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And now Anders Fannemel has flown 251.5m! (Check the link above)
I was amazed that the BBC actually reported the Prevc jump on Sunday morning, but so far as I can see, apart from for online, they haven't covered Fannemel's achievement. |
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Final World Cup rankings for the disciplines that finished this weekend.
World Championships will be in Winterberg, 23 Feb - 8 March Women's Skeleton 2nd Lizzy Yarnold 3rd Laura Deas 7th Rose McGrandle - both Rose and Laura were on their debut seasons In addition Donna Creighton won the 2nd Division Intercontinental Cup, Men's Skeleton 5th Dom Parsons 21st Ed Smith David Smith won the Intercontinental Cup Women's Bob Not a very well-supported event this season, with only about 15 regular entrants. 10th Mica McNeill 11th Victoria Olaoye The men's bob team were going through an experimental season, lots of changes and lots of swapping between World and European Cups, so we didn't put out the same team often enough to make a decent judgement. |
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Short Track
Elise Christie was obviously our most consistent world class athlete. Her World rankings in each discipline were 500m - 4th 1000m - 4th 1500m - 28th Charlotte Gilmartin also had some good results 500m - 16th 1000m - 37th 1500m - 22nd The World Championships will be in Moscow, 13-15 March. |
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A couple of things starting this week, all with lots of coverage on Eurosport.
The Nordic Ski World Championships from Falun, Sweden - full programme here.. All UK times minus 1 hour. And the Biathlon Junior and Youth World Championships from Belarus. - Schedule here. . All times minus 3 hours. |
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British Bob and Skeleton squads named for the World Champs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-sports/31527109 |
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World Championship Nordic and Junior World Championship Biathlon continue all weekend on Eurosport. Scott Dixon got a good 18th place in the Junior Individual race yesterday, shot an excellent 19/20 - following in his father's footsteps.
Apart from that... Alpine skiing - Men in Saalbach, Austria and the women in Maribor, Slovenia Saturday 08:45 & 17:00 Women's GS 10:00 Men's downhill Sunday 08:45 & 11:15 Women's slalom 10:00 Men's Super G Luge from Altenberg at odd times Freestyle skiing - Ski Cross from Tegernsee, Aerials from Moscow. |
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Almost forgot: The Red Bull Crashed Ice race from Belfast is at 20:15 on Saturday, streaming live on RedBull.TV
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Andrew Musgrave gets a great 12th position in the 30km Skiathlon in the Cross Country World Champs - needless to say, Britain's best ever finish in this sport. Really brave effort, he was up with all the world's best up until about the 28k mark.
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Almost forgot: The Red Bull Crashed Ice race from Belfast is at 20:15 on Saturday, streaming live on RedBull.TV
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Got to Belfast to see this live, apart from having to put up with Colin Murray doing his "thing" a great night of sporting entertainment to be had. They do need to add a regular women's race to co-exist between the men's races though, we'd then be looking at possible games inclusion.
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Yes, big impressive crowd. They have had women's races in the past, but only Canadians are mad enough to try it.
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Another bump: Andrew Musgrave goes in the 15km Freestyle Cross-Country today starting at 12:30 - after his 12th in the Skiathlon this will be Britain's best-ever chance for a top 10 finish. His sister Rosie was 49th in the women's 10K yesterday.
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Well, the Eurosport commentators seemed a bit disappointed about it, but Andrew Musgrave came 16th in the 15K, beating a whole bunch of big names. To put it in perspective, in both of his last two races Musgrave has beaten every Finnish and German athlete.
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The Bob and Skeleton World Championships start today in Winterberg.
First weekend is the 2-person bob races Thursday: 13:45 & 15:05: Women's bob heats 1&2 Friday: 12:05 & 14:05: 2-man heats 1&2 Saturday: 12:30 & 14:05: Women's bob heats 3&4 Sunday: 09:30 & 11:35: 2-man heats 3&4 Sunday: 14:00: Team event Skeleton and 4 man races next weekend, don't have the full timetable yet. |
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Biathlon is still on it's pre-world championship break - first event on Thursday
Nordic Worlds Friday 12:30 Men's Relay Saturday 08:45 & 14:45 Nordic Combined Team Sprint 12:00 Women's 30K 14:00 Team ski jump Sunday 12:30 Men's 50K Alpine Women in Bansko, Bulgaria, Men in Garmisch-Partenkirchen Saturday 09:00 Women's Super G 10:30 Men's downhill Sunday 07:30 & 10:30 Women's combined And also at odd times Snowboard slalom from Park City, Luge from Sochi, Ski half-pipe from Park City Utah. |
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Is anyone covering the IPC World Alpine Championships?
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Is anyone covering the IPC World Alpine Championships?
https://www.youtube.com/user/ParalympicSportTV |
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Some early warnings for the weekend.
Second week of the World Championships for Bobsleigh and Skeleton. The British Bob team look like they badly need a good result in the 4-man after two performances so far well out of the top-ten minimum they needed to guarantee funding Looks like all the Skeleton races will be geo-blocked on YouTube, BBC Online live only. Thursday 09:00 Men Skeleton 1 10:40 Men Skeleton 2 Friday - highlights on BBC Red Button 18:00 10:00 Women skeleton 1 11:45 Women skeleton 2 13:30 Men skeleton 3 15:05 Men skeleton 4 Saturday - Women's skeleton live on BBC Red Button 09:00 Women skeleton 3 10:35 Women skeleton 4 12:15 4-Man 1 13:55 4-Man 2 Sunday 14:00 4-Man 3 16:05 4-Man 4 |
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Biathlon World Championships from Kontiolahti, Finland
Thursday 16:00 Mixed Relay Saturday 12:15 Men's Sprint 15:15 Women's Sprint Sunday - Men and women pursuit will NOT be live on Eurosport because of Tennis, but streaming times are: 13:15 Men's pursuit 15:00 Women's pursuit Wednesday 11th 16:15 Women's individual Thursday 12th 16:00 Men's Individual Friday 13th 16:15 Women's relay Saturday 14th 16:00 Men's Relay Sunday 15th 12:30 Women's Mass Start 15:00 Men's Mass Start |
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As far as I can see the only coverage is from the Paralympic Channel on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/user/ParalympicSportTV |
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BBC Coverage for the Bob & Skeleton World Champs this weekend
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/winter-sports/31674450 |
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And the rest of the weekend's action
Alpine skiing Women from Garmisch, men from Kvitfjell Friday 09:30 Women's downhill Saturday 09:45 Women's downhill 11:00 Men's downhill Sunday 09:30 Men's Super-G 11:00 Women's Super-G And Cross-Country, Nordic Combined and Ski-Jumping are all from Lahti, but get messed up by tennis and athletics. |
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Still quite a competitive start time, though.
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