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Has the ever annoying Snoop Dogg been spotted already?

Not sure if it was mentioned, but yet again Edson Bindilatti for Oh well. Succesful closing ceremony already, got pins of Nigeria, (), Malaysia, Trinidad & Tobago, Kosovo Edit: and Bulgaria (but sadly, like Nigeria, that one is apparently not designed so nicely), San Marino and Ecuador Oh, apparently UAE and Madagascar too

Our Olympic Totallympian has delivered one promised pack of stroopwafels, as promised after the 10k, to one J. Diggins

Eliza They were aiming for top20, this is insane! Guys who waxed Bruna’s skis will be happy, as are we

-5 and bright blue skies, Kaiserwetter, as the Germans would say ('Emperor's weather')

It is one tournament though. Firing a coach now, when a year ago in the world championships they destroyed everyone (assuming he was the coach then already), would just be overreacting and creating instability. That is not going to help them in the long run, at all. I'm happy Niels Kerstholt remained for the Dutch, despite a lot of criticism and calls for him to be kicked out early on.

Oh, and both Milan and Bergamo: see you never again, I guess Felt like London: everything looks old, broken and abandoned. Plus driving in Milan is just an absolute horror show. They took literally everything that makes sense when designing roads and such and then just said "ok, this all goes in the trash, let's just randomize this shit". Holy hell. Bergamo wasn't much better, and neither were the highways in between. Doesn't help that I think half the Italian drivers got their license as a bonus when they bought a bottle of milk or something. As the youth may say, in Italy you just yeet yourself into traffic, yell YOLO and hope for the best every day. I'm happy I didn't have plans for anything else in Milan, felt so incredibly out of place there. Very happy to be back in nice, calm Tramin

No, you do not fire a coach after one tournament doesn't go the right way (partially due to unfortunate moments like falls).

It was uncomfortably warm in Bergamo (luckily we got out of Milan last night already) Here it was odd to have 15 degrees but the snow from yesterday still laying around

What a race, what an Olympics, 5 gold medals, damn Itzhak de Laat is Olympic champion, I'm gonna read that sentence 52 more times to make sure it's true

About that: we were in Casa Brasil yesterday, Bruna was of course going there because they want most or all Brazilian athletes having a day there, but her parents and I were invited to join them as well It was fun, Bruna and Duda were received very warmly, had to play a game of curling, make some photos, do some interviews and all that. Meanwhile her parents and I were apparently VIPs and could enter the VIP area, where instead of having to pay €10 (!) for a caipirinha, we got them for free whenever we wanted....that was cool, but I may have gone a bit too far It was fun though, I do NOT dance and I absolutely stay far away from dogs generally speaking, but last night I danced (or 'danced') with both Bruna and my mother in law and we were having the very best time and later there was someone with a dog who I could not stop petting Also nice to meet some medal winners: the ambassador/host, who took care especially of us, was none other than former sprinter - Olympic 4x100m silver and two time 200m WCh medalist - Claudinei da Silva, who was super nice. One of the other ambassadors, who has a big role in all of this, was another sprinter, but waterbased instead of landbased: Bruno Fratus, also a really friendly guy Apparently snowboarder Pat Burgener gave a show as well (he is also a professional musician), but I didn't realize it was him. I think, I don't remember 100% of the evening to be fair.

Casa Brasil also broadcasts things on a few big screens, although of course I'm not sure what they show exactly (yesterday they showed speed skating, that was cool).

So looking forward to going through this again tomorrow

That'll teach the IPC

She did? I looked around but it was all a bit chaotic with multiple people wanting to go multiple different ways and meanwhile trying to keep a straight head translating to and from Portuguese. Then we left and I though "oh shit, didn't even meet Agger at the end"

What a race by Bruna!! Beat Duda by 14s, wow. 21st is fantastic, too bad Duda was too slow today, top20 gives a nice financial bonus

And messing with Brazil’s time, she was absolutely not really 12th. Certainly slower than Croatia.

That is us indeed! Question is where you are exactly

By car it's around 40 minutes from Ora, I doubt it will take much longer by bus (that shouldn't stop everywhere). Who knows, maybe see you somewhere at the entrance (I doubt we are easy to miss with our Brazil jackets)

Anyhow, which tickets do you have for the team sprint tomorrow @Agger? We are on A2 this time, hoping to arrive at the entrance around 8am

Yeah I ordered a few of the smaller sized ones today, only option, the bigger one was sold out online too. I honestly thought athletes would usually get one but I guess unlike a Samsung phone that's too much to ask

Ooff, Baiba giving me a heart attack today but glad to see it was still enough! I made one more family cheer for her today by explaining how important she has been for us, yay

Nah, she shown as DNS before that already. Also saw her run past while waiting for the first bus

Could not see if it was an athlete, but someone was just stretchered out of the athlete preparation area…

This was cool to see! Certainly cheered for Hurajt for you