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Well, she looked alright at 4-2 40-15 and then completely collapsed. She previously lost to indoor speciallist Alexandrova after COVID.

Paula Badosa won ten games in a row and beat Aryna Sabalenka 6-4 6-0!

She turns 33yo in January but given how decimated the Russian team is over the last few years I suppose she still hoped to get a call-up regardless. Btw, her sister was pregnant last season and should make the A-team this time around?

Daria Virolainen is pregnant again and will not compete this season.

The only way FIS is stopped with the parallel races revolution is if the big names flat out ignore it. Hirscher wasn't the best in them but he's retired so let's see if the women actually affect this nonsense now. I didn't watch some of these parallels last season already and after the World Champs fiasco where one course decided the outcome I probably won't bother watching this farce anymore.

Despite all the NASCAR playoff gimmicks the best driver of the season actually won the Cup title. Kyle Larson really deserved that!

Russia wins BJK aka Fed Cup after Daria Kasatkina swept Jil Teichmann and Belinda Bencic mentally collapsed against Liudmila Samsonova. Bencic complained about Samsonova's ball bouncing during the serve but got warned over delays herself

I read the plane hit the high-voltage wires? How low was it flying for that to happen?

It also helps indoor hard is one of her best surfaces

It's all bullshit. Just get rid of this event already. Laser shooting is a joke since like @heywoodupointed out everyone is just shooting a gazillion shots and rely on the probability count to limit the damage. We all know IOC wants e-sports and urban crap. Stop using the "inclusive" nonsense. A sport that has zero following in USA & China is destined to fail in the modern era when NBC calls the schedule. I'd be amazed if MP remains an Olympic sport in Brisbane and of course their axe will be blamed on lack of diversity and all that crap. Calling it 11 years before SOG 2032. Move on!

Regular shooting takes place in the first week of Olympics so I can't see MP getting the early love. What works against this sport as well is two of the biggest SOG powerhouses (USA & China) are both non-factors so there is no political pressure to feature MP in a highlighted spot on the schedule. Running it towards the ends when team sports medal rounds/finals take place puts this firmly in the graveyard of Olympic schedule for sure. Funnily enough the last time MP was held in the first week was 1992 Barcelona where Poland won two gold medals and the dreaded equestrian was the last event of the five (the competition lasted four days, impossible in the current day & age). Back then athletes had a training round available, not the 15 minutes "get to know the horse" we have now but like I've said, the competition wasn't held during a single day so they had time to accomodate the horses.

Stick a fork in this event. They have to make room for e-sports sooner or later anyway

Yup, Americans got the hell out and tried to sell this as "not a failure". What a load of crap indeed. No wonder nobody in the Middle East buys this democracy thing at all. Americans wasted 20 years building democracy in Afghanistan and managed to accomplish absolutely nothing. Ho-Chin Minh is probably laughing in his grave

Virginia has voted for a Republican governor. Quick loss for Joe Biden's crew there. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59144293 Anyone still cares about George Floyd? Guess not. Minnesota rejected the idea of replacing the police department. I remember the heated arguments here over 12 months ago. Look how things have changed when everyone went back to living their lives. All those mental health instructors can truly bugger off now. Ain't gonna happen. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59143893

I'm shocked modern pentathlon is still an Olympic Sport tbh. Replacing equestrian with cycling is bullshit, like mentioned above it's basically a triathlon with laser shooting & fencing. Who needs that? As underwhelming as skateboarding & surfing have been we will see more of these urban sports crap for kids so some of the old Olympic sports are destined to be axed from the programme. Modern pentathlon is #1 on the list IMO especially how IOC claims triathlon is the new craze (I don't find that sport particulary exciting myself).

Atlanta Braves beat Houston Astros 7-0 in Game 6 and win the World Series 2021!

Do Social Democrats actually have any political competition in Sweden? It seems like a one-party system given how Social Democrats are always in power

Denver Broncos traded Von Miller to LA Rams ahead of the trade deadline tomorrow. We could still see some major deals in the next 24 hours.

I remember when Bengtsson was winning in juniors and touted as the next great thing in women's PV. She never met those expectations indeed. Perhaps she knew she's bounced off her ceiling already?

Braves hit a Grand Slam in the 1st inning but still lose 5-9 in Game 5. The series heads back to Houston!

Kontaveit beats Halep 6-2 6-3 to win the Cluj title and she qualifies for the WTA finals starting on November 10th! If it wasn't for the fencers winning two medals in Tokyo I guess she'd be voted Female Athlete of the Year in Estonia?

And that was about the last time the Astros bats were productive. Two games later it's 3-1 Braves!

Well, it's Halep vs Kontaveit in the Cluj final. If Kontaveit wins, she will be #8 for YEC.

Marta Kostyuk dismantled Emma Raducanu 62 61 in Cluj QF and said she had her figured out by the fifth game already. It seems like everyone has enough tape on Raducanu by now to expose her flaws. Hey, at least she beat Hercog & Bogdan here in Cluj.

Ah yes, the guy who crashed on purpose at SOG 2012 so GB could still win a gold medal. The less said about this schmuck the better