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I think we were unluckily born one generation too early as i'm sure Google will have the ability to translate live voice* in the future. Instead all we poor souls have got is wall to wall speedway day after from all over the world with non-English commentary for some of them, we so hard done by lol. *(no they'll never be able to translate Ermolenko-ese that the stuff of pure science fiction lol) Nice to see Bach no bad effects from his crash. Was that a 3-2 only two finishers? Track clearly causing concern still. I going to be multi-tasking heavily soon watching this and the Bet365 streaming Between Birmingham and Wolves plus the Footie match, and keeping tabs on Poole-Belle Vue updates lol.

Ouch he did hit a hole.

If he's doing positions he should of thought to add 'st', 'nd' 'rd' or 'th' after the numbers lol

Ouch! surpising fall just as the camera was focusing on him. Alan you should know by now to go with what your eyes see, make a note of the riders race jacket number and go with how you see them cross the line. Kanal Sports have totally redone scores, team and race line-ups more than once in a single meeting lol. Having said that so grateful to get to watch all these upcoming meeting this season, very thankful.

Actually heartwarmingly the crowd looks pretty good indeed. Is this form of the Danish League relatively recent as in wasn't Danish speedway starting to wane? They definitely need a league to give the young riders somewhere to race meaningful fixtures.

Nice first race for Slangerup and good to see the a visible crowd despite the rain all afternoon. Iversen needs to up his game. Shock line-ups are as scheduled first two heats.

It was Bach wasn't it? I think Bech just went out to see him??? they both had yellow helmets on. I'll be content just to be able to keep the score of the match as we know if the stoned Graphics man is back on duty this season we'll get no help there only extreme confusion. I remember several times last year the commentators laughing at what was on the screens and one rider appearing in the same race in two places <<< x toooo many.

Excellent news.

Just one hefty girl today from the looks of it Alan.

Photos a few hours ago of the track being worked on had it looking very heavy indeed but maybe they got good tractors and tools and we'll be ok. It's a fantastic quality stream at the moment. Lol a load of litte tots on bikes right now. UPDATE. I did warn you about the appalling wrong information put out to the media by Danish clubs the ticker showing the betting looks like the line-ups are not as officially published. Anyway it's only five man teams so i'm sure we can keep track lol.

PM'd you on that to avoid triggering another war of words. Lol. Saw a mention of 15 minutes on ticker at bottom of screen. By the way zero confidence as ever with the Danske Liga that the line-ups will be as stated

A nice interesting twist for UK viewers Outrup/Region Varde have changed their side for Friday's match and now have Robert Lambert at number 5. There has been a fair amount of rain on the track in Slangerup today which was widely predicted and they are working hard to get it ready, no cancellation as of this moment. Racecard is now online with a line-up that is published on multiple official and Danish media sites, we await to see if this season that will actually count for something lol. As ever late changes will be added. TV meeting racecard AVAILABLE NOW FREE MiniMax Racecard Danske Liga Slangerup vs. Esbjerg Wednesday, 7th, May, 2014

For those who are criticizing or writing off the the lack of 'excitement' of Elitserien on this first Eurosport broadcast surely you must be able to take into account the weather and track conditions which also affected the crowd levels. I suggest you hunt down some You Tube clips of how excited the Swedish fans can get and ALSO the riders. can't remember who it was now but there was a prolonged ecstatic celebration from one particular rider towards the end of last season. First match of the season, miserable weather all day and a bad forecast, how many UK tracks would be bursting to the seams with joyous fans celebrating wildly all evening?

Lol i had tears of laughter rolling down my face at one point, ok more than once.

Our Danish speedway viewers will know what i mean with this but can you ever imagine the combination of... Sam Ermolenko AND the Danish KanalSport graphics team!!!!!!

Jack "Patryk Dudek came out like an express train" Sam "oh no no no it was the guy in red" Sam "yeah eh it was Patryk Dudek".......(yep Dudek was in Red too lol) Pre Re-Run Jack refers to Loktaev who is on the start line. Sam "eh well Aleksandr emmm is is in this race right now isn't it emm (long pause) i think it's Dennis Andersen on his own isn't it?" Jack corrects him as Sam stutters and mumbles they then disagree on which heat it is........Sam cajoles Jack into now agreeing it's Andersen........they both refer to that man Dennis Andrsen during the heat until it dawns on Jack it IS Lokataev and Sam mumbles an apology. Sam goes to refer to "Anders And errrr"... during the race recap. Deja Vu as earlier in the meeting we had Sam doing similar....

Got to admit he does have occasional good insights into aspects of racing and bike alterations etc.

Good to see the speedway giving us reason to comment again, very nice racing in heat 13, pity any early casual sports viewers will have drifted away earlier in the meeting. However, we got a whole season of likely very good racing and hopefully the word will get around.

I was just about to rewind to transcribe that emotionless commentary gem

Uh Oh has Jack gone for a loo break Sam sounds all alone lol lol And he's chewing gum! Ok we hear Jack coming back to sit down but we can still hear Sam chewing his gum and not nice noises associated with that..

Seconded. Just realized i must have used live pause earlier as i went to press pause and i notice i'm watching 5 minutes behind lol. Nasty rag doll type crash there hope they ok it certainly would have come as a surprise to Joonas. Then again that would give him less time to brace himself which stiffens up the body and causes injuries.

An admirable ride by Dudek. Jack sat next to Sam says Lok-ta-ev, Sam immediately says Lok-tev. Nice to see we not getting greatly strung out races and again can't empathise enough - whoever commentates - i'm so very grateful for this coverage. Do wish we had had good weather to show the Elitserien in all it's glory with a larger crowd and Malilla style racing.

Ha! we all been there done that, don't worry we'll check out your comments (wherever you made them) later lol. Fingers crossed we get some good racing as i had pictured a far gloomier scene before we saw the first pictures. I see Freddie wasted no time and had no problem putting eight years of service for Dackarna behind him

Lol Lol Lol yeah i noticed that. Mind you I'm not going to criticize a commentator new to the sport though that has absolutely no bearing on how did he not see the crash! Anyways let's hope we get lots of speedway racing topics to discuss tonight. Maybe he's safely out of range of the 'Pearson and Tatum mass hysteria Syndrome. On to the speedway if no more rain it looks as if the track isn't dangerous to ride/race on which could bode well for later in the meeting. OMG so sorry only one more commentator comment Sam firmly interrupting and correcting Jack that "Woodward isn't in this one it's Antonio Lindback"!!! The whole world and his dog has known Lindback is injured, does he just pick up his paycheck and do ZERO research ahead of a meeting? OK enough i chat speedway only from now on lol.

Lol lol got to admit my heart sunk a little when i heard who was there, gee it a small old boys circle is speedway broadcasting but at the end of the day i'd settle for Pinky and Perky or the Flowerpot Men (no i'm not that old that i watched them lol) if the price to pay is HD Swedish speedway. TV showing usual speedway habit of a team changing the reserves riding order with Dackarna's line-up. Very weird wholesale changes to the Indianerna side if the graphics are in riding order, but can they have Iversen, Protasiewicz and Lindgren in positions 1 2 & 3? See how they line up at the start and if they are listed per riding order and not averages or something lol, i'll update the racecard. MULTIPLE official sources all had the same lists and it wasn't these lol. UPDATE As per MiniMax racecard including gates so the graphic wasn't in riding order. Nicki doing his Shirley Temple petulant hands on hips after that nudge (no i wasn't old enough to watch her either)