Faramir

Lake Placid is officially the back-up venue if the Eugenio Monti track isn't finished in time.
 
https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/luge/olympics-milan-cortino-lake-placid-sliding-events-backup-dec12-1.7408565

Work in progress
 

 
Imane Khelif 
 
Lautaro Martinez
 
Kaylee McKeown
 
Rebeca Andrade
 
Karlos Nasar
 
Summer McIntosh
 

 

 

 

 

 
Leon Marchand
 

 

 
Militiadis Tentoglou
 
Adriana Ruano
 

 
Kristof Milak
 

 
Veddriq Leonardo
 

 

 

 
Jasmine Paolini
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Lisa Carrington
 

 

 

 

 
David Popovici
 

 
Dusan Mandic
 

 
Tadej Pogacar
 
Rodri
 
Armand Duplantis
 
Marco Odermatt
 

 
Yaroslava Mahuchikh
 
Lee Kiefer
 

 

Tennis is basically like an American sports league in regard to doping issues, sanctions are a joke and/or kept hidden.

This Finn trains in Norway. It would probably be better to send 2-3 of our juniors to Norway, pay the local federation and let them train there. Maybe something will come of it. We should have given money to the Colturi team and now we would be in a much better situation than we are now. France: 2 win for Clement, 4 place for Amiez. You can see that there is progress and we? 19 Vinatzer? This is a joke. 

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.
 

Like it wasn't bad enough, countries aren't going to be announced as the country anymore, they're now officially racing under super lame forced nicknames.
 
Dutch Lions
Korean Tigers
American Eagles
Belgian Ice Bears
etc.
 

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

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

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

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...

Yes, the Polish woman is the best in the world and there is no doubt about that. But even the best have to abide by the rules, no matter how unfair they may be. Just as the organizers allowed her to compete and only disqualified her later, as a high-level athlete she should also know how things work. You can judge the Brazilian character however you want, but there was a rule and it was not followed.

Not all disability is visible. An American swimmer had to unpack her entire disability and put with up with insults online after her disability was questioned this earlier week. Her comments on the matter were heartbreaking becuase she should have been celebrating a medal, but instead she had to defend the act of simply competing 

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.
 
 

I can find livestream link but I didn't find replay link.
 
08.23 live https://v.qq.com/live/p/newtopic/5308432593_1724032798/index_h5.html?&url_from=share&second_share=0&share_from=copy
 
08.24 live https://v.qq.com/live/p/newtopic/5308432593_1724032834/index_h5.html?&url_from=share&second_share=0&share_from=copy
 
08.25 live https://v.qq.com/live/p/newtopic/5308432593_1724032879/index_h5.html?&url_from=share&second_share=0&share_from=copy
 

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

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