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That is just really odd indeed. Normally the individual is the event where some exotic athletes don't take part, because it's simply quite long, and so the sprints usually have more athletes. But if this goes even for the top nations, only two athletes per gender in the sprint really devalues the entire competition, that would just be....well, nonsense.

Whoah, check out what was just on the radio here, never heard that before on the radio so wanted to share it with y'all

Oh absolutely. And in biathlon they can get very easy money and equipment support from the IBU, so that might help to fund their CC efforts if they'd decide to go that way (lots of exotic athletes compete in one or two IBU Cup weekends just to fund their CC season for example).

As long as they at least are aware of proper biathlon safety rules. It may sound silly, but they are handling lethal weapons and more than once have junior/youth athletes from this kind of exotic nations (including those competing internationally in things like the IBU Junior Cup) never been taught the strict but basic safety things in terms of handling the rifle and everything around it...I remember a situation where a youth athlete simply put a still loaded rifle back in the hotel, where luckily the next day the athlete who picked that rifle was more experienced..

Matter of time for them to create their own rollerski circuit and start farming the sweet points in a few years I hope we'll see more of them, but somehow I fear they will fade away before most of them are 20...

Smells like IIHF was one of the first ones to dip their toes in the water to test it and see what the reactions would be, and the water is still a bit too cold for them

Well that's early is of course in.

Don't they say wisdom comes with age? At least the lack of it still makes me feel young for now I guess

In case it matters, I actually am aware of my tendency to overreact quite often in the moment and regret it a few days later

Also: did all the defenders retire from football or what? I had to Google Brozovic, but apparently he is a defensive midfielder, so that's something, but....same story every year with all the hundred awards, and people on the social media going "X scored Y goals, so he is better!"

The problem is the team size is small, not so much that they add one extra athlete. Basically: things are wrong with this, but 'there will be an AP athlete' isn't the main one

Just read it for what it is: a bit of provoking, who cares Curious what's the 2026 thing going to be!

Yeah, the IOC probably wants the Youth Olympics to mostly be a thing where people go "Oh right, let me quickly check the results" and that's it

To be fair, if every continental event in all the sports and lots of national championships and entire World Cup seasons of nearly all Olympic sports are on your calendar, there really isn't going to be a time where you've got two weeks available for this If it was in March, it would be bad timing because of South German dressage championships, and in November because of the Abkhazian curling classics (nothing against you, it's the same for me, there is never an 'empty moment' except for basically two weekends a year when most winter sports are done and the summer things didn't really start yet and vice versa )

Yeah, it's unfortunately the same in the World Cups. It's like they have a perfect system for races, but for trainings they use something entirely different which just doesn't work (for years already)

Right, now I remember one of the flaws of this result system, for whatever reason they show training results (hopefully not actual race results later on) like this I mean....come on, just enter "Sort by 'Time'" somewhere

Mentioning Daytona 24, but not the Daytona 500....ouch, man But yeah, in terms of time it's entirely logical, I just don't think there is such a wide interest in Youth Olympics as we on this forum - me definitely included - would like to believe

Oh I didn't even mean that Schwarz and Vlhova obviously became leaders in the World Cup, but several of the other medalists are having nice World Cup careers as well. In 2016 that's a bit less the case, where River Radamus and Alione Danioth were all the hype, but Radamus never really lived up to that (but he's got a decent World Cup career going now) and Danioth just snowballed from bad luck to bad luck with, if I'm not mistaken, 6 (!) serious injuries in as many years..

True, but being entirely honest....it's the Youth Olympics, even if they were in the middle of the European day I honestly doubt there'd be much more than a handful of viewers... We would watch it, obviously, but we on this forum really are nowhere near the 'normal' sports fan

Always nice to look back at old junior/youth results That good old time, when skiing powerhouses like Morocco and the Netherlands won medals

There is some ice hockey in the second half of the European morning! Skeleton isn't really early neither, after 9am European time. Curling is even later than that, the problem with that (for me) is that it's curling Men's ice hockey final even starts at midday European time. But yeah, in general it is incredibly focused on only half of the day. I remember the Pyeongchang Olympics were not much different, there were several days in which I was just playing a game for one or two hours during the Korean day, simply because nothing was going on.....(followed by like 4 finals at the same time, come on)

That was excellent if I remember correctly, just remember to keep it open on a tab and do not accidentally refresh it during the day, because the only disadvantage is that they show the medal winners on the main page But other than that, this one is perfectly fine!

Can't wait for that to be online. Especially since it's the central hub not only for results, start lists and whatnot, but also simply for the basically finalized schedules.

Q-School is over, Darren Webster didn't make it and is somewhat angry (and being rather dumb). He doesn't even know the event he is playing in. "128 players in Germany (the EU Q-School event) and England" just isn't true: that's the number of players in the second stage in both events, for which certain players - including Webster - were automatically qualified. However, the rest of the players came from stage 1, which was Monday through Wednesday, and where the EU event had 150+ more players. In other words, EU event having more Tour Cards to distribute is....well, entirely logical. Even more....interesting: Webster would actually have made it if he had not played today. He lost out on leg difference, but today he won a match 6-4 and then lost 6-2, in other words, had he not played today, his leg difference would have been 2 legs better and that would have been enough.

I honestly don't think it's a problem, it wouldn't be the first time he's this good months apart. Besides, peaking twice in a month or so...yeah, that's difficult, but half a year in between two peaks really shouldn't be a problem for professional athletes...