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Euro 2016 started last evening, with Romania losing 2-1 to France after France scored the second goal in the 89th minute. But it’s not the match I’m writing this quick post about, but the conditions under which the competition takes place… And the situation viewers here have to face as well, with the exception of […]

Around this time in 2007, I wrote a post to mention that Telford United, after being born from the ashes of the bankrupt old club in 2004 and placed initially in the eighth division, had promoted to the sixth, after having promoted to the seventh at the end of the 2004-2005 season. This was somewhat […]

After the failure of the new Formula 1 qualifying format after only two races and the official announcement that the previous one will be used for the rest of the season, I started thinking of some other format that will add to the excitement while doing without the flaws of this failed new format. In […]

Since the ski jumping season’s last competition took place today and I wrote a post mentioning the records set on Thursday, I just want to quickly follow up with the final numbers. Those are 502 Ski Jumping World Cup competition appearances for Noriaki Kasai and 15 wins, 22 podiums and 2303 points obtained during a […]

For fans of ski jumping who also happen to keep track of records and milestones, this early competition that took place today in Planica, making up for last week’s canceled second competition in Titisee-Neustadt, made for quite a morning. There was no new ski flying record, nor a new hill record, those remaining at 251.5 […]