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Day #6, Medal Matches women's -78kg Gold Medal match: Inbar Lanir vs Audrey Tscheumeo Bronze Medal match #1: Ma Zhenzhao vs Guusje Steenhuis Bronze Medal match #2: Shori Hamada vs Alice Bellandi men's -100kg Gold Medal match: Arman Adamian (RUS) vs Lukas Krpalek Bronze Medal match #1: Ilia Sulamanidze vs Zelym Kotsoiev Bronze Medal match #2: Peter Paltchik vs Shady Elnahas

Luxembourg has been returning to Eurovision 2024 since 1993

Day #6 women's -78kg Gold: Inbar Lanir Silver: Audrey Tscheumeo Bronze: Guusje Steenhuis & Alice Bellandi men's -100kg Gold: Arman Adamian (RUS) Silver: Lukas Krpalek Bronze: Peter Paltchik & Zelym Kotsoiev

just finished bying my tickets. Some sports already sold out (climbing, canoe slalom, show jumping, eventing (except SJ phase)...). Mostly the most expensive categories left. I only added some dressage freestyle to the pack I already bought.

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Dressage Group A - Group B - Group C - Groups D/E - Group F - Group G - Overall -

He has opted for……, so that’s potentially going to be many firsts. His mother Ngozi Mwanamwambwa* was also an Olympian. * OK, I admit it - copy & paste.

World Cup Stage 1 (Szeged ) - Day 2 Results Men C1 200m 1. Artur Guliev 41.31 2. Helder Silva 41.56 3. Mattia Alfonsi 41.82 Women C1 200m 1. Yarisleidis Duboys 45.99 2. Katie Vincent 46.10 3. Antia Jacome 46.83 Men K1 500m 1. Fernando Pimenta 1:41.35 2. Jean van der Westhuyzen 1:41.80 3. Anton Winkelmann 1:42.77 Women K1 200m 1. Dominika Plutto 42.40 2. Frederikke Matthiesen 42.44 3. Natalia Drobot 42.64 Women C2 200m 1. Antia Jacome / Maria Corbera 44.46 2. Shaui Changwen / Lin Wenjun 44.77 3. Xu Shixiao / Sun Mengya 46.39 Men C1 500m 1. Catalin Chirila 1:50.72 2. Serghei Tarnovschi 1:52.31 3. Loic Leonard 1:54.29 Women K4 500m 1. China 1:37.07 2. Spain 1:37.36 3. New Zealand 1:37.67 Men K4 500m 1. Lithuania 1:22.48 2. Spain 1:22.64 3. Hungary 1:22.82

Dressage Olympic Rankings updated as of May 12th, 2023

Wow, they take their fishing seriously in Ohio! Two men who admitted to cheating in an Ohio fishing tournament last fall have been sentenced to ten-day jail terms and other penalties, including the forfeiture of a boat valued at $100,000. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12077049/Fishermen-caught-cheating-Ohio-tournament-10-days-jail.html

Even Asterix & Obelix came to watch the game

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Hmmmpph, well Planet Canoe on YT does have all today’s races, just in the annoying chopped-up one video per event format. If you want the single deluxe live stream, it’s on Recast. Forgot that I’d put in £10 into Recast to watch the Curling a while back, so here’s a review! It’s well cheaper than the Curling, say about €0.20 - €0.40 cents for a single session. (Curling is €1.00 - €2.00). Picture quality, sound, comms (random Aussie, like the Olympic Channel) all look fine to me. So depends how much you’re willing to pay to escape the usual annoying YT ads-every-five-minutes format.

Participating Nations B-Boys - B-Girls -

To be fair, Duncan showed that even a relatively unknown artist can have a fantastic performance, so I'm fine with not sending big stars for the sake of it. It is good to see recent years though, Anouk really did sort of turn the tides with her participation.

Anouk and IlseDeLange have been the biggest names we have sent in 'recent' years. Trijntje Oosterhuis also had some hits in the 90s/early 00s, although her biggest hits have been mostly with others (Lionel Richie). Her song for the Johan Cruyff ArenA opening was a pretty popular song. Waylon had some moderate hits and was obviously known for his 2014 contribution. Then, Douwe Bob/Jeangu Macrooy/S10 had some radio airplay on the national radio 2/3, but only a single top 40 hit song for Douwe and S10 (none for Jeangu) and they both were collaborations. They weren't exactly newcomers like Duncan/Dion/Mia, but they had little commercial success. The years before Anouk, which really was the Dutch ESC Dark Age, had only two artists with serious commercial success apart from Edsilias return (really since 1998): De Toppers and 3Js. But well, they have commercial success in a niche that.. many would not qualify as very fruitful music. Before Anouk participated, 'serious' artists in The Netherlands had their doubts about participation in ESC. Nowadays, at least that doubt is lifted. However, I still don't see our commercially more attractive musicians contribute (in case of DJs) or sing (in case of the likes of Floor Jansen or Sharon den Adel).

Thank you! Archery and Beach Volley

Well, had public selection format with the voting and that good stuff since 1999, only exception was our debut in 1994. So we had famous singers competing with nobodys/never heard artists. It's sorta become a running joke as bands and new artists looking for fame competed in national preselection every year for publicity. National system would have people voting for top3 and jury selecting the winner. Quickly looking into history, only 7 out of 19 entries between 1999 and 2019 was by artists who were previously known in the country before competing in Eurovision. National selection would be open to absolutely anyone and sometimes run for 16 weeks! Then in 2019 failed to qualify for the final by 1 point (although later on it was announced that had an error calculating their votes and actually should have been in the final, hence our national broadcaster got some refund cash from EBU...) and we were represented by some random engineer that year that was heavily promoted by our jury in national final. After that our national national selection got revamped and renamed to ''Lets try again...'' where they would preselect 16-30 songs from all submissions and have it done in 3-5 weeks with equal 50%/50% split between jury and televotes. Since the change we qualified for the final every time

I had never in my life heard of the Dutch duo of this year, whose names I actually will have to Google if I want to incorporate them into this answer I feel like the girl is....Mia? Nia? No idea about the guy. In 2018 we had Waylon and in 2015 Trijntje Oosterhuis. Can't say they're superstars, but at least they were pretty well known (especially Waylon) Anouk in 2013 was the only time I remember we really had a big name with a well-known career participating. Edit: of course there was 2014 with The Common Linnets, who were not at all a known duo, but individually Waylon and especially Ilse DeLange were definitely well known.

And Sabalenka fails to win a match in Rome losing to Sofia Kenin in straight sets in Round 2

Hi everyone! I received my email on Tuesday and my slot is currently open, from 11/5 to 13/5. It’s incredible how many tickets were sold in the first hour - the most affordable ones and the most “attractive” ones were gone in the blink of an eye! You really need to be there right when the slot opens if you want to have a chance to purchase the tickets you desire, that’s what I would definitely recommend. By the way, I managed to buy two tickets (1 qualifications, 1 medals) and I can’t wait to attend my first Olympic Games ever!

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Women's Individual 10m Air Pistol Gold: Anna Korakaki Silver: Olena Kostevych Bronze: Rhythm Sangwan Final Ranking and Results https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/cs

Olympic ranking qualification simulation as of April 30th... Eventing Group A - Group B - Group C - Groups D/E - Group F - Group G - Overall - Jumping Group A - Group B - Group C - Groups D/E - Group F - Group G - Overall -

Aryna Sabalenka wins Madrid 1000 in three sets 6-3 3-6 6-3 over Iga Świątek.

and came the day when I got so, so disappointed that I'm tempted to abandon the competition... you just can't lose a match like Bellandi did against Lanir (who deserves all the credits because she was ready to take advantage of any mistake the Italian made). you - just- can't. point. this event should have been a safe gold medal, especially without Wagner at the start. this turns our championship from good to insufficient (even if Bellandi wins bronze and helps the team to establish the new record of 4 medals in a single world championship).

Paula Borgo (Volleyball). Playing for the national team, she won a silver at the 2019 Nations League.

Half-way until another Świątek vs Sabalenka showdown as Sabalenka beat Maria Sakkari 6-4 6-1 in the first semi-final.