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Ying Qu, my favourite of all Chinese, started clean

Aaaaaaand DQ I wonder what they did, since simply being lapped isn't normally mentioned as DSQ

Klaebo and Sundling mostly, yes. Judging by the way they finished on Alpe Cermis, that's understandable I'm happy most of the top sprinters are there, so we're definitely not getting a devalued competition, that'd be exaggerating.

Blackout for Wierer

Sundling didn't compete today. Lampic, Falla, Svahn, Caldwell and Fähndrich, among others, did, and those are definitely in the top of the sprinting world (which is the only thing Dresden is about). Who is and isn't there of the overall top-10 isn't very important, most top sprinters are there - a few aren't - and that's what matters.

Most top women seem to be there though, considering it's a sprint. One can't expect Johaug to be there of course

Looking straight into the rifle isn't the best idea, is it, @brunamoura? I nearly got a heart attack when I saw her do that in Arber two seasons ago.

The most common ways have to do with the shooting. For example going out on the loop with a bullet still in your rifle. One could also seriously hinder another competitor, go out on the course with a rifle that's not properly marked by officials beforehand or firing more than five rounds in one shooting bout in an individial, mass start, pursuit or sprint - that last happened to Taynara in her debut race, where she thought she could use spare munitions Page 85 for more examples. https://res.cloudinary.com/deltatre-spa-ibu/image/upload/p2ebk3rka5c0pygc5jr2.pdf

That means 7 hits!

I remember a certain German who made her top-level debut in the World Championships relay and brought Germany from 8th to 1st in said debut race

And those dumb musical intermezzos, ugh. "My block, my block!" With specific hand movements that are supposed to be done with specific actions on the field. Paper clappers at least are better than those insanely annoying plastic blow-up things that explode rather loudly when people think it's fun to step on them, but yeah.

I'd be fine if mixed NOC teams were an option to increase field sizes in 'team' events, so nations with not enough athletes for a full team could have their athletes work together in a mixed NOC team. It's the Youth Olympics after all, some sense of development - both on athletic and personal level - is not a bad thing. Full mixed NOC events are not my thing though, no.

That entirely depends on how it happened. From a legal point of view, there are huge differences between mistakes (disastrous as they may be) and intentional actions. It is a war crime if Rouhani went and said "There's a civilian passenger plane, shoot it down."

At least that confession took shorter than expected..

Amadeo Bagnis. Italy might have a slightly smaller advantage compared to South Korea and China, because I'm guessing an Italian track is going to be used for more international competitions than those two, but still. Bagnis is on fire lately, very impressive 11th in his World Cup debut and yesterday he won his second consecutive Europe Cup race. Plus he's still really young.

And there's Geng Wenqiang's first ever podium, tied with Yun for 3rd.

[hide] Women's Tournament - Preliminary Round January 12th - January 19th, 2020 12 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Nations from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals Group A Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 12th 2020, h. 11:30 Slovakia 20 Russia January 12th 2020, h. 13:00 Greece 15 Serbia January 12th 2020, h. 19:00 Hungary 20 Croatia January 13th 2020, h. 13:00 Croatia 15 Greece January 13th 2020, h. 14:30 Russia 25 Serbia January 13th 2020, h. 19:00 Slovakia 15 Hungary January 15th 2020, h. 14:30 Greece 10 Slovakia January 15th 2020, h. 16:00 Serbia 5 Croatia January 15th 2020, h. 19:00 Hungary 10 Russia January 17th 2020, h. 14:30 Russia 25 Croatia January 17th 2020, h. 17:30 Slovakia 5 Serbia January 17th 2020, h. 19:00 Hungary 5 Greece January 19th 2020, h. 13:00 Slovakia 10 Croatia January 19th 2020, h. 17:30 Greece 10 Russia January 19th 2020, h. 19:00 Serbia 10 Hungary Group B Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 12th 2020, h. 14:30 France 15 Spain January 12th 2020, h. 16:00 Germany 15 Italy January 12th 2020, h. 17:30 Netherlands 20 Israel January 13th 2020, h. 11:30 Germany 20 Netherlands January 13th 2020, h. 16:00 Israel 5 France January 13th 2020, h. 17:30 Italy 5 Spain January 15th 2020, h. 11:30 France 10 Germany January 15th 2020, h. 13:00 Spain 15 Israel January 15th 2020, h. 17:30 Netherlands 5 Italy January 17th 2020, h. 11:30 Germany 20 Spain January 17th 2020, h. 13:00 Netherlands 15 France January 17th 2020, h. 16:00 Italy 15 Israel January 19th 2020, h. 11:30 France 15 Italy January 19th 2020, h. 14:30 Germany 5 Israel January 19th 2020, h. 16:00 Spain 3 Netherlands Men's Tournament - Preliminary Round January 14th - January 18th, 2020 16 Nations, 4 Groups, the 1st Nations from each Group will qualify for the Quarterfinals, the 2nd and 3rd Nations from each Group will qualify for the Round of 16 Group A Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 14th 2020, h. 11:30 Slovakia 10 Montenegro January 14th 2020, h. 14:30 Germany 8 Croatia January 16th 2020, h. 10:00 Germany 5 Slovakia January 16th 2020, h. 20:30 Montenegro 5 Croatia January 18th 2020, h. 16:00 Slovakia 15 Croatia January 18th 2020, h. 17:30 Germany 8 Montenegro Group B Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 14th 2020, h. 10:00 Romania 2 Netherlands January 14th 2020, h. 17:30 Serbia 5 Russia January 16th 2020, h. 13:00 Romania 15 Serbia January 16th 2020, h. 14:30 Russia 10 Netherlands January 18th 2020, h. 11:30 Romania 5 Russia January 18th 2020, h. 20:30 Serbia 15 Netherlands Group C Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 14th 2020, h. 13:00 Malta 15 Spain January 14th 2020, h. 19:00 Turkey 20 Hungary January 16th 2020, h. 11:30 Malta 2 Turkey January 16th 2020, h. 19:00 Hungary 5 Spain January 18th 2020, h. 10:00 Turkey 25 Spain January 18th 2020, h. 19:00 Malta 20 Hungary Group D Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 14th 2020, h. 16:00 France 5 Georgia January 14th 2020, h. 20:30 Italy 3 Greece January 16th 2020, h. 16:00 Greece 15 Georgia January 16th 2020, h. 17:30 France 10 Italy January 18th 2020, h. 13:00 France 10 Greece January 18th 2020, h. 14:30 Italy 15 Georgia [/hide]

That has never been a problem, at all...until ISU started adding bullcrap like the team sprint. Just took a random world single distance championships of the past two decades: Day 1: Men's 500m, both runs Men's 5000m Women's 1500m Day 2: Men's 1500m Women's 500m, both runs Women's 3000m Day 3: Men's 1000m Men's 10.000m Women's 1000m Women's 5000m No problem at all, not a single day had a serious risk of any athletes getting in trouble.

Thanks I'll edit the post

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No doubt about that, much like in speed skating where the tracks that are the best to watch are the rare outdoor tracks. I just very much like the whole layout though, roof or not.

If the Youth Olympics is the example to go by, every sport is doomed.

Well yeah, basically nobody gives a fuck about it and that's in a sport where basically nobody gives a fuck about The Dutch men decided not to start, because of the ridiculous scheduling, right after the 1500m. Obviously the solution is simple: get rid of the team sprint bullshit. ISU's more likely solution: let's get rid of the 1500m.

Historic medal for Switzerland. Too bad it's in the biggest nonsense of speed skating.

Watching today's competitions in La Plagne, where they're back after quite some years. I don't remember seeing this track before but I love it It's so....smooth, big, fast, awesome!