European Championships

[distracted]

Good runs from all of those in the Sprint Qualifiers in Bulgaria this morning, especially from the girls:

Men
Heat 1 - GG 7th
Heat 3 - Scotia 10th

Women
Heat 1 - Helen B 3rd
Heat 2 - Pippa 6th
Heat 3 - Sarah 3rd

Good luck to all in the finals this afternoon!

[ba-ba]

GG 10th (+~50secs), Sarah 10th (I think, there may be someone missing...)
http://news.worldofo.com/2010/05/30/eoc-sprint/

There's too many fast swiss blokes - 6 in the top 8. At least that makes us 4th nation...

[ba-ba]

Pippa and Sarah qualify for the long distance final, but Helen, OJ, Scotia and Speaky miss out. (If it's top 17 to qualify again, as it was yesterday)
Scotia a dnf - hope there's not an injury or anything...

[gg]

Scott suffering from aftereffects of a virus and everybody suffering from 30 degrees, very dry and running on sand

[EddieH]

Am I right in assuming that the Bulgarians have not managed to get anthing live or near to it going on the web?

[distracted]

Live results worked the best they have so far this morning at http://live.eoc2010.org - link off the left hand side of the main page http://www.eoc2010.bgorienteering.com/ which also has maps of the races that have been run so far.

Looks like all the girls and Oli, Scott and GG through on the middle distance, with Speakey just missing out, but the live results have had some discrepancies in them in the previous races so best wait for confirmation.

[ba-ba]

good to see Rach qualify after an injury scare at the weekend.
a few close calls in there, but it's all about the final

[EddieH]

Weird - not only did I get no live stuff, but when I click on today's results I get instead a screen saying that there will be no audio broadcast of the long qualification

[Becks]

Nice result from the men in the relay this morning, and a strong first leg from Helen for the girls.

[ba-ba]

what does everyone think about the new national kit?
at the moment I'm thinking 'retro', but not seen a proper good picture yet...

[Mrs H]

"retro" as in "pyjamas" - I agree - it doesn't look terribly exciting and I much preferred the last one.

[ba-ba]

Simone won by 2mins ahead of Soes and Eliasson
Rach - 23
Sarah- 25
HelenB - 27
Pippa - 42
The men have just started.
They finally seem to have got the live results working (Y)

[ba-ba]

In the men's, Novikov Mullered Merz & Hubmann by 1.20.
TG 11th
GG =18th, OJ 26th, Scotia 44th.

Right, now that's finished it's onto the cricket live text.
I <3 revision...

[Dave]

TG 11th

he's said he made a 1 min error, felt he wasn't going to win gold and then had no motivation so cruised...

[ba-ba]

didn't he know he was ballsing up peoples' fantasy World Cup.
tssk :O(