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FYI - The Olympedia database is now available to the public. http://www.olympedia.org/ With an explanation here https://olympstats.com/2020/05/27/olympedia-now-open-to-the-public/

So apparently the Akhal-teke Olympic champion for the Soviet Union..... Continued his career with Toni Nimac at the 2020 monobob? Not bad for a 68-year old horse... http://www.olympedia.org/horses/10

Public gatherings of 100 people are now allowed in Croatia. During the past five days combined, only one new case was detected!

The IOC Executive Board approved updated ISSF Qualification System for Tokyo: https://www.issf-sports.org/news.ashx?newsid=3439 As proposed by the ISSF, the Quota Places supposed to be allocated at the 2020 European Championship Shotgun in Chateauroux, France, and the Euopean Olympic Qualification Championship in Plzen, Czech Republic, will be allocated at the 2021 European Championship 10m in Lohia, Finland, and at the European Championship 25/50/300m/Shotgun in Osijek, Croatia. The allocation of the 12 Quota Places (one in each individual event) according to the World Ranking will be done based on the World Ranking list of March 31, 2020 and points earned at one ISSF World Cup in Rifle/Pistol and one ISSF World Cup in Shotgun to be held in March-April of 2021. The new deadline for Tokyo 2020 Qualification in the Shooting sport is June 6, 2021. https://www.issf-sports.org/getfile.aspx?cshipid=2626&mod=docf&pane=1&inst=449&file=1. Tokyo 2020 - Revised Qualification system - Shooting_2020-05-26_eng-1.pdf

Aaaaand it's closed

In a country with such liberal gun rights I find it not surprising that police acts so brutally. There is way too much risk a policeman gets shots on someone's back yard as people can store a whole gun arsenal in their living room. In such countries like Poland where gun access is as strict as they come there is no such problem. We've had like one case over the past several years when some petty criminal and suspected drug dealer got tasered and died due to a cardiac arrest. That's just about it.

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Not sure why you think that populous countries should have advantages in technology and research, but many countries that are doing great in those areas are rather small countries (Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Israel, Ireland, Finland, Singapore, the Netherlands). I also don't think that you can trust the official death stats in the US. I saw some stat today that in many states there have been far more pneumonia deaths than usual those last couple of months. For example in Indiana there were 2149 pneumonia deaths, while the five year average is 384. In Illinois there were 3984 pneumonia deaths, while the five year average is 782, and so on ... Either you believe that this is a coincidence unrelated to coronavirus or you have to assume that the deaths are massively undercounted in the US. I think a conservative guess for the real number of deaths would be 150 000.

I don't know what characterizes a show that is suited for a "nice late night watch" for you, but i enjoyed the first season a lot. I don't remember the last time i was so impressed by season 1 of any show. I think the actor who portrayed Shaun did a great job and i liked that Shaun wasn't depicted as some super-genius who never makes a mistake.

So far i have only watched season 1 of "The Good Doctor" and i can definitely recommend it. The same is true for the first 6 seasons of "New Girl", although it went a bit downhill after the first 2 seasons.

Not at all. The Punisher as a character was introduced in the second season of Daredevil, but if you watch only his show, you wouldn't miss a thing, as the story is pretty much contained within the seasons.

To be fair, I have it on good authority that the Akhal-teke absolutely rules the world, so don't count them out..

Yeah, they don’t provide a lot of joy. I will say that it’s nice to never have to worry about the postseason though

@dcro this is why we can’t have nice things

That’s the other time I watch them. It’s a sin to not watch football on Thanksgiving.

Generally how I feel about the Lions by week 9/10 of the NFL

New dates for Women’s Olympic Football Tournament Tokyo 2020 Asian Qualifiers Play-off matches between China and South Korea, February 19 and 24, 2021. https://www.the-afc.com/competitions/olympic-games/latest/news/dates-for-women-s-olympic-asian-qualifiers-play-off-final-confirmed

Yesterdays recap: Again 2 new confirmed cases yesterday (both in the National Quarantine facilities for repatriated people), almost 3k tests provided during Tuesday No new death for the 11th consecutive day and 5 newly recovered patients. Currently 160 Active cases registered in the country, 59 of them needs hospitalization, only 1 of them is now in intensive care beds and currently still no one has to be under artificial lung ventilator. So right now in Slovakia 1515 Confirmed Cases (+2 Yesterday), 2839 Tests Yesterday (163362 in Total) 28 Deaths (+0 Yesterday), 1327 Fully Recovered (+5 Yesterday) https://covid-19.nczisk.sk/en The borders are open for and any Slovak, Czech or Hungarian citizen can enter the country without going to the mandatory quarantine if he´ll spend max. 48 hours before his return. They must however fill out a special request, it will be confirmed at the border by a police officer with the date of departure, when returning to the country the same paper will be confirmed by the police officer again, if the dates are longer than 48 hours the passengers in the car must go to the state quarantine. as part of the eco-program today In the Presidential Garden they planted beehives. The president of the republic was the first to baptize the bees.

I wouldn't say Detroit Red Wings got "screwed"

Eastern Conference Western Conference The season is over for Ottawa Senators, Buffalo Sabres, New Jersey Devils, Anaheim Ducks, Los Angeles Kings, San Jose Sharks and Detroit Red Wings

There is a good chance that this is the most upset I’ve been in my life. I saying things that I am so going to regret tomorrow, but I’m so sick and tired of this country. This election will honestly improve nothing most likely (I mean, I hope it does, but I feel like that’s asking a lot). I’m so depressed right now.

Well Lebanon is nearly 50/50 Christian/Muslim. They are also Christian Palestinians, and another minority religions (same goes for Syria).

That must have been a somewhat common immigration hub after their troubles. Gui Khury’s family is also Brazilian-Lebanese.

BREAKING NEWS: the NHL has an official plan to return to play games. The regular season is now complete. They will have a 24 team playoff (12 from each conference). Each conference will be assigned a “hub city” where all of the games will be played. Here is a list that is under consideration: Chicago, Columbus, Dallas, Edmonton, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Toronto and Vancouver. The NHL does not have a set date for return.