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Besides Van Barneveld, the other analist happened to be Vincent van der Voort (you know, Fast Vinnie). He said some interesting stuff about players like himself who throw fast: "If it's not going well, you have a problem, because it's even harder to take a breath and calm down for a minute. But when things are going well, you feel like you're unstoppable." Evans showed that last year, when it wasn't working at all against Whitlock, but suddenly...damn, everything that Evans tried worked and he destroyed Whitlock

Van Barneveld's biggest problem was with the beginning. "Every player who qualified could suddenly surprise and win the first set and trust me, if you do that, Anderson is gonna get nervous, but Frost didn't even seem to be fighting in the beginning." Don't forget he actually qualified on merit, he's a good player. Van Barneveld said he was shocked to see him like this today, because normally he's apparently a much more serious player with a good level

Fastest 180 ever

For starters I really don't think we should have a World Cup in Tyumen and Youth/Junior world champs in Ostrov this season.. Nice example to the teenage biathletes: "Hey this country is doping their athletes sponsored by the government, but you'll have to go there and participate anyway."

Two times 17 on the board, come on

Michael Smith vs Ricky Evans is an incredibly fast match, but of course there have also been very slow players....look at Terry Down Also, look at Jocky Wilson smoking in the background

Van Barneveld on Dutch TV is steaming mad about Frost's behaviour

Frost is drunk as f*ck

YEEEEEEEEEES!!!! FROST!!

To think Frost qualified through the tournament where the likes of Andy Hamilton and Wes Newton failed...

Anderson is giving Frosty a hard time

I'm sure Vincent would react to it, he's the 'expert' in the studio on Dutch TV today, together with Raybar

That explains the empty seats, Fordham needs all of them

Andy Fordham in the room!!

Let's get this party started (Sadly there's no Dirk van Duijvenbode this year, but alright)

My mind has been going like all afternoon, let's go

Every time bidding for a world championships is happening, I'm hoping for Nove Mesto for exactly this reason

This would have been the worst day of all for a Russian victory in biathlon... I'm getting enough of Fourcade for quite a while, but damn, the man is such a beast.

Less than 2 hours to go, who are your picks for tonight? Jamie Caven (29) v Kevin Painter Jamie Lewis (30) v Mick McGowan Gary Anderson (2) v Mark Frost Michael Smith (11) v Ricky Evans I'm going for Caven, McGowan, Anderson and Evans. Rumour has it Evans is throwing even faster...that must be interesting since he already threw faster than a human can see

Damn, those women's falls

To be fair, as far as I know they're very inexperienced, so I definitely wouldn't go with "bad" as choice of words. If you want to get people in your country interested, you have to start somewhere, and only trusting on Amanda Lightfoot isn't gonna work forever

By the way, not wind, but fog was the reason for the postponement..maybe it helped Gabi to her 0+1

What's the deal with the wildcards (women) again? Everyone from a top-30 nation is in (with a maximum per NOC of course) and wildcards go to non-top-30 nations?