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For the single mixed you only need one guy though

Brazil is a 'nation'/federation. I mean, it all started 15 years ago or something with Leandro Ribela and one or two other pioneers, who's names I'm not sure about (possibly Helio Freitas was one of them). Nowadays there's a big shift between the old and young generation: Leandro Lutz, Fabrizio Bourguignon among the men, Mika Picin for the women, although they're not all competing anymore this season. I think they more or less started independently, but then there's the young generation: Bruna Moura, Gabriela Neres, Lucas Martins, Victor Santos, Caio Moreira (retired since a few years already to focus on personal stuff, I was sad to see him go but am happy to see he's happy and very well), all of whom started with cross-country and biathlon more or less via Leandro Ribela's social project Ski na Rua. There's also Matheus Vasconcellos in the Junior Cup, probably the Brazilian with the most potential, but he mostly grew up in Austria (speaks fluent Austrian-German with a thick local accent) and doesn't have that much to do with the project and all. On the other hand, in Greenland it's all Slettemark Australia is a whole different story that probably would require more reading material than the entire Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit universe, so not gonna get into that

In Christchurch?

Absolutely, and it keeps giving athletes from small nations some incentive to keep on competing because the federations get money per starting athlete Which then goes to the athletes (like Croatia, at least partially) or not (hello Brazil), but anyway it can offer some kind of help (if a national federation would use it wisely). IBU Cups are fun though No huge masses of people you have to push your way through*, quite a 'familiar' setting, pretty accessible and so on *although in Arber it is busy enough to not be able to stand at the front when the races are going on and you arrive too late or are pacing back and forth

I'm not sure about all the qualifying rules and quotas and stuff for Olympics/World Cups, I just know that for the IBU Cup there's really not much of a restriction as long as you represent a national federation and can handle a rifle safely

Does anyone know where results can be found from the Baku World Cup?

First point: Ukaleq - like anyone else as long as it's not more than X per nation - can start in the IBU Cup whenever she wants. To be able to start in the next trimester, she needs to get under 250 points at least once (shouldn't be a problem for her). If she somehow doesn't manage to get that, she has to skip a trimester and wait for the next one. Nation quota don't mean too much for the IBU Cup in terms of being able to start, I believe it's more a matter of getting some extra money if you have a certain rank. If you and I were to defect to Bhutan, start the Bhutanese Biathlon Federation and show that we're capable of safely handling a rifle, we would be welcome and allowed to represent our new nation of Bhutan in the IBU Cup even if we're lightyears behind, at least for one trimester.

And, you know, qualify

Maybe it in some way makes Ukaleq eligible to compete for her father's birth country

Still? I thought people were fed up with that after seeing this 72 times a year for a good number of years in the billion editions of 'El Clasico' (always presented as something huge even when it happened so often it barely was even special anymore)

Norwegian male talent is mad, the entire podium consisted of Norwegians of 1997.

Yes, that's what he said himself.

Well, she won't compete for Greenland at the Olympics, so..

The PCS dude is busier with touring around the world and shitting in the face of everyone who's not praising him as a God than actually placing good info on his site lately

Cool, finally Ajax gets a chance for revenge for the lost final against the doped up Juventus in the 90's

Yeah, he had a lot of names on his weapons and munition, also historical things like "Vienna 1683"..

This is promising. One of the youngest competitors, from Kazakhstan, winning gold with a total weight higher than the winner in a heavier category. Can't go wrong. Although it might not say that much, since these world champs are an absolute farce in terms of (number of) participants.

I'm watching yesterday's ski jumping and hearing some Dutch pride passing by on the background in Trondheim

I doubt it was just Trump 'inspiring' someone like this. Trump was not even near the presidency when fellow sicko Breivik did his thing.

And that's at least 40 deaths now, as confirmed by the prime minister. 30 in one mosque, 10 in another.

I am aware, he has been doing so for quite some time now. It's pretty cool that he managed to convert his sprint training (from when he was in the Dutch athletics team, he's been having all his training here since he moved here when he was 8 and then was raised here) into a completely different sport.

Battling with Bram Zeegers for being the main Dutch skeleton hope

I don't see any live stream in the link mentioned earlier..

Not really, no.

Soup operas though