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The Rome final will be a repeat of Madrid final - Świątek vs Sabalenka.

Świątek extended her h2h lead over Cori Gauff to 10-1 after beating her in SF. This result also means Sabalenka will be #2 seed at Roland Garros.

Roland Garros annonunced WC. As expected all French plus the usual AO & USO swap. This means Halep, Wozniacki or Thiem (ATP) miss out.

Halep would be hard pressed to get one based on her doping ban as FO previously snubbed Sharapova for the same reason.

Well, that was one game Poland needed to win to have any chance of staying up. If we can't beat France it would be improbable to expect beating anyone else here.

Holstein Kiel has been promoted to the 1. Bundesliga for the very first time.

I suppose that's the northern-most German city that will ever play in top flight?

And for once handball might take a back seat there.

3 hours ago, Belle said:

@rybakPoland did amazing today. Lost 4-5 after overtime. 

Yeah, this is a totally unexpected point for us

So much for democracy then. USA's veto still makes the ultimate difference however there's a chance US President will be Muslim one day so Palestine might get a chance around 2175?

I would assume a lot of Polish fans would travel to Ostrava given how close it is to the border. Alas I'd be amazed if we lose by less than 3 goals

Robert E. Lee & Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson are back on in high schools in Virginia. I suppose they have a more lasting legacy in US history than George Floyd so it's not a surprise.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68985412

Poland beat Slovakia by 18 goals in a friendly in January and we lose to them in the WCh playoffs

Zermatt has been dropped and apparently they're not happy since they have a 5 year contract. Word is they banned professional skiers from training there in the summer

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Group A

Date & Time (GMT +2)	Nation 1	T1	T2	Nation 2
May 10th 2024 h. 16:20	Switzerland	4		Norway
May 10th 2024 h. 20:20	Czechia	2		Finland
May 11th 2024 h. 12:20	Great Britain		3	Canada
May 11th 2024 h. 16:20	Austria		1	Denmark
May 11th 2024 h. 20:20	Norway		5	Czechia
May 12th 2024 h. 12:20	Finland	6		Great Britain
May 12th 2024 h. 16:20	Denmark		2	Canada
May 12th 2024 h. 20:20	Austria		2	Switzerland
May 13th 2024 h. 16:20	Norway		5	Finland
May 13th 2024 h. 20:20	Switzerland		3	Czechia
May 14th 2024 h. 16:20	Denmark	2		Norway
May 14th 2024 h. 20:20	Canada	2		Austria
May 15th 2024 h. 16:20	Czechia	3		Denmark
May 15th 2024 h. 20:20	Switzerland	4		Great Britain
May 16th 2024 h. 16:20	Finland	3		Austria
May 16th 2024 h. 20:20	Canada	5		Norway
May 17th 2024 h. 16:20	Great Britain		2	Denmark
May 17th 2024 h. 20:20	Czechia	4*		Austria
May 18th 2024 h. 12:20	Denmark		1	Switzerland
May 18th 2024 h. 16:20	Canada		1*	Finland
May 18th 2024 h. 20:20	Czechia	6		Great Britain
May 19th 2024 h. 16:20	Norway		1	Austria
May 19th 2024 h. 20:20	Switzerland		1	Canada
May 20th 2024 h. 16:20	Great Britain		2	Norway
May 20th 2024 h. 20:20	Finland	3		Denmark
May 21st 2024 h. 12:20	Austria	1		Great Britain
May 21st 2024 h. 16:20	Canada		2	Czechia
May 21st 2024 h. 20:20	Finland	2		Switzerland

Group B

Date & Time (GMT +2)	Nation 1	T1	T2	Nation 2
May 10th 2024 h. 16:20	Slovakia	1		Germany
May 10th 2024 h. 20:20	Sweden	2		United States
May 11th 2024 h. 12:20	France		1	Kazakhstan
May 11th 2024 h. 16:20	Poland		2	Latvia
May 11th 2024 h. 20:20	United States		2	Germany
May 12th 2024 h. 12:20	Kazakhstan		4*	Slovakia
May 12th 2024 h. 16:20	Latvia	2		France
May 12th 2024 h. 20:20	Sweden	6		Poland
May 13th 2024 h. 16:20	United States	1		Slovakia
May 13th 2024 h. 20:20	Germany		1	Sweden
May 14th 2024 h. 16:20	Kazakhstan		2	Latvia
May 14th 2024 h. 20:20	Poland	1		France
May 15th 2024 h. 16:20	Germany	3		Latvia
May 15th 2024 h. 20:20	Slovakia	5*		Poland
May 16th 2024 h. 16:20	Kazakhstan		5	Sweden
May 16th 2024 h. 20:20	United States	5		France
May 17th 2024 h. 16:20	Germany	6		Kazakhstan
May 17th 2024 h. 20:20	Poland		5	United States
May 18th 2024 h. 12:20	Latvia		2	Sweden
May 18th 2024 h. 16:20	Germany	4		Poland
May 18th 2024 h. 20:20	France		5	Slovakia
May 19th 2024 h. 16:20	United States	6		Kazakhstan
May 19th 2024 h. 20:20	Slovakia	3		Latvia
May 20th 2024 h. 16:20	Sweden	6		France
May 20th 2024 h. 20:20	Kazakhstan		1	Poland
May 21st 2024 h. 12:20	France		3	Germany
May 21st 2024 h. 16:20	Latvia		2	United States
May 21st 2024 h. 20:20	Sweden	1*		Slovakia

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@dullardBartunkova was busted for trimetazidine so the same angina drug as Kamila Valieva. Let's see if she gets 4 year ban as well given she also doesn't have TUE exemption.

Imanaga still has the lowest ERA after the first six weeks of the season.

Big news is that Pirates called up last year's #1 draft pick RHP Paul Skenes to make his debut vs Cubs on Saturday.

Marlins & White Sox "compete" for the worst team of the season honor so far.

17 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Nice to have an announcement to confirm what almost literally nobody doubted....got to stay in those spotlights out of the season as well of course  

She will be the Eurosport expert during Paris OG so yeah, she will remain in the off-season spotlight too

Dorothea Wierer confirmed she will keep going until 2026 WOG

Onto round 2 and Timberwolves won both games in Denver

Kyren Wilson won the world title for the first time beating Jak Jones 18-14 in the final.

Wilson started the final with a 7-0 lead which was the ultimate difference maker.

Well, Pieleshenko was banned for doping for 8 years (until 2026) so it's not like we'd seen him in sports anymore. The ban was so long since he was banned for stanozolol for 2 years before already.

@GrassmarketHow many points for using Z in English scrabble?

Without the war in Ukraine the Anglo-Saxon world wouldn't even know what "z" in Russian looks like. And it looks like "3".

That's the key. Politics IS a game. Overall Joe Biden has been a mediocre stop-gap seat filler without any leadership qualities. So it's no wonder he talks nonsense as well.

We do talk about a guy who fist bumped Saudi Arabia crown prince after all. I guess Biden can dislike Japan and India but no US President will forget the 1973 oil crisis and its economical consequences.

Saudi Arabia are the good guys, right?

The senile old fool Joe Biden has called Japan & India xenophobic. He is truly losing it big time. So who's he gonna offend next before they switch his mic off?

The border wall with Mexico has only grown bigger during Biden's tenure so yeah, just because CNN is sucking on Democrats' kneecaps it doesn't make him even less of a hypocrite.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68947042

Monika Hojnisz-Staręga also gave birth this week. She said she wants to make a comeback to biathlon

And Trump has tripped on that easiest path as he lost to Jak Jones 13-9 in the QF