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Gonzalo Higuain will retire at the end of the MLS season.

Who the fuck cares what Merkel has to say anymore? Her legacy of appeasing Russia is well and truly set.

And so it begins...

beats 3-2.

Kontaveit won the derby 6-4 6-4 and will play Barbora Krejcikova in the final tomorrow.

Meanwhile Mayar Sherif wins her first WTA title beating Maria Sakkari in the Parma final 7-5 6-3.

Seattle Mariners are back in the post-season for the first time since 2001 which snaps the longest playoff drought in four American major leagues

It's finally gonna happen tomorrow in Tallinn of all places. The first ever WTA-sanctioned match between Kaia Kanepi (age 37) and Anett Kontaveit (age 27) aka the two best tennis players has ever had

Monika Hojnisz-Starega will take a year off and won't compete during the 2022/23 season. She still plans to continue until 2026 WOG.

Cincinnati Bengals beat Miami Dolphins 27-15 in the first game of Week 4 but there should be some media backlash as Maimi QB Tua Tagovailoa left early after a clear concussion-like effects. He was in concussion protocol on Sunday already but thet let him finish that game vs Bills. It seems like something is very much off behind the curtains.

beats 3-1. Just so some media hype doesn't go too far.

Finland is in Pot 2 while Ukraine in Pot 3.

Anyway, the Group of Death for Poland would be:

and

Easiest group (almost impossible to happen):

and

beats 3-0.

Thailand got their one upset already so things went back to normal.

Jack Miller wins in Motegi where all the title contenders struggled. Quartararo 8th, Bastianini 9th, A. Espargaro 16th after a bike change before the start and Bagnaia crashed on the last lap while trying to pass Quartararo

Three games in and Miami Dolphins are 3-0 looking like they have an above average offense for the first time since Dan Marino retired

Las Vegas Raiders are 0-3 and the season is basically over in September

2 hours ago, heywoodu said:

By the way, you'll be pleased to know there was some cheering on for Niewiadoma on a Dutch forum during the race this morning  

Well, it's sadly the same case each & every year. No matter how hard she tries or which breakway she tries to join, stick with the big guns or the outsiders it always ends the same. It shows how cycling is a team sport at the end of the day. Yeah, I realize Italians have as good depth in the peloton these days.

The one tactical error she made was passing on the Vleuten/vd Breggen attack at the Rio Games and sticking with Deignan instead. If she went with the Dutch she'd have an Olympic medal IMO.

Btw, what happened with that wonderkid Vas? She wasn't in the race?

7 hours ago, prso1000 said:

Croatia missed a chance in the 3rd set. After leading 16-8 they lost the set 🙄. I think they got scared of winning😂. 
anyway Poland did not look very good and will struggle against better teams if they don’t improve significantly. 

Well, our team is still very young but it's a recurring theme for a while, one might argue Smarzek-Godek is a senior member already but she's a mental mess ever since she didn't get on the first plane out of Russia after the war started. Technically we have Stysiak allthough that has been brewing into a Skowronska vs Baranska Alpha rivalry from the previous decade. We have somehow averted the soap opera for now. Even our pundits think that making the QF is basically the ceiling for this team and that would be a huge success.

is always the team that nobody bets on but they are usually the ones who cause some kind of upset (it's a common theme for Asian teams who play great defense because they have to).

Yeah, it seemed unlikely when he signed with the Cardinals for the sentimental farewell and we don't have to ponder if he wouldn't retire if he was stuck below 700 by one or two HR.

5 hours ago, heywoodu said:

This will be the first world championships (women) without a Dutch medal since 2014, and only the second since 2005  

At this rate van Vleuten won't retire until she's 50

As it's usual the case with Niewiadoma, she found a new way not to win a one-day race but it's obvious Polish team doesn't have the depth to control things the way the Dutch always do.

Poland beats Croatia 3-1

The new Polish Biathlon Federation boss has told Daria Dolidovich (17 years old) she can't train with our national team

https://przegladsportowy.onet.pl/sporty-zimowe/biathlon/justyna-kowalczyk-zaskoczona-to-smutne-i-niesmaczne/m1sxl76

This is fucking bullshit alright. Sergei Dolidovich fled Belarus with his daughter a while back and he's working as assistant coach over here but I fear if this decision won't be reversed they will move on to some other country soon. It's a complete waste but sadly ever since the previous boss Waskiewcz shockingly loss the elections in the summer we're going back to the dark days (Adam Kolodziejczyk will have more to say again as member of the board, the new boss Joanna Badacz seems to be merely a puppet). Justyna Kowalczyk was a huge Waskiewicz supporter so I wonder how long she keeps working within the biathlon federation. I feel she quits or gets booted out before 2026 when the next elections should take place.