Do you have link? UCI site shows me only Perth

To be entirely fair, South Tyrol going back to Austria doesn't exactly sound terrible   Although not great for Italy I suppose, losing arguably their safest region of the country.

This "guy" is not for real; he's a troll, an arab hey woody

theocracy = institutionalised murder and khomeini was a brainless butcher; no comparison can ever be made to the former Shah, despite all his flaws. Dictators are not alike, as graveyards around the world can testify...

men crash out in the qualifying run of the Men's Team Pursuit after completing just over a Km. Doesn't look like anyone was too badly injured and the team were given a rerun. They clocked a 3:54.365 which will see them qualify for the next round in 6th place.    Not sure what went wrong for the  team - they finished last, with a 4:16.655 which was over 7 seconds slower than  and almost 24 seconds slower than top qualifier     also had a bit of a mare - they were leading through 2km before fading in the second half. 3:56.155 left them in 9th place and they wont progress. 

She made 54-something in the 100 FR mixed relay. Would've also won the gold in the individual 100m contested earlier in the session had she entered it.

3 golds for Hein in the first day with records.....our best young  sportwoman by far.....

Turkey doesn't have democracy right now either- the mayor of Istanbul is imprisoned for Erdogana (exactly like Erdogan once did in the same position). How will this end? Will the government change, just as Erdogan once did when he came to power by winning the 2002 elections? Erdogan probably no longer has real support in the country, but will he relinquish power? Turkey has always been a country that other Arab countries later emulated.

Iran's economy before the revolution was OK but not good.   M.R. Pahlavi wasn't the worst dictator in the world but still a dictator and in my book there is no good dictator, they are all bad. and yeah that 1953 coup or what we call 28th Mordad Coup played big role in the current mess. (ironically those responsible for that coup now consider themselves defending democracy) 50 years before that Iran had a revolution called "Constitutional Revolution" to limit the king's (Shah) power massively and creating the parliament, that coup was essentially the end of that era, completely destroying the parliament and giving 100% power to the king.    if you rule a big country like Iran for something like 40 years, you start to believe you are the God himself, that was the problem with A. Khameneyi too.   btw at the time of revolution nobody knew he was dealing with cancer, that was revealed later.

Presumably if a bid is accepted for snow / ice sports, the other 'half' would be reopen for bid