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We're now at the point in the season when it is impossible to keep up with everything...Elise Christie got another 4th place in the 500m Short-track World Cup in Shanghai over the weekend, semi-final in the 1000m, but out in the first round of the 1500m.
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Full Bob and Skeleton timetable for Calgary
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkr...up_LfDV7hOQWsg Friday 19:00 Women's skeleton 1 20:00 Men's skeleton 1 21:15 Women's skeleton 2 22:15 Men's skeleton 2 Saturday AM 00:30 2-Man bob 1 02:00 2-Man bob 2 Saturday PM 18:00 Women's bob 1 19:30 Women's bob 2 21:00 4-Man 1 22:30 4-Man 2 And a reminder two other events are on Thursday this week 12:15 Snowboarding Parallel GS from Montafon, Austria 13:15 Biathlon women's sprint from Pokljuka |
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Things are liable to be a bit messed about all this weekend because there have been cancellations, changes of venue and changes of event across several of the sports. These seem to be the fixed points. More to come.
Biathlon at Pokljuka Friday 13:30 Men's sprint Saturday 10:00 Women's pursuit 12:30 Men's pursuit Sunday 10:15 Women's mass start 12:30 Men's mass start Snowboarding - Two different events Friday 09:45 Mixed Parallel Slalom from Montafon Saturday 17:00 Big Air event from Istanbul (presumably an artificial hill!) Ski Jumping from Engelberg Austria Saturday 13:15 Men's big hill Sunday 13:15 Men's big hill |
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Alpine
Friday 11:00 Men's Super G from Val Gardena Saturday 09:15 Women's downhill from Val d'Isere 11.00 Men's downhill from Val Gardena Sunday 08:15:& 11:15 Men's GS from Alta Badia 09:15 Women's Super-G from Val d'Isere Monday 16:30 & 19:30 Men's slalom from Madonna di Campiglio Cross country from Davos Saturday 11:30 Men's 15K Free 15:30 Women's 10K Free Sunday 11:30 Classic Sprint Nordic Combined - Eurosport going back to their bad old habit of showing the skijumping live but scheduling the race at odd times. There is also a Freestyle Aerials World Cup in Beijing, and the Short Track World Cup from Seoul. http://livemanager.eurovision.edgesu...isu/index.html |
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Some good results for GB athletes over the weekend. In the women's skeleton Laura Deas got her first silver medal in only her second race. Rose McGrandle was 6th. In the men's Dom Parsons was third after the first run, but didn't improve and finished in 7th. Lamin Deen also got a PB, 5th equal in the 4 man bob.
Elise Christie got her first medals of the season, 2 bronze medals in the 500m and 1000m short track in South Korea. In the Cross Country freestyle sprint in Davos Andrew Young got his first World Cup points of the season, 26th place. Not quite sure if that was a PB for him, he has qualified before. Just a reminder that Dave Ryding will be going in the last event before Xmas, the floodlight slalom in Madonna di Campiglio tomorrow at 16:30 and 19:30. |
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Eurosport Commentators
Something that I've wondered about for a while. Do many of the commentators actually attend the events, or do they spend all their time sitting in little studios in Paris?
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Something that I've wondered about for a while. Do many of the commentators actually attend the events, or do they spend all their time sitting in little studios in Paris?
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Another good result for Dave Ryding, 16th in tonight's slalom, so now firmly in the WC top 30 starters.
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Not a full programme, but a few things on this weekend
Biathlon Saturday 16:45 - The World Team Challenge. An annual special invitational race held at the Schalke football stadium in Gelsenkirchen, Germany Ski Jumping First Round of the Four Hills Tournament which run until the 6th January from Obertsdorf, Germany Saturday 15:15 - Qualifying Sunday 15:15 - Main event Alpine Skiing Sunday 08:45 & 12:00 Women's GS from Innsbruck Sunday 10:15 Men's Downhill from Santa Caterina Monday 08:45 & 11:45 Women's Slalom from Innsbruck |
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Not a full programme, but a few things on this weekend
Biathlon Saturday 16:45 - The World Team Challenge. An annual special invitational race held at the Schalke football stadium in Gelsenkirchen, Germany Hopefully some links to free (legal) streams can be found - I don't think this is covered on Eurosport?? |
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That's worth watching even if you aren's a fan of biathlon!
Hopefully some links to free (legal) streams can be found - I don't think this is covered on Eurosport?? |
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What does anyone reckon of the suggestion of adding cross country running to the Winter Olympics?
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What does anyone reckon of the suggestion of adding cross country running to the Winter Olympics?
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After many hours of predictably useless messing about, the Four Hills Ski Jumping from Obertsdorf has been rescheduled for Monday, 15:30 UK time. Let's hope the jury have the courage to make sensible decisions quickly in future.
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Not a full programme this weekend, but quite a lot on. The main thing is the return of winter sports to the BBC - Ski Sunday at 16:45 and live Red Button coverage of the Zagreb Women's slalom.
Cross Country It's the Tour de Ski - a series of races lasting until next Sunday, conducted in Tour de France format, with individual stages and a single overall winner. Saturday 09:30 & 11:45 - Short prologue time trials Sunday 10:00 & 11:00 - Pursuit races based on time gaps from the prologue Tuesday 12:00 - Sprints Wednesday 11:45 & 14:45 - Classic time trials Thursday 11:45 & 14:45 - Long distance freestyle point-to-point races Ski Jumping The Four Hills Tournament continues and concludes Sunday 12:45 - Innsbruck Tuesday 15:00 Bishofshofen Nordic Combined From Schonach Saturday 10:45 & 14:15 Team Relay Sunday 08:45 & 11:45 Individual Alpine Sunday 08:45 & 12:00 Women's slalom from Zagreb Luge Four events from Konigsee, lots of times over the weekend Biathlon starts again on Wednesday and Thursday, with women's and men's relays from Oberhof at 13:15 |
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Four Hills - David Goldstrom's Translations
It is really irritating that all the interviews which are done in German, and simultaneously "translated" by David into English.
I feel sure that he does speak German, as the translations open up fairly accurate, but as he is speaking simultaneously, by the time the interview ends, from the snatches of German that you can pick up the translated answers bear little relation to what is actually being said. As for the translations from Kamil Stoch from Polish, I haven'y got the foggiest what is being said, but I bet Polish viewers, if they watch the Eurosport UK feed, find the same issues. Surely there can be some way in which we are allowed to hear the interviews in their original language, thus giving David a chance to appraise and paraphrase the responses. As I have the opportunity to do so, I actually prefer to watch the jumping, and also the biathlon on the ARD or ZDF as the analysis and interviews are much more comprehensive. To achieve this a second LNB and satellite receiver are all that is needed, and for a wintersports fan, well worth the small investment (my box cost less than € 50.00 from a German retailer). |
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Some sad news - two skiers on the US U-23 team killed in an avalanche in Austria
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-30690358 Sadly, it looks like they ignored good advice. |
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Two more good results for our Cross-Country skiers in the Tour de Ski yesterday - Andrew Young finished 15th, Andrew Musgrave 18th in the Sprints in Val de Moustair. Both beat lots of big names. Musgrave now 26th in the overall Tour de Ski, Young is 60th.
Lizzy Yarnold returns to the Skeleton World Cup on Friday - races will be live on the BBC Connected Stream as well as highlights on BBC Red Button on Sunday 18:00 http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-sports/30698404 And a bad crash for Simon Amman in the Four Hills yesterday - he was knocked unconscious and had to be taken to hospital. He has regained consciousness, is fully mobile but will stay in hospital for tests. Sadly, probably a career ender - I'm sure his wife and little boy will want it to be. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/WinterSpor.../22166771.html |
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And a bad crash for Simon Amman in the Four Hills yesterday - he was knocked unconscious and had to be taken to hospital. He has regained consciousness, is fully mobile but will stay in hospital for tests. Sadly, probably a career ender - I'm sure his wife and little boy will want it to be.
Potentially a worse injury for Nick Fairall in the Bischofhofen quali on Monday; he had an emergency operation to relieve pressure on his back but thankfully seems to be coming through it OK.As for Simon Amman, his landings have been iffy all season, and perhaps this accident underlines just why the rules and style marks reward a safe telemark landing - often people ask why jumps aren't just rewarded by distance and I think this makes the case strongly. That said, Simmi wasn't the only jumper yesterday to experience stability problems landing in the 130m+ zone, and I thought there may actually have been some imperfection in the landing zone around that area, but nobody seems to have mentioned that in commentary / analysis. |
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Another good day for Andrew Musgrave, 20th in the 10K Classic, his weaker technique so up to 21st overall now, which is bound to improve as others drop out before the killer events tomorrow and on Saturday.
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Coming up this weekend - part 1
Bob and skeleton from Altenberg, Germany Everything live on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/bobskel...&live_view=502 Skeleton live on BBC Red Button. Friday 08:00 Women skeleton 1 09:30 Women skeleton 2 11:30 Women's bob 1 13:00 Women's bob 2 Saturday 08:00 Men's skeleton 1 09:30 Men's skeleton 2 11:30 2-Man bob 1 13:00 2-Man bob 2 Sunday 09:00 4-man bob 1 10:30 4- man bob 2 |
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Hugely busy programme this weekend, with lots of sports in action
Live events on Eurosport Biathlon from Obertsdorf Friday 13:00 Women's Sprint Saturday 10:45 Men's Sprint Sunday 10:00 Women's Mass start 13:15 Men's mass start - Live stream on web, shown delayed on Eurosport 15:00 http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/ibu/index.html Cross Country Tour de Ski Saturday 12:00 Men's 15k classic 17:00 Women's 10k classic Sunday - If you only watch one Cross-country event all year make it these two, an insanely extreme race where the runner have to finish an uphill slalom course. 11:00 Men's race 12:15 Women's Race More to come... |
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Women in Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria, Men in Adelboden, Germany Saturday 09:15 Men's GS 1 10:15 Women'd DH 12:30 Men's GS 2 - Both the men's runs are also on BBC Red Button Sunday 08:45 Men's Slalom 1 10:00 Women's Super G 11:45 Men's Slalom 2 Ski Jumping from Tauplitz, Austria 13:30 on both Saturday and Sunday And even after that lot there are a lot more things dotted around the Eurosport Schedules Nordic Combined from Chaux-Neuve, France Two Ski Cross World Cup races from Val Thorens, France Freestyle Ski Moguls and Aerials from Deer Valley, USA Two Snowboard slalom events from Bad Gastein Women's Ski Jumping from Sapporo European Speed Skating Champs from Chelyabinsk http://livemanager.eurovision.edgesu...isu/index.html |
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Absolutely unbelievable result for Andrew Musgrave today in the 25k Race in the Tour de Ski. Although it was a staggered start pursuit race, and he crossed the line 11th, he was the single fastest runner on the day, and so is credited as the race winner!!! 50 World Cup Points!
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There are a whole lot of winter sports World Championships this season - first up is the Ski and Snowboard Worlds, starting on 15 January. It's not quite as prestigious as the others, lots of people prefer to do the X-Games instead. Still, Britain are sending a strong team, full of familiar names from Sochi.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-sports/30726077 Snowboard Slopestyle : Aimee Fuller, Jamie Nicholls, Billy Morgan, Sam Turnbull Snowboard Big Air: Aimee Fuller, Jamie Nicholls, Billy Morgan, Sam Turnbull Ski Slopestyle: Katie Summerhayes, Anna Vincenti, Isabel Atkin Ski Halfpipe: Murray Buchan, James Machon, Rowan Cheshire, Molly Summerhayes Moguls: Ellie Koyander, Andrew Longley Aerials: Elodie Wallace, Lloyd Wallace Ski Cross: Ed Drake, Liz Stevenson, Emily Sarsfield, Pam Thorburn Snowboard Cross: Zoe Gillings-Brier, Stephanie Gehrig, Thomas Bankes |
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