Monzanator

13 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

It’s hilarious, to me, to see conservatives whine and moan about cancel culture, when much of conservative political policy has been that exact thing for years.
 

Theory of evolution disagrees with your personal religious views, ban states from teaching it. Two men/women kissing makes you, personally, feel uneasy, ban it. You don’t agree with an accurate historical account of slavery, ban it being taught in school. Starbucks puts “happy holidays” on cups instead of “Merry Christmas,” call for a boycott of Starbucks. An NFL player peacefully protests what he views as an injustice, call for him to be ejected from the league. Etc.
 

Conservatives love acting like their above this shit, but they’ve engaged in it for just as long as any other political group. I ain’t trying to start a whole “they said/we said,” but I won’t tolerate the moral hypocrisy of conservatives, or really anyone, claiming to be above cancel culture, since most everyone has participated in some form of it at one time or another.

Well, guess after the latest failure in Afghanistan and millions of dollars lost on "promoting" democracy Americans need a feel good punchbag again. I don't believe even EU gives a damn about Colin Kapernick though - neither does NFL anymore. Sorry, you can't win all the ideological wars after all.

And Polish ES commentator was surprised that Sander will get a podium here (not really a surprise with many DNFs too).

Cancel culture has showed up in European Union. Using the words "Christmas", "Mr.", "Mrs", "John", "Mary" are recommened to be banned in official EU language in a 30-page memo.

So EU goes all inclusve, unless you are Christian or your name is John or Mary. What a bunch of morons. And they wonder why people turn against the EU so much? Another proof that liberalism is a complete folly and uses the same methods communism did before.

https://www.politico.eu/article/european-commission-cancel-christmas-inclusive-language-lgbtq/

Still no points for Poland. 0/6 events so far.

Hojnisz-Starega 67th with one miss is a joke.

6 hours ago, Orangehair43 said:

Professional Sport is fucked full stop. 

Money talks and pro sports is business. The days of Karl Schranz and Ingemar Stenmark being banned because they were "professionals" are long gone. Sport is a monster money maker. Even USA finally legalised sports gambling after decades of ethical opposition. You cannot stop the power of money in this world.

3 hours ago, Orangehair43 said:

I am not sure any democratic country  will bid for a future games. The process for 2030 could well collapse soon. 

Since IOC awarded Brisbane the SOG without any bidding process that won't be a problem for Winter Games either.

Alec Baldwin claims he didn't fire the shot that killed Halyna Hutchins. I guess he wants to cover his ass because there is a major lawsuit & money to be paid and if they won't find the person who put the live round it will be Baldwin who will have to pay up? As usual with celebs, money loss is bigger threat than a conviction verdict. I mean manslaughter won't even get him to jail but the financial loss would be real.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-59499237

49 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

Did you miss the news that the Scandinavian FA’s are considering quitting Fifa due to the prospect of the World Cup every two years? 

UEFA and CONMEBOL won't support the biennial World Cup and this makes the whole point moot. Not even worth to talk about it.

12 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

There has been many calls to do so.

And football only grows bigger with more games and more money invested. Nobody will boycott FIFA World Cup, football is basically bigger than Olympic Games (most certainly than the Winter edition where half of the world doesn't even have a shot at any medals).

Most people don't like FIFA either and nobody thinks about boycotting the World Cup

7 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

I am sure NBC has a clause in the contract that says no Americans no broadcast.

What about the sponsors who bought ads for the TV coverage?

1 minute ago, Orangehair43 said:

Taiwan is completely separate to China. It would really piss Bejing off if they did so.

China is triggered enough to run the financial pressure over lack of WTA tournaments even without Taiwan. WTA raised the purse for 1st round GS losers and so on, there is the big push for pay equality too. I wonder how is that possible with the loss of Chinese money? The long-term plans could blow right up now. The only reasonable replacement is Middle East. It would be hilarious if WTA had to stage events in Saudi Arabia to make up for the Chinese losses

1 minute ago, Orangehair43 said:

I’m not so sure. 

I am sure. Tibet, Hong Kong and Taiwan are all lost to the Western world. COVID has allowed China to call people racists whenever someone says "Chinese virus". NBC pays too much money for WOG to be held without Americans for instance. Nobody in USA would tune in to watch Russians and Norwegians win

Just now, Orangehair43 said:

I imagine we won’t see a Chinese professional tennis player again for a long time. 
 

I am sure Taiwan would be a suitable host for a major tournament. 

WTA won't touch Taiwan with a wooden stick after this move. And yeah, the Chinese player market could completely collapse from now on. I suppose WTA thinks it was worth the squeeze for a semi-retired player like Peng Shuai?

41 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

Major Pressure now on the IOC as the WTA have suspended all tennis tournaments in China. The IOC will really have to justify why the games should be held. Still a fair chance of major boycotts.,

No sporting boycotts will happen. I'm amazed how delusional people are. The Tibet situation was much bigger in 2008 and they held the Games there. Money is more important to IOC than people realize. The days when they banned Ingemar Stenmark from taking part in WOG are long over

PR stunt move in the off-season. Due to COVID restrictions there are no tournaments scheduled in China for 2022 anyway. Also worth noticing that Hong Kong is truly lost for the Western world.

Get ready for indoor tournaments in Ostrava then! I wonder how long until people start bitching about Eastern Europe profiting from this?

Btw, how much this decision will affect the other Chinese players? The ITF Asian swing was wrecked by COVID already so several of these Chinese players had to come to Europe to play. That could be severly affected going forward. ATP won't give a damn since there are 0 relevant Chinese male players overall.

Tiril Eckhoff bib #111 so there is a chance the TV coverage will go all the way

Btw., Spain trashed Scotland 8-0. It seems like Spain is set to become the next best force in women's football, they already played the best game vs USA at the last World Cup and were very unfortunate to lose that one but it could be a different story in the next few years. I won't be surprised if they win the Euros outright.

Yeah, that's why women's football doesn't really move the needle that much. The performance gap is simply too big to call it competitive. Ireland hit 11 past Georgia which seems merciful.

Poland lost to Belgium 0-4, we got lucky in some previous games incuding draws vs Norway and Belgium at home but this time we got pantsed.

Apparently BALCO doping scandal villain C.J. Hunter passed away at the age of 52.

Blocked extra point returned for 2 points. Happens once every four years or so

According to sources here are the Top 10 points:

1. Leo Messi – 613
2. Robert Lewandowski – 580
3. Jorginho – 460
4. Karim Benzema – 239
5. N’Golo Kante – 186
6. Cristiano Ronaldo – 176
7. Mohamed Salah – 121
8. Kevin de Bruyne – 73
9. Kylian Mbappe – 58
10. Gianluigi Donnarumma – 36

4 hours ago, RobtheAggie said:

Major overactions of the weekend  - 

1. Eckhoff is the worst biathlete ever, will she ever learn to shoot well.

2. The French are trash and will never win a race this year.

3. Canada is going to dominate!

4. Sweden will win every race outside of the races the Canadians win.  Except for Stina Nillson, she should go do Nordic Combined?

 

Did I sum it up the overactions?

 

You forgot about Magdalena Gwizdon should be drafted into the Polish team!

Meanwhile we get Kinga Zbylut and Andrzej Nedza-Kubiniec back this weekend instead. It's pointless to talk about the Polish men though, Grzegorz Guzik at Oberhof might be the only time they sniff a point

Jets & Giants both won a game yesterday!   Washington vs Seahawks later tonight. If Seattle loses they are basically out of the playoffs. Russell Wilson still looked hampered coming off the finger injury the last two weeks but that offense is simply very limited.

Cincinnati Bengals pantsed Pittsburgh Steelers 41-10. I don't remember when was the last time Steelers gave up 40+ points in back-to-back games.