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27.8 already, holy moly Surely that's too early?

Loubineaud with an absolutely mad start

Right, hoping for a real Winter Olympics in 2034 then, who knows. One day we'll tell our grandchildren how 'back in the day' there used to be an Olympic Village.

3rd fastest time in history for Jilek with 6:02.78 Really, really went for it though, which is always cool

No, no, no. Help, fine, but no way should Thialf host the Olympic speed skating, that is absolutely for France We already have a non-Olympic Olympics coming up with Cortina, let's at least get the Olympic feeling back in 2030

Alright, we immediately go to one of the big questions of this season: what is Metodej Jilek going to do on a 5k at altitude?

But it's certainly hopeful towards 2030, especially considering it's not just 1 French skater, but a whole bunch.

I saw your text, then saw the #POLNED hashtag and panicked for a minute

Trump poster above their bed?

And that's - suspended at 1-1 because some moron threw fireworks on the field Always interested what goes on in the presumably not more than 3 brain cells that people who bring fireworks to a stadium possess.

Usually NOS has a camera there just in case something happens, but even in the Netherlands B divisions are never shown live in some form, that should say enough French are doing fantastic btw, both the men and especially the women so far. Awesome to see some French women with serious times coming up!

Cool to see Zueva back And Farthofer, wow I mean, from Kongshaug (for sure) and even Sasaki one would kind of expect it, but Gross and, again, Farthofer...just wow I am so looking forward to tonight!

We just have to wait for the points scores to be official, but usually my calculations are correct That would mean 254.05 for Bruna and 372.46 for Jaque. With that, Bruna improves her points score in the Brazilian ranking (she replaces a 309), Jaque replaces a 460 and so improves a bit more, but is still a bit over 60 points behind Bruna (in the 6-race average). I'd give it an excellent 8 out of 10 today, even though Bruna was hoping for better. Some important considerations for the last Olympic ticket fight (which is basically 100% between Bruna and Jaque): Whoever has A criteria in the FIS distance points list on 19 January 2026 (under 150 points) has priority over the other, if both have A criteria there is a ranking consisting of their 2 best classic sprints, 2 best freestyle distance races and 2 'whatever' races. Considering Jaque has a 127 from last season in Canada, that is a bit of a danger we need to keep an eye on. If nobody has the A criteria, the next in line is whoever has the B criteria (under 350 points) in both distance and sprint. Right now, that is only Bruna, Jaque needs to improve her sprint points - her average with today's result would be 364, her single best is 344, so she would at least need to do better than today. If more than one athlete has B criteria in both disciplines, there is a ranking consisting of their best 3 classic sprints and best 3 freestyle distance races. Next in line is only in case there is no athlete who has B criteria in both disciplines, but that will not happen, since Bruna already has it and can't lose it. This is where especially for Jaque there is a bit of a dilemma, I assume. Go all-in on distance races to try and get the A-criteria, which would automatically give her the ticket if Bruna doesn't manage to do so (but if Bruna does, Bruna is right now leading that ranking too), but if that fails and because of it she doesn't get her sprint average under 350, it hands the ticket straight to Bruna. The other option is going for sprints to ensure she has B-criteria in both disciplines, but that could come at the cost of distance results and based on the past 2 years is certainly no guarantee to work. This thing with A-criteria/B-criteria right now is one of the most important things. Jaque will do both the 10k classic (tomorrow) and freestyle (Sunday), Bruna will focus on the distance freestyle races. There are a little over two more months of lots and lots of mental maths and playing with Excel to go

Absolutely, it was all old and/or artificial but the past two days have brought a whole bunch of actual snow Forecasts for next week in Gällivare are quite something btw, slowly creeping in on -20 degrees which is when races are canceled.

Right, tomorrow morning it is, 10:00 local time, 09:00 CET. First race of the all-important Olympic season for Bruna, classic sprint in Olos/Muonio . Hard to give an exact goal, but if she scores under 309.78 points, she at least improves her points standings in the Brazilian ranking, so let's take that as a starting point. She does have some ambitious goals, let's see Bruna's start time is 10:10/09:10, live timing should become available here: https://live.fis-ski.com/cc-2872/results-pda.htm Although they might also appear here: https://www.enlund.fi/live/olos2025/index.html

Yep, Dennis Mitchell, Bobby Kersee and Alberto Salazar (if still active) are probably some of the main athletics coaches - at least on the US-side of things - you just should not want to have as a coach (and if you do, then you do make the conscious choice for people to suspect you).

I mean, football players refuse to take doping tests and that's never a big deal, refusing tests is in their blood (along with other stuff).

Were you the one who thinks every Olympics will be cancelled all the time, or am I confused with someone else?

A BMX World Cup also takes 1,5 hours or so of viewing and racing I'd be happier if the big classics were in November, but they won't be, so my subscription will likely only be for Olos/Muonio

Looks like it will only be shown on SC Play, the streaming service for the Ski Classics which one needs to subscribe to. Personally of course I'll go for that, 14 euro is a bit much for one weekend but it's important for me, but too bad for others who'd like to follow along Olos/Muonio Ski Race Weekend 2025 - SC Play

And now another one, between Nitra and Bratislava, damn

I mean, I know Pakistan is sometimes controversial, but as far as I know, basically every country in the world does recognize it as a country.

To be fair, I think most people expected that number to be at least the way it is, if not higher

Not at all a fan of mostly electronic music, but yes, there's certainly a difference

Wasn't the Rio gold the one where we were treated with one of the most ridiculous pieces of commentary ever by Ayolt Kloosterboer? "Marit, help us!!" when he was begging for her to win the gold. It was sailing, but maybe I'm wrong on who exactly it was