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Who DNF'ed in the 10k qualifying race in Oberstdorf and has been sick all season, I'm very glad to see him being lapped and taken off the course (meaning he'll be ranked) instead of stepping out of the race himself

Victor got lapped and taken off the course, points in the bag for Brazil

Damn, Bolshunov turned on his jetski's

Pretty underwhelming final wasn't it? Falls left and right, a course that looked as default as it can get, not really much tension in terms of medal winners...

Right, but she was already not on the start list Odd that bookmakers weren't paying attention though, they still all had Karlsson listed when I checked the odds after Johaug's withdrawal. Too bad my limits are so low all I could do was place a few euro on a podium for Stupak and that's it

Johaug has withdrawn from the races due to an inflammation on her wrist.

Croatia, who will need bad things to happen to both Brazil and Thailand. Which I'm not particularly hoping for, sorry @dcro

Still not higher than the first time I visited one of Bruna's races (IBU Cup Obertilliach) and she shot clean in the sprint (I believe only the second time any Brazilian had ever done so) But yeah, rather high on the list! First waiting for tomorrow though, the points aren't in the bag yet. And it is indeed all assuming we're correct

This is gonna be such an epic Ronde on 4 April Milan - San Remo will have all three of them as well, but usually has a bit less potential for epic stuff

The most awaited start list of my life is out, the one for tomorrow's 10k classic mass start in Engadin. Jaque and @brunamoura are on it, as we knew already, but....Australia is not. Croatia is not. Lithuania is not. Andorra is not. Armenia is not. Turkey is not. This means that, if the rankings made by me, Brazil's manager and Jaque's husband/coach (all independent from each other) are correct, finishing tomorrow's race or getting lapped (since that doesn't count as a DNF) would put Brazil ahead of both Croatia and Turkey and well into the top-30. They'd pass Thailand as well, but Chanloung still has a possible chance to stay ahead of Brazil depending on how the races go (pursuit and such). Then again, with only one DNS or DNF tomorrow, not coming from a Brazilian, they'd also pass Andorra. And if both score points tomorrow and either one of them starts and finishes on Sunday, they'll also overtake Lithuania (and even Greece if both Jaque and Bruna finish both races). Top-30 is looking incredibly good, now it's a matter of seeing if the rules won't change or something and then Brazil should have two tickets...

And about Filimonov: 11.3.4 Disqualification Athletes or teams will be disqualified for: c. receiving prohibited assistance as defined in the IBU Event and Competition Rules from a member of their team staff or non-competing athletes from their team; Seems like he was going well, I wonder what happened.

Noteworthy list, I wonder what's with all those DNS's....positives?

And in the category "Least unexpected news ever", we've got this one:

Got it! Completely forgot but it was from this hype from 10+ years ago with half the country having this as ringtone

I know Rita Ora and Imanbek took the main melody for Bang Bang from another song, but I just can't place my finger on it....help me please I mean, it's not a doubt, I am 100% sure and I'm sure it's not a secret or something, but it's annoying that I can't find the name of the song where the melody comes from

Quite surprising to see such a big difference between for example The Netherlands on one hand and Austria and Germany on the other hand. One wouldn't think it's that different

I have no idea how sharing stuff with Spotify works (I only joined the Spotify bandwagon late last year ) but I've added all songs posted so far in a playlist for myself, no idea if you guys can see it too

I even already started listening today, so far I'm positively surprised by the quality and that's after only 10 songs or so

Always the case early in the season, those crashes It's sort of the cycling version of ring rust after a long winter.

There is hope for Brazil to have an actual president next year...

Kyle Larson dominated in Las Vegas and got his first win since the controversy, he's back

Klaebo had nowhere to go because he tried to go into a gap which didn't exist. It's like saying a race car driver had nowhere to go when he could have simply not accelerated in a certain place. Not trying a pass is also a way to go if there's no space. Just like Bolshunov tried to attack Mäki in Lahti when there was just no space for it.

It's getting a little insane how much things are getting completely out of hand in Brazil... I don't think right now there is any more worrying country than that. Brazil's current situation is about to become like Lombardy a year ago.

Excellent mass start race. Too bad Klaebo pulled a Bolshunov on Bolshunov and both ended up being the losing side

The English Eurosport commentators spoiling the results of the 50k classic during the biathlon broadcast...seriously, fuck these guys. What moronic commentator spoils 'fresh' results of other sports during their broadcast? They are already not great in itself in terms of, let's say, not exactly logical things they often spill out, but this takes the cake. Go to hell. /rant