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6000 doses? What about that?

Tests without their parents' consent, that is, if the article is correct. That's quite a distinction If possible, there should be some document or so which parents can sign, after which their children can be tested for doping.. At least it seems this mostly comes from the country's authorities, and not so much from Norway's NADO, which seems to want to change this. The auto-translation needs some work btw, Svetlana Zhurova was mostly able to skate very fast, not necessarily very pretty

Well yeah, I can imagine you're not performing when you take every pill you see in a five kilometer radius

That's alright, more space for the lovely ticking of the poles on asphalt

But everyone with common sense knows that a meteorologist doesn't make a 100% prediction, but estimates based on all kinds of models and calculations. It seems they weren't even all wrong, since there was rain nearby, but unless you're living in certain areas of the world it's utterly impossible to come with a literal prediction of exactly in which square meter it will rain how much... They don't shrug their shoulders when they are wrong neither, they use the information they've gathered to improve things for the next time, basically.

Huh, it seems the short track qualifying heats have all been cancelled. They were scheduled for today until a few days ago, apparently now they're not on the schedule anymore. Too bad, now we start a day later

Today we're in the Basque Country Not meant like that by the organizers of course, but it's sort of an hommage to doctor Iñigo San Millán, the doctor of Tadej Pogacar and Juan Ayuso (and others) at UAE, who is from today's start location Vitoria-Gasteiz and often spends time in today's finish location, Laguardia. The doctor who publicly said he would immediately leave a team if he ever notices anything suspicious going on, yet he was one of the brains behind the epic Saunier Duval time (you know, Riccardo Ricco, Leonardo Piepoli and the likes) and he immediately got back to work with the same doctors and managers as soon as Saunier Duval was caught and done Including getting himselved involved with some Operation Aderlass shenanigans and such. Lovely, trustworthy fellow, really hammers home the image cycling tries to show the world of the people from their dark days not being involved anymore

Hopefully that includes replays.

@Vektor Dutch media is saying Orban/one of his ministers fired the head of the Hungarian meteorological service because the stormy and rainy weather they predicted - which led to postponing a firework's show on a national holiday - didn't actually happen Are they missing something and are there more reasons, or is this really the main thing? That almost sounds too North Korean to be true, but judging by the things you say about Orban, it also wouldn't be surprising

This would be hilarious if it wasn't so incredibly tragic. Three out of a hundred people blaming the actual country which actually militarily invaded another country. So 97 out of 100 people (in this poll) would say the bully who beats up a kid isn't the main person at fault for the kid being beaten up, but everyone else - including the victim - is

Any Dutch guys? I remember one or two years ago suddenly we had some strong brothers

Schippers was actually in the studio as analyst on the day of the women's 200m final, she seemed MUCH nicer than when she was a (seriously) active athlete Although former hurdler Gregory Sedoc is far and away the best and nicest analyst the NOS has in athletics.

Great to have NOS miss the deciding part - especially including a very rare Dutch athlete with a chance in it - because of evaluating and analysing Visser's final.

I managed to do it by at some point just saying it out loud 10 times and now I got it (and writing about it every now and then helps ) I'm already glad this is not the famous Madagascar vs Sri Lanka Invitational

Mezngi isn't so well known yet, so like with almost literally every non-white European athlete who first starts appearing, the Belgian commentator seems to feel obligated to mention an African background

Van Poppel is also happy to finally see his rise to arguably the best leadout in the world be rewarded with his sprinter actually finishing ahead of him

Women's European championships road race was today, Elisa Balsamo got surprisingly close to Lorena Wiebes Don't think anyone has been within 3 bike lengths of Wiebes in a sprint this year, so that's quite a performance, but it wasn't enough to beat her

Just rewatched it, luckily skipping big parts, and the feeling of what the fuck started when someone got to the finish but some red lines were in front of it, some more arrived and suddenly some where out of the water and others kept swimming and what on earth was going on But yeah, now reading things from swimmers and coaches: it seems that anyone involved (other than swimmers and coaches) with this event in Rome (the open water, of course) won't need to try and be involved in any other open water event again, because they had zero clue what they were doing...

So yeah, European mountainbike XCO championships have gone, and weren't too interesting. Thomas Pidcock was way better than the rest in the men's race, Pauline Ferrand Prevot dominated the women's race until some mechanical trouble threw her back to silver, way behind Loane Lecomte, and that never became a real fight. Only fight was for bronze, with Anne Terpstra dropping Jolanda Neff eventually. Also the track was utterly awful, only yesterday's rain provided a bit of interesting stuff. The women even avoided 95% of the already terrible fake rocks.

Just noticed Well, three of the four 5k finals, that is, the first one was apparently still held. Although it's still odd that the entire live stream of yesterday - from before things got rescheduled - isn't available anyway, because plenty of finals were definitely held (I watched a couple live on that stream, then thought I'd watch the rest today).

Apparently Munich 2022 forgot to post yesterday's live stream after it finished, so it's not possible to watch the 5k finals anymore

Hurray, more useless stuff at home

Julius van den Berg (berg = mountain) getting the first mountain jersey Not that we really saw it, thanks to the typically Spanish TV directing

That's planned for the Amerongse Berg I believe, yes. All the other stuff with upside down Dutch flags is farmers protesting, which has been a whole big deal in the Netherlands since this summer. Something with them having to stop expanding and start getting smaller because they are massively polluting everything with their non-stop growth, mega farms and nitrogen emissions. Especially where I live (rural) you'll see a lot of those upside down flags, mainly in the smaller villages around there's places where almost literally every lamp post has one Which is mostly annoying, but less annoying than the blocking of roads and highways they've been doing for a while.

"Parque Nacional Dunas de Loonse y Drunense" Love it how the Spanish make all these things sound so odd Meanwhile there's a first attacking group, including Jetse Bol. Which is obvious, he already won a race at the Amerongse Berg when he was 14 years old, he will give everything to get the mountain point there.