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Finally, a TTT which adheres to the rules of appropriate usage.

The question then will be who draws the short straw of a classic leg. As I've said before I think they're going to need to deploy Diggins on leg 2 now; in the relay, unlike the skiathlon where the classic is often conservatively skied to preserve energy for later, in the relay the classic is...

I just think father time has caught up with Rosie. Her best results were already an Indian summer in her 30s, and while she's had injury/illness issues, it just takes longer to recover later on in her career. She's looked laboured all season and while she's still going to be needed for the...

Now now, I like Matintalo too, but there's hyperbole and there's hyperbole!

The lack of a lot of the big name Swedes is creating a very broken up race early on here, it was Slind's desire to try to push the pace uphill vs. Diggins' gliding better and superior downhill for a little while but they've been brought back by a small group. Mackie and Perry having a great day...

As in Lukas? Yea, he's got the potential, similar skillset coming through to his big sister (feels strange referring to Julia as that), hopefully he can have the same kind of impact as he goes through the levels, he does need to iron out some flaws but Julia is already doing better than a lot of...

Surely Turdrevold or Tandrefailed would fit better? This race week has been shooting fish in a barrel for the French, as the only major team to have a full strength lineup in situ.

At the same time, they themselves were part of said 'lame opposition', as you wouldn't consider either of them to be in Germany's regular rotation for these events. Fichtner is borderline World Cup at this point in time - she was in the teaam in spot #6 at the start of the season, dropped to the...

OK so who had Marlene Fichtner and Leonhard Pfund down as the first German winners of the World Cup season? If anybody did, for the love of all that is holy in all religions, including all nine million deities of Shinto, you need a lottery ticket.

The Olympia-Norm is kinda funny now though, this is why they usually make Ruhpolding the cutoff. Roman Rees has one flower ceremony and no podiums all season on the IBU Cup, then comes in here with so many top names rested and hits 7th place immediately; Leonhard Pfund is a former Junior World...

The crowds in Oberhof are just sad.

The question was open-ended though; "what could you possibly accuse Simon Yates of?" In that context, the fact that he has had a doping ban, no matter how inconsequential, is a material fact because it is something you can accuse him of, even if it isn't really relevant to his retirement. Jono's...

Noriaki Kasai is on the Sapporo World Cup entry lists. Death, taxes, and Noriaki Kasai being an active ski jumper.

My team is kind of thrown together as I have been rather distracted by wintersport, but it's largely built on a theme of redemption arcs. And there were a lot of riders scoring disappointing scores last year such that you never know which one is the one you're gonna miss out by leaving out, that...

Can't think of any tbh, men's relays have typically not had this many teams competitive after that point, because there's always been a steep drop-off after the first few because of the sheer strength in depth that the Norwegians, French, Germans and Russians had, with either Sweden or Austria...