Well, decided (without much advance planning) to attend my first Olympics - and to do my first trip to Europe. Only going for a few days, and got five tickets - women's ice hockey finals (A), short track women's 1500m QF/SF/F and men's 5000m relay finals (A), Aerials mixed team (A), women's ski half pipe finals (B) and women's curling finals (A).   Somewhat regretting my women's curling finals ticket because getting from Livigno Saturday night to Cortina Sunday morning looks to be a massive pain in the butt, but I think I found an itinerary that minimizes the suck. Unfortunately I don't think there is a practical way for me to do my Milan -> Livigno -> Cortina -> Venice itinerary without having a rental car from when I leave Milan.   Flying SEA -> JFK -> MXP on the way there and VCE -> FCO -> FRA -> SEA on the way back (with an overnight layover in FCO, figured it wasn't any more expensive to get a hotel room there than anywhere close to Cortina).

Apparently, they didn't enter because of financial reasons.  Info on the Wikipedia page of the event.

Exactly, why? I wanted to ask about it. 

Greenland absent...

I am sorry. I know what you're going through. I lost my father in autumn 2023 and his condition deteriorated since spring. He had days when he was not conscient of what was happening to him, followed by normal days of perfection lucidity, when he would talk with you for hours. So basically different problems but still suffering and our struggle to cope seeing him suffer. You gotta be tough and hoping things will better, if they can and that he doesn't suffer much. 

Just when I thought it was all over after four months of nothing… it happens again. Went back to the hospital literally a couple of minutes ago. Ugh, this is almost as painful for him as it is for me seeing him in this state. 

And some more events.    The European Running Championships from .   Running seems to be the new official designation for Road Racing so we have three events - a Half Marathon today, then a 10K and a Full Marathon tomorrow.  There are both elite and Mass Participation races.    Eurovision Sport | European Running Championships 2025   And the traditional Rio Maior  Walking Meet.   Rio Maior Sports Centre, Portugal - YouTube    

so besides denny we had sam mattis now be the second american in less than a month to go over 70 [70.08] after they had no men  do it for almost three decades,much to my joy the other one to go over 70 was the young Mika sosna of germany with 70.05,Janssen was fourth with 68.82 for the second time in a row,he made his last throw in ramona count.Connor bell was only 7th with 68.39 a new national record. 

Friday April 11th, 2025 Round-Robin Day 5 Results (GMT -6)   16:00 -  Cuba 34 - 16 United States  18:00 -  Canada 18 - 28 Mexico       Round-Robin Standing After Day 5:  8 Pts (+46 GD) - Advances to Gold Medal match  6 Pts (+11 GD) - Advances to Gold Medal match  4 Pts (0 GD) - Advances to Bronze Medal match  2 Pts (-20 GD) - Advances to Bronze Medal match  0 Pts (-37 GD) - Eliminated from medal round.

With the Group Stage done in the final stop of the Challenger Series season, we know majority of the teams qualified to LA to play for the promotion to the 2025-26 SVNS.     In the Men`s, ,  and  qualified to the SF so therefore they are also qualified for LA. The 4th spot will be between and . The points difference is 2 points in favour of Chile, but Samoa qualified for the SF and Chile not. If the points awarded in this tournament is the same as the rest of the other events (its not clear yet),  will need a 2 position advantage, meaning that if they win one of the two matches they have tomorrow they will go to LA, or if they lose both matches and Chile lose at least one out of the two. In the case Samoa lose both and Chile wins both, there would be a tie (and i dont know the criteria there really).     In the Women`s, ,  and  qualified to the SF so therefore they are also qualified for LA. The 4th spot will be between  and . Colombia has the huge advantage with a 8 points difference. Thailand qualified for the SF. This means that  needs a 4 position difference for a tie and 5 to win. If  wins their first match tomorrow and  not,  qualifies. In case  wins too, the next match of each team is crucial, Thailand needs to win and Colombia to lose.