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South Korea denies Kim JU is seriously ill. Another over-reaction from the Western media then

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52364055

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

 

At least convincing others to go on a gluten free diet has a bit less effect on your and my health than anti-vaccination bullshit..

Most people generally dislike when other people tell them what to do (or what to eat)

Djokovic is one of these gluten free diet maniacs too. Same BS as Tom Brady's avocado ice cream stuff.

The anti-vaccination morons made hay from the false autism links in the 90s and there's no way to get rid of that. Even lobotomy was flunked faster than this but of course the social platforms to spread lies are much bigger now than they were in the 50s.

This is how politics work. Most of these morons will do everything to get a glimpse of real power

On 18/04/2020 at 13:51, Werloc said:

 

Honestly, they can fuck off with all of their relays 

Quite frankly they are too important for the Nations Cup. I could do without them for sure (maybe max 4 per season).

11 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Same quiz was on TV again, some of the 50 questions for those interested  

 

 

1) What is the right way to spell the name of this drink?
A. Tequila
B. Tequilla
C. Tequilia

 

2) What is the name of a supernatural, invisible being, which according to some Islamic scholars can take possession of people?
A. Djinn
B. Fakir
C. Mufti

 

3) Sort these three continents in order, starting with the smallest and ending with the biggest:
Asia
Europe
Africa

 

4) What does a diamond consist of?
A. Quartz
B. Carbon
C. Sand

 

5) Which animal has at least 10 legs?
A. Lobster
B. Ant
C. Spider

Speaking of quiz, this reminds me of:

21 minutes ago, rybak said:

Record day in  , 545 new cases and 13 more deaths. Total numbers are 9287 cases, 360 deaths and 1040 recoveries.

 

We are one week after Easter here, most of people ignored restrictions and spend those days in their big families, now we see consequences. In addition we have also two big outbreaks in nursing homes....

Nobody gives a fuck about nursing homes. They're at the bottom of the medical barrel. Geriatrics as a whole brings up the rear as well even though the European societies are getting older year by year. Not to mention the current pandemic is skewed at saving the younger lives anyway.

Polish fencing has been underachieving a lot lately. I don't count for any medals - even in team events

4 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

Sorry, i don't get the point you are trying to make ... ?

1) India has 1.3 billion people, while pretty much all the other countries that are good at field hockey or cricket have far less people. If all the indian talent would focus on those 2 sports, then they should be at least as dominant as the US in basketball. You have to keep in mind that (to my knowledge) in none of the countries that are great in field hockey (Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Australia, England, Argentina), field hockey is anywhere close to being the most popular sport.

2) I have no clue about baseball, so i can't say how representative that fact is for the american strength in baseball. Maybe the reason why the don't win every time is the same as in basketball. They don't play with their best players and then there are also different rules.

The difference between the US and India is that the US is dominant in tons of other sports (despite having less than one fourth of India's population), so you can clearly tell that a lot of their talent is "diverted" into other sports. I am also not sure whether baseball in the US has the same importance as hockey in India? I would say football is more important in the US and basketball is about as popular as baseball. In addition to that the US not always winning in baseball might have something to do with the fact that (in my opinion) they have a stronger competitor in baseball than India has in cricket or hockey. Baseball is super popular in Japan (a big and rich country), while on the other hand hockey isn't anywhere near as popular in countries like Germany, Argentina, England or Australia.

Basketball is more popular than baseball in USA right now.

It's the power of NCAA and scholarships. NCAA even covers such niche sports as fencing or waterpolo (where the women's US team is somewhat of a powerhouse globally). Volleyball is probably the most popular team sport in college and USA doesn't even have a pro league so every US player has to go to Europe or Far East to continue their careers. If NCAA fielded an Olympic team, it would probably battle for Top 3 spot in the medal table alone.

Every nation has its traditionally strong sports but USA has excelled in sports that is totally obscure in their country through the NCAA system. No other country in the world has developed such a system with maybe the exception of China but that was under the strict communist regime.

On 17/04/2020 at 22:07, OlympicsFan said:

It's funny that you mention it ... since they discussed that point too. According to them it's not an explanation, because if all of "India's talent" would focus on cricket, then they should be very dominant in that sport, but they (according to the writers (i have no clue about cricket ...)) have never been as dominant as Australia/England or even the West Indies (apparently they are/were good in cricket?).

India used to be pretty good in field hockey too - just like Pakistan?

Hey, even USA doesn't win in Baseball World Classic all the time

1 hour ago, OlympicsFan said:

Today i read some interesting stats (not sure how up to date those stats still are) and thought that it might fit in this thread. In the book "Poor Economics" by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo it says:

- At the last 22 olympics India on average won 0.92 medals,

- There are 79 countries that won more medals on average and India has at least 10 times more people than 73 of those 79 countries,

- Among those 79 countries are for example Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda. All those countries are poorer than India and have won at least ten times more medals per capita than India,

- No country that won less olympic medals than India has even one tenth of India's population, expect for Pakistan and Bangladesh ... coincidence?

 

The book offers an interesting possible explanation that doesn't have anything to do with funding or politics.

 

 

Too many people in India play cricket, that's all

6 hours ago, Agger said:

 

Apparently they "just found out" that the death toll in Wuhan was 50 % higher.

That's a big win for Donald Trump's narrative

He was a bob pilot during local Jamaican trials. Never made it onto the Olympics.

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/sports/20200415/ja-bobsledder-dies-coronavirus

1 minute ago, JoshMartini007 said:

 

That's still a preference, "I'd rather compete for Ukraine, because I have a better chance to move my career forward." Regardless, we won't be able to classify all athletes is my argument. Some people have strong ethnic ties, others have ties to where they were born while others would compete for whoever gives them the best option.

This contradicts Olympian1010's statement that all Yugoslavia medals should be awarded to Serbia bc "Serbia dominated Yugoslav politics" (even though Broz Tito wasn't even a Serb to begin with ).

Baltic nations athletes would most likely refuse to compete for Russia even though if Russia had a better national team perspectives.

2 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

I don't think there's a way to split medalists from former nations. Would an ethnic Russian living in Ukraine during the USSR compete for the former or latter? It comes down to the preference of the athlete so we can never know.

Russian-speaking Ukrainians would compete for Russia most likely. If they couldn't make the Russian team though, they'd compete for Ukraine IMO. Just look at the Kazakh tennis team, outside of Zarina Diyas every woman representing Kazakhstan in the last decade or so is actually Russian (Shvedova, Voskoboeva, Pervak, Putintseva).

So it's not actually down to preference but the level of competition within the Russian team.

Someone like Natalya Goncharova was born in Ukraine and represented Ukraine until 2010 when she switched nationalities. Not to mention because Russia is much stronger than Ukraine in women's volleyball.

Here's one for @heywoodu Kim Staelens was born in Belgium to Dutch & Belgian parents and chose to compete for Netherlands who had a much better volleyball team than Belgium (still has even though Belgium has improved since).

3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

He used the n-word when addressing another. It was a pretty bad use of the word too...(in terms of situational awareness)

 

It was in a public lobby, so others heard him say it. It’s just not the explain we should setting for kids. If he was swearing, I wouldn’t care (and I’d probably defend), but it’s 2020, and we shouldn’t be using the n-word anymore. 

NASCAR is a redneck country anyway? These guys are setting zero standards given some of the post-race brawls and calling out names plus wrecking people on purpose during races. So you can expect these drivers are not the sharpest tools in the box.

I hear the African-Americans use the n-word all the times in the movies so I guess it's not going anywhere

Kyle Larson has been fired by Ganassi Racing for using some racial slur during online game.

They suspended him at first but then McDonald's pulled the sponsorship from the #42 car and the wheels came off. NASCAR is losing sponsors left, right & center so you can't afford to lose one like McDonald's and keep fielding a car if you're not a start & park entry.

Yeah, it's tough to compare economical powerhouse USA with most of the other countries in the world. Not to mention USA and its two party system is a joke but hailed as the best democracy in the world by those involved in it. Rich will never understand the poor.

16 minutes ago, Federer91 said:

 

Is she wrong though?  

 

Tennis is the major sport that has male and female athletes competing regularly together. Being a lonely sport, always jumping from one tourney or country to the next, i am inclined to believe there are a lot of one night stands. There are legends of the low tier ITF tournaments and the shacking that happens there. 

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

It's a little pathetic to pretend only the women do that and call them sluts, but say nothing about the men who arguably do the exact same thing if not even more  (Yes hello Radek)

 

More about the legends please, I'm now interested  

She's not wrong. Most tennis players engage in sexual intercourse between each other.

It's not like only women are accused of low standards here. Stepanek & Kyrgios are hardly Mr. Nice Guys. Everyone should remember the Kyrgios/Wawrinka beef over Kokkinakis banging Donna Vekic whom Wawrinka left his wife for. Jurgen Melzer had many WTA "girlfriends" too.

Last time I checked Kyrgios was dating Anna Kalinskaya.

Robson herself had a falling out with ex-BFF Eugenie Bouchard over the attentions of their coach. It was after Robson's career went sideways and Bouchard was trending up and wanted the coach only for herself. Of course she flamed out in ultra-quick fashion and Robson never recovered from the original wrist injury either.

It's been all kinds of mess otherwise. Flavia Pennetta & Gisela Dulko's doubles pair split over Carlos Moya IIRC, Dulko has dated other Spanish ATP players too. Pennetta eventually married Fabio Fognini ofc.

Andrea Hlavackova split with Lucie Hradecka because she was apparently involved with Lucie Safarova's coach and wanted to play doubles with Safarova for this very reason. I lost track of all these changes and splits based on pure sexual background and I don't even know how many lesbian doubles pairs split (Lisa Raymond & Rennae Stubbs was deffo one).

11 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

 

a slut with a GS title is still not bad at all 

Well, she wasn't dating Radek Stepanek which prevented the doom

It's been almost 10 years since Laura Robson dismissed WTA as "sluts". Andreescu would surely fit the take!

Let's celebrate the moment!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/7786192/Rising-British-tennis-star-Laura-Robson-describes-some-players-as-sluts.html

WWE has been declared "essential business" by the state of Florida so they will continue to produce new events going forward

https://nypost.com/2020/04/13/wwe-deemed-an-essential-business-in-florida/

20 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Yugoslavia and Serbia are the same thing. Serbia dominated Yugoslav politics. They were the one constituent “republic” trying to keep the country together before the fall.

However Josip Broz Tito was born to Croatian & Slovenian parents and he kinda dominated Yugoslav politics for 36 years

All Winter OG medallists were from Slovenia, every Summer OG multi-gold medal winners were also Slovenian.

I see very little Serbian dominance here

59 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

There’s a lot to “love.” 
 

I really don’t understand how the fuck the Democratic Party decided Biden was the best candidate. I think this actually says a lot of issues about sexism in African American culture...

Because Obama said the Party shouldn't lean too much to the left? And Obama is the best thing this party has had in XXI century so it's obvious why they chose his ex-VP.

Democratic Party is so divided Trump will laugh his ass off into another tenure. And then the liberals will lose their mind and wonder why on Earth was Trump reelected. Well, the answer lies in plain sight - the divisions among Democrats simply drag the party and the candidate down. If Sanders' voters won't support Biden it will be a landslide win for Trump.

Stirling Moss has passed away at the age of 90.

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/18375128.british-formula-one-racing-legend-sir-stirling-moss-dies-aged-90/