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What happened? I can't find anything on social media yet.

DQ for Jarl Magnus Riiber in the PCR, he'll very much hope the jumping today won't be cancelled (not an unrealistic scenario in Ruka though). On the other hand, especially Manuel Faisst and Fabian Riessle will hope it does get cancelled after their very impressive PCR Just realize this is probably the first time since February/March I'm using the term PCR in the way that does not actually involve trying to poke someone's brain out

To be fair, we've only had technical events so far this season. At least five of the next seven races are speed events By the way, just noticed something pretty cool: if all goes well, the Zagreb men's slalom will be the 500th World Cup men's slalom race in history And even better, nine days later the first of the Lauberhornrennen downhills in Wengen will be the 500th all-time men's World Cup downhill race, so a double jubilee within one and a half weeks

That was some anticlimax at the end But other than that, pretty nice competition with lots of close races.

Oh wow, as a fan of the sport obviously I always find it a little sad when a complete outsider just comes up shy against one of the always-there eternal main favourites, but damn, even more so when it would have been historical and it went wrong by only 0,04 seconds

I don't know man, Julia is like a machine Too bad though, especially that they'll have to miss the whole Kontiolahti thing. One would say they can be (re)tested now and compete at least next week, but alright. Annoying when every country has their own rules

Wow, 14th in qualifying for Jelinkova, that is a rather epic result for her Ok, that's where it will end considering the untouchable Vlhova is going to be her opponent But still

Any info yet on who will be out? The whole team or possibly specific athletes?

Wow. I mean, I think most people agree this was not exactly a highlight of the history of the FIFA World Cup, but focusing on that right now - even more so with a cover like this - is rather...low.

I'm always glad to see Lesser in, but damn, I hope we'll one day see the old Schempp again. Starting to doubt it, but I hope so..

Right, the final race in the Brazilian rollerski circuit 2020, at least the last one that will count in the standings. There will be another one in December, but due to that being a late addition basically just to help a specific athlete prepare for the season, it won't be counted in the standings. The women's 7,5km classic pursuit was of course won by @brunamoura, who had half a minute of a head start and despite having terribly slow rollerskis, even on the downhill they barely increased speed, managed to increase that gap a little: roughly 40 seconds towards Mika Picin at the finish, so the fastest time of the day as well. Bit of a lonely third place for Duda Ribera, who couldn't threaten Mika but also wasn't threatened from behind. https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&raceid=36652 In the men's 15km pursuit, the podium finishers of the previous day came together: Victor Santos caught up with @Jesús and both of them caught up with leader Lucão Lima. This ended in a sprint finish, where Victor took revenge on the day before and sprinted to the win, which might be a sign for the federation that they're right in only sending him to Europe as far as men go. Second place for Lucão, our Chilean Totallympian finished in third. Fastest time of the day was for Yuri Rocha, who moved up from 8th to 5th with a time that was 15 seconds faster than Victor's. https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&raceid=36651 Now that all is said and done, I'd say it was a good event with five good races. Some diverse results in the men's events, five wins for @brunamoura as revenge for suffering her first loss in ages last month and some heavy personal circumstances which people who paid attention to her social media will have seen. Despite all that, several PB's and convincing wins, while the top shape isn't even there yet - as it shouldn't be, that's for the end of February. On to the winter!

Has there been a protest against Fakirianov's lead result? Just wondering, I didn't have time to read up on that and watch everything after the competition ended, but I did notice he seemed to stand on a bolt for a few seconds. The angle made it hard to see though, maybe he had his foot a centimeter or two above the bolt instead of right on top of it.

I always wish they'd do these kind of things not as a reaction to someone's death, but when someone is still alive and can feel the honour. Same with the Johan Cruijff Arena in Amsterdam..

What, apparently nine (!!) ambulances were sent to the emergency call.

Described well on CNN: "Terribly sad news, if not particularly surprising." R.I.P., only one of the two eternal "who is the greatest player ever?" still alive now

Right, so the whole top-10 thing isn't an issue anymore, great I think I greatly prefer the grade system.

One more question In the prize list, I see tabs sorted by shooting grade and by overall grade. I'm assuming the 160 point limit is about the overall grade, and the shooting grade is just a part of what makes up the overall grade, sorted for those who want to choose good shooters?

Forgot to tag @Wumo just to be sure, and I think it doesn't work in edits

I'm a little confused about the wording here. Does this mean A) you take the top-10 men and top-10 women of last season, and out of this pool of 20 you can have a total of three athletes? Or B) can you have three athletes out of the men's top-10 and three out of the women's top-10? I'm reading it as option A, is that correct?

Right, today was the kick-off for the fourth and final stage of the Brazilian rollerski circuit. The third one consisted of three races, this one is made up of two races: today's 5/10k freestyle with individual start and tomorrow's 7.5/15k classic pursuit. The women's win went, not entirely surprising, to @brunamoura, who is still three months away from the one moment where she has to be in top shape, yet already broke another PB, this time on the most frequently held race: 12:02 minutes, sub-12 is coming next year. Second place for Mika Picin, half a minute behind the win and ten seconds ahead of Duda Ribera. https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&raceid=36650 The men's win went to Lucão Lima, like he did in last week's classic sprint - he is showing some serious improvement and versatility. Too bad he won't go to the European snow season, unlike Olympian Victor Santos, who finished in third this time - half a minute behind. Second place went to @Jesús, who is very much on his way to Beijing 2022 and deservedly so. There are Chilean talents coming up, but they're still young and too far behind him for now. https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&raceid=36649

I haven't gotten to today's race yet and the last one is tomorrow

Also no Marco Schwarz, in his case due to COVID-19.

You stop watching darts for a year and suddenly De Sousa of all places wins the Grand Slam Guess I have some stuff to read up on before the world championships

Reigning sprint world champions, not reigning sprint EBERSPÄCHER World Cup champions

What coop is this though? Surely it's not the Dutch supermarket chain Coop