Monzanator

beats 6-1. Ukraine must have fallen on hard times. I remember the days when we were the underdogs playing them I suppose that has a lot to do with the War in Donbas, most ice hockey players were Russian-speaking from the eastern part of the country?

Wierer is probably the most popular female biathlete right now (at least given her social media numbers) Don't mess with the Queen!

It's rather obvious Vittozzi is jealous and this season she's been unable to perform to last season's standards. To blow up a rant like that just before World Champs in your own country is very weak. I don't think she's gonna enjoy new fans anytime soon.

Netherlands is even weaker, Poland leads 7-0 after two periods.

Ideology doesn't win elections anymore. Most Dems voters will vote for a guy they think has the biggest chance to beat Trump, not because of values they share with that guy. Actually I stumbled upon someone talking about it on CNN. Media keep talking about this whole "progressive", "liberal", "moderate" crap yet it's not what most people actually think. Winning politics through ideology is so 19th century when ideology was required to battle the monarchy system. Basically all of the medieval monarchies have collapsed these days so people don't care about ideology anymore. Btw, Buttigieg is leading the predominantly white farming state of Iowa. But he had a problem with the black & ethinic minority voters who don't care about him being a progressive gay. So, where does this progression end? You vote for skin color, sexual orientation or ideology values like sociallism? Turns out these white famers from Iowa let a gay man beat the sociallist old timer like Sanders. I dislike both sociallism and the LGBT propaganda but if I had to choose between Buttigieg or Sanders, I'd go with Buttigieg. Sociallism is the bigger evil by far.

Occam's Razor works for me Cross country is the national sport in Norway, if we get rid of the asthmatic frauds there will be many more ready to replace them - without the phoney TUE excuse. The massive decrease in endurance sports you fear won't happen either. The wholesale ban on TUE will force athletes to win the clean way like it or not, cycling has been dragged through the mud enough already, nobody will cry after Chris Froome & pals either. Bradley Wiggins has been rendered as media pariah after the jiffy bag mystery so yeah, heroes come and go and the world will always find new ones.

It's called common sense. Sick people shouldn't be able to have a superior physical ability to healthy ones. Not to mention every member of the Norwegian cross country team is sick with asthma. If the sick people are able to dominate like that where on Earth are the healthy Norwegian skiers?

This is how muddying the water works. It's not the drug itself that is banned but the illegal dosage. And then you get dragged into the picogram nonsense. I'd say BAN every TUE drug available and stop with the "80 picograms isn't doping" nonsense! Bradley Wiggins had to fall out of the public eye over Team Sky's "mysterious package", hell nobody wants him to compete in rowing anymore, anyone remembers that stunt he tried to pull off? He's completely gone from the media now, God knows his TUE crap excuse is suspicious as hell given how much doping there is in cycling.

Still, it's not an individual sport In NFL we have a player who was born without a hand. Faking an illness to take advantage of TUE is the real evil here.

In the rowing eights? Please! If all eight rowers had diabetes then you have a case. But if you have 7 healthy rowers that doesn't matter. Pro cycling in the US? That's some second tier crap team most likely? You didn't even mention their name. Norway in cross country is light years ahead in terms of results. Chris Froome is also pretty successful last time I checked. Nobody cares about participtaion trophies here. TUE doping is being used among the world's elite and nobody can do anything about it. Hell, UCI said Froome was let off the hook because Team Sky had so much money they could provide all the medical tests and then some half of the world can't even afford. Reminds me of the celebrity lawyers, justice can always be blindsided if you have enough money. And Norway has enough money to invest into the fake asthma BS in their national sport. What's the point of the sport being 'fair' when the money still runs this world too?

Silent majority is the biggest bullshit in politics alright. Jeremy Corbyn jumped on this train in the UK and look where he is now

If you read social media and watch CNN you get an impression most people hate Trump as well. Yet he somehow won the damn election Speaking of CNN, even they can't spin the Iowa caucuses delay fiasco. "Chaos" and "failure" is the two most common words I hear all morning. Way to go, dickheads! Someone even said Donald Trump can call himself the winner of the Dems Iowa caucus Bloomberg's decision to skip this mess looks better by the minute. Guess nobody will blame this on the Russian hackers? Dems look every bit as incompetent like I even didn't think they would.

If you're faking an illness any doctor can provide the right papers to fool the system which is deeply flawed. It's a foolish assumption that athletes and doctors are separate items, they're the two sides of the very same coin. Who in the world believes that "those poor naive athletes got used by those evil doctors". That's nonsense and you know it. Please name me which of these asthmatic skiers or cyclists also have a diabetes? You have asthma or diabetes and you want to be a world class athlete beating healthy competitors? Geez, find a new job. People who are 2 meters tall might also wanna win the Kentucky Derby as jockeys, hell, I haven't seen a 2 meters jockey though! Why? Isn't life supposed to be fair? 5'2" jockeys win the Kentucky Derby and not 6'3" jockeys. That's why asthmatic people shouldn't be winning endurance events either.

TUE only turns up in endurance sports like cross country or cycling. So it doesn't apply to everyone. In NFL people got banned indefinitely for being alcoholics. But in cross country hordes of Norwegians are faking asthma and become national heroes and Olympic champions. Ban TUE all across endurance sports and the problem is solved. If you really have asthma then become a lawyer or something but if you're faking it, you will still remain in cross country but just try to win it without the phoney support.

Why? Faking an illness to gain illegal advantage should be removed by default.

Yeah, I know that's all one huge fraud. After Norway got their butts kicked at 2009 World Champs they rolled out the TUE chainsaw and it's all over. Nobody will do anything about it since Norway controls the FIS cross country section and won't allow anyone to overthrow their empire. Even Sweden can't do anything about it. I bet every single junior skier has a fake asthma history already just in case to cover it up. Symbicort is just a pharmacy name for the drug, it's about formoterol that is included in symbicort. It has the same effects as salbutamol that got Chris Froome in trouble. TUE should be banned from every sport outright and I hope this will happen one day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formoterol

It's called symbicort. Do you know every god damn Norwegian skier has asthma? I wonder where they stuffed the healthy athletes? If the poor sick ones are dominating then I want to see the healthy ones in action!

The same was said about Trump four years ago. "Who's gonna vote for this clown?". And the rest is history. If Bloomberg wants to mirror Trump's run then I wouldn't be surprised if he actually makes it all the way while the Dems will continue to bicker about "electability" and lack of diversity of their candidates. They've wasted enough time on in-house fighting already and Bloomberg will simply wait them over.

I'm a hard rock fan so I have a Slash sentiment. Fergie & Black Eyed Peas are lousy music for me to say the very least and I'd never say anything positive about pop or rnb however I think Perry or maybe Taylor Swift or even Grande are a lot better singers than Lopez & Shakira despite my actual disdain for their music genre. Get Metallica for a SB half-time show and then we can talk

Bloomberg had two ads during Super Bowl that I saw, I read somewhere he skips iowa & NH primaries as irrelevant and will make the big push later on. In fact it's not for the first time I read that Iowa and NH are basically only important because of their timing and in general they're not as important in the grand voting scheme at all.

Lopez and Shakira are past-prime entries, it's not 1999 anymore. If they wanted to include some Latinas then Ariana Grande or Becky G would be a lot better. Katy Perry was at the peak of her powers during 2015. Her performance clearly outshone Beyonce's from 2013 as well. The second best of the last decade was probably Fergie & Slash. I'm not even gonna talk about Maroon 5 or Bruno Mars which were just about the most forgettable of the lot.

The half-time show was bad IMO, only slightly better than Marroon 5 trash. Shakira "singing" from playback was fucking insane, if she can't sing live anymore what's the whole point of even being there? Like many said, Katy Perry and her show pretty much killed the half-time competition for years to come. Lopez & Shakira were a long way off that.

Super Bowl numbers from this year? It's 8:00 am on the West Coast there, it's a 9-to-5 working day in USA so they're still drinking coffee there Btw, I found reports there was 180k SB viewers in Italy and 34k in the Netherlands ( @heywoodu )

Correct, the Liverpool-Tottenham final was a 6-year low for these UCL games, The 2018 final Real Madrid vs Liverpool drew 480 million which makes it a slam dunk in these rankings.

Like mentioned above, UEFA Champions League final (170 million) draws more viewers annually than Super Bowl (ca. 160 million worldwide). However I've read the Indian Cricket League final draws even 200 million viewers (can't say much about it since I don't watch cricket). FIFA World Cup final draws over 550 million viewers globally but that's obviously once every four years.