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For anyone not caught up on the US Biathlon story: https://apnews.com/article/biathlon-sexual-harassment-abuse-safesport-767d17bdd3838962f6dafa6257f15542

"DQ team GER: Rule 279.3 - Not wearing timekeeping equipment" - Rough way to get DSQ. They looked pretty good in their heat too

He missed Crumpton too

Great photo finish between in the mixed relay

Deep cut reference here, but they played a song in the speed skating oval just now, and this is what came to mind (I think they were playing a remix) @Dragon @Grassmarket @Mkbw50:

I don't mind the actual format in the speed skating Mixed Relay, there's certainly been worse events created, but the competition format needs to be tweaked. I don't like the qualification from heats being based strictly on time. Speed Skating's obsession with time is just strange to me as someone who enjoys short track and inline skating. I don't mind time deciding the individual distances (variety is important to me), but things like the Team Pursuit or Mixed Relay should be head-to-head racing. I would be fine with the three heat winners and fastest runner-up advancing to the final as a compromise. Also, advancing despite a very suspect incident with (which cost them any chance of advancing) hasn't left me feeling great about this event. The replay isn't definitive, but it didn't look great for (in my opinion).

Quick! Someone raise the pension age to distract them

Y'all need to let these two rest. They've earned it dammit Honestly, assuming they want to race, it is cool that they show up every once in a while and try to be competitive.

Yaroslav Lavreniuk after winning a silver medal in skeleton yesterday - "I am happy because everybody who stands behind me is proud of me. My father is proud of me and the rest of my family are proud of me and that is important. I’m trying to be a good son and a good athlete." I don't have much to say about his statement, I just thought it was one of the better quotes I've read on the news service.

finished last in both GS events, but its nice they sent representatives to the Games

Mildly interesting the 1st Run leader in both the men's and women's GS has finished with a DNF

with another gold medal in biathlon. Has there been a day where they didn't win a gold medal?

She's attempting to take a run now

Astridge is a DNS in the men's GS as well

leading by three minutes(!) over the rest of the field in the biathlon relay at the second exchange

Spitalar went 0/5 on her second shooting leg, and then 0/3 with the extra bullets. I think that's the first time I've ever seen that happen.

They are referring to the events as "men's and women's" now it seems P.S. Please leave your edit for context. We don't need to accidentally fall down a gender debate rabbithole

needed to return to their safe space, so its 4th for them in the relay

suffer solo crashes in the second semifinal, so all the remaining teams had to do was not fall to make the A Final

have separate solo crashes while in lead of the short track relay (by a great margin), through by virtue of not falling. Absolute shock Daleman can't catch a break (even when she stays on her feet).

Here’s a stat that might interest you @heywoodu

with a final goal difference of -114

Obviously not my dream list, but it isn’t terrible either. Other than Io Capitano (which is one of my lowest rated films this year), I’m happy with the international feature nominations as well.

Oscar nominations will be announced in a few hours, so here are my picks for Best Picture if it was up to me (in no particular order): - Past Lives - Society of the Snow - The Teacher's Lounge - Oppenheimer - Poor Things - Anatomy of a Fall - The Holdovers - Rye Lane - The Zone of Interest - Barbie Films that are right on the bubble in my selection (it was very hard to choose only ten): - All of Us Strangers - Monster - Earth Mama The only "major" contenders I haven't seen are Maestro and The Color Purple. There also some other international films and indie films that I'd like to see before fully settling on my best of the year list.