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Yes,but we are assured this new competition is revolutionary,so won't be anything like that................

Who said anything about 'alive and well'? You asked if any capital cities had a team or track.Now again just because there are some that have a team,you can't take it and start moving the goal posts yet again to making out because Edinburgh,Berlin or Oslo has a team that it means they are 'alive and well'.You even said Berlin seemed 'dead as a dodo' looking at their website.Now on the website there was a Christmas greeting and a page set for 2018 fixtures!! If that is 'dead as a dodo' I am just glad you are not my doctor

Damn,that's my irony meter overloaded!!!!

Sure it is just to do with stopping anyone coming along and trying to set up their own 'pirate' league or competition,just as it was mooted a couple of years back

He wasn't a happy bunny anyway,going by the speedweek article about not having the collection point in Moscow for all the bikes etc and riders being left on their own to get to the meeting by the FIM

You seem to be missing the point.UK Martin said capital cities don't have a team or track,giving that / means or.Now Edinburgh doesn't have a track,but has a team the same as Berlin,as does Oslo if the club is called Oslo Motorsport and has a speedway section.Not sure why the hell Rye House comes into things.It isn't in London and neither claims to be a London team. Sure there are numerous cases in other sports.I do remember Belfast Celtic having to move out of Belfast,in fact move out of the country because of sectarian violence and carried on playing in the US for a year or two with their players.The situation didn't get any better back home and so the team died.But it is still considered Belfast Celtic carried on As I said,if he doesn't like the answers he is getting then he asked the wrong question,because the answers are right

Same with Oslo I guess http://www.aktuellspeedway.se/norge/bana/lunner-stadion/

The Berlin website has a page set up for 2018 fixtures,just none announced.So suggests there will be something announced on that page in the future Why not Warsaw?I never suggested it shouldn't be listed.... You asked about capital city tracks/teams,surely Edinburgh fits even if in name only? Think I am right in saying for most of their life West Ham weren't officially part of London until 1965 even though they were considered a London team.The track was situated in Essex You set up the question and now don't like the answers and are trying to change the goal posts

But the capital city has a team,which is what you said.If you mean something else then say it,but by saying track/team Cardiff,Edinburgh and Berlin are answers to your question as well as Prague

Correct me if I am wrong but you said team/track...Edinburgh is another

Cardiff is also a capital city of sorts

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfslake_Falubaz_Berlin Ok it isn't really in Berlin,but try telling the marketing people.Just like the aborted Champions League was advertised as being in Berlin.Or just like Ryanair advertise their airports as being in certain cities when they are miles away.Then again isn't it London Gatwick airport?

Yes,it was part of the South Bank festival area along with the Royal Festival Hall

Does seem a bit amateurish to not even get a visa when you are one of the guys standing by......ho hum

Or even Egon Müller in The men from K3,a speedway based murder mystery http://www.tvspielfilm.de/kino/filmarchiv/film/die-maenner-vom-k3-augen-zu-und-durch,1309289,ApplicationMovie.html

Do you mean visa,rather than via?

Not sure if he is still riding.I saw something a week or so ago,that he was doing an officiating job next season.Looking after German youngsters or something like that. Maybe I got the wrong end of the stick though and he is still going to carry on

Depends on what you mean.The park was there for a hundred years or so,but was turned into a major attraction for the Festival of Britain in 1951,with funfair etc.I went a couple of times before they closed the funfair down in the 70s.Also remember going to some Easter Parade,i think it was through the park with floats and people all dressed up Used to get the 220 bus from Tooting to White City.First season I was a fairly regular visitor,but the place was a bit stale in terms of atmosphere(that clip from the Sweeny had only a little bit less atmosphere than a league meeting lol) and I went less regularly after that.Think the old frying pan,packed to the rafters in the good old days would have been something to witness

Yes it is normal for Denmark(leagues at least) to have a summer break,so everyone can enjoy a holiday Might be something.There is often junior speedway at least.Youth Gold Trophy or European championship,but I haven't looked in that sort of detail

Remember you doing that once a few years ago and getting a few tough Russian ice riders called 'Basil'

You would hope so and try to plan for that,but I have had to leave before the meeting was finished and I know another year my friends from Bochum also had to leave before the end,because if you get a few crashes then the meeting drags on.The next year I planned for a bus an hour later and what happened?The meeting went through without problem and I ended up waiting around for about two hours for my connection.Don't forget that track prep takes a bit longer on ice than it does at a dirt track,

http://metalspeedwayleague.dk/forside.aspx

Fixtures out now

Two day final,that both count towards the GP.There is no qualifying,but Friday they hold a practice session like speedway GPs and Thursday they have the German championship.So 4 days of action

If I remember rightly Svensson Pletschi Niedermaier Ebner No Finns this year.....