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[hide] Knockout Round September 29th - October 1st, 2022 8 Nations, The Winners of the Quartefinals will qualify for the Semifinals. Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT +10) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 September 29th 2022, h. TBD Belgium 6 Australia September 29th 2022, h. TBD China 8 France September 29th 2022, h. TBD Puerto Rico 11 Canada September 29th 2022, h. TBD United States 22 Serbia [/hide]

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

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?

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.

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.

Yeah, Group A & D play the entire phase in Arnhem, I don't know why Groups B & C couldn't play their phase in Poland from the first match? Anyway, Croatia wins a set vs Poland

Because I was like 14 years old and I liked those swimsuits

Sounds like something I saw during a lifeguard competition on "Baywatch" 25 years ago

Rowing sprints? Wut? Even a 6 minute rowing race is deemed too long by IOC now?

Aaron Judge hit 60th home run last night so he's only one away from AL record set by Roger Maris in 1961 still viewed as the "real" HR record since the Bonds, McGwire & Sosa marks were achieved in the steroid era.

Team Poland squad (as expected Smarzek-Godek is out and so is Martyna Łukasik through injury): SETTERS: Katarzyna Wenerska, Joanna Wołosz RECEIVERS: Monika Fedusio, Zuzanna Górecka, Olivia Różański, Weronika Szlagowska OUTSIDE HITTERS: Monika Gałkowska, Magdalena Stysiak MIDDLE BLOCKERS: Klaudia Alagierska-Szczepaniak, Agnieszka Korneluk, Anna Obiała, Kamila Witkowska LIBERO: Maria Stenzel, Aleksandra Szczygłowska

Reminds me when Victoria Azarenka was described as "Guest" at the 2013 ESPYs awards alongside her then-boyfriend Redfoo (singer who used to be popular back in the day). It just so happened Azarenka was WTA #1 at the time...

Yeah, it's been said over the summer, the Russian forces aren't strong enough to make a significant push to take more land, their main goal was obviously to take Kiev within the first week of the war, maybe have Zelensky flee the country and then have the war end literally two weeks after it has started. It's all gone in the gutter for the Russians though. The recent Kharkiv offensive shows they don't even want to fight a defensive war and don't have the manpower to occupy those areas when they are the ones under attack. The war will most likely last at least two more years unless EU countries suffer from public protests during the winter due to gas shortages & prices rising. That might force EU to stop with the military supply to Ukraine and help the Russians (it's basically their last chance, they're not winning the war with some ancient USSR weapons found in some warehouse in the Kirgizstan desert).

Hopefully the Russian weapons stored for reserve were advanced in 1965 but maybe not in XXI century anymore

17 year old Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva earns her first WTA main draw victory in Seoul over Chloe Paquet.

I'm fine with the changes

Mayar Sherif saved 12 (as in twelve) match points vs Jessica Maleckova in Budapest WTA 125 R1 match

I still have a feeling we'll drag AJ Slaughter on court in 2025 again

More success today as Katerina Siniakova wins Portoroz title in three sets over Elena Rybakina.

@hckošicewould be happy to know that Linda F. follows ice hockey as I saw her liking Slafkovsky's IG posts