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Meh, not so much to party about this season, since it's the first time since the second World War the mother of all speed skating world championships won't be held. And it's not even a pandemic consequence, but a conscious decision by ISU's experts from the beaches of Thailand to only do it once every two years now. I didn't bother looking if it's at least the real European championships or the distance ones that can't even create any hype in the Netherlands

I'd react, but /care

Which would be an even worse idea than snow volleyball. And yes, personally I like natural track luge more than snow volleyball. And yes, I know it's in Italy. But it has just no place in the Olympics.

Vini-Zabu was building up the excitement yesterday, big news coming?! Aaaaaand....nope. A one year contract renewel for the 108th place finisher in the Giro d'Italia whose best result in the entire year, by far, was a 22nd place in a poor field in the Trofeo Laigueglia

Can someone tell your government that internet has been invented? And yeah, big Christmas meets are strongly discouraged here as well. Of course they can't actually make laws about the number of people inside your house, free country and all, but they do have 'strong advice' about it. Meaning, no big Christmas with 20+ people all talking way too loud so you can basically not understand anyone

Cyclocross doesn't use it as a gimmick though. It's held on snow if there's snow, it's not if there's no snow. And it is definitely a sport that's held in the winter, although it probably would fit better in the Autumn Olympics.

Still a better timed choice than women's monobob

Why is the sponsor name in the title here and not in that of many other World Cups? And if it has to be there, why isn't it in capital letters as it 'should' be? But yeah, better just take it away of course, nobody except FIL uses it @Sindo On the upside: luge

I will refrain from a celebratory cheer unless she's actually on the start list.

Excellent news, go Lolo

Day three, classic interval start and the women's overall title has been decided with two races to go (Tuesday and Wednesday): @brunamoura convicingly won the race and with that the overall Brazilian Rollerski Circuit title for the 6th consecutive year Bruna won the race with a big new PB, half a minute faster than last year when she was in more or less top shape, which she isn't yet now (focus is on the world championships). Second place for Mika Picin, third for Duda Ribera, a day after her 16th birthday. https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&raceid=36648 @Jesús won the men's race with a twenty second margin over Yuri Rocha, whereas Victor Santos was a minute behind the Chilean. https://www.fis-ski.com/DB/general/results.html?sectorcode=CC&raceid=36647 Rest day tomorrow, then it's the final races of the rollerski circuit.

That's not called fraud in Slovakia? I'm definitely planning to use my free days next year whenever the Olympics are, assuming and hoping I still have my job then

Can we permanently ban France, Germany and/or USA from TISC if they ever enter this song, please, @Sindo? I've been hearing it what feels like non-stop and now even in sports events like speed skating and ski jumping

Or Jorrit Bergsma here. Fantastic athlete, there's no doubt about that, but I can't stand the guy

Yeah, see? I truly don't give a shit what nation you're from, if you're like Kaisa I'll absolutely be cheering for you!

Maybe how much I cared makes up for that a little That was absolutely legendary. The raw emotion in the voice of the German commentator when it was decided is still firmly in my mind and I was cheering so badly for him to win

I mean, without them having to be of one's own nation. Imagine the Netherlands has a world class biathlete (one) and he or she is just an arrogant asshole or something, why would I cheer for him/her instead of someone I like way more but who is from another nation?

I'd guess cheering for athletes instead of the flags behind their name solves most of that At least that's how it works for me when watching speed skating

Ah, the romance in the IBU Family Club

Jesipionok as well, I'm not sure about Dindaite. I just found an old document I used to analyze and compare athletes in those parts of the results lists and Lescinskaite and Vitkunaite are mentioned in that

Ah yeah, Gabriela Lescinskaite and Kotryna Vitkunaite mostly, I believe

USA and Germany surely wanted their events in prime time and people surely were working before 2014 already though

That's the regions of the IBU Cup where I've spent more time on analyzing it than the top of the World Cup

That would have been an excellent performance, but 0T0Z isn't that terrible at all. It's just....roughly normal

You know they are speed specialists?