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Canada? After Montreal spend 40+ years paying off the 1976 debt? Canada ain't hosting the SOG in my lifetime ever again. Madrid lost three straight times recently and I think they're done with more bids for a while too.

The most serious bids would be Russia, Turkey and Qatar anyway. These are countries which can spend all the public money they want to and nobody would ask anyone if hosting the Games is "sustainable financially" IOC might as well drop the transparency bullshit but they can't prevent Qatar from hosting SOG forever. Unless flexing them between USA and Australia every four years would be a sign of "diversity"?

They won't. They are officially banned because their doping plan apparently can't be approved in time for the start of IEC. World Athletics rejected their first plan. It's done.

There is no "professional weightlifting" that sucks all the talent out of the Olympics pool though. The thing with boxing is that all the teenagers from USA, UK, Latin American countries are lured by the big pro contracts and don't need Olympic medals anymore. World Amateur Boxing championships are dominated by Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Cuba lately so by countries that get zero love from IOC to begin with. The cold war USA vs The East in amateur boxing is long extinct.

Heard this before. How often can you hear the same bullshit and still buy it? China won the weightlifting medal table at the last FIVE Olympics and we all know Bach and IOC won't do anything to hurt China. C'mon, you ought to know better at this stage

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Russia has been banned from taking part in these Championships wholesale. Let's hear it for integrity values, we're back to 2016 collective responsibility again

Behind Norway there's simply more depth in the women's events

Amnesty International is no longer supporting Alexei Navalny Russia is having a field day in 2021 after Biden's quiet approval of Nord Stream 2 and now this https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56181084

I put the emoji since I'm not surprised by IOC turning out to be a bunch of corrupt two-faced fools again. Who really believes in the "integrity" and "transparency" anymore? Professional sport has become business and is driven by one thing only - money. IOC can afford to erase Belarus but they can't afford to erase China! What a shock!

I noticed you can't pick Germany for a medal in men's ski jumping team event Any Other Nation could become a popular choice then

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HS106 Day 2 February 26th, 2021 Lukas Greiderer Johannes Lamparter Eero Hirvonen Ilkka Herola Eric Frenzel Vinzenz Geiger x Fabian Riessle Johannes Rydzek Akito Watabe x Joergen Graabak Jens Luraas Oftebro Jarl Magnus Riiber x Any Other Athlete Ski jumping, Women's Team, Normal Hill - HS106 Day 2 February 26th, 2021 Austria x Czech Republic Finland France Germany Italy Japan Norway x Poland Russian Ski Federation Slovenia x Any Other Nation Nordic Combined, Women's 5km Gundersen, Normal Hill - HS106 Day 3 February 27th, 2021 Lisa Hirner Sigrun Kleinrath Jenny Nowak Daniela Dejori Veronica Gianmoena Annika Sieff Anju Nakamura Mari Leinan Lund Marte Leinan Lund x Hanna Midtsundstad Gyda Westvold Hansen x Anastasia Goncharova Tara Geraghty-Moats x Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing, Women's Skiathlon Day 3 February 27th, 2021 Teresa Stadlober Krista Parmakoski Katharina Hennig Helene Marie Fossesholm Therese Johaug x Heidi Weng Any Other Norwegian Athlete Natalia Nepryaeva Ebba Andersson x Charlotte Kalla Any Other Swedish Athlete Rosie Brennan Jessie Diggins x Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing, Men's Skiathlon Day 3 February 27th, 2021 Iivo Niskanen Any German Athlete Andrew Musgrave Emil Iversen x Johannes Klaebo Hoesflot Sjur Roethe x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Alexander Bolshunov x Denis Spitsov Sergey Ustiugov Any Other Athlete From Russian Ski Federation Jens Burman Dario Cologna Any Other Athlete Ski jumping, Men's Individual, Normal Hill - HS106 Day 3 February 27th, 2021 Michael Hayboeck Daniel Huber Stefan Kraft Markus Eisenbichler Karl Geiger x Ryoyu Kobayashi x Halvor Egner Granerud x Robert Johansson Marius Lindvik Daniel Andre Tande Dawid Kubacki Kamil Stoch Piotr Zyla Anze Lanisek Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined, Men's Team Event, Normal Hill - HS106 Day 4 February 28th, 2021 Austria Czech Republic Estonia Finland France Germany x Italy Japan x Norway x Poland United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing, Women's Team Sprint Freestyle Day 4 February 28th, 2021 Finland Germany Italy Norway Russian Ski Federation x Slovenia Sweden x Switzerland x United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing, Men's Team Sprint Freestyle Day 4 February 28th, 2021 Finland France x Germany Great Britain Italy x Norway x Russian Ski Federation Sweden Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Ski jumping, Mixed Team Event, Normal Hill - HS106 Day 4 February 28th, 2021 Austria x Czech Republic Finland Germany Italy Japan Norway x Poland Russian Ski Federation Slovenia x Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 10km Freestyle Day 5 March 2nd, 2021 Krista Parmakoski Any German Athlete Helene Marie Fossesholm x Ragnhild Haga Therese Johaug x Heidi Weng Natalia Nepryaeva x Yulia Stupak Ebba Andersson Charlotte Kalla Frida Karlsson Rosie Brennan Jessie Diggins Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 15km Freestyle Day 6 March 3rd, 2021 Andrew Musgrave Hans Christer Holund Johannes Klaebo Hoesflot Simen Hegstad Krueger x Sjur Roethe x Alexander Bolshunov x Denis Spitsov Ivan Yakimushkin Any Other Athlete From Russian Ski Federation Any Swedish Athlete Dario Cologna Gus Schumacher Any Other Athlete Ski jumping, Women's Individual, Large Hill - HS137 Day 6 March 3rd, 2021 Daniela Iraschko-Stolz Marita Kramer x Any French Athlete Katharina Althaus Yuki Ito Sara Takanashi x Eirin Maria Kvandal Maren Lundby Silje Opseth x Irina Avvakumova Ursa Bogataj Ema Klinec Nika Kriznar Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined, Men's 10km Gundersen, Large Hill - HS137 Day 7 March 4th, 2021 Lukas Greiderer Johannes Lamparter Any Other Austrian Athlete Ilkka Herola Eric Frenzel Vinzenz Geiger x Fabian Riessle x Johannes Rydzek Any Other German Athlete Akito Watabe Joergen Graabak Jens Luraas Oftebro Jarl Magnus Riiber x Any Other Athlete Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 4x5km Relay Day 7 March 4th, 2021 Czech Republic Finland Germany Italy Norway x Russian Ski Federation x Slovenia Sweden x Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 4x10km Relay Day 8 March 5th, 2021 Czech Republic Finland x France Germany Italy Norway x Russian Ski Federation x Sweden Switzerland United States Any Other Nation Ski jumping, Men's Individual, Large Hill - HS137 Day 8 March 5th, 2021 Michael Hayboeck Daniel Huber Stefan Kraft Markus Eisenbichler Karl Geiger x Ryoyu Kobayashi Halvor Egner Granerud x Robert Johansson Marius Lindvik Daniel Andre Tande Dawid Kubacki Kamil Stoch x Piotr Zyla Anze Lanisek Any Other Athlete Nordic Combined, Men's Team Sprint, Large Hill - HS137 Day 9 March 6th, 2021 Austria Czech Republic Estonia Finland France Germany x Italy Japan x Norway x Poland United States Any Other Nation Cross-Country Skiing, Women's 30km Classical Day 9 March 6th, 2021 Teresa Stadlober Kerttu Niskanen Krista Parmakoski Katharina Hennig Helene Marie Fossesholm Therese Johaug x Heidi Weng Any Other Norwegian Athlete Natalia Nepryaeva x Yulia Stupak Ebba Andersson Frida Karlsson x Sadie Maubet Bjornsen Jessie Diggins Any Other Athlete Ski jumping, Men's Team Event, Large Hill - HS137 Day 9 March 6th, 2021 Austria Czech Republic Finland Italy Japan Norway x Poland x Russian Ski Federation Slovenia Switzerland United States Any Other Nation x Cross-Country Skiing, Men's 50km Classical Day 10 March 7th, 2021 Iivo Niskanen x Francesco De Fabiani Emil Iversen Johannes Klaebo Hoesflot Sjur Roethe x Any Other Norwegian Athlete Alexander Bolshunov x Sergey Ustiugov Ivan Yakimushkin Any Other Athlete From Russian Ski Federation Jens Burman Oskar Svensson Dario Cologna Any Other Athlete [/hide]

Dina Asher-Smith is out of IEC with thigh injury.

You can't be that naive anymore? It's all about the money and big business. The word integrity, transparency blah blah mean nothing, absolutely nothing. The more things change, the more they stay the same Btw, Qatar will host Summer OG eventually. They have enough money and desire to push through with the idea. Besides, "racial equality" crap preached by the liberals demands SOG should be hosted by a Muslim country one day? Or is it about equality for everyone except the Muslims?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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