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The day of days is here, it's time for the one and only High Mass De Ronde

Meh....that's fine for IBU Cups, but not in the World Cup, it doesn't add anything. Just like the insanely confusing mass start 60 shouldn't be in the World Cup, or the nonsense super sprint...

It's kinda like bestmen is back with the hundred Enters after every post

Or, as the Daily Show eloquently put it...

Russia banned from team sports would be the least shocking news of the year Curious what will come out of it all though.

And at multi-sports events, 90% of the items start with "here at the XX Games", like they can't stress enough how awesome they are by being there

To be fair, which other things is the general public waiting for in October? I highly doubt a significant portion of MotoGP fans is going to skip races to watch a ski jumping or alpine skiing World Cup I'm of course in favour for a more balanced season, don't get me wrong, but I doubt it would matter much in terms of general viewing numbers.

And that's 2-0, Gibraltar might as well go home

Right, here we go! Let's mess those Gibraltarese up real bad! I'm thinking this could be 2-0 at the very least

And of course again now it'll be full with nonsense like "There should be better security at schools", "the gates weren't high enough" or "why didn't the teachers have guns?1", like with many of those previous school shootings.....as if schools having iron gates for security isn't ridiculous enough by itself

I know it's a little late now, but... How on earth is that even possible? The eligibility criteria are just 'tested' at some random moment during the event, not to see if you are allowed to start, but to see if you were allowed to start?

The auto-translated website says this athlete is a 'superstar' and won a junior world championships medal, but this athlete is nowhere on the IBU database? This German article also mentions a silver at the 2021 junior worlds....but the actual results of the 2021 junior worlds show absolutely nothing with his name... https://www.focus.de/sport/eivind-sporaland-norwegischer-geheimdienst-sucht-nach-vermisstem-biathlon-star-22_id_189379106.html I'm starting to wonder, may they be mentioning the wrong sport or something? There is nobody with a name remotely close to this who got a world junior/youth medal since 2016...

Damn. Seriously one of the scariest things in life, together with bullshit like heart attacks, aneurysms and such....stuff that can take a seemingly totally healthy person out in an instant.

Whereas meanwhile Gibraltar tomorrow will have a unique chance for a historic win. Hopefully the Dutch team can at least get a point

Hehe

Cambridge takes it in some rough water. Oxford was a length behind but their focus was mostly on Felix Drinkall, who sort of collapsed right after the finish. Oxford quickly made it to the side where he was helped off, now it's a matter of hoping he'll be fine.

The Boat Race has just started

Ironically, Oliveira has been declared fit, whereas Marquez might well miss the next race due to a hand injury sustained in this move.

Marquez needs to be taken out of MotoGP by now. It's truly a shame, because in terms of raw talent he is obviously amazing beyond words, but ever since his injuries all he does is go around like a raging bull, dropping others left and right with - as you described - total bonehead moves. It's really a shame, but this can't go on or else we'll end up with worse than a bruised Oliveira. And Kelso....yeah. For those who've seen That 70's Show, I guess it's in the name

Maybe 64 teams then Which would actually be a significantly better idea than 48, since an event like this really should have a number of participants like 16, 32 or 64. It would definitely not be great, but better than the very difficult 48.

Freestyle skiing - 2021 world championships aerials bronze medalist (and mixed team world champion) Pavel Krotov of Russia has died, aged 30 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Krotov They specifically say the cause of death is not made public, which sadly does of course suggest something, generally speaking. https://sport.rambler.ru/winter/50442862-umer-chempion-mira-2021-goda-fristaylist-pavel-krotov/

Maybe having 48 teams in the World Cup could help solve that, but that would of course be a ridiculous amount Oh wait.

2:37.44 world record for Kimberley Garcia Leon. Local commentator seemed a little enthousiastic, announcing the record when she hadn't crossed the line yet, she only had one second left to break it But Leon having the WR in Dudinska sounds a hell of a lot better than Nikiforova setting it in Chelyabinsk, considering the reputation of Russian race walking

Also against Sweden? What's with Sweden and scoring super fast multiple goals, considering the last time the Netherlands had such a fast 3-0 deficit was also against them? (in 1919)

Since it's basically ice hockey and we destroyed those Slovaks, we demand a spot in the Olympic ice hockey tournament! @hckošice