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Whitout any doubt, Prague or Wien

Anyhow, back to the main thing: apparently Jakobsen has had a five hour surgery overnight. There seems to be no brain damage, which is the most significant bit of news, and they're going to try and get him out of the coma today - hopefully that will indeed show a lack of brain damage. There are worries about the chest area (meaning the words of the race doctor of last night can be taken with a grain of salt, I believe she said there is no damage there), where significant damage is causing respitory problems. As a non-expert, that does sound like something that's easier to treat than brain damage though. For now things sound a little more positive than last night, although the situation still is definitely very serious.

The TV director knew the same thing any sane person knew at the moment they saw this on the live feed: either someone has already died or is in critical conditions because this was an incredibly severe crash at high speed. Which means that they shouldn't replay it because they have the obligation to not make a TV spectacle out of what can easily be a fatal incident.

Postponed to 2021 in order to accurately represent The Olympics.

Looks like tomorrow is the day for both the women's football and field hockey finals, I hope we get to see Dutch teams in both of those! And then there's track cycling and athletics for the rest of the day and hopefully a semifinal in handball too. With some beach volleyball and sports climbing sprinkled in out of interest moreso than Dutch contenders.

I watched this ceremony at Maracanã, and on TV afterwards. My opinion is that ceremony was not well developed for transmission. It could be much better on TV. btw, The Olympic Ceremony in Beijing is from far the best for me.

Tomorrow and Saturday is the day for the Lithuanian Championships and pretty much every Lithuanian star is going to attend. Among the participants we have Lithuanian record holders: Simas Bertašius (1500m), Edis Matusevičius (Javelin Throw), Agnė Šerkšnienė (200m, 400m), Airinė Palšytė (High Jump), Diana Zagainova (Triple Jump), Liveta Jasiūnaitė (Javelin Throw) This is the first competition for Palšytė this season, Andrius Gudžius will be throwing the discus as well and he has good results from Palanga. Interesting battles are going to happen in the women's 400m as well as the triple jump between Zagainova and Kilty. Sadly and not sadly at the same time, I'll be away on work for both of the days, but if anything noteworthy happens, I'm gonna post here on Sunday.

Buenos Aires, Madrid, Belgrade, Budapest, Vienna, Prague, Baku, Kuala Lumpur, Tunis or New Delhi. And Anchorage for the WOG

Toronto, for obvious choices. Would be a perfect games (imo)!

These are some impossible choices but Auckland, Liverpool and Ostrava

I would say Chicago because they are only 3-4 hours away from where I live.

As for me, Lyon or Istanbul.

Gold Coast?

First choice: Rotterdam Then: Hamburg and Nice

We are off again with the Dénivelé Mont Ventoux, which as its name suggests...... Nairo Quintana starts as favourite, also young Russian Aleksander Vlasov who was second in the Occitanie earlier. Exotic presence of the Cambodian Cycling Academy team, which has no actual Cambodians in it. Ineos not in the race today so Astana are playing the Ineos tactics - everyone to the front of the pack & grind it out.

apparently Koha quits weightlifting career https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/sport/champion-weightlifter-koha-quits-sports-career.a369474/?fbclid=IwAR3uQvaEmH6kCkxqqxpLWGnnQw09tKuw223Cja8y-5FB7T5ViNm4LvvpQTc

Today marathon swimming for men. Very curious if Ferry Weertman can retain his Olympic title from Rio. And of course men's sprint finals. Rudyk, Hoogland or Lavreysen? I guess Kenny. Only a few days to go. It drives me crazy it's almost over again

For me in day 12th most important would be: - Athletics - Men's Shot Put final (I'm really curious if it will be at the same level as in Doha), Men's Hurdles, Men's Race Walking, Men's 400m, end of Decathlon and Women's 4x400m heats (did I mention that I love 4x400m relays?) - Beskatball - men's SF - Boxing - another final and some semis - Canoe Sprint - especially Women's C1 200m and K1 500m because of Polish girls - Track Cycling - really interesting day Women's Omnium and Keirin and also Men's Sprint but only because of Mateusz Rudyk, to be honest individual sprint is probably most boring event on track - Handball - men's SF - Field Hockey - men's medal matches - Open Water Swimming - Men's 10km - Modern Pentathlon - I truly love this sport so even Fencing Ranking Round is something I would follow even if TV broadcast is poor - Sport Climbing - I really don't like Combined very much but Sport Climbing itself I loved moment I saw it first time at YOG in Buenos Aires so I would definitely watch final - Table Tennis - final of Women's Team - Volleyball - men's SF (hope with Poland but I would watch even without our team) - Water Polo - women's SF - Wrestling - Men's and Women's Freestyle finals Damn, it's really busy day

Day #13...one of the busiest of the whole Games for my personal taste... absolutely not to be missed: Atheltics (especially the morning program and the men's 20km Race Walk), the Olympic debut of Karate (medals incoming for Italy...I expect a 3 out of 3 in this day), Open Water Swimming (the men's race, with the epic fight between super-Greg Paltrinieri and his German nemesis, Florian Wellbrock), Track Cycling (with the finals of women's Keirin and above all, Elia Viviani defending his men's Omnium Gold medal from Rio), Sprint Canoeing (above all, the men's K1 200m and the men's K2 1000m, the 2 best events for Italy -even if I don't think any medal will come from this sport, unfortunately), Sport Climbing (the men's Final, the first ever title awarded at the Olympics in this sport), Wrestling (today's finals of course, but especially the men's FS -74kg prelims with the great Frank Chamizo) and finally, the men's Field Hockey Medal matches... and there are also a few more events that I also would like to watch (more Team Sports, the Table Tennis women's team event medal matches, the men's Sakateboarding Park event, the women's Golf tournament), but I fear I have to recover later,as I think I'm already gonna get mad with the "not to be missed" things... this is one of those typical days where I need at least 3 tv screens working at the same time (and I'd need 6 eyes, too)...

Day 13 Thursday Today I would watch volleyball semis above all. Hopefully Poland will make it to the final for the first time since 1976 I would like to watch basketball and handball semis as well And athletics, as always. M 110 hurdles, M 400 and M triple jump finals would be most interesting for me. In M shot put final we could see Michał Haratyk, I hope. Canoeing finals - maybe we would see Poland in Women's C1 200 and K1 500 finals Beach volleyball semis Diving Women's platform final Some track cycling, sports climbing and open water swimming - But there would be a lot of schedulling collisions

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