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I usually like the Parade of Nations, since there we're getting the first 'real' glimpse at the stars of the next two weeks or so and I really start getting excited. All the music and culture and stuff though, nah. "Our country is uniquely friendly, and welcoming and modern without forgetting our past and traditions!". Wow, like every other country ever.

Luckily there's options to watch things at the same time. I'll keep an eye on the basketball and focus on the 50k, especially since it's the last big one...ever, or at least for a good while, probably.

Almaty 2017

Anyway I prefer a boring route with a great race than a great route with a boring race, any day.

The route is not really a question, in the racewalk it's basically always like that.

Yeah, then at least you have something good to do for 4 hours

Like what? To me it reads mostly like "IBU has a new leadership, they are changing things and things are still changing, as they should", period. Without anything specific that's not going well or something

Anyone else annoyed by the new Eurosport Player? I like the general lay-out, but not the way it works. They changed the 30 second jumps to 15, meaning I'm doubleclicking all the time, the 15 second jumps load way slower than the 30 second jumps used to do, the buttons for the jumps and pause are right in the middle of the screen instead of neatly at the bottom and the overlay stays for an annoyingly long time (especially when skipping ahead since the buttons are in the middle of the video).

The real fans.

[hide] Knockout Round October 19th - November 2nd, 2019 8 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 October 26th 2019, h. 17:00 England 10 New Zealand October 27th 2019, h. 18:00 Wales 10 South Africa [/hide]

Still better than moving it to Sapporo.

Can't be an avid everything, that's alright

That jump into the second turn is going to cause trouble.

That comparison What I meant is for example Meyers Taylor and Maier/Vathje have had their names like that for a while now, it's not a secret and almost impossible to miss their relationships when watching those sports. Anyway, nothing out of the ordinary.

All of those mentioned recently were in their current relationships well before Pyeongchang if I'm not mistaken

Neither does a sport where they barely touch each other

No Elisabeth Maier (Vathtje) this winter, since she's expected to give birth in December. https://www.ibsf.org/en/news/9-skeleton/21262-baby-break-for-skeleton-athlete-elisabeth-vathje

Chris Spring will sit out the next season. https://www.ibsf.org/en/news/8-bobsleigh/21320-bobsleigh-pilot-chris-spring-takes-2019-2020-season-off Same for Elana Meyers Taylor, but unlike Spring, she is pregnant. https://www.ibsf.org/en/news/8-bobsleigh/21292-baby-break-for-olympic-silver-medallist-elana-meyers-taylor

Three individual time trials by the way (although only one of them is not a short one). That last week is going to be brutal again.

Oh boy, the Giro is going to be in Hungary close to Slovakia? Isn't that the area where there's a bit of....trouble? I'm always confused about this thing.

At least some Polish hills shouldn't be too far away I guess, that's something. Him doing this at age 12 shows he has some potential indeed, hopefully it helps in getting some sort of support from somewhere, outside Slovakia if needed.

That's why there are block functions, or you know, ignoring options in real life

I often disagree when blaming federations, but not here...it's hardly their fault when a country goes to shit and cancelling an event so shortly before it's planned isn't always a great plan neither..

Only people who say they are religious but don't actually care pretend to find it important for their religion to be the biggest I mean, believe what you want, who cares how many others believe the same.

It's been a while since I had a new ski jumper to cheer for, let's go Hektor