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Did you even read the articles you were citing? The Zoe Backstedt one was about a training crash. Motor racing is pretty mainstream, although the TT is pretty niche within it. And of course the pro road péloton doesn't want to be associated with it in terms of athlete safety. And, you know...

Training crashes have nothing to do with the solutions to pro racing crashes. Open roads alone or in small groups has a totally different risk profile to a full péloton at race speeds on closed roads. Oftentimes the very same things that can make a road entirely unsuitable for race conditions...

Giacomel was also a close personal friend of Sivert Bakken. With this now happening to him I will be absolutely shocked if he takes another start this season even if he is fully fit.

The Oslofjord area does however have a fair representation in biathlon. Hanevold, Flatland, the Eckhoff family, Fanny Horn Birkeland, Tandrevold, Lægreid, Dale-Skjevdal, Isak Frey, Strømsheim, the Andersen brothers and the Brun-Lie family are all from around there.

While very true for Central Europe (probably the biggest urban centre with a biathlon venue right on hand would be Garmisch-Partenkirchen for which Kaltenbrunn - not an international venue but very much a talent factory - is only a couple of kilometres away, and that's about 25k population), the...

A few times the idea of neutral waxing has been put forward, or at least something akin to F1 where there is a small range of preparations available to allow for tactical selection (akin to the different tyre compounds offered), but the problem is that the largest teams tend to veto it. The...

You are right in that I was conflating the pursuit in Trondheim (in classic) with the Meråker race (which didn't end up as a point to point after the weather intervened, and was in skate) and you are right to pull that up as I had the wrong race in mind (and as you acknowledge, there was a race...

There's a combination of factors. Part of it is that the increasing homogenization of the calendar has led to a heavy increase in mass start distance races that stay as a pack quite deep into the race, a heavier sprint-bias to the calendar and shorter, easier circuits to improve the stadium...

Yea, the other thing is here this is two teams of top NHL professionals, not the college kids and ATOs of 1980...

She had already gone home and had to travel back to race this on short notice once there was sickness in the camp. I do believe this may well be the end of the line for her (well, this season, I'm sure she'll want to at least make it to sign off in Lahti, even if she decides not to do...

Ah, fair, I had lost track of that. May have been mentioned while I was at the coffee machine in fairness. The great Patricija Eiduka (I've decided to use Patrick Winterton's criteria for calling somebody "the great", which is "anybody I like") with 12th - and possibly 11th if Nepryaeva's DQ is...

9th place for Katharina Hennig-Dotzler having had to do 50k on one set of skis is phenomenal too, btw. I know the men did that yesterday but the conditions today clearly made that far more suboptimal.

Diggins' downhill is the big factor for her here, Kälin attacking here against some poor descenders will really help Jess as she'll be well placed before the last couple of short climbs in the stadium. Can't help but feel a bit of the vibe of Michele Scarponi talking about Ryder Hesjedal will...

There are an awful lot of very tired legs there, but there's also quite a few people who cannot sprint who are likely to regret it if they don't definitively drop Diggins, because she's by a considerable margin the best sprinter of those left here. Ebba on Chiesa. Eliza making contact just as...

The skis are at least still gliding downhill well for her, but that's always been one of her biggest strengths. Every time the trails go uphill she's instantly being gapped a bit though, and really searching for grip out of the tracks. Dalej Eliza!