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Bianca Andreescu has withdrawn from the Grampians tournament. This is literally entering the drama lama levels.

USA has a history of such actions, like when they sided with France and pushed Ho Chi Minh straight into China & USSR's arms. That proved to be a total disaster Meanwhile the Oval Office has bigger problems than Myanmar. Kamala Harris is under fire for wearing Dolce & Gabbana clothes. Ah, the wealthy people's problems! https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2021/feb/02/kamala-harris-criticized-wearing-controversial-label-dolce-gabbana

Never. Myanmar has nothing that would interest USA and all Western democracies. It was only useful for the British Empire due to being a passage between China and India for trade purposes. That's no longer important. This place became equally as irrelevant as Cape Verde when the slavery trade from Western Africa collapsed.

Ryszard Szurkowski - the most famous Polish cyclist in history - passed away at the age of 75 today. Double Olympic TTT silver medallist, 1973 amateur World Champion & 4 time winner of the Peace Race.

Matthew Stafford got traded to LA Rams while Jared Goff has been send to Detroit Lions in a straight QB swap. Lions also get two future first round picks from the Rams. That means Rams won't have a first round pick since they selected Goff first overall in 2017. That will be five straight seasons w/o it. It's almost NBA-like devaluation of the draft but Rams have the luxury of Sean McVey and Aaron Donald in the building. Then again, they whiffed on the QB as Goff looks completely lost without McVey in his ear.

Fractured tibia for Goggia. No surgery required but six weeks on the hook. Obviously season is over

Well, Jimmie Johnson looked slooooow out there tbh. I fear his IndyCar tenure will be a total disaster now.

#10 Acura wins (Albuquerque/Castroneves/Rossi/R.Taylor). Terrible TV direction who missed the late change for 2nd place (#48 Cadillac passed #55 Mazda).

The Dutch curse strikes! Though Chip Ganassi losing the race in such fashion is not a bad thing

Well, auto racing is too expensive for FIA and IMSA to keep the different regs stance for the sake of local purity. The pandemic hit will only speed up the ineviteable process. It hope it works better than DTM adopting the Super GT regs and still ending up on the floor (which basically mirrored their mid 90s demise).

Audi ditched Formula E (funny how that is viewed second-rate now that it has lost the "new age" aura) and confirmed they will be back at LeMans in 2022. If they really wanted to build a DPi that would be a true swing for the fences!

Racing Team Nederland... in yellow & black Maybe sponsored by Vitesse Arnhem? Btw, this is the same Jumbo as Jumbo-Visma? Guess they have some money to spend?

@Olympian1010 I believe heywood is more of a Rinus fan than van der Zande. Besides Chip Ganassi isn't that of a fan favorite to begin with

I know that. Tell that to IMSA though. Ligier & Oreca should be in LMP2 and LMP3 should be scraped alltogether IMO. Bad news for @heywoodu #29 Racing Nederland is out and Rinus VeeKay didn't even turn a single lap. They crashed on the oil laid by #20 and suffered terminal gearbox problem.

LMP3 is the new PC. Meh. Endurance racing doesn't need a "junior" class like that. It's just field filler whom nobody really cares about. Ligier should take the battle to Oreca in LMP2 and now it looks like both can dominate each class without much competition.

Well, our biathlon fed twitter feed remains on top as usual

The course was terrible, couldn't hold up at all. Doesn't bode well for tomorrow. Lara Gut seems to gave gotten to her best form from 5-6 years ago. She owns the Super G this season. Don't know what's up with Corinne Suter? MM Gagnon finally back on the podium, I thought that won't happen again. Also good to see KV Lie not choking on race day for a change. Probably because it wasn't a downhill

The first hour was total amateur clown show. Do these guys realize the race lasts 24 hours?

[hide] Knockout Round January 31st, 2021 Third Place Match Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 31st 2021, 15:30 Spain 3 France Final Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 31st 2021, 18:30 Denmark 2 Sweden [/hide]

Johaug LOST a 10km race? Did she have a fall or something? Ran the wrong route?

Given the widespread Russian bans in biathlon he did a very lousy job of helping them indeed

Next elections in Poland are in 2023 so if Law & Justice ever wanted to play hardball with the anti-abortion law, the perfect timing was last fall especially with COVID still being somewhat relevant. The bill was passed last November, now it's just being made official. Thankfully for L&J teenagers either don't have the right to vote (if someone is 14yo or 15yo today) and this group is usually the least reliable among voters anyway (unlike seniors and elders who simply don't have better things to do than to go and vote). Come 2023 there will be a ton of other topics on the agenda, two years is forever in politics.

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Maria Lasitskiene would strongly disagree with your take Unless the aim changed since 2016 which makes the whole integrity reasoning total BS.

The meaning is simple, IOC, FIS and VADA can't get out of their own way, they can punish Russia but they can't punish Russians. Everyone knows Kuzmina's story and I bet people in Slovakia consider her more Slovakian than the Fialkova sisters