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Nothing needs laser shooting anyway. If there's shooting combined with running, make it so that a miss is actually penalized and we don't get a situation where everyone just scrambled to get a billion shots off as fast as possible, because a few of them will be hits anyway.

Flying Movistar incoming in 2022

That would probably be both a little painful and a relieve. At least it'll avoid another debacle like that German whose name I forgot who went batshit crazy in Tokyo. Edit: even better if they're going to replace it with cycling

Well damn, that makes me feel old. I remember she was my favourite athlete when she won her second junior world title...no idea that was already that long ago

You never know, but I do kind of feel like this might be spam.

Voted

Schouten with the 8th fastest 5k in history And it could probably have gone faster if she'd started a little stronger, judging by the acceleration she still had in the end.

Uuuugh Schulting is riding so annoying this whole week. She lucked her way into the 1000m final after a way too aggressive move (granted, the Russian getting penalized was not wrong, just Schulting being advanced was wrong), then threw it away with a random fall in the mixed semi. Yesterday she already caused herself and Kristen Santos to crash hard after the finish.

I do have a provisional ranking. Probably I'd like to tweak it a bit more and since we haven't heard from our host yet, I'm assuming at least tomorrow is fine If not, let me know and I'll send my provisional ranking immediately.

Normally this is one of my shortest nights of the year because there's usually MotoGP/2/3 in Australia, which start at 2-3am or so, but COVID, so not this time...long sleep incoming

She's also become more known among non-sports fans this year, due to a documentary about her family and mostly her mother. She had a brain bleed a few years ago and nowadays can only speak a few words and that's about it. I haven't seen it yet, but apparently it's rather...impressive? Intense? Not sure what the right word is. I remember a few years ago Schouten finally had a big breakthrough win (probably in a mass start) in Heerenveen, which she immediately dedicated to her mom who had just survived the bleed and was sitting in a wheelchair behind a window in the stadium, sort of staring down and not entirely 'there'. That was pretty heartbreaking. So, yeah. Go Schouten.

Believe it or not, for national races like this it's usually the fastest one and I didn't want to wait for some document somewhere

Netherlands for sure (yet) I still have hope to be able to finish today..

Tomorrow is, among other things, the men's 10k. Could be very interesting with Bergsma in his current shape: he is someone for who the classic formula of (2 x 5km time) + 20s = 10km time often works very well, looking at the past 6-7 years of national championships that was often correct within a few seconds (more often faster than slower). That might put him on 12:35 or even world record pace tomorrow..

Wow, Irene Schouten just skated 3:54.59 on the 3km, the 8th fastest time in history (in Heerenveen, not in SLC/Calgary) It might have been the most 'flat' 3k anyone has ever skated at this kind of level, unbelievable what a race: 30.3-30.7-30.6-30.6-30.7-30.8-30.7 makes it the first ever (!) women's 3k race with not a single 31+ lap.

Finally I have listened all songs at least once Now to the ranking phase. Which is going to be incredibly tough, since there wasn't really one song that made me think "wow, this is really good" whereas there were a ton of songs which made me think "this is fine". Basically I'd like to fit 15-20 songs inside the 1-4 points category Maybe the next listen will help in finding something I'd like to give 10+ points

Haha, that 1500m final Confortola, sir, you are magnificent

Alright skating in the men's 500m, although that was marred by bad starts, false starts (thanks to a starter who took his sweet time), injury and more negative things. Near-insane times in the women's 1500m, unheard of even for a Dutch national championships race. This is Wüst's 18th national 1500m medal in 19 participations, by the way.

Quite the race for Bergsma (against a slightly collapsing Roest), with especially a fantastic last 1500m or so (28.3 and 28.5 before the last lap).

Not voted! But I had a first listen for all the songs which were on Spotify. Now those that aren't are up

And apologies for pulling it off-topic, so here is something more related to football There's a whole thing going on here after the recent derby between N.E.C. Nijmegen and Vitesse (of Arnhem), which was won by Vitesse, whose fans celebrated a tad too much though. Luckily everyone got away basically fine and with nothing more than a good scare, but that could have gone horribly wrong. Good thing there was a large trash container underneath it, which prevented further collapse. No fans in Nijmegen's stadium for a while, they'd play in other stadiums but couldn't agree with any other club on where they could play a few games for the time being.

If I am not mistaken, @brunamoura is actually already going there in December (Strbske Pleso) for competitions

I'm assuming everyone who doesn't qualify will be removed from this list? Although probably not, since Fourcade is on there and definitely won't qualify Slightly surprised to see Mourão going for it. She is part of the athletes' commission in both the Brazilian snow sports federation and the Brazilian cycling federation (president even, I believe), so at least she is familiar with these kind of things. I do hope the IOC athletes' commission does more than the Brazilian snow sports federation's one though, which I think met once or twice (online) in the past two or three years, one of which was simply to confirm the new members.

I'm still planning to visit the Tatras one day, I'd rather not have a couple hundred empty-brained bodies* laying around to navigate through *assuming there was never a significant brain in the first place in the heads of these morons