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Ski jumping being this high in Germany is surprising? How? I wonder how many countries would realistically not have football in at least the top-2 in terms of popularity.

Although to be fair, one can wonder if that's only coming from China. I've heard stories of Brazilian athletes being misclassified as well (but in both directions, so both being helped and being screwed, presumably not on purpose of course). I would be surprised if the same didn't happen in basically any other country. No doubt it happens plenty everywhere, it's so difficult to have a fair competition when almost nobody has exactly the same disability...

Ukrainian football legend is being attacked by the Ukrainian football federation for not specifically making statements against the invasion and for not giving up his job (he works for Russian team Zenit St Petersburg, which is mostly doing it's football thing instead of fighting a war). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoliy_Tymoshchuk

But they are classified, otherwise they can't compete. So I'm confused about what she meant or implied exactly

Oksana Masters said something like "not one of them is classified" or something right after the finish? Maybe I heard wrong

Wow, mourning in Brazil after Cristian's dramatic performance That was utterly, totally disappointing. Everyone involved was really counting on at the very least a place in the final.

This official video suggests one can watch the action on Paralympic.org, but when going there....nada.

Just typing 'Spotify' on Twitter and reading people freak the hell out was more fun than actually listening to Spotify though, I noticed

Well and truly denazified!

Russia's liberation of Kharkiv is going excellent, the people will be happy

Considering the total and blatant amateurism the Russians have been displaying the past two weeks, yes, I absolutely believe that

I see they do indeed have something. Too bad NOS livestreams suck in the sense that one can only see them live, not later. I highly doubt they'll show any cross-country skiing, but we'll give it a try tomorrow morning.

Thread about the secure comms super fail:

So Russia developed a secure communications system, Era. Excellent, most countries do and it's the way to work, no doubt. Guaranteed to work everywhere. However, it needs 3G/4G to work....which the Russians knocked out in cities like Kharkiv. And so they can't use their own secure comms system. And so they're using regular mobile phones, which made it possible to intercept a call between FSB agents confirming the death of an important general.

Unavailable, sadly. Nothing official anywhere? Too bad Eurosport doesn't have these rights.

I can, but it only has some ice hockey and curling I can see, no skiing

Can the Paralympics actually be viewed live anywhere? Or on-demand, even better? I haven't seen a thing yet, but would like to see tomorrow's cross-country sprint..

Since Russia has clearly been sending mostly their 18-year old conscripts, who thought they'd go on a training mission, to the fronts in Ukraine, together with a massive bunch of old machinery, vehicles that fall apart out of misery and no fuel and food, maybe the serious Russian army is still waiting to defend against Japan?

Oh absolutely. Winter sports in general are less competitive, let alone their para-versions. I'm still having 'hope' for Cristian for the sprint, which is his strongest event. Especially considering the amout of enormously intense training they've thrown in the past months, it's no surprise their endurance went way down, hopefully in favour of their explosive power, so to say. Especially Cristian got like 6 times bigger compared to barely a year ago, surely there must be some more power there

Kind of hard to compare paraskiing with non-paraskiing though. One can imagine the strength of the field is a bigger difference than the order in which the heats are run.

Just out of sincere curiousity and in no way meant as an 'attacking' question: how would it be fair to athletes (other than this Kuliak dude) to take away medals they won fair and square (presumably) weeks before their government decided to attack another nation? It won't 'teach them a lesson', because government and people won't care, and the only ones who do care (the athletes) had nothing to do with the whole thing.

Although training on sites daily makes some difference, it's not like it puts you literal minutes ahead in a sport like cross-country skiing I do wonder where they opened this can of disabled athletes from all of a sudden

These Chinese results are insane 2014: no medal 2018: 1 gold 2022 after one and a half days: 6 gold, 4 silver, 6 bronze

Is there a better results website (official) than this one? Because this is awful https://www.paralympic.org/beijing-2022/schedule Edit: never mind, this seems better. https://results.beijing2022.cn/beijing-2022/paralympic-games/en/results/all-sports/paralympic-schedule.htm

I think I had missed some, but today alone I heard the following: Biathlon Benjamin Weger Erik Lesser Nordic combined Eric Frenzel Johannes Rydzek And Kjetil Jansrud had his last alpine skiing World Cup today.