Sam Burling

Curious why (completely ignorant why this would be a deciding factor)?

Biathletes in finish area.

Frostbeard celebration in the finish area.

Lake Placid men’s biathlon zeroing.

All that separates me from the coaches. ;-)

French biathlon men.

cc @skishootrepeat.bsky.social

Darcie Morton zeroing. Biathlon

Quick early one from zeroing off my phone (already snapped a bunch with the Nikon but won’t load those until tonight).

Selfie in front of “Welcome to Mt. an Hoevenberg” bridge.

You are telling me I was ::this:: close to seeing Ken Childs in action?

*someone with a GB jacket (I need an edit button)

Driving through town I saw some with a GB jacket, definitely looked like a biathlete.

Picture of a red bobsled on the sidewalk in Lake Placid.

I headed the warning.

That I have no doubt and I am so excited (literally woke up before 5am and today is just my travel day).

If I was just watching on TV, I would much prefer a relay to a Sprint. But this being my first in person experience I was excited to see one set of time trials and one set of “mass starts”. Plus, I imagine I will probably miss a few athletes who would have been in the Sprints. Oh well, C’est la vie.

Not sure if I should laugh or cry.

Picture of my Nikon camera and extra lens.

Side note, this is what I plan to use to photograph the Mass 60s tomorrow (and Relays on Saturday).

So wait, Ukraine has a card? I was told they have no cards?

Okay, pretty sure I am not losing my mind because I remember looking this up a lot, but I was supposed to watch the Sprint on Friday? What happened to switch the race schedule and have the Sprints on Wednesday, Mass Starts Friday and now Mixed Relays on Sunday?

That looks good!

Best place on Lake Placid to get Waffles?

That’s good to hear.

I recall there being a huge monetary disparity as well, do you feel that played any part?

Speaking of @jvl.bsky.social, when do you get to be on one of the podcasts? I would absolutely love to hear you on the Illegal News and/or The Focus Group!

Definitely my bias from the Netflix series but Jasper is someone I am definitely not a fan of. But no denying he is a great sprinter.

@penaltyloop.bsky.social Might I send you a DM? I have a random Lake Placid question.

Thanks, appreciate it.

How often do teams elect to bat first if they win the toss?

The few times I have played with code I really wished I had a code editor.

This is a place that required hand counting, which is easy and fast, right?

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MAD-3R. I prefer the extra armor plus higher damage kicks. Fits my place style better.

Or in specifically in this case, a Navy.

Somebody could probably call up flight logs and show how many flights have been used for Deportations over the last 72 hours vs. used to evacuate Americans. Not sure I would want to see that, would probably just make me angrier.