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Yeah, probably it's something with mixed feelings among athletes: for sure some will prefer Olympic gold, for sure some will prefer a Grand Slam, and I think a lot would say it's 50/50. Kind of like the Four Hill Tournament in ski jumping being an arguably more cherished prize than Olympic gold, but of course also there not every athlete will agree (same in road cycling, kind of). Best option is to just win both

Josie Knight beating Franziska Brausse in the individual pursuit final by 0,003 seconds after an absolutely perfectly timed last half kilometer What a race!

Sighel with the full sweep Only the second man in history to do so, after Sjinkie Knegt in 2018.

Although would one really prefer the Olympic gold over a Grand Slam? (unless you've already got several Grand Slams of course) I honestly have no idea anymore who are the Tokyo Olympic champions

Didn't know about this (or much about her outside of the court), so this post got me reading a little bit....damn, what a story, and what an absolute waste of oxygen scumbag for a father

Seidel won a game

Yeah, we've been hearing the 'it is going to get hard now' line just as often as the 'the next title will be historic' line

Sabalenka - Seidel is an excellent example of Eurosport's eternally unfortunate choice in having the absolute need to show every single 'top-5 athlete destroying lowly ranked athlete' match Double bagel incoming.

Do they still do Game, Schett and Mats? Almost anything that replaces that would be good (although Kyrgios might indeed be an exception to that rule ), but I assume that will be kept for the coverage outside of the matches...?

Too bad, Prizmic came up shy for an amazing upset On the bright side for the media, the 'hunt for the historic X'th title everyone was waiting for' is still going on

New hype train has left the station and it's called Olivia Puranen Only 15 years old and in her first official FIS season she is doing fantastic, yesterday she even put a full 20 seconds on World Cup semi-regular Anni Alakoski in a 10k classic. https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&raceid=45886

Asian Tour started yesterday, with some decent 85+ averages in the final stages, but also this: With leg 1 being this beauty

Nice that the match Eurosport is focusing on is actually interesting for a change Normally they always go for the big names in the first rounds, which usually lead to just wasting TV time since those matches are so often blowouts, but this is very interesting!

And while not eating, booing everything and everyone, because of course it's the Australian Open, where many people don't go to watch tennis, but to be annoying

Prizmic takes the second set against Djokovic I know, not gonna happen, but still

Crowd going.....Wild.

It does have ice hockey matches listed, so that helps, thanks! Although I wish they'd simply have it in a regular way online, instead of as a massive PDF where you need to zoom in endlessly and then scroll back and forth There are such excellent systems, like the Sportresult one I believe (say *eventname*.sportresult.com), but they always have to somehow create their own cumbersome thing at the IOC....not sure the schedule and results system is even available yet, less than a week before the start?

I am highly surprised they didn't spend the time by playing one of various forms of hockey Meanwhile, Brazil's cross-country skiers aren't even on snow yet and are at 30+ degrees temperatures right now. But you know, why try to acclimatize if you're going to finish last anyway (which is an attitude no athlete should have of course, but it is the attitude of the federation, save money on everything possible, because the results will be bad anyway.....duh).

Yeah, because they're at least smart enough to know that's a rather bad idea for themselves.

Draw seems like a rather nice result for Egypt, no? @thepharoah

Yeah that's what I meant with my other post In terms of rescheduling, sometimes there just isn't much choice, but for example Kitzbühel is simply a scheduled double header for some reason (money, I know), which simply makes the Streif win less....well, classic.

To be fair, 10 men's teams is only 1 fewer than four years ago (to keep with the Olympic cycle in terms of comparison), and that still included Russia. Another four years back, there were also only 11 teams, and that included both Russia and Belarus. Four years back again, there were a bit more, with 14 men's teams, but only 9 women's teams (including Russia and Belarus). All in all, at least as far as the past 10-14 years or so are concerned, the numbers aren't really going down that much if you don't count the two now banned countries. I do agree that in general it's a shame to have so few, but I also think it's understandable given that short track speed skating is quite a niche sport.

Oh wow, did the two Italian ladies in the 1500m final drink some Felix Felicis (for Harry Potter fans, for those who aren't, the other name for it is 'Liquid Luck')?

Also, the water in the Red Sea - and a majority of other seas - is apparently red.

Thanks! For now I might just put it in my own agenda on a day by day basis, like just a thing at the end saying "Check today's results" instead of every match, but this will definitely be useful.