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Meanwhile the site is a bit broken today I think, besides the missing schedule in the schedule, all the supposedly finished training sessions come back with the same thing: "No data currently available. Please try again later."

I forgot what the European Games one looked like and didn't use the Pan Am Games one at all, so hard to say, but there's definitely lots of room for improvement. Like, why does that big green top bar keep scrolling down and cover half the page half the time? Another good thing is that, unlike with some other results pages, Ctrl + click works to actually open the result in a new page, whereas with some other results pages even holding Ctrl while clicking opens the result you want in the same page, meaning you have to go back to the main schedule after that....which then gets updated with results you don't want to see yet. That last part will definitely happen if you accidentally refresh before you 'finished' the day, especially team events are going to show the scores of matches on the schedule page. Besides, right now the results/schedule page doesn't even show the times Everything should simply be like for example the FIS website, where you simply see the competition and on the same page a drop-down to available documents, but no results whatsoever, like so

To be fair, when you live in Europe and have a regular day-time work day, being able to watch live, non-24h race sports from Australia means something is off with the schedule in Australia

"We don't have the money for that" should probably be translated as "We are paying some coaches and federation members so much money we don't have money left to actually support the athletes".

Saturday is the first biathlon competition. Brazil's girl for that race was still in Austria.....today. I very much assume they left today, but come on.

Brazil in 18th out of 31, what the hell I guess simply competing sometimes really is enough Nice to see Kuzmina

Meanwhile on the sliding track, it looks more and more like the women's monobob is indeed going to be the least open competition of all: Maja Voigt definitely looks like she's going to run away with this, as one would have expected beforehand. And Latvia is still very much on course for at least 3-4 skeleton medals, where 2 golds + 2-3 other medals wouldn't even be surprising at all. Super strong team!

That is just really odd indeed. Normally the individual is the event where some exotic athletes don't take part, because it's simply quite long, and so the sprints usually have more athletes. But if this goes even for the top nations, only two athletes per gender in the sprint really devalues the entire competition, that would just be....well, nonsense.

Whoah, check out what was just on the radio here, never heard that before on the radio so wanted to share it with y'all

Oh absolutely. And in biathlon they can get very easy money and equipment support from the IBU, so that might help to fund their CC efforts if they'd decide to go that way (lots of exotic athletes compete in one or two IBU Cup weekends just to fund their CC season for example).

As long as they at least are aware of proper biathlon safety rules. It may sound silly, but they are handling lethal weapons and more than once have junior/youth athletes from this kind of exotic nations (including those competing internationally in things like the IBU Junior Cup) never been taught the strict but basic safety things in terms of handling the rifle and everything around it...I remember a situation where a youth athlete simply put a still loaded rifle back in the hotel, where luckily the next day the athlete who picked that rifle was more experienced..

Matter of time for them to create their own rollerski circuit and start farming the sweet points in a few years I hope we'll see more of them, but somehow I fear they will fade away before most of them are 20...

Smells like IIHF was one of the first ones to dip their toes in the water to test it and see what the reactions would be, and the water is still a bit too cold for them

Well that's early is of course in.

Don't they say wisdom comes with age? At least the lack of it still makes me feel young for now I guess

In case it matters, I actually am aware of my tendency to overreact quite often in the moment and regret it a few days later

Also: did all the defenders retire from football or what? I had to Google Brozovic, but apparently he is a defensive midfielder, so that's something, but....same story every year with all the hundred awards, and people on the social media going "X scored Y goals, so he is better!"

The problem is the team size is small, not so much that they add one extra athlete. Basically: things are wrong with this, but 'there will be an AP athlete' isn't the main one

Just read it for what it is: a bit of provoking, who cares Curious what's the 2026 thing going to be!

Yeah, the IOC probably wants the Youth Olympics to mostly be a thing where people go "Oh right, let me quickly check the results" and that's it

To be fair, if every continental event in all the sports and lots of national championships and entire World Cup seasons of nearly all Olympic sports are on your calendar, there really isn't going to be a time where you've got two weeks available for this If it was in March, it would be bad timing because of South German dressage championships, and in November because of the Abkhazian curling classics (nothing against you, it's the same for me, there is never an 'empty moment' except for basically two weekends a year when most winter sports are done and the summer things didn't really start yet and vice versa )

Yeah, it's unfortunately the same in the World Cups. It's like they have a perfect system for races, but for trainings they use something entirely different which just doesn't work (for years already)

Right, now I remember one of the flaws of this result system, for whatever reason they show training results (hopefully not actual race results later on) like this I mean....come on, just enter "Sort by 'Time'" somewhere

Mentioning Daytona 24, but not the Daytona 500....ouch, man But yeah, in terms of time it's entirely logical, I just don't think there is such a wide interest in Youth Olympics as we on this forum - me definitely included - would like to believe

Oh I didn't even mean that Schwarz and Vlhova obviously became leaders in the World Cup, but several of the other medalists are having nice World Cup careers as well. In 2016 that's a bit less the case, where River Radamus and Alione Danioth were all the hype, but Radamus never really lived up to that (but he's got a decent World Cup career going now) and Danioth just snowballed from bad luck to bad luck with, if I'm not mistaken, 6 (!) serious injuries in as many years..