due to countries registering skaters for distances they aren't going to skate, but that give them a reserve spot. Like registering a sprinter for the mass start, and then later exchanging them for a distance rider - but because the sprinter is there anyway, they can then do the 500m where they originally didn't have a quota spot for. Something like that, there's a story about him being - in his words - fucked due to countries circumventing the rules like that. Tragic story.

Biathlon: Baiba Bendika, Darcie Morton, Anna Weidel, Anika Kozica Cross-country skiing: Obviously Bruna Moura , Ariuntungalag Enkhbayar, Samaneh Beyrami, Delia Reit, Gina del Rio, Nahiara Diaz en Agustina Groetzner, Rosie Fordham, Stevenson Savart, Sara Ponya, Jenny Axisa Eriksen, Regina Martinez, Rakan Alireza, Sophia Velicer, Karen Chanloung Speed skating: Merel Conijn, Femke Kok, Vladimir Semirunniy, Timothy Loubineaud Surely plenty of others also in speed skating but biathlon and cross-country skiing were the easy ones to do off the top of my head so for now that's that

As is understandable, in her case. Home Olympics (nearly literally in her backyard), it would be nothing but a letdown to do some regular non-special World Cups after that high.

Kimberley Bos (skeleton) and Jens van 't Wout (short track)

I wonder where Romania thinks they got their second quota from then. And no reallocations at all would suggest Germany pulled back their turd, as we'd so eloquently say in Dutch, and did take them all at the end..

Still no definitive update on whether or not anyone has refused anything, correct?

Wow. Now I'm going to get even angrier if Nordic combined is ever taken out of the program I know it would be for different reasons, but come on, if an entire tournament with 25 player teams is fine, so is one sport that has what, the amount of athletes for 3-4 ice hockey teams?