Faramir

Because they want to be able to say they they respected the official athlete quota of (whatever the number is). Same reason for not counting alternates that will surely partecipate, it's not a practical matter but a political one.

Wtf, did he randomly drop 12 seconds from his best?

Tickets price and some more info: https://milanocortina2026.olympics.com/en/news/milano-cortina-2026-ticket-prices-revealed

To pass that pin, they could have done a hug. I think the whole scene seems made to arrive to the kiss (why is Gil-galad there but is not involved in treating? He should be the one to decide after all), so to cater to the romantic part of the audience (again, soap opera style) and to get negative reactions from who knows that it'd be sacrilege in this world. As for the orcs, same as everything else - they want to add something revolutionary in that world but then immediately inconsistent. One scene orcs want to be loved, the next one savagely licking blood from knives (copied from LotR of course), then back to wanting love. It's like they didn't read the script they wrote.

I think it has the writing of a soap opera, plotlines does not make sense, characters have an average IQ near zero, full of internal inconsistencies, without any sense of scale, space and time. "Dinner time TV" that is more enjoyed watching it in the background, but with a wasted huge budget - some good showrunners could have made it a least on a Game of Thrones level series. The "Inside of episode" stuff is really comical when the showrunners and directors speak. Sadly it's the only "Middle-earth" series as of now. Ah, I forgot: every few minutes there are callbacks to the movies + quotes straight up ripped from them but placed at random, like a sit-com.

Next step: no more surnames but S-girls and S-boys + nickname.

But what's up with this drunk fans thing, is ice hockey like rugby? Do the Dutch speed skating fans at the Olympics also get drunk usually?

Salvatore "Totò" Schillaci, top scorer and best player of the 1990 FIFA World Cup, died at 59 years old - cancer.

Nutella without cocoa? There are tens of brands of the same thing...

Bad weather today, everything postponed to tomorrow.

Flagbearer's curse

Does anyone from countries where the Paralympics are shown on free-to-air TV know or know where to find the audience share for these first 5 days?

are the quarterfinalists - don't know the table, I only know that Italy will face the USA which I guess is the only thing you want to avoid here until the final.

Did the Indian team disappear or retire? Now group G only has 3 teams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Kovács