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As usually these days in the evening (and afternoon): darts

To be fair, in marathon, races like Berlin are the big events, certainly not world championships But yeah, Kipchoge. Another of those athletes that makes me think "Right, that's true!"

I know there's not really much happiness in regards to Bolsonaro, but with a little over one day of presidency to go, it looks like he has fucked right off to the other Fallen President in Florida for some sort of Sore Loser's New Year's Eve The presidental plane left 40 minutes or so ago, presumably of course with Bolsonaro on board (although that hasn't yet been confirmed). Surely it will have nothing to do with legal trouble which might start the literal second he isn't president anymore

I've been wondering, what exactly is the purpose of replacing a pursuit with a same-distance mass start? How does it save anything? If you can use a shorter track for a mass start, surely you can do the same for a pursuit, so that makes no difference. Plus in a pursuit, there's the wave start at say 4 minutes or so, so there will be a maximum of what, 10 minutes more in which an athlete is on track? That shouldn't make too much of a difference.. But yeah, 10-12 degrees for Oberstdorf the days after tomorrow, not as awful as it was for the 2021 world championships, but it's not promising...

"Who the hell is that?", a question I ask myself with dozens of nominees

BEST FEMALE ATHLETE for sportswomen in Olympic sports #1: Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands, cycling) #2: Marte Olsbu Røiseland (Norway, biathlon) #3: Tobi Amusan (Nigeria, athletics) #4: Therese Johaug (Norway, cross-country skiing) #5: #6: BEST MALE ATHLETE for sportsmen in Olympic sports #1: Remco Evenepoel (Belgium, cycling) #2: Alexander Bolshunov (Russia, cross-country skiing) #3: Nils van der Poel (Sweden, speed skating) #4: Armand Duplantis (Sweden, athletics) #5: #6: BEST PARALYMPIC ATHLETE for athletes in Paralympic sports #1: #2: #3: #4: #5: #6: BEST NON-OLYMPIC ATHLETE for athletes in Non-Olympic sports #1: Max Verstappen (Netherlands, Formula 1) #2: Francesco Bagnaia (Italy, MotoGP) #3: Peter Hickman (UK, road racing) #4: #5: #6: BEST YOUTH ATHLETE for any athlete up to 18 years old (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports) #1: David Popovici (Romania, swimming) #2: Izan Guevara (Spain, Moto3) #3: Erriyon Knighton (USA, athletics) #4: #5: #6: BEST MEN'S TEAM for men's teams or groups (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports) #1: Germany bobsleigh four #2: Finland men's ice hockey team #3: Morocco men's football team #4: #5: #6: BEST WOMEN'S TEAM for women's teams or groups (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports) #1: #2: #3: #4: #5: #6: BEST DOUBLES OR PAIR for doubles or pairs (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports) #1: #2: #3: #4: #5: #6: BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR for the most improved athlete or team (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports) #1: Johannes Strolz (Austria, alpine skiing) #2: Hannah Neise (Germany, skeleton) #3: Ursa Bogataj (Slovenia, ski jumping) #4: Kimberly Garcia (Peru, athletics) #5: Morocco men (football) #6: SPORT MOMENT OF THE YEAR for any sport moment from 2022 (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports) #1: Biniam Girmay winning the cycling classic Gent-Wevelgem, the first real major win in history for an African cyclist #2: Lindsey Jacobellis' snowboard cross gold, after years and years of both bad luck and own mistakes costing her medals #3: Nils van der Poel winning the Olympic 10k in an insane world record #4: Dylan van Baarle winning a fantastic edition of Paris-Roubaix #5: The heptathlon finish at the athletics world championships #6: France tying the FIFA World Cup final from 0-2 within one and a half minute OLYMPIC SPIRIT AWARD for any athlete or team that took part in the 2022 Winter Olympics or Paralympics #1: Bruna Moura (Brazil, cross-country skiing, qualified for the Olympics despite a run-up full of, say, non-ideal situations, but missed them due to a (for the driver) fatal car accident, resulting in several fractures, a full year of recovering yet an immediate "2026 is next" on day one) #2: Simen Hegstad Krüger (Norway, cross-country skiing, medal after missing most of the Olympics due to COVID) #3: Ireen Wüst (Netherlands, speed skating, history by winning five individual gold medals at five different Olympics) #4: #5: #6:

Question: for the Olympic spirit award, do athletes count who qualified for the Olympics, but couldn't compete due to bad luck and such? Or do they have to have had an actual start?

Only recently got to know more about what kind of a person he was outside of football by the way. A shame I came across that so shortly before his death, because now he's in my mind as a rather shitty person so I'll try to look at him as a great football player and nothing more or less

The legendary Pelé has passed away, aged 82.

Finally, found it https://www.lakeplacid2023.com/events/list/ No idea why the competition schedule page only links to itself instead of this page, but alright. It's not perfect yet, no separate run times for alpine skiing for example, but it seems to be 90% complete or so

It's always cute when these multi-events pretend to really know something about the sports themselves, you'll end up getting generic nonsense like this text "Known as the middle distance for women and a sprint for men" Uhm, no. Not at all Meanwhile, still not a readable competition schedule on the website, with only two weeks to go.

I know Eurosport is known for having an international group of experts, with not always the very best English, and that's all totally fine because it makes it feel nicely international instead of just English...but Francesca Marsaglia is apparently their newest addition and she kind of sets a new level of being hard to understand Seems like a good addition, generally speaking, but I do hope she will get some lessons in English pronunciation..

During an interview at the bottom of the Super-G course, right after the course inspection. Wow. https://sport.orf.at/stories/3106051/

Meanwhile we're in the 3rd round. Van Gerwen vs Suljovic, one of the best matches in a long time, especially the second set was one of the best ever sets on TV, insane. Now, 3-1 in sets, 2-2 in legs, and Van Gerwen with 121 for the match, with Suljovic on 161. Van Gerwen: single 20, treble 17....and then a single 18 to leave double 16, instead of going directly for the bulls-eye finish. Basically saying to Suljovic "you are not going to finish this 161". Of course Suljovic then showed a super cool 161 finish to stay in the match

50 million euro Good luck to him

And now that we're on it anyway, is there a better competition schedule than the one on the official website? https://www.lakeplacid2023.com/competition-schedule/

With the Eurosport Player sadly reaching it's final end in two weeks or so, a switch to Discovery+ might finally be unavoidable. Too bad, the Player has such an excellent video player and easy to navigate website (with zero spoilers).

Is there a list of broadcasting rights outside the US? I remember in 2017 things were streamed on FISU's own platform quite a bit, but I don't really remember how easy it was to rewatch things. I'm not going to take holidays for the Universiade so especially combined with the time difference I'll depend on being able to watch it non-live.

Always a fun evening I'm going for Christiansen/Tandrevold as main favourites.

The current Russian Super-Accidentally-Falling-From-Windows-Epidemic has struck again

That post ended better than I feared, good to know she's out of that hellhole..

That's usually not something we do for Christmas (honestly I don't remember ever doing that at Christmas), but coincidentally it is planned for tomorrow at my sister's place I think we do it on average once every 2-3 years or so, maximum

I was planning to make some dinner photos as well, and started out well, enthusiastically making a photo of the carpaccio starter....and then suddenly I realized the dinner was over and I had forgotten to take any other photos

I was listening to that earlier today The entire Mr Hankey Christmas album actually

And in case he's awake already, @Olympian1010's tradition can start as well