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Nuis: "I saw this photo, I don't believe I crossed the line. You'd have to talk about all kinds of specific things, like the moment of the photograph, the refractive index of the material and I'm not gonna get into that." So basically the photo is an optical illusion. Ok Kjeld.

Gerbulova in pole position, only Kaplina and Skottheim left with a chance to beat her now.

Screw you Gerbulova, destroying the lead time and so destroying the hope for decent IBU points

Fantastic race for Chardine Sloof and Jill Colebourn

Oh well, you're only a true biathlete once you had a case of crossfire. You know, the likes of Darya Domracheva and Bruna Moura

I can think of only one explanation, since we know she shot 0+5 and not 2+3 or something. My suggestion: she hit all five targets in standing, and so did not enter the penalty loop (explaining her good split time)....but didn't realize she hit all five targets on the wrong target. I'm going for crossfire.

And two more misses in standing. Right, on to tomorrow

Damn it, missed the last two shots in prone

Top-80 is important. I've counted around 6-7 women possible to beat on the start list of 88, and Abramova apparently didn't start, so top-80 is possible

Alright, first of two sprints in Duszniki coming up. I'm not saying I'm nervous, but boy, am I nervous

Nuis' main words here: "I did not cut the corner, impossible! It's just impossible! I did not cut even one centimeter of the corner!" (repeat x100) Ok Kjeld.

Wüst's performances can easily be 100% put on Van Deutekom's death. In the interview after the 500m today she was visibly shaken up when talking about it. She said she was trying to flip the switch before the competition, but that got a lot harder when the big screen showed some nice photos of Van Deutekom. "That hit hard", she said. They were very good friends indeed, and during Van Deutekom's career they were often roommates when travelling. Of everyone in the Dutch speed skating world, I think this has hit Wüst the hardest.

Of course when I've got to get to the middle of nowhere in godknowswhere, Germany, trains are barely driving because of trees falling down due to the snowfall. I'm very, very much hoping the replacement busses will be functioning normally..

Kjeld Nuis had an epic 1000m in the sprint championship, but was DQ'ed for hitting one of those little blocks on the inside of the line (which seems like a right decision). He got rather mad at the referee (a Dutch one) and in the middle of the discussion decided to just sarcastically shake his hand and say thanks, and then came back to check the referee's accreditation for his name

Maybe when they are gone, we'll have a time with more different winners, which is good too

Yes, they don't fall in the 'in their right mind' category when it's about sports

Nobody in their right mind says elite sports are healthy. Practising sports (on an amateur, recreational base) is healthy, practising professional/elite sports is not. I happened to have a little talk about this with my girlfriend last week, and she described it pretty well: as a full-time athlete, you're always feeling pain here, feeling pain there, feeling like you're about to get sick, etc, also when you're in your best shape.

Here we go

Well, those 3 players who are part of the 10-20 best players ever will still be the same without Murray For most fans I think it won't make much of a difference compared to the past 2 years or something, I don't really remember anything big with Murray ever since the injuries started getting bad.

Just to clarify: his main goal seems to be to retire after Wimbledon, not after the Australian Open, he's just not sure if he's able to keep fighting through the pain for 4-5 more months.

And Innsbruck-Igls next week will have the status of European Championships now (for skeleton).

This would just be sad.

Scott Baker - Glen Durrant, 1-3 in sets, 2-2 in legs. Baker had 50 left after two darts deep in the leg...and hit tops instead of bulls eye He was really lucky Durrant missed his chance to finish the match, after which Baker hit D5 and now it's 3-2

Mostly because it's a junior tournament. It's just as useless as the water sports were at the 2015 European Games. Just like the ice hockey in Pyeongchang it can be fun, sure, but not Olympic-worthy.

It's good for sports in one way, but not when great events are removed in favour of mediocre events just because it makes it more equal.