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Yeah, and then next year we get more normal weather with mud, some of the ponds being frozen on the way etc, and it's going to be impossible to finish for a few years

59:15:38 and there is John Kelly for his record third finish

Ihor Verys has just finished the 5th and final lap and is the next finisher of the Barkleys 58 hours, 44:59 minutes, so 1:15 hours within the cutoff time and look how fresh he still looks, damn! By now there are 50 minutes remaining (22:17 CET). Word is that John Kelly was about 25 minutes behind Verys, Hall and Hamilton about half an hour and Paris and Campbell around 40 minutes. This is going to be godawful for next year (remember, the organizer makes it harder every time someone finishes the race), keeping in mind the extra tough parts after last year's three finishers....and this year weather was perfect, so next year with 'normal' (tough) weather, it's going to be extra hell

Give it a few hours (or less) until the official statements start appearing about Ukraine being behind this, coincidentally. Let's just say if Putin's favourite band was playing tonight, he would have skipped tonight's show.

Jasmin Paris has started the 5th and final lap, first woman ever to do so Ihor Verys of Ukraine was the first one to start the last lap, after 46:06 hours, choosing to do so clockwise. John Kelly followed 15-20 minutes later, counter clockwise (the leader chooses, then it's CW - CCW - CW etc). Damian Hall and Greig Hamilton started their 5th lap barely 10 minutes later, Jasmin Paris also a bit later, just like Jared Campbell. Sebastien Raichon was the last one to enter the last lap, he started after 47:57 hours, three minutes before the cutoff time. He ran the last part of lap four wrong, so had to go back a while to correct it. Apart from the first part, most of the last lap will be in daylight this time, that should help. Seems likely to have multiple finishers again, definitely helped by the good conditions (and not the usual rain and mud and everything). We'll see tonight

I'm afraid we haven't done enough insane trail runs (or any) to be known in the incredible world of ultratrails, and considering this is not an event one can register for, but for which one gets a 'letter of condolence' as invitation....yeah, not gonna happen I am definitely following it with interest again this year though, 10 runners made it onto loop four eventually, which is incredible! One (Maxime Gauduin of France) has been tapped out, for the other nine - including the by far best BM100 woman ever, Jasmin Paris - it's still a matter of waiting for any update. You know, there's no live timing or streaming or anything, it's basically waiting for one of two people to mention them

Hopefully one day (although sadly I doubt it) this will be the normal situation: simply living their regular life like anyone else, without excplicitly 'having' (according to society) to announce them being anything else than straight. Not sure if I'm wording this exactly how I mean it, so just to be clear: what I mean is that I hope one day (which sadly doesn't seem to be close) being gay, bi or anything is considered just as normal by society as being straight, and it's not a matter of 'if you don't explicitly come out, you must be straight' anymore.

Every race where Poromaa is beaten is a nice one (considering his pathetic comments towards biathlon), so this seems like a nicely surprising result

It's fun to always see super strong anti-EU sentiments....but then people and countries who seem to be strongly against it, are the ones eating up the billions of euros in subsidies like candies

Is it the same as here? Usually the people here who are pro-Putin are exactly the same kind of people who are anti-vax, anti-EU, believing in every single conspiracy, from the moon landing being a hoax to 9/11 to Pizzagate

Maybe send a fax to the Germans, with a bit of luck they get it through there unimaginably aged systems (like one of the hundreds of faxing machines in the parliament building) in time to help

Ice hockey player (former NHL and KHL) Konstantin Koltsov , also the boyfriend of Aryna Sabalenka since 2021, suddenly passed away in Miami (where I assume he was with Sabalenka) aged 42.

I only know and so far I've heard a few others when playing the playlist, but no idea which country those were and they didn't really impress my anyway (I assume France was one, because it was something like 'mon amour' this and 'mon amour' that )

Same here And it's a matter of agreeing to disagree, which is of course fine. Anyway it's going to be good in Paris.

Yep, that's what I meant with her being very much a contender in the big mix. There's a whole bunch of contenders who have all worked super hard for it (presumably all of them 'want it the most', and that kind of thing), and if there's one unpredictable event, it's the keirin. Gonna be fun, at least 10-15 riders have a significant medal shot and the fight for gold is most likely going to be fantastically tight

Yep, yet another one of many, many contenders for the medals.

Nah, even in North Korea the winner gets a win with 99.98% of the votes or so I guess those 13% for non-Putin in Russia are the people who managed to vote without an armed military person in the voting booth with them.

One would imagine the chances may increase a little bit if it turns more into a combat sport, so not with controlled hits and such. Real fighting might be more...urban

Obviously, there's no way any one of those should be in Qatar at all, I assume we all agree on that. I meant I wouldn't even have been surprised if Qatar would build a new stadium for every single one of these events (they most likely won't, but...it is Qatar).

Not really, no.

Wait, they're not going to use more slaves to build new stadiums for every single one of these World Cups?

Nice weekend of short track skating, too bad the DJ messed things up between and even during races. Wonder how many people will leave with tinnitus

being in 's way and being in 's way at one of the exchanges

The result of that is that will have to do the relay with the line-up with which they got a 3rd place in the World Cup, followed by a win, a win and another win. Plus without Schulting the chance of actually getting a result is bigger anyway

Koreans screwing each other in short track, one of the all-time classics