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Pavlova from 44th to 13th

Skottheim!

Lunder and Skottheim have been going together since the start and moved up from 19th and 20th to 6th and 7th already!

In today's qualifying: Huber, Lackner, Fettner and Hörl have all tested positive, just like the coach and - unrelated to this 'cluster' - race director Sandro Pertile.

The only one of the Belgians who hasn't really proven himself World Cup-worthy yet though

The French coach wanting to give JTB a new pole (only to not do it because the Norwegian coach was just in time) is an excellent example of sportsmanship in sports like this.

If I'm not mistaken, Switzerland's best ever men relay result is a 5th place, which they last got in 2012/13.

Sima providing Slovakia with some false hope, Stalder with first showings of his potential on the main stage, curious what Hartweg can do later.

Merde.

As per usual.

To be fair, deserved win for Loch despite these shitty conditions, staying as close as he did in run one was impressive.

Nope, so besides Abdi Nageeye now also Bart van Nunen and the miracle that is Frank Futselaar qualified Björn Koreman might still try if there's a chance to have an official race somewhere, he would try this weekend in Poland but that got cancelled. Then there's Khalid Choukhoud who might try it as well, but that's about it - which is a lot more than what I expected, I hadn't really expected more than Nageeye Futselaar doing what Michel Butter in the end never could. Futselaar ran exactly the limit, Butter missed it by eight seconds in Amsterdam in 2015 in one of the more heartbreaking moments in Dutch athletics (watch from roughly 1:54 for his last few 200 meters or so)

That Valencia half marathon was a bit of an epic show, Kamworor's WR was 58.01 and today the entire top-4 went under 58 minutes Also says something about the strength of Kamworor's WR and about the shoe technology improvements

@hckosice What happend to Matej Toth yesterday?

Curious to see how fast the track will deteriorate in run two. Of course the later sliders just had no chance at all anymore, but Loch could move up a whole lot of places. Also David Gleirscher at 0,304 seconds and Fedorov at 0,262 seconds are still in it, although if it's like this run they'll face just as useless of a track as Repilov himself so they might not be able to make that up.

Tim's response: "That's very true. I'm not going to spread the gossip myself, but certainly a lot of people know what you're referring to." Next stop after Altenberg: Bone Town

Loch keeping it to 0,602 seconds is quite an achievement.

It's not much of a race anymore though, Repilov had the luck to start somewhere halfway down the list and after that the track just completely died I mean, Ludwig ended up 0,7 secondes behind him, Pavlichenko didn't even stay within a second!

I'm glad they do the same here, the Dutch luge commentator can't pronounce half of the names and words so I'm enjoying https://video.fil-luge.org/

Great to have John Morgan 'back' this weekend, yet another advantage of the work at home situation. Who cares about miles per hour and kilometers per hour, sleds have only 'speed': 118 speed, 120 speed, 114 speed

Wow, that was an anticlimactic end of the competition. But alright, pure bad luck is part of the deal in an outdoor sport sometimes and this time Granerud profits from Eisenbichler's misfortune. Robert Johansson though, from 25th to 3rd

Impressive comeback from Serbia, taking the lead with a 7-0 run

Looks like a serious foot injury for one of the best Serbian players Andrea Lekic, that is. Judging by her reaction she feels like her tournament is already over

The answer is again no

That prone shooting by Hanna Ö. was perfection.