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Meanwhile all of the Netherlands is mad with 900 students who thought it was a good idea to go to Northern Italy this week for a skiing trip, against advice from medical authorities. They're all coming back tomorrow I think. Can't we just rent a cruise ship and dump them on the ocean for a couple of weeks?

I've already started listening, which is about two weeks earlier than usual.

Do people actually watch all of the videos? Every listen is audio only for me

Did you know that the 1900 Olympics were barely even a thing and are by a lot of historians even barely considered to be Olympics?

Jewish blessing for death or something, according to Google We really do learn something new every day!

The Qatar World Superbikes round has, rather unsurprisingly, been postponed.

After having to walk for the better part of the last two kilometers during my half marathon debut last year, I can now finally say....I did it! I ran a half marathon distance for the first time in my life this morning To work around the GPS inaccurary of my Polar (I think it shows a bit more than the actual distance) I set it to 22km instead of 21.1km and finished that in a little under 2:20 hours. Nothing too fancy in terms of speed, but my only 'mission' apart from the distance was to keep running relatively easily and just finish the whole thing instead of blowing up my legs. That worked With this huge confidence booster in the pocket, now it's time to try and add a bit of speed for 4 April

No, tickets to every other country

They'll do that in May

Wow, that's a shock...sort of, apparently as a cyclist he already had heart problems as well

@Gianlu33 @phelps @Dunadan Any word on whether or not this means Strade Bianche, Milan - San Remo and Tirreno - Adriatico will be cancelled? Those are rather hard events to do without spectactors, since you'd have to block way more than just a stadium..

Damn, that team relay finish Italy is so freakishly lucky

Sounds like athletes might have released this virus just to get this done instead of having microphones shoved in their faces

Every Olympics is held during 'the Olympiad', since it's always 'the Olympiad'

Argentina has fallen.

Not suitable for work. Repeat: not suitable for work. Google Translate should say it all

Wait, what? Hundreds of new cases today alone and 20+ new deaths.

After San Marino, Andorra, Gibraltar and Monaco....RIP small nations

Excellent description of South Korea and the Netherlands, respectively.

Not saying the numbers aren't correct, just that the number of tests being done is so incredibly low - at least a few days ago - that it's reasonable to assume USA is detecting an even smaller portion of cases than most of the world.

Now that's one of the least important issues, at least for me. Nobody in the general public is going to care about the South East Caribbean Junior Games or something anyway, let alone during Olympics (postponed or not).

Yeah it's about finding a mix between who is taking proper precautions (like him) and who isn't (like me) and who is living in a country where it's spreading fast (like him) and where it isn't yet (like....I don't know ).

It would most likely just cost too much though. The financial pressure on Tokyo/Japan to keep the whole thing up for another full year is huge.

@MHSN seems to be the most rational guess. But just stressing that last point: yeah, hopefully no one

This is more of a reason to NOT move it to 2021 than to move it to 2021