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Brazil will also be represented in these European championships

So we had shorttrack and cross country and ski jumping and alpine skiing in the morning and now it's not even close to halfway in the afternoon and there's just some group matches in this and that left?

Having a cross-country stream is fantastic, but they could, you know, show the times or something. Or anything

Even live the stream can't be rewinded or paused I feel like 10 years ago it would be a matter of 'be happy to be able to see something', but nowadays it really should be no problem at all, in the slightest, to have a pausable and rewatchable stream available.

Oh, there is a MicroPlus system Well that's a bit of good news on this Monday morning! Now the streams being on-demand, please

Plus, much to my positive surprise, it doesn't have that SUPER annoying thing where the medalists are shown in the schedule, like during the Olympics, where one has to open the schedule for the day and absolutely make sure not to refresh that page until you've seen everything you wanted.

At least for Vuokatti a lot of things were posted on YouTube quite quickly, and Finnish TV showed quite a lot, which one actually could watch later as well...not having high hopes for this

Also, is there any website with results or simply start lists? Official website is all nice and pleasing for the eye and the sponsors, but once again entirely void of actual information.

The streams can only be seen live, by the way? Trying to click on that website but nothing works, like a simple on-demand view isn't possible..

And before that, I believe they used the xxx.sportresult.com system, which every single multi-sport event ever should use (or the MicroPlus system like the Universiade, that one worked like a charm as well) To be fair though, if FIS and IBU have the live timing running in their usual way, that is absolutely a million times better than any multi-sports event can ever have, few things around multi-sport events are more annoying than spending the first days getting used to the results system when the IF has a perfectly fine one already

UCI accepting this idiotic last kilometer in San Juan You've got a super straightforward strage, basically going straight ahead for 140km, and then in the last kilometer - when the peloton is in full sprint mode - all of a sudden there's a split in the road which wasn't fenced off, so they still had to choose a left or right

"The top-4 teams will battle it out for the podium places, the rest fights for the minor places." While showing both Norway teams being half a minute behind in qualifying after very obviously having taken it very easy there.

Oi Generic British Eurosport commentator: Eduarda Ribera lives around 1000km from Brasilia, not in Brasilia

Anyway this women's qualifying is nothing but a warmup for the top countries (so everyone outside of Brazil today), since everyone goes to the final anyway

I think this turns the qualifying into a soulless event, which just isn't really interesting to watch, whereas the semis used to be fun to watch. The one time FIS doesn't go for making things more 'fun' to watch, they mess up an event They could perfectly well make the semis have the same basic format as the final, but with 2 laps per athlete (or even 1), while still keeping it a head-to-head race. Usually there's plenty of 'fastest non-automatic qualifier times' anyway to not really make it an unfair division in the team sprint.

Different kind of team sprint qualifying today, and it does not sound fun at all: every athlete will simply do the lap of yesterday's individual sprint, and the times of the two athletes are added together to form the ranking. No exchanges, no multiple laps, no head-to-head fights, nothing to make it a team sprint other than adding some times. Apparently all 14 teams in the women's event will be going to the final, which means a final spot for Brazil

I'm sure it's been posted before, but I'm a day behind and so avoiding spoilers But yeah, this France finishing dead-last, then getting the PEN because of a wrong exchange...only to protest that, because they said THEY were actually the only ones with a correct exchange...and they were absolutely right

Fairly annoyed with that generic British Eurosport commentator going "Gabriela Neres, living at 1200m altitude in Brasilia, but it hasn't helped her, because she is way, way off the mark" Come on dude, give 'em a break, don't expect the Brazilians to have Swedish pace.

Gabi Neres will make her World Cup debut in an hour or so Eduarda Ribera will debut as well, right behind Gabi, whereas Victor Martins has done it before.

Well that is a fun bit of news Now take their 1995/96 Champions League title with the least secretly doped team ever

Catching up with last night's shorttrack...those default yellow helmets, that's nice old school, love it

Well that is fantastic, I have no problem waiting a bit to see these things, same day is perfect

That explains why I had never heard of her, since I barely follow the NHL or the big world championships, let alone the junior ones But to be fair, how likely would you be reading a thread about the U18 cyclo-cross championships? I'll be watching that video tonight

For Ettifaq vs Al-Fateh of course, obviously PS: Those top two on the left, is that their trademark 'goal celebration' that their PR agency came up with like with all those 'stars' nowadays? Nowadays you always know a goal is not very important when the player does their PR-thingy afterwards, whereas the actually important goals are celebrated with real emotion and cheering and running and jumping

Somehow this sounded sarcastic, so just to be sure I googled her name....damn That is one talented lady