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No need to when @JoshMartini007 is doing a great job  

Not sure Romania understood that message, or am I wrong and did they not just announce 7 (!) flag bearers?!
 
 

As someone who is always very strongly against officials taking away these honors from athletes (like small nations often do), no thanks  

BRAZIL
(14 athletes)
 
With bobsleigh team just revealed, Brazil has announced its biggest delegation ever for a Winter Games. 14 athletes + 1 alternate (Gustavo Ferreira) for bobs. https://www.olympics.com/pt/milano-cortina-2026/noticias/brasil-delegacao-recorde-jogos-olimpicos-inverno-milano-cortina-2026
 
Alpine Skiing (3 Men + 1 Woman)
Lucas Pinheiro Braathen Christian Oliveira Soevik Giovanni Ongaro Alice Padilha  
Bobsleigh (4 Men)
 
Edson Bindilatti Luís Bacca Rafael Souza Davidson de Souza  
 
Esqui Cross-Country (1 Man, 2 Women)
Manex Silva Eduarda Ribera Bruna Moura  
Snowboard (2 Men)
Pat Burgener Augustinho Teixeira  
Skeleton (1 Woman)
Nicole Silveira

In rugby there's More Squidge Rugby (the main channel has proper videos).

Gymnastics: Gymcastic is good, a bit on the ireverant side but they do cover women's gymnastics in particular quite thoroughly (they also cover men's, but not as closely). It's def from an American point of view. They get a lot of access during big events and usually travel on location for Worlds and the Olympics.
 
Curling: Inside Curling does a lot of interviews with curlers and with people otherwise involved in Curling. Has a Canadian (and North American) POV. Co-hosted by Kevin Martin.
 
More of a narative podcast, but Broomgate is absolutely worth a listen. It covers, well, Broomgate.
 
Hockey (NHL specifically): 32 Thoughts.

i didnt decided where gonna be my next vacations (during the WC) but if I go to Europe for sure i would love to watch some Scotland game in a Edinburgh Pub.

I think I can live with the draw , not a bad group at all. just a week ago our mafia coach said his dream group is Belgium, Egypt and Haiti, he almost got that !
 
but it's really hard for me (and so many others) to cheer for this team, A mafia boss coach, disgusting group of players. I never had this feeling about any NT in any sport before but still the national team is the national team. you have to like it  coaches and players come and go, the team is what matters.
 
if the team makes it to the competition, I'm sure there will be lots of Iranians in the stadium despite the orange's ban, that will never be a problem. 

Germany should find Mexico's group very difficult.

Yeah, but I'm still at work! (not that I'm actually working)

Ya I've never praised a dom as much as Infantino is praising Trump. I need to step up my game apparently.

I'm into Dom/Sub play, but even this is embarrassing. 

Listen, I'm gay, but this is just too much cock sucking for me.

Andrea Bocelli is lucky, he doesn't need to watch this.

Were you the one who thinks every Olympics will be cancelled all the time, or am I confused with someone else?  

I mean, it's rugby. Hard to imagine a gayer sport (meant as a compliment xD )

According to Your Scrumhalf Connection, 40% of players at 2025 Women's Rugby World Cup were openly queer.
 
https://scrumhalfconnection.com/2025/09/02/try-for-love-the-beautifully-queer-heart-of-the-2025-rugby-world-cup/

As leader of the biggest party, he certainly is the one to lead the formation and take initiative in trying to come up with a government, of which he will very likely become the prime minister. Would definitely be a first in the Netherlands, a non-straight prime minister

Not exactly sports news, but Nicolas Keenan, bi Argentinean hockey player (and bi-Olympian lol) is fiancé to Rob Jetten, expected to be asked to form government in Netherlands in upcoming weeks (or months hahaha)

A cool story on who they are and how they met (in Spanish): https://www.lanacion.com.ar/el-mundo/quien-es-nicolas-keenan-el-deportista-argentino-pareja-del-favorito-a-gobernar-holanda-y-como-se-nid30102025/

Just finished a dream trip to Japan recently...
 

 

 

 
Also included a visit to Expo 2025 and Japan Olympic Museum too
 
 

Could be both. The sport is indeed not that popular here. Not many common people know about the event until it went viral for the wrong reason (Israeli athletes participation).
 
Tickets are already cheap (almost 60% cheaper than in 2023), but maybe still too expensive for non gymnastics fans.
 
Currently the Premium VIP tickets for the apparatus finals are already sold out, I believe the buyers are mostly foreigners.
 
If only Rifda Irfanaluthfi is still competing, maybe it could boost the crowd numbers a bit.

2026 Olympic Quotas After Stage 2/4
 
 
  Men Women Mixed Quotas Nation 500m 1000m 1500m Relay 500m 1000m 1500m Relay Relay Men Women Total Australia   1 1             1 0 1 Austria 1   1             1 0 1 Belgium 1 1 1 x 2 1 1   x 4 2 6 Canada 3 3 3 x 3 3 3 x x 5 5 10 China 3 3 3 x 3 2 3 x x 5 5 10 Croatia         1 1 2     0 2 2 Czechia             1     0 1 1 France 1 2 2   1 2 3   x 2 3 5 Great Britain 1 1 2     1       2 1 3 Hong Kong     1       1     1 1 2 Hungary   2 2   1 2 2   x 2 2 4 Italy 3 3 3 x 3 3 3 x x 5 5 10 Japan 2 2 3 x 2 3 3 x x 4 5 9 Kazakhstan 2 1     2 1 2   x 2 2 4 Korea 1 3 3 x 3 3 3 x x 4 5 9 Latvia 2 2 1             2 0 2 Netherlands 3 3 3 x 3 3 3 x x 5 5 10 Neutral Athletes   1 1   1 1       1 1 2 Poland 3 1 1   2 3 2 x x 3 4 7 Slovakia         1   1     0 1 1  Turkiye 2   1             2 0 2 Ukraine 1   1   1         1 1 2 United States 2 3 3 x 3 3 3 x x 5 5 10 Uzbekistan 1                 1 0 1 Total 32 32 36 8 32 32 36 8 12 58 56 114  
The women are right on the maximum quota limit of 56 but the men are still two over at 58. Unfortunately, we've lost Germany, Taiwan, and Thailand from the first Stage but Uzbekistan is now in position to get a quota. Here's a summary of all the quota changes below:
 
Men's 500m: Great Britain, France, and Uzbekistan all moved their first quotas into qualifying position. The 2nd Korean quota, 2nd Belgium quota and first Hong Kong quota all fell out of qualifing position.
 
Men's 1000m: A big week for the US skaters saw their 2nd and 3rd quotas move up into qualifying position. This came at the expense of Hungary losing their 3rd quota and Turkiye losing their only quota.
 
Men's 1500m: Once again, a big week for the US saw their 3rd quota move up into qualifying position. Turkiye and Ukraine also moved into position to qualify one quota. Latvia lost their 2nd quota and Germany and Taiwan lost their only quotas.
 
Men's 5000m Relay: USA moved into qualifying position, Kazakhstan got bumped out.
 
Women's 500m: France is now in position to qualify an athlete. Korea's 3rd quota also moved up into qualifying position. Meanwhile the 2nd Hungarian quota and the only Czech quota are now on the outside looking in.
 
Women's 1000m: Only one change. The Neutral athlete moved up into qualifying position. Not a good week for Czechia as they lose a quota in yet another discipline.
 
Women's 1500m: Lot of changes here. Canada's 3rd quota, China's 3rd quota, and Hong Kong moved into qualifying positions. Meanwhile, Thailand, the first Ukrainian quota and the 3rd Polish quota fell out of qualifying position.
 
Women's 3000m Relay: USA and Japan moved into the top 8, Hungary and France fell out of the top 8.
 
Full SOQC's below:
*I'm not going to bother with the flags this time because it takes tooooooo much time
 
 
Men's 500m
 
 
Men's 1000m
 
 
Men's 1500m
 
 
Men's 5000m Relay
 
 
Women's 500m
 
 
Women's 1000m
 
 
Women's 1500m
 
 
Women's 3000m Relay
 
 
Mixed 200m Relay
*Will only be used if there are extra quotas available
 
 

One day you’ll be right about one of these

don't feed the troll, please

This is basically in line with my thinking on this.
 
On the one hand, this sets a really bad precedent, and it isn't acceptable for an entire country's delegation to be denied visas for a world championship.
 
On the other hand, Israel is real lucky they haven't been banned or made "neutral" by any IF in the past two years.