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Buccaneers beat Seahawks 21-16 in Munich despite this stupid playcalling from Byron Leftwich

Atiba Hutchinson aka FC Copenhagen Champions League heroics from a decade ago and it feels like ages since I saw Junior Hoilett play at St. Pauli. He must be younger than I thought he is

Polish third-string GK Bartłomiej Drągowski suffered a bad leg injury in the Spezia vs Hellas game and is out of World Cup. Expect Kamil Grabara from Copenhagen to be called up now.

4 hours ago, Jan Linha said:

Yeah, he divorced with his ex-wife Veronika because of this affair. Apparently he is not in a very good mental state and probably wants to stay off site for some time....... I think he is alright and when the time comes, he will come back. 

Funnily enough Hajek's wedding also made the news here back in the day as evidence there are signs of life at the Harrachov hill

I see even reddit quotes a Polish article as we're probably the only country in the world which has so much interest in the sport. The "mystery" ski jumper whom Hajek had an affair with is Karolina Indrackova.

47 minutes ago, LuizGuilherme said:

Brazil stills have matches this weekend, our calendar is very busy because of the stupid state leagues that happens in the first months of each year

It's still not as stupid as the Argentine league system with relegation decided on some average points from 2 or 3 seasons combined? Or did they finally get rid of that?

The most memorable thing involving the name Verstappen & Interlagos (and I won't mention him denying JP Montoya his first F1 victory in 2001) is the flip in 1994 when Martin Brundle almost got whacked in the head in the process.

21 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Not remembering 2016, ouch.

 

I do remember 2003, although I was quite young. I think that was the one where one after the other went off, giving Jos Verstappen a rare chance for a great result, until he ended up in the gravel in turn one?  

I literally remember better things that happened 20 years ago than 5 years ago. I literally don't remember much from the Mercedes hybrid dominance era. It's completely blurred from my memory. I can't even tell the exact number of wins Hamilton has. I can tell you the 1993 race, Andretti & Berger startline crash, Katayama & Suzuki causing a FCY and Prost spinning off in sympathy. But I sure can't tell anything from 2016 race, least of all if it was raining

10 minutes ago, LuizGuilherme said:

Interlagos is aways fun thanks to brazilian wet summer 

Well, the race used to be held in March and the only rainy Interlagos GP I remember were in 1993 and 2003, the latter of which prompted a change to October/November date (and also leave a spot for Bahrain GP ).

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

How 'alive' is it in your countries at the moment? Here in the Netherlands there's not that much about it, other than some news about the team and such (but not a ton of publicity ads and stuff in supermarkets and shops, like it used to be a few years ago when you'd see orange coloured nonsense everywhere by now), and in three weeks in Brazil I also barely noticed anything other than a handful of green/yellow things in supermarkets and a bunch of Brazilian flags on cars and windows which mostly remain there to show support for Bolsonaro  

 

I was rather surprised at how invisible the World Cup seemed to be in Brazil so shortly before the start, even though I know the elections have been the main focus these past months.

Well, November in Europe is kinda bad for outdoor activities, it would be more hype with the summer parties & beer like it usually is around World Cup.

In Poland the news is the national stadium roof has had a failure and we have to move the Chile friendly to Legia Warsaw stadium

Kevin Magnussen takes a shock pole position at Interlagos after a rain after red flag means nobody can improve times in Q3. It's only pole for the sprint race so it will be hard for Magnussen to even be Top 10 for the Grand Prix itself but in the record books this is an official pole position. It's the first for a Danish driver in F1 and the first for Haas team (Mick Schumacher promptly finished last in Q1 so he can truly leave the series here).

I assume Ecuador is waiting until the last moment even though the Byron Castillo fake passport has technically been cleared by FIFA?

@Roamingrover86Team squad (one player from Polish Ekstraklasa - Filip Mladenovic  ).

Sadio Mane makes the Senegal squad despite the recent injury

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Other than ISU is there any other governing body that bothers with a "global" four continents championship? This sure looks like one huge manipulation from outside. I mean the World Championships are basically held annually anyway so what's the point?

PS. Liu brothers are back to China?  What happened other than money?

But why call it Four Continents when you can call it Four Nations championships? Why even bother with the minnows?

3 hours ago, NearPup said:

It’s because Europe already had a continental championship and there isn’t enough depth to justify a standalone North American or Asian championship. The Four Continents is basically the continental championship for everybody else.

 

Curling and all skating sports have two “continental” championships like this, one for Europe and the other for the rest of the world.

Yet Africa is obviously nowhere to be found and likewise Australia (and we pretend South America belong to Americas as a whole). What is the value of winning a Four Continents championship if you know it's basically five nations competing - Canada, USA, Korea, China & Japan? Will any other country even have a shot at medals? I mean Japan isn't really that good in short track either. Unless some nations start fielding naturalized Koreans

Is Europe really that dominant in short track they need a Four Continents event? I could understand Four Continents in handball but this?   Or is this just a B-team event to begin with?

Polish media run a story earlier this week that Araujo should indeed be ready for World Cup.

And here is Team Poland. The fat idiot realized that four GK make no sense despite what he said last week. The only questionable call is old timer Jędrzejczyk over Bochniewicz but it's a bench warmer at CB. No place for annoying Reca & Puchacz who have done next to nothing in NT.

World Cup squad:

2 minutes ago, Agger said:

Not at all, but when about 2/3 of the party who lost last time claims that the election was stolen and the entire party have been working hard in most states to make it harder to vote, especially for groups who usually votes for the Democrats.

We're talking about a country that has the same two parties in power for 160+ years   They are both equally worthless at this stage.

Caroline Garcia wins the YEC 7-6 6-4 over Aryna Sabalenka in the final. The rankings don't quite show it but Garcia has been the second best player this season behind Świątek. Quite a comeback to relevancy after her Wuhan & Beijing titles in 2017 vaulted her to top 5 but she's done nothing noteworthy until 2022.