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Politico rips Joe Biden for going silent on Nord Stream 2. Of course this senile fool will cave in and succumb to Germany & Russia interests here. So USA replaced an alleged Russian puppet with a guy who is scared to upset Russia too

https://www.politico.eu/article/biden-silent-on-sanctions-as-nord-stream-2-speeds-ahead/

IOC is obviously a bunch of politically-motivated hypocrites. If they ban Belarus from competing under their flag it's gonna serve as the ultimate proof IOC doesn't care about integrity they preach. It's all about politics. No wonder nobody takes those idiots & hypocrites seriously. Will they ban China? North Korea? Of course not. What a load of crap this is. One more word about IOC integrity and democracy on this board and I'm gonna riot

14 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I’m near certain that they were just happy a city bid for the Games 

This was a low-hanging fruit after Baku (which technically isn't even Europe) and Minsk

1 hour ago, Vojthas said:

That's why Sasin is "responsible" for the Games from their side. If he spent 70 milions on an election that didn't take a place, then how much can he spend on the European Games that won't take a place?

European Olympic Committees probably don't realize there's an outright war in Polish internal politics going on for the last few years

I can fully expect EG being moved to a different city in Poland to avoid backlash. The COVID pandemic is a great excuse to justify such a change. Majchrowski obviously played the emotional blackmail card here but I don't think that moves the Law & Justice needle one bit.

Law & Justice will never offer any financial help to a city mayor from the post-communist SLD Majchrowski's bluff will be called IMO.

1 hour ago, OlympicsFan said:

I guess that depends on your understanding of what it means to know who someone was, but I think far more than 5 % of people could tell you what field of research she was in and when she lived. I think till this day she is only one of 2 or 3 people who won more than one Nobel prize and at that time that was pretty unthinkable, especially for a woman.

We live in a short-attention span era. 15 second TikTok video is more popular than knowledge who won Nobel Prize 110 years ago

Only three perfect predictions in the biathlon WCh and two in the single mixed relay

Thx for running the event @Wumo

Fak & Eder in Vittozzi mode

Fak misses the last shot!

QFM ten seconds to make up for the medal.

9 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Doesn’t matter. The result is the same (Norway dominates). Norway used to be far less dominant in cross-country and back then it took less to make their cross-country team and those who weren’t good enough to make it weren’t good enough to dominate biathlon. 10 or 15 years ago Germany was probably the best nation in men’s cross-country. Russia might come back, especially if people start to care less about their doping again, but Germany won’t. Like I said before: I absolutely expect the same nations to dominate as in cross-country. Norway/Sweden/Russia have by far the best depth in cross-country, so their B talents will go into biathlon and will dominate there. I just hope that IBU will realize that it is bad for their product and that they will change some things.

Finland still hasn't recovered from the 2001 doping scandal in cross-country IMO. But it's a bigger problem for them since they went belly up in ski jumping too.

Jacquelin hit the wrong targets or what? 0/5.

4 minutes ago, dcro said:

Top 15 would have meant something (improved start list, Olympic qualification), but he blew it.

Top 10 for Rodes gives Croatia three Olympic qualifying places anyway?

5 minutes ago, JonPhi said:

But Eckhoff ist not the dominant than Dahlmeier in the past.

Peak Eckhoff would have beaten peak Dahlmeier IMO.

Just now, dcro said:

Thankfully playing it safe did nothing for Vinatzer.

 

It would have also meant that Rodeš lost it in the opening sector.

Top 6 for Rodes is still a great result

Solevaag is Lisa Hauser of alpine skiing. Years of borderline Top 10 results and suddenly finds a break-out season during the COVID pandemic

At least no another gold for Austria.

1 minute ago, dcro said:

More like Vinatzer straddling the first gate.

I'll say he reaches the first split and then goes out.

Noel blows it too.

Jakobsen blows a career result as well.

I have a feeling Vinatzer will put the icing on the Italian disaster cake next.

Could be a medal for Kristoffersen

Schwarz blows it!

2 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Cross-country should have less weight -> Longer penalty laps/shorter races in general. I am sure there would be a lot of other options, maybe you could for example make the targets smaller or increase the distance to the targets (not sure how expansive that would be?).

It will go the opposite way with TV calling the shots so shorter penalty loops in the individual and super sprint crap. Skiing will be even more important going forward and that plays exactly into Norway's hands. I just hope they keep the individual event in tact for the next 10-15 years

Croatia better than Slovenia. I guess that's all that matters for these two countries?

Just now, Fly_like_a_don said:

So what would you suggest? Increasing the penalty loop to 250m ?

The gap will stay the same. Others will tire more and Norway keeps the edge anyway.

Winters blows the pole position.

Let's go Rodes!

Just now, OlympicsFan said:

Absurd skiing time by Eckhoff once again. I hope that IBU will start breaking the Norwegian dominance, sadly I have no hope that they will change anything until their product is dead.

Norway enjoyed such a skiing advantage for years now. It's that Frode Andresen and Lars Berger couldn't hit 5/5 to save their lives before

2 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

I think you are asking too much ... even for Greis the polish team is a hopeless case.

I think if you only care about results and have no problem with doping, you should try to get Pichler.

Would be cool if Kamila Zuk didn't look so awful this season. The gap between her and Davidova is widening with every season. I mean, Zuk won European Championships gold but yeah, it's not 2000 when Poland was excited with such a result.

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Tandrevold will be happy it was Eckhoff instead of Roeiseland who took the bronze  

I said Olsbu will be out of medals if Eckhoff catches them. 120 meters more and Eckhoff would have had silver