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Yes.

Cool to see Bree Schaaf coach everyone and their mother as long as their from a small nation (I know, that's the job as development coach) Too bad she doesn't have a separate jacket for Sweden, Brazil etc

Well I am in IBU's database as official for BRA, so no problem

I appreciate being named as Brazilian for this contest especially

Kanakina was trying to smash right through that wall at the finish.

German flag with 'Team Ivory Coast' next to the starting house, cool

Strade Bianche tomorrow Recon photos look good

Loginov in the snowboarding: fall, fall, fall, fall, fall, fall in every important race

I don't know the current Universiade/FISU TV commentators but all of them seem to barely ever watch the sports they're commentating on. Stuff like shouting athlete X is 'going for gold!' when setting the fastest time in a biathlon sprint, even when there's someone else 20 seconds faster (and with a miss more) after two shootings or something like that.

I like ex-biathlete Herbert Cool, working for Dutch Eurosport He started as biathlon commentator, then became the 'face' of Eurosport during the Pyeongchang Olympics (hosting a talk show and stuff like that) which he also did very good and now sometimes he also takes over for stuff like cross-country when the main XC commentator is unavailable (for example because he's doing athletics commentary ). Internationally speaking I very much like the Martin Haven/John Morgan bobsleigh and skeleton duo, I find them a delightful and very friendly duo to listen to. I like oldie Tim Singer (FIL/luge) as well, also because he often seems to be doing his best to have some new athletes join him in the commentary booth (like Veronica Ravenna of Argentina/Canada this season).

One-ups Laurine van Riessen.

Certain kinds of violence can't really be 'too mediatised', since it's pretty important to show and make people aware of that still existing.

Pakistan seems rather low, what with bullshit like honour killings and stuff.

Start record, track record, fastest in all four heats, sixth world title, Dukurs says 'screw you' to this season

Don't get me wrong, I wish I could enjoy it as much as they and you do

I just love that turn where they've got the little drop and then *woosh* to the left (the one you always see from behind)

A dressage hype train feels a little like Dutch trains when winter weather slightly starts: not really moving

Who knows, maybe there was behind the scenes stuff going on that we don't know about but made her want to get away, no idea. And yeah, she could be the best of all Germans, so I don't think her move to the Czechs was very much based on not being able to make the German team (for example in the previous two teams she was quite clearly the third German behind Hermann and Lölling, Griebel only got a chance when Fernstädt didn't start and then was not very impressive). Now I'm curious about something which I can't really find much about: Fernstädt was born in CZE, but when did she/her family go to Germany, any idea?

Not nearly as hard to believe as Kaisa having not a single Olympic medal

Dual citizenship or not, competing for your birth country is not strange by any stretch She definitely has the talent to make the German team though, I don't see Griebel being consistently better..

I was not a fan of the Thai weightlifters (they were just as easy to trust as those Azeri's or Kazakh's....meaning impossible to trust), just of the cool dude (somewhere in his 50's I think?) with his flag hats and drums and everything bringing joy to all major competitions

RIP Thai weightlifting fan

We really should have that as sort of a rule, so one can safely post in a certain thread without fear of being spoilered for other events (like you said, at least those from the same day or maybe late the previous night).

No interview with Kuzmina, "because she has lost her voice"

And I thought in the biathlon thread I'd be safe from Universiade and alpine skiing World Cup spoilers