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I tended to read Dani as someone who was trying to find her way back from the wilderness after an awful relationship that we know was physically violent and was likely sexually violent as well. And being the person across the room when Lito and Hernando were together was her safe place to rediscover her own sexuality in a way that didn't rely on pleasing a man... or else. So often I suspected her bluster was her way of bluffing her way through her own perceived vulnerabilities.

And also there's JMS' hand in things. For all the issues I had with the last season of Babylon 5, I still regard 'Sleeping in Light' as on of television's great series finales.

We're a mixed marriage- I'm a coffee person while my husband is on the tea side. And we generally tend to have a pretty generous stash of each in the pantry.

Me to husband somewhere around lap 38 today- 'Even though nothing much seems to happen after lap 2 in a Formula 1 race, there's just something pleasant about the coverage of the races that keeps me tuned in' Deities of F1- 'watch this and hold my lager'

I feel like I have to give some credit to 'Love' on Netflix for going against trope in the new season when Mickey calls up Gus to tell him she's throwing up behind a dumpster, and it turns out she is not pregnant but rather has norovirus. It was actually kind of weird to have a tv episode go in that direction for a change.

I'm guessing mid-season replacement wherever CBS needs to plug a schedule leak. Each season is effectively a nice miniseries that CBS can place on a schedule in whatever time slot is available and it will pull a certain useful base viewership number.

Austrian police raid on International Biathlon Union headquarters: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sport-biathlon-raid/biathlon-austrian-police-raid-international-biathlon-union-headquarters-ibu-idUSKBN1HI2UX Rumor mill is saying that, just like in track an field, the Russian sporting officials reportedly paid the federation to misplace positive drug tests from Russian athletes. If this verifies, it rather makes a joke of the whole 'Olympic athlete from Russia' allowance in South Korea and the subsequent lifting of the Russia ban.

I was amused that Oliver used a fairly long clip of my local WEAR tv station in the Sinclair segment. Sue Strahan's face always kind of looks like that- I suspect it's why she hasn't been able to move up to a bigger market like Oklahoma City. I suspect Bob Solarski pretty much can't get another job in the business because of that pesky SUI incident where he got totally sloshed at Cordova Mall, tried to drive home, and the cops showed up after he'd hit about the tenth other car while only getting halfway through the mall parking lot. He had enough Pensacola local capital to burn through that WEAR let him come back after rehab, but I'm not sure who else would give him a chance after that.

There are a few ethnic minority groups in Europe with Asian roots like the Tatars who have substantial populations in Russia, Poland, and the like. And sometimes the genes from the Hun days show up again in visually interesting ways and you get people like Czech hockey player Jiri Hudler.

What happens in the Athlete's Village doesn't always stay in the Village?

Considering the cost of figure skating in North America, DWTS probably lets them knock back some accumulated family debt in some cases.

Germany's Paul Fentz did a Game of Thrones soundtrack free program this year while dressed as Jamie Lannister. It worked pretty well from a theme/concept standpoint, IMO. I suspect because it makes your legs look longer and by extension a little more ballerina graceful-like. Pretty much never. The modern Olympic movement's 'amateurs only' rule was entirely about keeping the Olympics the playground of the upper class of the time and not allowing those icky middle class and working class boys near the Chosen Ones of their generation.

English is a pretty common language used for starter's commands in a number of sports when it gets multilingual. From what I remember hearing, it's also used in track & field, swimming and mountain biking.

There are plenty of other speedskating uniforms where the anti-friction crotch patch is the same color as the rest of the speedsuit.

I am also impressed with NotBode's (probably Steve Porino but possible Dan Hicks- I mix them up) ongoing ability to immediately cause an alpine ski racer to go off course by talking about how they're usually the most consistent racer out there and haven't had a World Cup DNF for a couple of years. NotBode's latest successful curse- favorite Marcel Hirsher in the men's slalom earlier here.

Mia Manganello grew up around here, here being the Florida panhandle, before her family moved to Utah so she could try to make the transition from rollerblade to ice, so I'm thrilled at a local girl coming away with an Olympic medal.

On the other hand, figure skating programs are a nice length to be a you tube video, and the 15 year olds with even a mild interest in the history of the sport are a few clicks away from the grand archive of famous programs. And many of them do seem to have a look.

Jessie Diggins has a final kick that would make the coach of a Kenyan runner proud. It's one of the reasons why she's such a joy to watch in the sport.

I think Chad Salmela was channeling his inner Rowdy Gaines for the finals of the women's cross country sprint today. Given the historical significance of the American win, I'm okay with that.

My cats perked up and were looking around the living room at the bird noise.

It's not totally the end for Vonn- she still wants to hang in there long enough to pass Ingemar Stenmark's total World Cup wins record. But I think she also wants to be able to walk comfortably at age 60, so it's probably only another season to try for that, provided she doesn't get hurt again.

The World Cup will have 2 or 3 Parallel Slaloms or City Event/Parallel Slalom events each season. So it's something you can pick up some series points in by doing well at it; it's just not an Olympic or World Championship event. I think I've hear something about FIS dropping the combined event, so maybe we could get more PSes in the spots where the combined used to be.

In alpine skiing, the World Cup season is pretty long and involved, and it seems like so many athletes makes friends with each other when they can figure out a common language because there is so much time spent together in the same small ski villages outside of racing. Lindsey Vonn and Sofia Goggia comes across as BFF and they're always having a great time together when both hit a podium.

From what I've heard in other sports, Russia doesn't place a really high value on protecting the health of junior athletes in general. Some of the training volume numbers I've heard for young swimmers are pretty insane. And Eteri's girls get results on the global stage so for every one she drives from the sport, a dozen girls will try to take that training group place because they want to be a World or Olympic champion and they see it as their path.

Yuila Lipnitskaya (the super-bendy girl in the red dress in Sochi) retired from the sport because of anorexia: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/29/yulia-lipnitskaya-russias-youngest-ever-winter-olympics-gold/ Lipnitskaya's program height when she was competing was 5'3", and that's a pretty low weight for that height.