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Old 01-01-2016, 16:35
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Andrew Young continues to impress: qualifies second for today's sprint. Finals coming up starting at 15:00. Andrew Musgrave 45th, but nowadays he is definitely concentrating on the endurance events.
And unfortunately he ran into a barrier in his first heat, so DNF and just 30th place. A shame, he looked on for a good result.
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Old 04-01-2016, 16:33
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Lots of midweek action this week The snow situation seems to be improving, but it takes a little while to convert fallen snow into usable pistes.

Alpine skiing - 2 slaloms from Santa Caterina, transferred from Zagreb. Possibility for two British top 30s, Alexandra Tilley is brushing the top 30 in slalom as well as GS.
Tuesday - Ladies slalom
Wednesday - Men's slalom

Ski Jumping - Final event of the 4 Hills from Bishopshofen.
Tuesday - Qualifying
Wednesday - Final

Cross Country Tour de Ski. Andrew Young seems to be going well, but Andrew Musgrave is completely out of form, sadly.
Tuesday - Classic sprint from Oberstdorf.
Wednesday - Men and women's Classic mass starts from Oberstdorf
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Old 06-01-2016, 19:27
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Third good result in a row for Dave Ryding in the Santa Caterina slalom - 13th this time with another second run that turned out to be better than he thought at first. Plenty more slaloms coming up in the next couple of weeks as well.
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Old 07-01-2016, 15:41
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Back to pretty much a full programme this weekend. BBC coverage starts up again, with live alpine on the Red Button and Ski Sunday on, erm Sunday. Eurosport 2 is going big on Tennis, so some events will be on delayed or streaming via the Player

Biathlon - moved from Oberhof to Ruhpolding for two weeks. All live on Eurosport. Since it's Germany, the women get the prime slots.

Friday
Men's sprint
Women's sprint

Saturday
Men's Pursuit
Women's Pursuit

Sunday
Men's Mass Start
Women's Mass Start

Cross Country Tour de Ski concludes. Some events live, I've given the live times for the ones that will be on the Eurosport Player. Sunday is the big climax, with the epic uphill stage.

Friday
10:30 Men's 10K Free
Women's 5K Free

Saturday
11:30 Women's 10K Classic Mass Start
13:30 Men's 15K Classic Mass Start

Sunday
Women's 9K Pursuit
14:40 Men's 9k Pursuit
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Old 07-01-2016, 15:57
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Bob and Skeleton from Lake Placid, New York, all on YouTube as normal.

Friday
13:30 & 16:00 Women skeleton
17:00 & 19:15 2-Man Bob
18:00 & 20:15 Women's Bob

Saturday
14:00 & 15:30 4-Man Bob
20:00 & 21:00 Men's skeleton

Alpine - Men from Adelboden, Women from Altenmark. All on Eurosport

Saturday
Women's Downhill - also on BBC
Men's Giant Slalom

Sunday
Men's slalom
Women's Super G

Ski Jumping
from Willingen

Saturday - Men's Individual
Sunday - Men's Team
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Old 08-01-2016, 17:35
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Some interesting results were produced in Round 4 of the Skeleton WC - the spoils went to home favourite Anne O'Shea, whose only previous podium finish happened back in December 2011! Gilardoni took second place (her best ever finish) and Deas claimed her second podium finish of the season.

Hermann came fourth and remains the overall leader; Creighton made the top 10.

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Looking elsewhere, there's also the second-tier Intercontinental Cup, with the latest two rounds concluded in Igls.* Elena Nikitina took the spoils in both - despite the Russian womens' recent struggles in the World Cup, this isn't a surprise because the Igls track suits the fast pushers (like Nikitina) more than any other.

Finally - keep an eye on British youngster Ashleigh Fay Pittaway. The 15 year-old came 16th/15th in those races and may well succeed Lölling as the Youth Olympic skeleton champion at Lillehammer 2016...

[* This is also where the 2016 IBSF World Championships are taking place]
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Old 09-01-2016, 09:29
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Today's men's GS at Adelboden is cancelled, so there will be changes to the Eurosport schedule.

Andrew Musgrave got a much needed good result yesterday, 20th in the 10K Freestyle Time Trial. He's still way behind in the Tour de Ski overall, but hopefully he can get a few more World Cup points on the board.

Should have mentioned yesterday that there is also the European Championships in Speed Skating this weekend, in Minsk. Eurosport has highlights tonight and tomorrow evening. Strangely it doesn't seem to be streamed live.
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Old 12-01-2016, 12:11
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Midweek events

Tuesday - Women's slalom from Flachau, Austria
Wednesday - Men's Biathlon Individual from Ruhpolding
Thursday - Women's Biathlon individual from Ruhpolding
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Old 13-01-2016, 13:10
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Off work for a small domestic matter today so watching live biathlon unexpectedly - the great news is that at long last we have fresh falls of snow, so it looks like a a proper biathlon race for once.
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Old 14-01-2016, 16:05
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This weekend's events - hopefully with a lot more actual snow.

Alpine - Men in Wengen, Switzerland on one of the classic courses, Women in Flachau

Friday
Men's Combined
Women's Slalom - Also on BBC Red Button

Saturday
Men's Downhill

Sunday
Women's GS
Men's Slalom

Ski Jumping - Or technically Ski Flying this weekend because it is on the super giant hill, the World Championships from Tauplitz

Friday
Men's individual

Sunday
Men's Team

Biathlon from Ruhpolding. Rather a weird schedule.

Friday
Men's relay

Saturday
Women's mass start
Men's mass start

Sunday
Women's relay

The rest tomorrow.
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Old 15-01-2016, 15:00
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Bobsleigh and Skeleton from Park City, Utah, so everything is +7 hours. No 2 man bob race, seemingly.

Friday 18:00 & 19:30 Women's Bob
Saturday 01:00 & 02:30 4 Man Race 1
Saturday 18:00 & 19:00 Women's skeleton
Saturday 20:15 & 21:15 Men's skeleton
Sunday 00:00 & 01:30 4 Man Bob Race 2

Cross Country - 2 Sprint races from Planica, Slovenia, Saturday's race not live on Eurosport. Another chance for good points for Andrew Young

Saturday
Men & Women Freestyle Sprint.

Sunday
Team Sprint

And also Luge from Oberhof, Women's Ski Jumping from Sapporo and Ski Cross from Watles, Italy.
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Old 17-01-2016, 20:37
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More World Cup points for Dave Ryding,, 16th today in Wengen. As usual, one great run and one average one, the day he puts two great runs together is the day he does something special. Now 19th in the overall Slalom World Cup
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Old 22-01-2016, 10:21
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An extremely busy weekend coming up, probably the busiest of the season, BUT....Australian Open Tennis, so we are going to miss a lot of the usual coverage on Eurosport, so here are a couple of extra things to start with.

Snowboard Freestyle - The European Open from Laax Switzerland. This will be live on BT Sport ESPN, BBC Onine and streaming. Several Brits are involved in the Slopestyle on Saturday.

http://onboardmag.com/snowboarding-e...Eqzj0L1lhEb.97

Friday - Halfpipe
Saturday - Slopestyle.

Short Track Speed Skating - The European Championships from Minsk, Belarus. Big hopes for medals from Elise Christie and Charlotte Gilmartin.

http://www.teamgb.com/news/team-gb-e...to-pyeongchang

Heats today, finals starting at 13:00 Saturday and Sunday

http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/isu/
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Old 22-01-2016, 12:01
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Alpine Skiing

Men in Kitzuhel for the annual downhill classic, Women in Cortina d' Ampezzo for two more Lindsay Vonn benefit races.

Friday
Men Super Combined

Saturday
Men Downhill
Women Downhill

Sunday
Men Slalom - Also live on BBC Red Button
Women Super-G

Biathlon in the stunning venue at Antholz. Streaming times included because not all events scheduled on Eurosport even before 5 set epics lasting into the small hours of the Australian morning.

http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/ibu/

Friday
13:30 Men Sprint

Saturday
12:15 Women Pursuit
14:15 Men Pursuit

Sunday
10:30 Women's relay
13:40 Men's relay
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Old 22-01-2016, 15:58
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Bobsleigh and skeleton - from Whistler, Canada, so late night early morning.

Friday
22:00 & 23:30 Women's skeleton

Saturday
02:00 & 03:30 Men's Bob Race 1
18:00 & 19:30 Men's skeleton
22:00 & 23:30 Women's skeleton

Sunday
02:00 & 03:30 Men's Bob Race 2

Ski jumping from Zakopane

Saturday - Individual
Sunday - Team

Cross Country from Nove Mesto, Czech Republic. Mostly tennis instead

Saturday - Freestyle Time Trials
Sunday - Relays

Plus tons of other things not on Eurosport including Ski Cross, Snowboard Cross, Freestyle Ski and Snowboard from North America, Women's Ski Jumping from Japan, Nordic Combined from France....Luge are on a week off.
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Old 23-01-2016, 10:10
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Anyone why instead of the Snowboard slopestyle final,we've got the women's downhill on the red button,instead?
Thanks.
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Old 23-01-2016, 10:43
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Anyone why instead of the Snowboard slopestyle final,we've got the women's downhill on the red button,instead?
Thanks.
Don't think the slopestyle starts till 11:30.
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Old 23-01-2016, 12:29
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GOLD for Elise Christie in the 1500m Short Track European Champs in Moscow - I got my calculations wrong in the earlier post, the live stream started on 11:00. Highlights on Eurosport on Monday.
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Old 23-01-2016, 13:05
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It's a real massacre in Kitzbuhel, three big crashes already. Svindal is the latest to go to. Surely they've got to call it off.

No, they're going on. Brave men.
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Old 23-01-2016, 13:08
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Yeah, its been a tough one so far this morning even with the lowered start. Let's hope the rest make it down in one piece.
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Old 23-01-2016, 13:40
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Yeah, they've stopped it after 30 racers, so enough to guarantee a result, but not wanting to put the lesser guys at risk. After the Svindal crash I thought most of the runners were backing off and just concentrating on getting down.
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Old 23-01-2016, 13:55
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GOLD!!! again for Elise Christie, this time in the 500m. She really is head and shoulders above the rest of the Europeans at the moment. It's great to see her so confident, laughing and joking before the races.
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Old 24-01-2016, 12:32
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GOLD!!! again for Elise Christie, this time in the 1000m. Hadn't realised yesterday that these championships were taking place in the same Sochi track that she was DQFed on during the Olympics!
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Old 24-01-2016, 13:18
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GOLD!!! For Charlotte Gilmartin in the final 3000m Super Final after the Dutch skater who crossed the line first got DQ. Elise was in the race, but didn't race it out, after already winning the overall title. Charlotte Gilmartin 2nd overall as well, so a great weekend for the British women. Men not so good, but one final place and they are in the relay final later.

Bad luck for Dave Ryding in the Kitzbuhel slalom, straddled in the second run after taking a big lead in the intermediate splits.
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Old 24-01-2016, 14:18
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And BRONZE!!!! for the men's Short Track relay team. In true Short Track fashion they got their medal by hanging around at the back and waiting for one of the big three to fall over, which Russia did.
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