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I’m going to fly to the Netherlands just to slap you and leave.

Yes, this is also what I consider a jock to be

Laura Dahlmeier has retired: https://www.sportschau.de/wintersport/biathlon/laura-dahlmeier-verkuendet-karriereende-100.html She says, that she didn't feel the passion anymore that is necessary for this sport.

Equestrian Center: Current step up was for Driving (Cones portion)

Some pictures of my Olympic Tennis Stadium in Minecraft: This is mainly how spend most of my time gaming nowadays. I find building (at least in Minecraft) super relaxing. Plus, it’s fun to go through and engineer your own Olympic venues. This one took about 3/4 hours to build. If you guys like this one, I’ll post some pics of other venues/sports.

Fine, but I’m still going to smack them...after

Higuita What a win for Pogacar, Roglic is nothing compared to him soon

Young Pogacar in perfect position, Van Garderen has been dropped. Judges handed him some karma

Fight! Fight! Fight!

Now she is a mother.

Walkden is an ugly victory. It is directly cuddled and pushed outwards as soon as it comes up. This is judo and wrestling. It is not a taekwondo at all. There is no sports ethics at all.

When I see that, I usually think about those that are great at sports but utterly stupid in terms of classes

You mean jock?

and we must say that...shame! shame! shame! on WTF and that referee... Walkden's Gold is a pure robbery...

GBR in the Mixed Team Trap? They now have one quota position in each of the Men's and Women's Trap, so I think that means they will be in the Team event.

It's definitely one of the worst things I've ever seen in sports. Blatant corruption.

That was ugly, very ugly. what a shame. Walkden won the gold 11-20 !! yes the loser scored double points as the winner, 1 cheap punch point + 10 cautions while Zheng scored 20 clean points. I can say half of those penalties were nonsense. at some point it was like Sumo for Walkden. pushing Zheng out of the court with 2 hands, that's not legal but who cares. even in UK almost half the spectators were booing Walkden , that was one of the worst officiating in this sport I ever seen.

Finn right now must be the highest level sailing event in the americas but still isn't in the pan am games... Oh well, we still have 49er FX with 5 countries

https://sport.blic.rs/ostali-sportovi/rukomet/rukomet-zene-reprezentaciaj-srbija-pripreme-plej-of-sp-plasman/r43hn64 ovo se sala jel da?

It will count for both Group C and Overall rankings. However, Group C nations will have more potential points on the table, since this event technically counts as "Group C Championships". Individual Group C winner can get as many points as European champion later this year, so yeah, it's a big deal.

Remember to pick your team for the Shanghai leg of the Diamond League. Transfers will be locked down at 08:00am (UTC) on the 18th May (tomorrow).

I've got a Nintendo switch. playing lots of Tetris 99 lately.

And maybe even more important, his team won't have to control the race all the time and can save their energy

You sexist pig! sarcasm

Skateboarding removed from Pan American games https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1079293/skateboarding-axed-from-lima-2019-pan-american-games-programme

Outdoor Velodrome (Though it’s called the Quartz Porkodrome (since pigs are used as the bikes):

My thoughts after watching the semifinals: The ones I'd like to lift the trophy: all the way!! This year I'm really behind the favorite, love the lyrics, the music and his song. I think the staging could have been better, but I think the other factors should count the most when choosing the winner. I'm so glad they have put a real singer with a decent song and epic back vocals, instead of a runway model. I love her vocals and the fact she sings in Serbian. I think at times she goes too loud, and the staging doesn't help her either, but I'd like to see her finish in a high place. I like how their voices seem to "match" and create a good vibe song, with some fantasy touches. He has not the best song, yet he works with it beyond my expectations, so it is my dark horse. Performances that I like to see to get a good placing: I wasn't behind this song at first, but his performance showed a balance between energy and good vocals. I don't think is a winning entry, but I'd love to see them go above any other of the Big 5. Love how the band get their act together, even if they doesn't have the best singer, they definitely own the stage. She didn't gave her best today, but still has enough talent and presence, and qualifying from a the hardest semi, gives her extra merit. I thought from the begining she was underrated; not a winning act, but she gave her best effort, unlike other performers, so the best of luck on Saturday. I usually don't like songs that serve to promote political agendas so blunt, but can't deny her delivery of the song is almost perfect and makes her an anthem. Underperform: I was expecting more from her, the song has so much potential, but her vocals were not good and the staging rather unimpresive. I understand opening the contest must be hard, but still, such an energetic song deserves a better delivery. Great music, great lyrics as it has been the case for the past three editions; however San Remo jury must find a pleasant voice who can shine on stage due to his/her singing abilities. Nice song, even if quite "pink", but her singing was subpar on the semifinal. I pray she does better on the final. One of my favorites for a top 5; liked the irony between their lyrics and the fact they were participating. But I guess this is one of those cases where sound engineers are the real heroes. What are they doing in the final: Belgium has taken the fault for their performers being without charm, but what about this? Most overrated song of this edition, without doubt. She mumblres all through a spineless, boring tune I'd use to slit my wrists in a bathtub Generic electro pop with a singer that often yells and goes off key; enough said. Enjoyed their stage act, but too much circus, with mediocre singing, but what can be expected from a half song? On one hand I like to see the "tiniest entry" in the final; but Serhat voice is really hoarse and he could barely dance along, the song was saved by the catchiness of the chorus and a brave decent from the backing singers. Deserved to be in the final: This was not Origo, but he still is a good singer. Too "boring" from "modern" audience, yet her voice and the acoustic guitar are some of the best I've listened in years. A good vocalist, an interesting staging, damaged by a subpar song. She was one the few that really seemed to enjoy being there, and went beyond my expectations but got stuck in the hardest semi. Biggest dissapointment A decent song, thrown away with a staging that screamed "Dracula" instead of "melancholia" and a singer that never found her voice, coupled with another excellent product of sound engineering.

I can't say any are good with providing any sort of information. Most are quite bad. ---- Final sailing quotas. got two reallocated quotas, up to 3 athletes now and all in sailing. http://panamsailing.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/STATUS-OF-COUNTRY-QUALIFICATION-2019-PAN-AM-GAMES-MAY-15-2019-REALLOCATION-OF-COUNTRY-PLACES-DECLINED-BY-NOCs-FINAL.xlsx.pdf @vinipereira

POWER RANKING Edition 4 16th May 2019 (Day 7) Ready for our fourth Power Rankings of the tournament? Riding a three-game shutout streak, the Russians stay on top, followed by Germany and Switzerland. 1 RUS We respect Italy’s cars (whoops, sorry, Skoda!) 2 GER Mwahahaha! Who could possibly beat us now? 3 SUI At 103, Ambuhl is a role model for active seniors 4 CAN Fun fact: in Canada, it is legal to be Stone 5 SWE Mr. Meier? You can hand pass it to us anytime 6 USA In the second period, we threw their tea into the harbour 7 FIN “Kaapo? This is Patrik. Did you take my sticks?” 8 CZE Goal by Funny Hat, the assist to Jagr Jersey, and to Krusovice 9 SVK Guys? It’s a “full 60,” not a “full 59” 10 LAT Life’s a Bicevskis 11 FRA “Bonjour, Cristobal! Say, can you still touch your toes?” 12 DEN Duckly passed out in the sauna 13 NOR Ignore the trolls, it’s time to roll 14 GBR Britain reinstates Kane-ing 15 AUT We’re focused on one game, and it rhymes with “hit a tree” 16 ITA Maybe ask the Pope? Click to check out the previous editions of the Power Rankings. Edition 1 (Day -1) Edition 2 (Day 3) Edition 3 (Day 5) The Power Rankings are for the enjoyment of IIHF.com readers, and reflect the progress of teams during the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship. They are distinct from the official standings and IIHF World Ranking.

Yeah I’d say COPACI is worse, but to be fair there’s not a lot of good Pan Am federations to begin with (at least in my experience)

It's very rare to see Lee Dae-hoon losing and this guy is such a nice person, there were at least couple of very dubious kyunggos against him and he lost it by 1 point at the end but he didn't protest even a bit. he is one of the best athletes ever in this sport and without doubt the best right now

That's funny because nowadays it's kind of a joke here. there is a famous book and a famous TV series based on that book called "My Uncle Napoleon" and the main character there had Anglophobia who thinks that UK (or as we call them England even though I know that's wrong) is responsible for everything bad happens it was true at some point if someone read the Iran's history. nowadays it's kind of a joke. that people use it to taunt others who believe in consistory theories , "Yes, The English are behind it " even when a cat falls from the tree people still use this phrase

TISC 2019 Results according to Eurovision voting (no 9 or 11 pts) 1 IRELAND 194 20 GREECE 73 2 NETHERLANDS 144 23 PORTUGAL 44 3 AUSTRALIA 111 22 ROMANIA 50 4 DENMARK 108 25 MEXICO 41 5 FRANCE 92 18 UNITED STATES 58 7 GERMANY 86 27 SLOVAKIA 39 8 ITALY 72 24 SPAIN 43 6 TUNISIA 89 29 FINLAND 37 9 NEW ZEALAND 72 28 INDONESIA 39 10 COLOMBIA 72 26 VENEZUELA 40 16 P.R. OF CHINA 58 31 SLOVENIA 32 12 POLAND 66 30 TURKEY 32 13 ALGERIA 62 32 SERBIA 25 15 LITHUANIA 61 34 RUSSIA 24 11 BRAZIL 68 33 INDIA 25 14 GREAT BRITAIN 62 35 NORWAY 18 21 CROATIA 51 36 EGYPT 16 19 ARGENTINA 53 37 BULGARIA 7 20 MALTA 53 38 CHILE 2

Finally caught up with this thread lol Though it's not among our best efforts, as @Olympian1010 said earlier, we'll bounce back for the open (we do much better in the open contest anyways lol), but I want to congratulate @OlympicIRL for his win, by far my favorite song in this edition and it always makes me happy to see my 12 pointer win, even if my own entry fails (and now I need to know how many of my 12 pointers have gone on to win the contest because I believe that's an exclusive club right there lol) Also, my thanks to several of you who gave us points, especially to @Memo and @KingOfTheRhinos for the 12 points, because honestly, I was worried that goal wouldn't be reached (and it was reached 11/12 contests or something like that), and I'll also add @Function CR Lee @stefanbg @Finnator123 @vinipereira @titicow @Damian to the list of those that had our back. Also, I send congrats to @mrv86 for hosting this contest, though it wasn't easy, especially when you had internet problems, which is always the worst thing that can happen to the host jury, but you stuck it out in the end and made it all possible, and having hosted the last open contest, I could sympathize what you had to go through to make it work. Also, congrats to @heywoodu and @KingOfTheRhinos for your 2nd and 3rd places. Both of you made to my second listen, but Australia made it to my reserves and Netherlands, unfortunately, missed out on it Finally, my personal votes from the US east coast (since I saw while going through the pages that @Olympian1010 made a comment about being on the west coast) 12 -- Ireland 11 -- India 10 -- China 9 -- Bulgaria 8 -- Greece 7 -- Norway 6 -- Germany 5 -- Colombia 4 -- Chile 3 -- Romania 2 -- Spain 1 -- Great Britain R1 -- Mexico R2 -- Algeria R3 -- Australia R4 -- Lithuania Yeah, funny how my top 2 is also the combined top 2

it was a farce in 2015 and it will be a farce in 2019... it's only a celebration of the former Soviet Republics' power... the real European Champions are those who win the single discipline European Champs, not this joke...

Sansa da Vanja ode na OI umesto Tijane su gotovo nula. Ona devojka posle tog zlata 2017 ne moze da se poveze. Ali generalno super je sto je npr Brazilka u toj kategoriji ispala rano, a takodje i Kanadjanka, Kipranka i Vijetnamka ostale bez sf u 46.

Yes, I had a lot of trouble to find all of the results from the previous Pan American championships. Even PAGU is completely lost and I'm not sure they even know when the first Pan Am championships was staged (according to my research, 1997). Consugi is also terrible and they only had the results from South American championships from 2011 onward, but at least they've always replied and tried to help. The problem is that the first South American championships was held in 1959, so there was a lot to cover and I had to buy a couple of rare and expensive books myself to find some results from previous events so I could upload them to Wikipedia. I know nothing about COPACI, but I seriously fear for cycling fans if COPACI is any worse than PAGU.

His draw isn't "that bad" actually. Badr Achab is different that Jaouad Achab, very young , I saw him in YOG final. won't be a problem for Seif Eissa if he is half ready. if I had to make a prediction I think his only "tough match" will be in quarterfinal which is normal, you have to expect at least one tough match before the medal round. but yeah Abu Ghaush in this weight is surprising, if I'm not wrong his points still will be counted for his 68kg Olympic ranking. so that will be a smart move if he medals here but I doubt that. Rafalovich will be the favorite from that quarter. btw it seems Iran has actually two teams in this tournament. because that "refugee team" is almost a complete team of Iranians ! each day when they publish the draw I see some more new names competing under the code "WT" ! this time Kasra Mehdipour. it seems the number of Iranian refugees are bigger than people from Yemen or Syria or Iraq where there are "real wars", of course by lying