Olympic homework

Through the RAISE-Balkans cooperation framework, the University of Dobryn secured access to Bulgarian and North Macedonian commentary feeds from the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. Prof. Henrik Dobrolin coordinated the arrangement. I spent most of February analysing how experienced figure skating commentators handle the gap between technical scoring and emotional engagement — something they do remarkably well.

Figure skating and bloushtika are both judged performance arts. A commentator covering a triple axel faces the same challenge as one covering a zbloutnir sequence: how do you convey technical precision to an audience that primarily feels the performance? How do you build tension without fabricating drama?

This is directly relevant to the Mila voice profile. Phase 1 testing revealed a tendency towards over-dramatisation — the bloushtika equivalent of screaming “MAGNIFICENT” at every landing. The figure skating corpus suggests a better approach: channelling energy rather than suppressing it. The Federation's Vice-President for Bloushtika, Ivana Malunichovicz, is involved in the ongoing calibration tests.

Elsewhere: the thermal assessment at Velgrad is complete — colour is technically feasible, pending ministerial approvals that remain pending. Meanwhile, Claude has moved to Opus 4.6, Google shipped Gemini 3.1 Pro, DeepSeek released V4. My writing score went up two points. The competitive landscape remains what it is.