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Being annoyed by Eurosport's way to fill the commercials with other things than commercials (those 'best of Giro 2019' things and so on) is my default reaction when they're on It's like they have four different ones and will play those for the entire year.

It's 2 January and so it's happy birthday to Kane Tanaka, the third ever person in history verified to reach the rather respectable age of 118 years https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20210102/k10012793571000.html For a 118-year old she looks rather...lively

Chisnall is absolutely tearing apart Van Gerwen

And yeah, Karlsson is absolutely the big winner of today. I do think she has a bit of potential to have one or two off-days now and then, but she is definitely the big favourite even more than she already was now. Not to even mention Bolshunov

Wow, I had completely missed this: she finished 4th and then I went on to watch the men's final and that was it. Lampic really didn't do anything wrong there, that's a sad relegation.

Ah, Garmisch. The one ski jumping event that's shown live on the regular Dutch TV, as shown by the commentary: "The best 50 jumpers qualify for the final, together with that 5 best losers." What

Just having some regular afternoon fun in New York.

It's been a few days, but there was a rather awesome world championships qualification tournament in Heerenveen for the Dutch skaters last weekend and Monday. The absolute highlight was a truly epic 10k between Jorrit Bergsma and Patrick Roest, in which Roest seemed to be out, before he managed to rise up and throw down a complete blinder of a final 2k (he nearly went under 28 seconds in the final lap!) for 12:35.20 minutes, not even two seconds slower than the world record and the second fastest time in history. Bergsma finished in 12:37.72 which is now the fourth fastest time in history. The men's 1000m saw an impressive 1:07.36 for Thomas Krol, Roest skated the 5k track record into history with 6:08.21 minutes. The women's 500m had an awesome fight between Femke Kok and Jutta Leerdam who posted a 37.08 and 37.24 in the first run (they didn't come close in run two). Only Nao Kodaira (36.94 in Gangneung) and Angelina Golikova (37.02 in Heerenveen) have ever been faster at sea level than Kok's race. Those were the main highlights, although the women's 3k was very impressive as well with Antoinette de Jong skating a new track record in 3:57.32 minutes, Irene Schouten finished in 2nd but won the 5k in a great 6:51.45 minutes. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wereldkampioenschapskwalificatietoernooi_schaatsen_2020/2021

Yep, noticed that as well, who knows what happens though if he manages to pick out the right races instead of racing in 'tough' countries like Switzerland (still, I wouldn't bet on it since under 300 at the world championships seems rather....unlikely ). No chance for a Project Bogota-like thing neither this time. Pretty good result from Steve Hiestand by the way, also from Manex Silva in the junior race - which I still think is unfair to get the same kind of points as senior races.. Too bad for them they aren't the athletes favoured by the federation, even though Manex is probably the best Brazilian cross-country skier at the moment.

Ah, so RIP Norwegian drivers in 2026 or so.

Best sprinter of all time: absolutely no way at all, not even anywhere near it. I would, however, name him as one of the best cyclists of all time without much of a doubt. Calling him the best sprinter of all time (or even one of the best sprinters of all time) is 1) not really true and 2) takes away from his qualities which are so much more than just sprinting.

Man I really gotta catch up with this. A few years ago I started watching all his videos, starting at A, but at some point I started to forget it and now there's so much to catch up

When looking at myself only? 8/10 at least

He doesn't When he mentions the steeple he says "Usain Bolt isn't doing the 3k steeple, is he?" as a sort of point as to why a 3k super final is a bit of a weird thing in a sport where it's mainly about shorter distances. I know, not the best comparison at all (apart from Bolt also not doing 100m's anymore ), but it was definitely not something against the steeplechase

No more 3km 'super final' at the Dutch allround championships, and there's talk about it being discussed for the European and World Championships as well. https://www.schaatsen.nl/nieuws/2020/december/superfinale-afgeschaft-op-nk-allround-shorttrack-usain-bolt-loopt-ook-geen-3000-meter-steeple/

Landslide in Norway in the middle of the night, with at least ten people missing. So far only helicopters and drones are even able to get there (Ask, north of Oslo).

Truly magnificent match between Van Gerwen and Cullen, who has just missed a match dart.

Damn.. Any report on that I could read? Google Translate will fix the language issue.

That was some run by Cochran-Siegle

Yeah as soon as I read it I was already feeling sorry for you I'll save an extra beer or two for you.

And apparently it's been fixed in Polish favour indeed: tests are negative and the whole qualifying has been thrown overboard to make an exception that fits the organizers better. As if they'd have done this for, say, the likes of Zografski, Soukup, Aigro or Dean. Oh well, good for the strength of the competition of course, let's see if they can turn their incredible post-Christmas luck into something good.

That wind yesterday before run two Good thing there were no spectators allowed already, that could have ended up badly. Hopefully at least it'll be better today so we can see some action.

Wait, what? The whole system would be thrown overboard to save a few jumpers? That must be a first, sort of.. Start list is out by the way, I'd find it incredibly odd if they suddenly just disregard the entire qualification... http://medias4.fis-ski.com/pdf/2021/JP/3005/2021JP3005SLR1.pdf

Just saw the Polish news now, damn. Zyla and Kubacki out are such a shame for the competition and Stekala out while in the shape of his life is just sad

Evans is 7 out of 8 when having a finish under 100 and set his by far highest average ever on TV...this loss really is not on him, he played great.