Summer Non-Olympic Sports Discussion Thread

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FAI held an art contest to help keep young people busy during quarantine; here are the winners: https://www.fai.org/young-artists-contest-winners/155483/2020

 

There’s some really skillful and imaginative artwork at that link. My favorites are the winner and runner-up of the senior category, and winner of the intermediate category. I feel the need to tag @Werloc, since there’s even a rare Lithuanian victory in an international contest 

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  given provisional membership to the International Orienteering Federation. 

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  On 8/13/2020 at 11:54 PM, Olympian1010 said:

  given provisional membership to the International Orienteering Federation. 

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Can’t be easy to get much training done in the Vatican.

 

”Your next check-point is over by the Botticellis!”

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  On 8/14/2020 at 5:37 AM, Grassmarket said:

Can’t be easy to get much training done in the Vatican.

 

”Your next check-point is over by the Botticellis!”

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Sir, that’s Malta, not the Holy See.

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  On 8/14/2020 at 6:39 AM, Olympian1010 said:

Sir, that’s Malta, not the Holy See.

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Doh!   

 

Almost started a war there.

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Pétanque is back!

 

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tv+petanque

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Romanian Benjamin Adegbuyi kicked criminal asswipe Badr Hari's ass in the Glory kickboxing ring last night  

 

Hari: "This is going to be easy work."

 

Hari in the 3rd round:

 

 

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Fans of eccentric and slow British sports will be delighted to know that today is the beginning of the World Indoor Bowls Championships 2021.  It’s basically curling on a carpet, not like the vulgar, noisy & hard-to-understand-the-scoring American 10-pin bowling.  
 

Can also be prescribed to new mothers having trouble getting new-borns to sleep.  

 

Sadly, because of COVID, this year it is a World Championships in the same sense that the Baseball World Series is a world series, but still at least four nations are represented, possibly even more if any players from the Channel Islands have qualified.

All live on YouTube.  No spectators, who generally represent a cross-section of the very highest-risk COVID percentiles.  
 

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN9-c2EDRAjclRkUXk1TuBA

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  On 1/8/2021 at 6:16 PM, Grassmarket said:

Fans of eccentric and slow British sports will be delighted to know that today is the beginning of the World Indoor Bowls Championships 2021.  It’s basically curling on a carpet, not like the vulgar, noisy & hard-to-understand-the-scoring American 10-pin bowling.  
 

Can also be prescribed to new mothers having trouble getting new-borns to sleep.  

 

Sadly, because of COVID, this year it is a World Championships in the same sense that the Baseball World Series is a world series, but still at least four nations are represented, possibly even more if any players from the Channel Islands have qualified.

All live on YouTube.  No spectators, who generally represent a cross-section of the very highest-risk COVID percentiles.  
 

 

 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN9-c2EDRAjclRkUXk1TuBA

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It seems more like boules, I quite enjoy the italian boules version. I will give a look

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