Ghostwalker

' In Finland goto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alko for beer. In Sweden goto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systembolaget for beer.

Here is a short interview (in Swedish) with Kurtis "Bullet Jr" Hamill: http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/ungdom/kurtis-hamill-jag-saknar-att-fa-bo-i-england-och-sverige-mer-an-nagot/

Yes there is speedway in Latvia, two semi-well known riders are Andrejs Lebedevs and Kjastas Poudzuks. Both have signed with teams in Swedish Elitserien for the 2014 season. Lebedevs signed with Rospiggarna and Poudzuks signed with Ikaros Smederna.

Ok this thread is for the previous season but anyway, an interview with Finnish speedway rider Toni Hyyryläinen; http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/ungdom/toni-hyyrylainen-jag-har-fatt-nagra-nya-sponsorer/

Tickets for the final round will go on sale tomorrow at midday (12.00) Swedish time. Tickets can be purchased via http://www.ikarossmederna.nu/ or via tickster http://www.tickster.com/sv/events/23w5yv7lcueb22r http://www1.idrottonline.se/SmedernaSpeedwayforening-MotorcykelochSnoskoter/Nyheter/Nyhetsarkiv/BiljettslappSpeedwayBestPairs/

added the fixtures for the Elitserien-B league and I also updated the fixtures for the championship cup (play offs). The semi finals have changed from September 9th/10th to a week later and the final is moved to after the Stockholm GP.

Swedish individual championship is now on Saturday but fortunately it is held in Uppsala on the artificially frozen at Studenternas IP.

The weather in Finland in May is like for the rest of northern Europe very unpredictable. It could be anything from +12C and rain to +20 and sunshine.

So is the SWC and SGP.

In what way are the SEC preventing BSI/IMG from improving their job with the SGP?

@F-S-P, call it what want, gold, winner, best pair or whatever same thing different name and you know what I mean. At today's press conference pricing was revealed for the final round at Eskilstuna and it was pretty reasonable. Here is a map that I made (ok I'm not Picasso so sue me ) over the arena: http://www.mediafire.com/view/d3a713xu6kjtl1w/smedbana-1.png Anyway for roofed Grand stand A at start/finish straight the price is 300SEK for adults (19 yo. or older), 250 for kids/teens (8-18yo.) for roofed seated stand B at back straight price is 250SEK for adults, 200SEK for kids/teens. For the first bend stand, stand at the grass hill at finish bend or standing along the boards, price is 200SEK for adults and 150SEK for kids/teens. Children aged 0-7 enter for free. There is no info available at the moment regarding where to buy tickets online. Current exchange rate is approximative 10.7SEK for £1. If anyone is coming to the final round and needs any kind of info let me know and I'll see if I can help you.

The Swedish team will be Andreas Jonsson, Antonio Lindbäck with Peter Ljung as a reserve. That means that we have the following lineup: Russia: Emil Sayfutdinov, Grigorij Laguta, Artem Laguta (reserve). Germany: Martin Smolinski, Kewin Wölbert, Max Dilger (reserve) Latvia: Kjastas Puodzuks, Andrejs.Lebedevs (reserve tba) Poland: Tomasz Gollob, Adrian Miedziński, Patryk Dudek (reserve) Denmark: Nicki Pedersen, Niels-Kristian Iversen, Michael Jepsen Jensen (reserve) Australia: Chris Holder, Darcy Ward. (reserve tba) http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/vastervik/lagen-i-best-pairs-2014/ Imo Australia, Russia, and Denmark are the favourites to fight for Gold. Sweden and Latvia as Darkhorses and Germany will probably not be able to match the other teams. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/vastervik/lagen-i-best-pairs-2014/

Regarding Kylmäkorpi and licenses it's Swedish->Finnish->Swedish license. He is also a former Swe U21 champ and I would guess that he has a dual citizenship.

There will be a press conference tomorrow from Smederna and One sport regarding the final of Best pairs: http://www1.idrottonline.se/SmedernaSpeedwayforening-MotorcykelochSnoskoter/Nyheter/Nyhetsarkiv/INBJUDANTILLPRESSKONFERENS/ http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/smederna/live-2014-speedway-best-pairs-press-conference-for-final-round/ Also Russia have announced their three riders: Grigorij Laguta, Artem Laguta and Emil Sajfutdinov. http://www1.idrottonline.se/SmedernaSpeedwayforening-MotorcykelochSnoskoter/Nyheter/Nyhetsarkiv/GrigorijLagutakorSpeedwayBestPairs/

Mathias Thörnblom replaces Sebastian Aldén as a guest rider for Västervik.

Sebastian Aldén have announced today that he have decided to retire from speedway. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/hammarby/alden-lagger-slapskon-pa-hyllan/

IMO this has nothing to do with employment laws since the riders who ride in the SGP are not employed by FIM (or BSI), The riders are self-employed freelancers/consultants, so the law in question should rather be the Swizz/European Union competition/antitrust law http://ec.europa.eu/competition/antitrust/legislation/legislation.html . Read this post again: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=75712&page=2&do=findComment&comment=2407263 It is a very similar case where ban such as those FIM insist on having were deemed to violate non-competitive laws,

Latvia have announced their lineup: Kjastas Puodzuks and Andrej Lebedev. https://twitter.com/speedwaystarmag/status/437908528179576832

Apparently the Polish team will be Tomasz Gollob and Adrian Miedzinski with Patryk Dudek as a reserve. http://www.smederna.nu/?page=news&newsid=2880 Danmark brings in Nicki Pedersen and Niels-Kristian Iversen, Michael Jepsen Jensen is reserve. http://www.smederna.nu/?page=news&newsid=2877 Australia will go with Chris Holder and Darcy Ward. Reserve is tba, http://www.smederna.nu/?page=news&newsid=2875

Parabola antennas are expensive and if you live in an apartment you may not be allowed to put up one on the façade of the building.

From Dave's twitter: https://twitter.com/MidSportsMedia/status/436141138978668544 Here is another tweet from Dave that confirms that Premier sports will not show any speedway this season:

The EL runs from March to October/November, on basically everyday of the week except Tuesdays and Sundays. You complain that the SEC intrudes on the EL but you fail to realize that the EL intrudes on both the Polish leagues and the Swedish Elitserien and if a meeting in those league have to be postponed it's very difficult to find new date because all potential dates are already occupied by the EL and now you complain that other series is doing the same to your league. It's time you stopped using the SEC/SGP as an excuse for the poor state of the EL when you know inside that the true reason is poor management and an excessive amount of fixtures. I see no problem with two competing championship series and if there is only room for one well let the best series win. The question still stands why FIm/BSI/British fans that, according to you, never cared about the SEC before suddenly have become so upset about the SEC? Why have FIM suddenly become so upset about that they decided to ban riders from riding in events sanctioned by FIm-Eur? What does FIM think that they can gain from these sanctions? BSI and FIM have caused a split in the speedway world and they only have themselves to blame.

But it is the British fans who complains that the SEC is a threat to their league because according to your opinion SEC blocks the EL from using weekend fixtures.

No less the BSI who one hardly can say are doing anything for the best of the sport but rather for their own commercial interest just like OneSport. One thing that OneSport is doing better is Tv-coverge by having Eurosport onboard (Available in 59 countries and 20+ languages) rather having different broadcasters and broadcasting rights for each country. That goes especially for the Brits in this forum aswell. You are not less biased then the Polish members. In fact you whine just as much as they do, if not more. I also don't think that there's any merit to the constant OneSport saw a potential in the SEC and went for it and I can't see anything wrong with that and I don't why BSI's bussiness should be protected from competition especially since EU-laws in general don't like monopolies. What the FIM is trying to do is to prevent competition and while I am no legal expert I am pretty sure that the current EU-laws does not allow prevention of competition. Obviously an employer can prevent their employees from working for someone else, however in this case the riders are not employed by FIM, the riders are simply self-employed consultants which can seek work at whoever they wish.whenever they wish. So stop using the SEC as an excuse for the state of the EL and as far as your weekend fixtures go, it's about time that you decided upon two adjacent weekdays (such as mon+tue* or wed+thu) and sticked to those it would be better for the league and better for the riders). *Obviously Sweden have their fixtures for Elitserien on Tuesdays but I don't think there would be any problem to move them to Wednesdays which would mean Elitserien Wednesdays and Allsvenskan Thursdays. rmc, riders left because there are too many meetings.

The only thing I have found regarding Emil is this: http://www.espeedway.pl/info,info,1.html