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The four-yearly "could this be the year GB finally crack the winter Olympics?" article seems to arrive earlier each cycle...

They really don't, "elite" has a precise meaning in gymnastics but this is a BBC piece aimed at the general public for whom gymnastics occurs once every four years and "elite" simply means "the very best".

Nice little package on Alice K's post-baby comeback https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/gymnastics/articles/ckgzjyj4jkqo

The logo or the collapse of western civilisation?

Yeah but I'm twitchy about the fact it's a b and a g rather than a B and a G, such things feed into my wider concerns about the general collapse of western civilisation.

That's the logo for the app for some crappy social media start-up

I think there's a difference between something being designed to be "sexy" (complete with the inverted commas) and being "sexualised".

On the contrary, although the event selection may be even more parochial than usual: "The rights deal we have with Discovery where we can only show two things live, we are subject to going forwards. We’ve traditionally found, because it’s been in place for two Winter Olympics now, that it’s...

What is going on? North America's leotard designers seem to have done all the fronts, gone to the bar to celebrate getting their designs in right on deadline, got absolutely smashed and then suddenly remembered they had to do the backs too.

I'm mostly looking forward to repeatedly calling it "ice hockey" in international fora. Oh and biathlon. Love a bit of biathlon and the demise of Eurosport means I've been lacking my annual fix this winter.

And maybe not real? https://eu.usatoday.com/story/sports/2025/12/23/jeffrey-epstein-letter-larry-nassar-donald-trump/87894400007/

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I mean it's absurd because precisely no-one is going to sign up for a year-long TNT subscription in order to watch the CWG. And the people who have it already for the football are... let's say "unlikely" to be excited by the prospect of netball, track cycling, WAG and bowls.

"The BBC said it was "unable to match" TNT's bid to screen the games"

Well they have a broadcaster and... It's not Auntie. So viewing figures will so low as to deter any UK city from hosting in future. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yj9pnl5n4o