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Prediction Contests Are Just-For-Fun Games You don't need to be an expert to take part in a Prediction Contest. If a mistake penalizes you, always keep in mind that everyone is in good faith. Canoe Sprint ICF World Championships 2019 is now OPEN Good luck! FYI, it's now 04:00 am here and I'm finally done with the start lists. It took around 6 hours to make, but now I can go to bed4 points
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Yesterday was the anniversary or 28 Mordad coup d'état , as someone who read a lot about the Iranian history (which is very long and complicated) I can say that day was probably the most important day in modern history of the country. 63 years ago USA (and UK) overthrew the democratically elected prime minister since they wanted their puppet dictator to stay with maximum power. at the time the new Shah was weak (and already left Iran) and the prime minister Mosaddegh was trying to use the situation to weaken the Shah's position and give more power to the parliament. but of course western powers didn't like that mostly because of Iran's oil. they arranged the coup, captured Mosaddegh (later died in exile) gave maximum power to Mohammad Reza Shah (who came back after the coup) and he later created a much more brutal dictatorship, few years later people after losing hopes on politicians turned into someone else Rouhollah Khomeini who took the opportunity (still a big question mark for me how the hell people thought something good will come from this guy, he never really tried to show himself as a good person) made a revolution and overthrow the whole system and created a new one which is indeed a mess. probably even worse than the previous dictatorship. I always think that day was the turning point of Iran, the country was moving into less dictatorship but since then everything has changed. and USA (and lesser degree UK) is responsible for that. @Olympian1010 I wonder if people in USA are aware of such things. or they always were told Iran is the bad guy and we are the good one.1 point
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African Games 2019
Olympian1010 reacted to uk12points for a topic
Only medal event today was the Women’s Beach Volleyball: G) Egypt S) Kenya B) Mozambique The semi finals and medal matches for the men’s tournament will take place tomorrow. Hosts Morroco play South Africa, whilst Rwanda face Gambia for a spot in the final.1 point -
Equestrian FEI Dressage & Jumping European Championships 2019
OlympicIRL reacted to dcro for a topic
I love how Ireland only had 4 individual riders in whole of Olympic history, and now 3 of them from very different generations came together and qualified a team. In case you missed it, Team Ireland Equestrian covered the event with some interviews.1 point -
wow and i laughed about coach :d1 point
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Equestrian FEI Dressage & Jumping European Championships 2019
dcro reacted to OlympicIRL for a topic
Ireland qualified a dressage team for the Olympics for the first time ever!! And now I will re-read that sentence a hundred times because it hardly seems possible and even until a couple of months ago I would have thought such a thing was crazy beyond belief1 point -
I knew I had made a mistake It is something that can happen when you make it in the middle of the night... Anyway, thanks man1 point
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M K1-1000m any other swimmer ? however, excellent job dude1 point
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I'm happy because traitor Morgan Barbançon didn't make the Olympics1 point
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Believe it or not, Irish team has a newly appointed Serbian head coach. @DaniSRB @dareza http://www.eurodressage.com/2019/08/19/irish-girls-green-aiming-write-history-2019-european-dressage-championships1 point
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Final Team results... Germany (Isabell Werth / Bella Rose, Sonke Rothenberger / Cosmo, Dorothee Schneider / Showtime, Jessica von Bredow-Werndl / TSF Dalera) - 244.969% Netherlands (Edward Gal / Glock's Zonik, Emmelie Scholtens / Desperado, Hans Peter Minderhoud / Glock's Dream Boy, Anne Meulendijks / MDH Avanti) - 230.140% Sweden (Patrik Kittel / Well Done de la Roche, Juliette Ramel / Buriel, Therese Nilshagen / Dante Weltino, Antonia Ramel / Brother de Jeu) - 229.923% Great Britain - 228.991% Denmark - 228.541% Spain - 217.546% Ireland - 213.540% Portugal - 213.106% Russia - 209.952% France - 209.782% Switzerland - 208.588% Austria - 208.432% Finland - 207.546% Belgium - 205.917% Luxembourg - EL Olympic quotas for1 point
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What the hell Charlotte Dujardin got eliminated! Netherlands moves up to silver, Sweden gets bronze!1 point
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No... It's still only the 1500m. However, times set on the mile can be used as qualifying time to the 1500m.1 point
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I can't believe this. Ireland qualified a dressage team for the Olympics sooner than the jumping team. Also it's a new national record for Renolys.1 point
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I'm always holding out a tiny bit of hope for an upset at championship marathons, weird stuff happens1 point
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Equestrian FEI Dressage & Jumping European Championships 2019
dcro reacted to Jack Gonçalves for a topic
Our last rider I think is the best... fingers crossed. Would be amazing to have a team back in the Olympics after so many decades...1 point -
African Games 2019
Olympian1010 reacted to Griff88 for a topic
Just watched the ceremony... And I can't stop myself from talking about the Prince who disrupted the ceremony coverage (coming in the end of the parade hoping to come in just before Morocco, but the guys outside shaking his hands more times than usual - and finally the camera abruptly switched back to the stadium ). Then someone at the VIP box clapped thinking the African Union anthem has finished, before the prince caught in the middle of sitting to his chair when the announcement to keep standing for the Olympic Anthem The drone is cool but I don't think a famous guy playing jetski is worth projecting. Even Turkmenistan doesn't go that far in opening1 point -
African Games 2019
thiago_simoes reacted to Olympian1010 for a topic
The king of Morocco most have the hardest erection right now. I mean could the ceremony be more about him? There was a whole segment that was the national flag, followed by his seal, followed by pictures of him jet skiing.1 point -
Any team the United States is competing against1 point
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@DaniSRB Remember in our private message I forgot canoeing as Canada's medal chances for 2020. Here we go...1 point
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students invaded the debate hall , yelling : no debate with gang, syndicate in the trash , you are not representing us ...etc this presidential election will never held , the half of country is a MAFIA1 point
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another beautifull moske finished in Oran city1 point
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African Games 2019
Benolympique reacted to bestmen for a topic
boxing and tennis table rescheduled very bad organization0 points -
Equestrian FEI Dressage & Jumping European Championships 2019
Benolympique reacted to dcro for a topic
Cool and collected. 72% for Caetano meaning Portugal qualifies. Really cool team. All four of them are riding Portuguese national Lusitano horses, which are completely different than the usual European warmbloods.0 points -
Equestrian FEI Dressage & Jumping European Championships 2019
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76% for Reynolds!!!!! YAS0 points -
Equestrian FEI Dressage & Jumping European Championships 2019
Benolympique reacted to dcro for a topic
What a disaster from Sweden. They are probably 5% behind schedule. Silver was their hope, but probably no medal at all...0 points