Faramir

Nonsense. Chamizo moved to Italy, married an Italian, he's still here after many years and was essentially banned from competing for Cuba. Colturi's tie to Albania is that the Albanian federation had invested a ton of money in her mother's business (élite and very costly academy for young skiers), and then gave her a role, and probably another big salary, as a director in exchange for the pomise of their first winter Olympic medal. A better comparison is to that archer who competed for Ivory Coast because her father had a big clothing business in the country.

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

Cross country running does not add anything to the Games, it'd be a repeat of the 10k. With basically the same athletes having a shot every 2 years instead of 4. Then they should add short course swimming as well.

The post really seems like announcing that he has signed a contract with a new club one week after the end of a season

"Sportswriter" Jonathan Liew's contribution to the thread: let's cut sailing, archery, surfing, rowing, equestrian, golf, 3x3 basketball, men's football, volleyball and not-freestyle-swimming. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/aug/12/paris-olympic-games-la-2028-sports-sailing-golf

3) football and I think Gaba in judo. Which maybe would have meant no gold in team event as well. 4) for sure USA, CHN, then FRA, GBR, ITA between the third and the fifth position since they are the only ones that won a gold in 10 or more sports.

Just looking at the full placement table so I could feel worse... Top 3 by number of 4th places: Italy 20 USA 18 GBR 18 Top 3 by number of 5th places: USA 31 Italy 25 Germany 24 Top 3 by number of 6th places: Germany 20 Italy 17 USA 16 Best medals/top5 among NOCs with 15+ medals: China 77,12% USA 72,00% Australia 70,67% Worst medals/top5 among NOCs with 15+ medals: Spain 38,30% Italy 47,06% Germany 48,53%

And that some beach sprint events in rowing will replace the lightweights.

Final update: NOC points total top8 USA 1193 226 CHN 846 155 FRA 699 150 GBR 681 136 ITA 556 120 AUS 541 109 JPN 532 115 GER 491 117 NED 382 76 CAN 341 79 KOR 333 66 ESP 296 69 BRA 247 57 HUN 238 51 NZL 232 53 UKR 170 42 SUI 156 41 POL 149 39 BEL 145 33 UZB 138 28 SWE 127 27 IRI 115 21 KEN 112 21 NOR 112 26 TUR 108 27 DEN 105 24 ROU 103 22 CZE 99 25 IND 99 23 IRL 94 22 MEX 90 24 TPE 90 20 GRE 88 19 KAZ 86 20 BUL 79 16 CRO 79 17 CUB 78 15 ETH 78 20 SRB 75 19 AZE 73 17 JAM 73 20 COL 72 18 THA 70 14 GEO 68 12 AIN 68 15 AUT 66 14 EGY 65 18 RSA 59 12 ISR 58 11 POR 57 14 ECU 56 11 KGZ 54 10 PRK 51 9 ARM 49 11 LTU 49 13 SLO 46 10 PHI 45 8 TUN 41 9 INA 40 8 HKG 39 7 MGL 37 12 MDA 34 7 SVK 34 8 ARG 33 9 BRN 32 5 DOM 30 7 ALG 29 6 MAS 29 6 TJK 26 6 PER 25 6 MAR 24 5 NGR 24 9 FIN 23 9 BOT 20 4 CHI 20 4 EST 20 7 PUR 20 4 KOS 17 3 UGA 17 4 GRN 16 3 VEN 16 7 LCA 15 2 EOR 15 4 GUA 14 2 LAT 14 4 QAT 14 3 ALB 13 3 CIV 12 5 CYP 12 3 JOR 11 2 ZAM 11 3 SGP 10 2 DMA 8 1 PAK 8 1 FIJ 7 1 PAN 7 1 TTO 7 2 VIE 7 2 CPV 6 1 CRC 5 1 PAR 5 2 VIN 5 1 BER 4 1 BUR 4 1 IVB 4 1 KSA 4 1 LBN 4 1 PNG 4 1 SMR 4 1 SYR 4 1 ZIM 4 2 AND 3 1 BAH 3 1 IRQ 3 1 BAR 2 1 BIH 2 1 KIR 2 1 LBR 2 1 LES 2 1 NIG 2 1 UAE 2 1 ARU 1 1 CAY 1 1 121 NOCs (+ AIN and EOR) reaching at least a top 8 placement.

Lower!