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In two years Sacoor can run the 4x400 by himself and still win a medal.

"Tinder" doesn't really seem like a hobby, but more like something you spend 5 minutes on (I could be totally wrong, since I have 0 experience with that kind of apps, I just write about winter sports and find myself a girlfriend that way )

So last week Dale made his IBU Cup debut with two dominant wins, now he made his World Cup debut with 0+0 and a 15th place, excellent, the hypetrain is gaining speed Also, his hobby is apparently, according to his IBU profile, "Tinder"

That's quite a female looking man.

This interview: He's saying stuff like "I know it's just a little 6th place, but for me it means so much" and after that "I know many wouldn't care so much about a 6th place, but it really means the world to me after all these years." "In the last lap I was thinking about my coach Klaus Siebert, who passed away. I always told him 'some day, somewhere I'm going to have one more great race again', today I had a perfect one. In the last lap I was already crying, this is for you Klaus, and for Bernd ('who made my ... (rifle maybe?)'), they both died. I have so much to thank my family and friends for, and the Belgian and Swiss* teams, who always supported me without any doubt." Two years later and I still almost can't watch this with dry eyes Rösch *he trains a ton with beard bro Weger

For sure Michael Rösch in his epic pursuit in Pokljuka (6th place) where his beard was full of slime and his face was full of tears of joy afterwards (and tears of sadness, because his former coach passed away a few days before and after many years* he finally got a real result again, it was so incredibly awesome to see a nice guy like Rösch be so happy, I watched that interview almost with tears). * it was his first individual top-10 in the World Cup in 8 (!) years

Öhling Norberg missed the Q for the 2nd race.

She did so by finishing 17th...and then finished 17th in the qualifying for the second race too

Time for Johannes Dale's World Cup debut/first World Cup win Choo choooo!

This sounds an awful lot like Kira Toussaint, although she used the more standard "I don't know how this got in my body".

How can 'no mark' count the same for result? I thought the results counting also needed to have some meaning (like, good results means higher ranking)

Meanwhile Gatwick Airport in London has been shut down for hours and hours.....because of drones flying around.

In the first men's qualifying, World Cup champion Marc Bischofberger failed to qualify, whereas among others Victor Öhling Norberg, Daniel Bohnacker and last week's winner Jonas Lenherr barely made it.

After reaching the semi's in 13 of her last 14 World Cups and Olympic silver, Brittany Phelan missed qualifying for the first race in Innichen.

Turns out Kira Toussaint didn't miss the WCH due to sickness, but because of a positive doping test.

Saturday it's Belgium's turn, the nominees are as follows. Men Koen Naert (athletics) Bart Swings (speed skating) Eden Hazard (football) Women Nina Derwael (artistic gymnastics) Emma Meesseman (basketball) Nafi Thiam (athletics) Team Belgian Cats (lol) Red Devils (lol) Belgian Tornados (lol) Red Lions (lol)

I posted some of the awards from here on a Dutch forum and @dcro, this was the first reaction: Agreed

I'll go back to watching the globally insanely popular sports of sprint canoe and open water swimming

Just to clarify: personally I prefer watching polo over korfball

I believe they did not compare an established World Games sport with an über-elite sport, no

Teenage Andorrans, Brazilians (and even better, a girl, since there's a severe lack of them in the Brazilian XC/biathlon world) and Chileans making their debut this season, excellent stuff.

I still don't get what's funny or strange about a double Olympic champion getting the award

I love how so called sports fans in the Netherlands are like "omg it's always a speed skater and speed skating is just Dutch folklore, boohoo!!" when in fact Nuis is the first speed skater in 8 years to get the sportsman of the year award

Now I'm curious what's so funny about it

Kjeld Nuis (speed skating) and Suzanne Schulting (shorttrack) won the sportsman and sportswoman of the year awards in the Netherlands, the coach of the year award ended up in a tie between Jac Orie (speed skating) and Raemon Sluiter (the coach of non-nominated tennis player Kiki Bertens).