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Today is the International Holocaust day (today in 1945 Auschwitz camp was liberated) and I think it is a good to platform to remember the victims of one’s of the most dark time in human history for us Olympic fans and sport fans there are medal winners among those who were brutally Murdered , may they rest in Peace and may we never witness anything like this ever again Remembered and never forgotten

Gebrasy will perform as last in semifinal, good thing, his chance to be in final now are way higher, I think

I guess the German protest failed? World Sailing finally (and officially) awarded the quota to American Samoa. https://www.sailing.org/tools/documents/Tokyo2020OlympicGamesQualificationasof30November2020-[26790].pdf

Deserved win for France, they were slightly better today. But we really put up a good fight against them, and I must say, I haven't seen the male Hungarian handball team play this well since the London Olympics. Great job from everyone involved. And I hope we can continue this next year as the host of the ECh.

It is absolutely nuts, I barely had any time to myself since the 20th. FB, Insta, Youtube, Spotify and Twitter blew up and everybody started contacting me, then there's still rehearsals and filming both Eurovision and its montages. With every year there's more and more Eurovision related blogs that want a piece and this year even Lithuania is interested. I have three interviews scheduled for tomorrow and people are already booking me on Sunday, Monday, because everyone just assumes that I'm in the final even though nothing is guaranteed at all. I'm missing nearly every single biathlon race and trying to jump around spoilers on Twitter and Instagram whilst I'm catching up on esports. I did not think this would happen before releasing the song.

FIS did the same, they can compete in World Cups with flag but no way during upcoming World Championships

You can't make this shit up, it's like both teams deliberately want maximum drama.

Ireland revealed their longlist for eventing. Cathal Daniels & Rioghan Rua are the only members of the Tryon 2018 silver medal team listed. Ennis, McCarthy and Watson are listed with different horses. https://www.horsesportireland.ie/horse-sport-irelands-eventing-high-performance-director-names-tokyo-olympics-longlist-squad/

I'm here, but with 200 journalists I might not get through the queue again.

The Hungarian Olympic Committee has started exploring the possibility of a Budapest 2032 bid. I would say that it depends on how the next election will go in 2022, if Orbán wins, I think we will have a bid again. I think it would be a stronger bid than 2024 as we will have an athletics stadium ready for the 2023 WCh, and Europe's largest handball arena for ECh 2022. Plus we also have the new Puskás Arena. The last bid failed because people didn't like the idea of FIdesz building more venues. Well, they built most of those venues anyway for other events...

On les critique bien assez comme ça qu'il faut bien les saluer quand ils font le job C'est malheureux à dire, mais quand il font le choix de mettre du ski alpin à la une ca se traduit probablement par une baisse des ventes

Odds and ends: 1. Olga Podchufarova who transferred to Slovenia from Russia, has now returned to Russia. She spent 18 months trying to get her Slovenian Citizenship, which she was never able to obtain. "As you know, I spent the last 18 months in Slovenia waiting an official permission to compete for the new country. But it turned out in such a way that I am now coming back home to Russia," she wrote. "Neither of the two sides expected this outcome. Without delving too much into details, the EU internal laws do not allow me to complete the citizenship procedure, which means that prospects to compete for the national team of this country zeroed out. All this story was a big challenge for me, I saw an experiment in this, my development and future growth. Of course, these developments dealt a blow below the waist for me and the Slovenian sporting federation because the initial prospects were totally different." 2. Loginov not out of the woods yet in Italy. 3. Lisa Vittozzi and Covid.

There is finally a lot of snow here

@hckosice Veronika Machyniakova came through all shootings without a single miss, first one to do so today

Not an athlete, but felt this was worth posting.

It's good, too! No bouldering in ice climbing, sadly.

Wouldn't it be more logical to qualify according to the world ranking?

Yes, that's right. Poland missed the last 2 bidding processes (TISC Annual 2019, 2020) so they missed out on the extra ticket they had accumulated in the past, so they are back on a level playing field with Israel who are also bidding for the first time. @Olympian1010 as it stands you are the outsider again in terms of odds of winning, just like your previous 2 races but your odds are creeping a little higher each time TISC Annual 2020 bid: odds to win bid = 1/15 (6.67%) TISC Annual 2020 bid (re-run): odds to win bid = 1/7 (14.29%) TISC Annual 2021 bid: odds to win bid = 2/12 (16.67%)* *bid process still open @Dnl good to have you in the race

Kento Momota tested positive of covid ahead of Thailand flight and Japan NT anncounced withdrawal of Thailand stages. China NT previously already quit due to pandemic concern. What a sad start of 2021 season.

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Final qualifications which had to be held in Tokyo will be postponed from early March to either late April/early May. https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1103498/artistic-swimming-tokyo-2020-olympics

Looks like that’s been cancelled - it’s now pointed to Saturday as Day 1 for broadcasting. So just the Saturday pursuits & relays on Sunday.

Cross-country skier Nikolay Chebotko () has died in a car crash.