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@phelps You probably know this: the Norwegian championship races in Vind today, which are shown on NRK, are probably not possible to be viewed from outside of Norway, correct? For Swedish TV, setting the VPN to Sweden works, but for NRK, setting VPN to Norway only results in a message stating you can't use a VPN, and without the VPN, you need to log in with proof of residency in Norway Any workaround?

Speed skater finishes 0,01 second behind the fastest time: "Not quite good enough" Speed skater finishes several seconds behind the fastest time: "Just shy of the gold medal position" Ah, the generic English commentators with zero experience with the sports they're commentating on I can't count the amount of times I've heard "and he/she is now rrrrreally pushing hard!" in the final lap (as if they're not pushing hard earlier) or "It's starting to look like he/she is in a little bit of pain now!" in the last meters. Those commentators really win every single gold medal in the kicking-in-an-open-door-competition They're also unbelievably bad in reading lap times 1500m, rider goes from 27.0 to 28.3 or so the next lap, being 3 seconds under the currently fastest time, whose rider had a 30.x final lap. Meaning the rider would have to totally collapse from 28.3 to 33-34 seconds within a lap, which just isn't happening at all, but still, the commentator goes all "will he be able to set the fastest time!?" when he literally has 5 seconds left for the last 10 meters

Checking the start lists for the shorttrack, which starts today, and I am positively surprised: there are quite some decent and well-known names in the field, from Anna Seidel to Furkan Akar and Quentin Fercocq, that's gonna be fun

Meanwhile I've heard Brazil may have a woman in the sprint in Livigno (and possibly the team sprint), so there's a little fun fact for the weekend ahead

Yesterday, it was exactly one year after Bruna officially qualified for the Olympics with the last race in the qualifying period: And yesterday, exactly one year later, she got the green light from the doctor to compete in next month's world championships Doctor just needs to send the letter, which should be today, and she's good to go! #roadtocortina2026

Somehow the speed skating 1000m's weren't on the original schedule for Sunday, so I'm catching up with them now, and damn. I am absolutely in love with the speed skating venue One of the best venues I have seen at any multi-sports event in a long time (probably since the 2017 Universiade with the speed skating at the legendary Medeo track!).

The rules in the first post should make it clear enough But in short: Monzanator got the previous answer correct (more or less, in this case), and so he can post a new record. He posted '382', and it's now up to us what this record is. It could be the number of shots on goal in an ice hockey match, it could be most consecutive wins for a tennis player, other times it's a world record in athletes, it can be anything

To be fair, those American sports/competitions (MLB/NBA/NFL/NHL) are absolutely known for all those nonsense 'records' and stats being used as graphics and even discusses seriously

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