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The season has gotten underway Mariama Jamanka and Vanessa Mark lead the way after the first run, closely followed by Katrin Beierl and Jennifer Odasanya. Sadly my favourite Laura Nolte crashed in the first run, she was well on her way to at least attack Jamanka's time Run two coming up!

This is more than excellent news, Tessie Savelkouls has been on the tatami yesterday for the first time since her horror leg injury in February (shortly after which doctors gave her a 1% chance to simply walk normally again!) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHz7ownl8MB/

Meanwhile in Brazil, the national rollerski circuit is coming to a close these days, with today the first of five races in six days - a 5 and 10 kilometer freestyle mass start. The women's win went to - who else - @brunamoura, who fought off Mika Picin basically the entire race. Mika accelerated, Bruna accelerated and on it went until the final climb was done and it was a dowhill followed by a flat with strong wind in the back, where Mika couldn't close the gap anymore. Third place for Duda Ribera. https://www.instagram.com/p/CH0SnBwHUR9/ The men's win went to Victor Santos, who will most likely be Brazil's male representative in the 2022 Olympics. In a final sprint, he beat Yuri Rocha and Chilean Yona Fernandez, also known as @Jesús. Interesting fifth place for one Wilbert Rodrigues, doesn't happen often that I've never heard of a top-5 finisher in these races.

I put new batteries in my remote if the batteries get low (which I don't think has happened to my current remote for years now that I think of it)

Last season's World Cup winner Sarah Höfflin and 5th place Giulia Tanno didn't even come close to qualifying for the slopestyle final in Stubai. http://medias3.fis-ski.com/pdf/2021/FS/8063/2021FS8063RLQ.pdf

I must say I'm curious what he'll do next to Nakagami. I was sceptical of him early in the season, but he has definitely had moments that showed he's got real talent. Of course not compared like his brother yet and probably not on Repsol Honda level yet, but I do think he can get there eventually.

2021 is going to look so different Miller and Bagnaia moving 'up' to Ducati's factory team, Petrucci moving to KTM, Dovizioso gone. Zarco and debutant Jorge Martin replacing the first two at the third Ducati team with Enea Bastianini and Luca Marini replacing them, meaning all six Ducati bikes will have a different rider next year. Rossi moving up to Petronas and Quartararo moving down to the Yamaha factory team (yeah, I know officially it's a move up, but quite clearly it isn't really). Oliveira moving up to KTM's factory team to replace Pol Espargaro, who moves to Repsol Honda to replace Alex Marquez, who will move to LCR Honda to replace Cal Crutchlow, who will move to Yamaha's test bike to replace Lorenzo. Easily the biggest chain of replacements Then there's Marc Marquez most likely coming back and an Aprilia seat still open for whoever wants to ride around in the back most of the time. That's a grand total of 13 (not counting MM) out of 22 bikes that will have a different rider next year, damn.

Again without geoblock, oh my Thanks!

Can the Bruksvallarna races be seen anywhere? If so, I'll avoid the results until I've seen it. If not, I'll just look at the results

Yes, let's compare the current situation (accusations everywhere, evidence...absolutely nowhere) with a situation that's more or less been proven: Russian interference in the 2016 elections. Trump being actively involved wasn't proven, but Russia influencing the elections hasn't really been a matter of 'did they or did they not?' for quite a while now.

So far today: last night's NCAAF and a rather boring boxing fight, plus the women's skeleton which I watched in between work - mostly while things were loading/converting/working etc so there was some idle time. Later today definitely the men's skeleton and last night's NFL highlights, plus quickly some highlights - if they're there, otherwise just results - of the Moto3/2/GP practice sessions and probably ski jumping qualifying tonight. The weekend is not that full yet, with only alpine skiing, ski jumping, bobsled, speed skating and the MotoGP paddock in action for me, but next weekend it's gonna get winter crazy again

What a weird season opener Kimberley Bos with her second ever podium, the first in nearly four years (gosh, time is flying...I remember when she started competing in Europe Cups...) and Endija Terauda making her World Cup debut with a podium Sure, home track and all, but entering the big leagues with a podium is quite a performance no matter how you look at it.

I don't watch medal ceremonies at Olympics though, let alone at Youth Olympics, so I certainly didn't hear it there. I am 100% certain I've heard it before, since I could basically whistle along with the tune and I simply know it. Maybe I've simply heard it on the IBSF broadcasts before the races start before, although generally I turn off the sound until the event actually starts (and often I don't even watch live but later and then I skip the whole music thing anyway). It's odd

I believe @Wumo already created a Totallympics league before the season started a few weeks ago

Does anybody else recognize the intro music from something else? I'm not sure whether I recognize it from earlier IBSF live streams or from another sports-related event, possibly a multi-sports event In case there is no music anymore and they're already live, of course just rewind to the beginning to listen.

To be fair, Bendsneyder only started to get some sense of pace as soon as the decision to let him go was made (because him not being retained is news from a while ago). It's too bad he got a more than excellent result now, but he really did have plenty of chances to show this before and he really can't put everything on 'the other tracks didn't suit the NTS'. Besides, it's not like NTS has a huge pool to fish from, everyone who's been fighting for podium positions will either want to stay in Moto3 or get a chance at anything better in Moto2. Baltus has shown 'some' things in Red Bull Rookies last year, but pretty much everyone who performs better there is out of their league. I really can't see the likes of Holgado, Muñoz or Muñoz, Salvador or for example top riders Guevara or Artigas make a move to NTS of all places. Basically: NTS has to gamble in terms of which riders are possible for them, and with Baltus, they do have someone who has shown excellent things in the one or two years before his full-time GP debut and who very much has the age where significant growth is possible. Not saying he will go for wins at all, but given the very limited group of riders they can choose from, Baltus is not a bad choice. I don't think he'll perform much worse than Bendsneyder did (until the pressure was off due to him being let go) and am quite certain he'll do way better than Biesiekierski.

Exit-polls won't help much when there's such an insane amount of mail-in ballots, which both candidates actively pushed towards one side. Plus one can wonder anyway how many surprises there really were. A lot of the turnarounds really were not that surprising given the combination of where votes still had to come from and what kind of votes they were.

Not really I think, since Ohio started with the mail-in ballots and then, as was roughly to be expected, Trump gained ground when the Election Day votes were being counted and reported, which happened at more of a steady pace than the mail-in 'dumps'.

Yes, it happened. However, it was not a 'Biden votes dump', as Trump suggests it was: it was the massive dump of results from mail-in ballots coming out of Milwaukee, where Biden was expected to win by a huge margin (roughly 40 percent points I believe, which is closing in on 200k votes). That, plus the fact that Biden was very heavily winning mail-in ballots* made for a double 'bonus' one could expect from 170k Milwaukee mail-in ballots coming in. Trump obviously got a whole bunch of votes in that dump as well, it was just nothing - as expected for perfectly valid reasons - compared to Biden's numbers. *Trump asked why this was possible later....it was because he himself was casting doubt on mail-in voting all the time and so Republicans barely did that!

I wonder, is this another one of those screenshots from an independent website that's nothing official at all and is most likely a correction of an earlier mistake? Just like Michigan's (?) 138k-0 for Biden at some point, which Trumpists said proved fraud, but was actually quickly debunked to simply be the correction of a mistake?

I was planning to have that in the opening ceremony, but completely forgot it in the last week full with preparations My apologies!

https://www.ibsf.org/images/api/download/competitions/c8676bf7-e954-4331-8278-7364831b9622_start_list_bobsleigh_10.00.pdf https://www.ibsf.org/images/api/download/competitions/57d1d39c-187b-4ac7-90f6-c9c0199bbd1c_start_list.pdf Sure, they are for tomorrow's training, but the skeleton training start lists of today ended up having the same 18 names per gender as the race start lists To add to my previous post (or correct it): I thought he meant the skeleton start lists I saw this morning, which were for today's training. But apparently they're there for Friday's races now, so they are of course complete, one can assume.

Someone's lining up for an epic Olympic comeback

100 days until the world championships. I so badly hope that will come true