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Old 30-11-2015, 10:31
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And just to sum up all the Bob/Skeleton results from Altenberg

Women's skeleton
1st Laura Deas
11th Donna Creighton

Women's bob - team was training in Winterberg

Men's skeleton
9th Dom Parsons
17th Ed Smith

2-man Bob
14th Lamin Deen
23rd Oliver Biddulph

4-man Bob
6th Lamin Deen
18th Oliver Biddulph.

Incidentally, Mark Lewis-Francis is still in training and competing at the European Cup level at the moment.
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Old 30-11-2015, 11:47
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Some other things worth noting from the weekend - an incredible weekend for Norway, with six cross country wins, two biathlon wins and to top it all off, two wins in the men's Alpine skiing in Lake Louise.

And American slalom skier Mikaela Shiffrin set a new world's best with the biggest winning margin in this history of the Slalom World Cup in Aspen on Saturday, 3.07 seconds over Veronica Zuzulova.
And followed it up with another win by over 2.6 seconds yesterday too. And her winning margin would also have been huge on Friday if she hadn't fallen on her arse two gates from the finish line. Perhaps she was just giving somebody else a chance.
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Old 01-12-2015, 13:46
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Just a reminder, midweek biathlon is back this week.

Wednesday 16:00 Men's 20K Individual
Thursday 16:00 Women's 15K Individual
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Old 02-12-2015, 15:19
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Just a reminder, midweek biathlon is back this week.

Wednesday 16:00 Men's 20K Individual
Thursday 16:00 Women's 15K Individual
Ta. Hope to catch them both!
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Old 02-12-2015, 20:22
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Fantastic race today and an incredible result! Ole Einar Bjoerndalen wins his 95th Biathlon World Cup race at the age of 41! Not the fastest ski time, but one of only two clear shoots amongst the top racers.
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Old 02-12-2015, 20:42
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Ole Einar is relentless. Just when you think his best days have gone he performs like he did today. Fantastic achievement and great coverage by BE again.
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Old 02-12-2015, 23:25
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I seriously need to get into Biathlon. Er, watching..not doing! In a way the skills are similar to curling.....frantic action and then the need for steady nerves to shoot...lower the heartbeat?

What impresses me most about winter sports is the sheer number of people watching in the freezing cold, often with the snow blowing into their faces. I couldn't manage 5 minutes! Must be a tough breed those continentals, or maybe they just have clothing that doesn't let the cold in?!!

As alluded to, kudos to BE for covering it (and wintersports in general)...and to Grassmarket for all the info!

Quickie - will they be having the *indoor/outdoor* biathon again (Germany?) and if so, it's around Xmas - actual date anyone??
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Old 03-12-2015, 00:11
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Quickie - will they be having the *indoor/outdoor* biathon again (Germany?) and if so, it's around Xmas - actual date anyone??
They've had it for the last few years. This years' is 28 December.
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Old 03-12-2015, 08:54
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I seriously need to get into Biathlon. Er, watching..not doing! In a way the skills are similar to curling.....frantic action and then the need for steady nerves to shoot...lower the heartbeat?

What impresses me most about winter sports is the sheer number of people watching in the freezing cold, often with the snow blowing into their faces. I couldn't manage 5 minutes! Must be a tough breed those continentals, or maybe they just have clothing that doesn't let the cold in?!!

As alluded to, kudos to BE for covering it (and wintersports in general)...and to Grassmarket for all the info!

Quickie - will they be having the *indoor/outdoor* biathon again (Germany?) and if so, it's around Xmas - actual date anyone??
As Grassmarket has already said it's on Monday 28.12.15 in the FC Schalke stadium, Gelsenkirchen.

It's an event I'd really like to get to, and checking the website I can see there are plenty of seats inside the stadium still available, for between EUR 19.00 and EUR 28.00 which seems pretty good value to me. It's a fairly easy drive from UK to Gelsenkirchen, weather permitting - but of course Germany does demand vehicles have winter, or all season tyres on the car if you're thinking of making the trip by road.

Finally, I'll add my congratulations to Ole Einar for a fantastic performance in difficult shooting conditions yesterday afternoon; also to Simon Schemp, who on yesterday's performance looks to be the one to beat this season - he certainly has the ski speed.
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Old 03-12-2015, 12:13
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Ta!
I'd like to watch one of those time-lapse videos of them preparing the stadium. Are there any around?
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Old 03-12-2015, 14:27
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Tons and tons to get through this weekend, again in mostly chronological order.

Bobsleigh and Skeleton - Still in Germany, this time in Winterberg. All on Youtube again.

https://www.youtube.com/user/bobskeletv

Friday
11:00 & 12:30 Women's Skeleton.
14:00 & 15:30 Men's skeleton

Saturday
08:30 & 11:00 Two-man bob
11:45 & 13:15 Women's Bob

Sunday
10:00 & 11:30 4-man Bob

Luge - From Lake Placid. As ever, Eurosport coverage will be patchy and unpredictable. They have the men's singles scheduled for Friday night, but none of the other events live.
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Old 03-12-2015, 14:45
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Ski Jumping - From Lillehammer, Norway. First women's competition of the year

Friday - Nothing scheduled live, might be on Eurosport Player
Men's Qualifying
14:00 Women's HS 100

Saturday - Men's Individual
Sunday - Men's individual

Men's Alpine - the two tours swap over, it's the men's turn to be in Colorado.

Friday - Downhill
Saturday - Super-G
Sunday - Giant Slalom

Women's Alpine - in Lake Louise for speed events

Friday - Downhil
Saturday - Downhill
Sunday - Super G.

Freestyle - Usually highlights only on Eurosport, unless there are cancellations elsewhere. Eurosport Player often has live coverage, but no commentary.

Saturday - Ski Cross

Nordic Combined - From Lillehammer, Norway. After a complete blank last weekend, they'll be praying for good jumping conditions. Incidentally, the FIS are trying to get some women's competitions going - think NC is the last Olympic event that is men only.

Saturday - Men's Team
Sunday - Men's Solo
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Old 03-12-2015, 14:59
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Cross Country World Cup From Lillehammer

Saturday
Women's 15k skiathlon - Mass start race, half in classic, change skies, then half in freestyle
Men's 30k skiathlon - on last week's form, this should be a good opportunity for a top 10 result for Andrew Musgrave

Sunday
Women's relay 4x5k
Men's relay 4x7.5k

Biathlon from Ostersund

Saturday
Men's Sprint
Women's Sprint

Sunday
Men's pursuit
Women's pursuit

Short Track skating - World Cup round 3 from Nagano, Japan, so at odd hours.

http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/isu/live.html?id=45
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Old 06-12-2015, 09:48
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The disqualification of 8 skijumpers in yesterday's Lillehammer competition seams to expose a blatant attempt on behalf of some coaches within the sport to flout the rules regarding suit size, and the action of the FIS in clamping down is to be commended.

I really is very disappointing that even in lower profile sports, such as Nordic Skiing teams are prepared to push the rules to the limit to get success. Now of course I understand the principals of "marginal gains" championed by Dave Brailsford with British cycling, but it certainly spoils the spectators and viewers enjoyment when this leads to bending, and too often breaking the rules.
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Old 07-12-2015, 10:23
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Best British performance of the weekend was Elise Christie getting a silver in the 500m in the Short Track World Cup in Japan. Charlotte Gilmartin got an 8th in the 1500m as well.

Bit of a disappointment for Andrew Musgrave in the 30km Skiathlon - he got really left behind in the early classic phase and although he made up about 20 places in the second half, still only finished 32nd, out of the World Cup points.

Laura Deas could only managed 4th in the women's skeleton behind 2 Germans on their home track.. There's wasn't much wrong with her 2nd run technically, but she just had horrible conditions on a rapidly melting track. 14th for Donna Creighton. Another decent result for the 4-man bob team in 8th place - again, Germans filled the top three.

Elsewhere, a sensational weekend for Lindsay Vonn, winning all three races in Lake Louise. And Norway continue to pile up the medals, winning all four cross-country races, one ski jump, one Nordic Combined and 1-2 in the men's Alpine downhill.
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Old 07-12-2015, 18:46
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Just caught up with an amazing result in the women's luge at Lake Placid - USA got the 1-2-3, The Germans, for many decades so completely dominant they often got 1-2-3-4,, only 4th, 8th and 9th.

And what's more, the Americans also won the men's and even the Team Relay - the German pair crashed on the anchor leg.
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Old 08-12-2015, 15:50
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Elsewhere, a sensational weekend for Lindsay Vonn, winning all three races in Lake Louise.
Indeed. What a response to Schiffrin winning so easily the previous weekend.
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Old 09-12-2015, 10:32
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Team GB Short Track skater Joe Eley retires

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-sports/35042201

One of those guys in British winter sports who never really got much media attention as an athlete, but who always do the unglamorous job of keeping our World Rankings up to a respectable level which creates space for younger athletes to get into top level competition and win medals. He did get two World Championship bronzes in the relay, though, and was for a while part of a World Record-holding quartet. As a solo athlete, 3 top 10 Olympic performances is better than what 95% of Olympians achieve.
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Old 10-12-2015, 11:57
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Here's your weekend's action, in chronological order sort-of. Busy weekend for the International Skating Union, with all three disciplines in action.

Figure Skating - Final of this year's Grand Prix series from Barcelona. Runs Thursday-Sunday, all live on Eurosport and eurovisionsports.tv as usual. Entries based on success in previous rounds, so no Brits.

Speed Skating World Cup 3 - Live from Heerenveen, the Netherlands, so if you only watch one speed skating event a year this is the one for atmosphere. Streaming on eurovisionsports.tv, Schedule here.

http://live.isuresults.eu/2015-2016/heerenveen-2/

Short track World Cup 4 - this week the show moves onto Shanghai. Again, streaming on Eurovision Sports and good prospects of British success from Elise Christie.

http://shorttrack.sportresult.com/
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Old 10-12-2015, 14:08
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Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Cup 3 from Konigsee, Bavaria. Third week in Germany and the last round before the Christmas break.

Friday
10:00 & 11:30 Women skeleton
13:30 & 15:00 Women Bob

Saturday
09:00 & 10:30 Men Skeleton
12:30 & 14:00 2-Man Bob

Sunday
10:45 & 12:15 4-Man Bob

Biathlon from Hochfilzen, Austria. All live on Eurosport as normal except for the Men's Relay on Sunday, which will be delayed by snooker & ski jumping. Also on Eurovision Sports and L'Equipe21.

Friday
Women's Sprint
Men's Sprint

Saturday
Women's Pursuit
Men's Pursuit

Sunday
Women's relay
13:30 Men's relay

Freestyle & Snowboard

Friday
Ski Cross World Cup 2, live on Eurosport from Val Thorens

Saturday & Sunday
2 Snowboard Cross races from Montafon, Austria, not on Eurosport. (There's some strange conflict about streaming rights on events in Austria, they're always geo-blocked)
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Old 10-12-2015, 15:55
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Men's Alpine from Val d'Isere. Both men and women are on technical weekends after last week's speed.

Saturday - Giant Slalom
Sunday - Slalom

Women's Alpine from Are, Sweden

Saturday - Giant Slalom
Sunday - Slalom

Cross Country from Davos, Switzerland. This is also getting messed about by snooker, so nothing live at all except on Eurosport Player or further afield. Both Andrew Young and Andrew Musgrave in action for GB. Nordic Combined are having a week off.

Saturday
10:15 - Women's 15k Free
13:00 - Men's 30k Free

Sunday
10:00 - Freestyle sprints

Ski Jumping from Nizhi Tagil, Russia. All on Eurosport. There are also 2 women's events, but probably Eurosport Player only. No timings given on the FIS website, though.

Friday - Qualifying
Saturday - Men's Individual
Sunday - Men's Individual
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Old 10-12-2015, 16:12
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And finally...

Luge from Park City, Utah
Have just noticed that all the Luge events this season have been streamed live and are archived, which is just as well, because there's been hardly anything on Eurosport. Excitement should be high after the USA had their best meet ever last week. It's evening racing in Utah, which I think is plus +7 hours, so crazy times.

http://liveplus.digotel.com/fil/index.html

Saturday small hours - Men's Double and Women's solo
Sunday small hours - Men's solo and Relay

Natural track luge from Kuhtai, Austria being streamed live for the first time ever.

http://eversport.tv/alpine/luge

This is basically traditional tobogganing. It's done on a natural ice track, which are built on open roads with no banking or channeling of any kind apart from hay bales at the sides, so riders mostly sit semi-upright and use one hand to brake round corners and the other to steer with a rope. If you can imagine a Tour de France Alpine descent round hairpin turns on sledge, that is what it is.

Saturday - Doubles
Sunday - Singles
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Old 11-12-2015, 12:39
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Wow, what a Dukurs-esque performance by Tina Hermann on her home track in Königssee - she won Round 3 of the Skeleton World Cup by over a second! She broke the track record twice in succession, which is now six tenths lower than before today's comp, and her record in the 2015-16 WC is currently 2nd, 1st, 1st.

The narrative so far appears to be Hermann and Jacqueline Lölling consistently in the top three, plus a different other medallist in each race (today it was Swiss slider Marina Gilardoni that won her first WC medal).

Deas and Creighton finished 10th and 15th respectively.
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Old 11-12-2015, 19:47
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The narrative so far appears to be Hermann and Jacqueline Lölling consistently in the top three,.
Loelling was pretty amazing as well, made up 0.5 of a second in just two turns.
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Old 12-12-2015, 13:22
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We didn't quite get the showdown we were looking for in the womens GS in Are with Mikaela Shifrin getting injured in practice, but Lindsay Vonn has just amazingly made it 4/4 for the season with another win!
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