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At every Olympics I’ve been to, the empty seats have been down to corporates and sponsors having piles of tickets that they don’t use.

Because normally the whole world loves to see them do well?

My 10-year-old is currently trying to simultaneously watch Canada v US in the ice hockey, India v South Africa in the cricket and Forest v Liverpool in the football. Another 35 minutes until we add France v Italy in the rugby to the mix.

In 1956 the summer games were hosted by Melbourne but the equestrian events were held in Stockholm due to Australia’s onerous quarantine regulations. The whole “region wide” thing makes a lot of sense for the winter games, where small ski resorts with mountains and snow have limited need for a...

Is this related to the Olympics or just a usual Sunday in the Birdie household?

Whenever the World Cup is held in an unhelpful time zone, the UK government just changes the law to facilitate drunkenness at the appropriate hour.

There’s been an awful lot of curling on the BBC this month and I still can’t get my head around the physics. I just… how? How do they do that?

TikTok is full of American ice hockey fans who are furious with the concept of “time zones”, while the Canadians are all just cheerily getting ready for a 5am trip to the bar.

British Champs on the iPlayer again this year https://www.british-gymnastics.org/articles/2026-artistic-british-championships-to-be-broadcast-on-the-bbc

Also, do many mountains have stairs?

I was shocked to discover that Spain has such a poor record in the Winter Olympics, I sort of assumed they'd have a whole bunch of Pyrenees-based skiers.

I realised my then other-half was not The One in the summer of 2012, when he refused to spend an entire day watching handball with me. It was one of the few things I'd managed to get tickets for and I wasn't going to let a complete lack of interest in or knowledge of the sport get in the way...

A couple of South Korean cross-country skiers got DQd for using ski wax containing “forever chemicals” that were banned from the sport on environmental grounds.

That's to say, there's one curling rink for every 260,000 Scots, and one for every 57 million English.

The UK has 22 dedicated curling venues. 21 of them are in Scotland.