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Roger Federer's ATP titles?

Definitely

Didn't know water polo was so violent they need those plastic walls on the side!

This men's final

Not just the prelims, today he threw away a super easy individual medal (by just not continuing after he fell, otherwise he'd have picked up an easy bronze), and then threw away the relay gold for his team... We'll definitely see more of him of course though, he is growing every season.

That gold for Hanne Desmet And Velzeboer in that final, jesus First punching Seidel out of the race and then messing up the Dutch 1-2 by throwing it straight into Schulting

Why is the men's singles 2nd run and the relay not on FIL's channel? Edit: Hurray for CBC and the existence of VPN's

I am genuinely surprised to see good biathlon graphics by the way, that is highly unusual for non-IBU events This is exactly how one should show graphics in a time-trial-like event: current athlete's time (Nedza-Kubiniec), fastest athlete's time (Rousseau) and the time and position of the next athlete whom the current athlete can beat (Yegorova). Extra props for having hte total shooting misses at that stage for all three!

Right, thanks I pronounce it basically the same as one would pronounce 'Vlova', I just ignore that H there But I got curious, because German commentators (both on German TV and in Austrian stadiums) always pronounce it with 3 syllables, something like "Vruh-lo-va" I always wonder what's up with that R they add there

Wait, how is that possible? At the very least it would be vlho-va, right? How can 'Vlhova' have as many syllables as 'Hey' or 'One' or 'Door'?

About it: how many syllables are in the name 'Vlhova'?

Which mean Ukaleq Slettemark makes it in! You don't get to see a / combination in a World Cup mass start every time

Ukrainian gold in the world junior championships in the women's singles https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/result-jwch-women.pdf

@Olympian1010 You're a native English speaker: is it an English thing to just mispronounce names as much as you can? I've been watching the biathlon and cross-country and when there isn't the Dutch Eurosport commentator, I have to make do with one of those generic English commentators, and they seem to really try to mess names up. And really not complicated names: Antosova is consistently called 'Anostova', for example, and Kryukova is all the time being called 'Krykuova'. Where does this extra 'k' come from? And why does Antos become Anost, every time? It's not a matter of not being able to pronounce certain letters or so, which is of course normal in different languages, but why this adding of non-existing syllables and switching syllables around when the names are very clearly shown on-screen?

34th for Kasai today, ahead of Maciej Kot, and Kot was once able to do stuff, so there you go! https://medias2.fis-ski.com/pdf/2023/JP/3249/2023JP3249RL.pdf He didn't start in the second Continental Cup of the day, an hour or so later https://medias1.fis-ski.com/pdf/2023/JP/3326/2023JP3326RL.pdf

Former pro cyclist Lieuwe The Beast Westra has died yesterday, aged only 40. According to the guy who wrote his biography, "he had been fighting with himself the past years, and lost". Retired early 2017 more or less out of the blue due to a depression, but seemed to be living a good life with his wife in Spain now... Edit: after his career he married his Australian girlfriend, they started a cycling hotel in Spain, but since past summer they were in divorce proceedings and he had moved back to the Netherlands.

I wonder if the referee of Chili vs Iran is on that list

Jokes about Sweden handball team?

Damn, that Hungarian comeback

And then there'll be a lot more which make you think "oh wait, isn't that the record in xx meters running?"

Most full-length triathlons completed by one person in one year?

I asked ChatGPT (the infamous AI that's been all over the internet recently) if an athlete can realistically combine singles and doubles luge, to see what it comes up with Who knew that doubles luge is an event where the athletes lie on their stomachs, I want to watch that. Doubles skeleton!

Schulting showing that she's simply a step (or two) above the rest of the competition within Europe.

Entertaining Bahrain Darts Masters the past two days, with two impressive showings by the Asians: Alain Abiabi and Man Lok Leung were excellent. Abiabi isn't exactly the youngest, Leung is taking it serious and has been playing some UK tournaments as well, he's a name for the next few years. Looks good as well in terms of style, whereas Abiabi throws....odd. Really, really odd. Search for it.

The first ever Indian Winter Olympic medal is close! Journey towards Winter Olympic medal for India in Skiing at 2026 Milan Cortina, Italy. https://in.linkedin.com/in/bhavani-thekkada-nanjunda-502310161 https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/athlete-biography.html?sectorcode=cc&competitorid=260257 Among other things, she won gold and three bronze medals in the Khelo India Winter Games, and she competed in the FIS races in Iceland! Under 300 points is not bad at all, to be fair, although I have a feeling that a medal in 2026 might be a tad optimistic.