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Easily, unfortunately.

Good to see Lithuania being on the rise bit by bit lately (the whole Baltics seem to be in an upwards trend lately in biathlon!)

Awful day for Baiba, fantastic 11th skiing time, but 4+4+2+2 Check off tomorrow's single mixed and then time to go home and prepare for the world championships.

Strong wind in Antholz by the looks of it, women getting ready to start.

Yeah, makes sense with that fog though Some athletes really had tough luck in terms of the fog, which very much cleared up quite quickly.

Right, it's now getting close to February, about time to ask the question: who on Eurosport had the 'brilliant' idea to somehow have some Dorothea Wierer special thingy....Every. Single. Race? The one winter sport of which I generally watched the pre-race stuff....

If I understood correctly, the nation's parade was only a single flagbearer per nation parade? Not familiar with the Brazilian flagbearer Alice Padilha at all, so if the other athletes aren't shown, I don't think I'll really try and rewatch the whole thing (if they're even in Korea yet)

Was Suriname taken? Sorry

Sarrazin says 'non!' with a monster run

Wow, Schieder potentially going for the Streif win?! Long way to go of course, but still!

Out of curiousity: why only one specific NFL match, instead of all four of the playoff matches? (I don't watch a single one of them in it's entirety, but I do watch the NFL's YouTube highlights for all)

Huh, is this a rest week or what?

Out of curiousity, and to see the other results: where did you find that? Because this page, which should have the result, is empty: https://olympics.com/gangwon-2024/en/results/bobsleigh/results-men-s-monobob-trno-000500-.htm

What the hell And damn, top comment on one of the pole vaulting pages showing how sick people have gotten in their conspiracy craziness....every single time something like this happens, goddamn idiots going straight over the back of a dead athlete.

Meanwhile the site is a bit broken today I think, besides the missing schedule in the schedule, all the supposedly finished training sessions come back with the same thing: "No data currently available. Please try again later."

I forgot what the European Games one looked like and didn't use the Pan Am Games one at all, so hard to say, but there's definitely lots of room for improvement. Like, why does that big green top bar keep scrolling down and cover half the page half the time? Another good thing is that, unlike with some other results pages, Ctrl + click works to actually open the result in a new page, whereas with some other results pages even holding Ctrl while clicking opens the result you want in the same page, meaning you have to go back to the main schedule after that....which then gets updated with results you don't want to see yet. That last part will definitely happen if you accidentally refresh before you 'finished' the day, especially team events are going to show the scores of matches on the schedule page. Besides, right now the results/schedule page doesn't even show the times Everything should simply be like for example the FIS website, where you simply see the competition and on the same page a drop-down to available documents, but no results whatsoever, like so

To be fair, when you live in Europe and have a regular day-time work day, being able to watch live, non-24h race sports from Australia means something is off with the schedule in Australia

"We don't have the money for that" should probably be translated as "We are paying some coaches and federation members so much money we don't have money left to actually support the athletes".

Saturday is the first biathlon competition. Brazil's girl for that race was still in Austria.....today. I very much assume they left today, but come on.

Brazil in 18th out of 31, what the hell I guess simply competing sometimes really is enough Nice to see Kuzmina

Meanwhile on the sliding track, it looks more and more like the women's monobob is indeed going to be the least open competition of all: Maja Voigt definitely looks like she's going to run away with this, as one would have expected beforehand. And Latvia is still very much on course for at least 3-4 skeleton medals, where 2 golds + 2-3 other medals wouldn't even be surprising at all. Super strong team!

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..