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Ofc, there will be no tanks or anything similar in the streets. 
 
Army and police will only control and maintain the situation in the cities. their main job will be to do checks on all highways and all major and minor state road exits where they will check whether people will move to other places (the only exception have paople going or returning from work (those people will have their employment contract with them to show it to the control checks)

Of course, police/military being violent, beating up people is a different thing. I am not aware of that happening here.
 
You are also right that there is a difference between a temporary and measured limitation of personal rights in the interest of the society (but here there might be a difference between Europe and the US on what degree of limitation people are willing to tolerate) and the intentions of some irresponsible politicians of using the crisis as a pretext to establish some kind of authoritarian model of governance. One finance/investment professional here in HU dubbed this the prospect of "palpatinization", from the efforts of Senator Palpatine in Star Wars to establish a dictatorship using a crisis as a pretext (I am not a big SW watcher so I have to accept this at face value )

Czech Rpublic is going further...
 
The PM of the country tweet directly to Donald Trump
 
 

Yeah, also countries who did manage to build up more significant financial reserves than those who are all the time having financial troubles are having their own big virus troubles by now, so it's not a simple matter of just shoving stuff around, even though people like to think it is. But yeah, it's a rather hard issue as to how to deal with this. Populist politicians going around and saying "this and that country are out to destroy us!" are a nasty bunch, using this for their own political gain once this thing has settled down.

Video just to show how our authorities solved the problem of mask wearing for the deaf interpreter with A classy protective shield
 

After 5 of 7 stages, the UAE Tour (cycling) has been cancelled after two Italians tested positive and, that's rather new, not for doping.

I am not following Badminton, but if said tournament is to take place in Wuhan city itself, its 100% that it will be moved as the city is under lockdown/quarantine (and probably will be for the foreseeable future)
 
Whether or not it will be moved out of China altogether will probably depend on how this situation evolves in the coming weeks

For the moment I only found this: https://www.wpnews.eu/asian-water-polo-championship-in-kazakhstan/
 
But will post if found something else.

For the moment I only found this: https://www.wpnews.eu/asian-water-polo-championship-in-kazakhstan/
 
But will post if found something else.

Man, if I may wish for some success to Hungary in Tokyo, it will be definitely for your women's team in the water polo. I really very much hope that they get a medal this time. It is really unbelievable how bad luck this team has under the five rings. Beijing and London were already sad but the Rio was trully painful... no many athletes and teams has such bad luck like your W NT
 
maybe only Ander Elosegi feel little bit similar curse lol.

the truth is that they know they won't win a single match without their usual corrupted judges to protect them...
 
with all the officials from Rio 2016 out of contention, I expect also KAZ, UZB and FRA (at least) to drop their usual medal number dramatically...

Best: Helsinki 1952. I mean, it's pretty obvious, 16 gold medals, 42 medals, 3rd on the medal table. We won the football tournament with one of the most legendary teams ever in the history of sport (the Golden Team), dominated men's sabre once again with some true legends like Gerevich, won two gold medals in Gymnastics, four gold medals in Swimming. It's crazy how strong this team was.
 
But if you want a modern example for the best Olympics, I would go with Barcelona 1992. 11 gold medals. 30 medals. Our two legendary swimmers, Egerszegi and Darnyi won 5 gold medals, plus for the first time ever we won the women's K4 in canoe sprint. 
 
Worst: Beijing 2008. 3 gold medals. 10 medals. Worst placement on the medal table (21st) in the history of the Summer Games. Unlike the two "best" examples, I watching these Games live and it was a disaster for us. We had to wait for the first gold medal for sooo long that at some point everybody started to worry that we might not win any. It was a huge relief for the country when Vajda won C1 1000m. But despite the overall performance we still had some great moments, Cseh had an amazing SOG, won 3 silver medals, and only peak Phelps was able to beat him. Our men's water polo team won for the third time in a row, partially thanks to the Serbian team's total collapse and inability to beat the Americans in the SF. And the C2 bronze medal was the most emotional moment ever for all Hungarians, because Kozmann was able to win a medal with his new partner Kiss just a few months after his former partner, two-time Olympic champion György Kolonics died from heart failure while preparing for the Olympics. 
 
We don't have a "worst" Winter Olympics for obvious reasons, and the best is clearly Pyeongchang 2018, because we won our first ever winter gold medal there. 

I would go with 5. 2 in swimming, 2 in canoe, 1 in something else (Berecz, somebody in fencing, somebody in shooting). 

so won 2 medals in Szeged, 2 Bronzes and in both M K4 events !
 
Great to see we are still capable so many years, decades now to be competitive in  the most important and historically the most successful events of Slovak canoeing sprint.
 
 
  Team SLOVAKIA 
 
0 - 0 - 2
 
Samuel Baláž
Csaba Zalka
Erik Vlček
Adam Botek
K4-500m M
 

First-ever world title in Athletics for Hungary!  Wohoooo! 

First-ever world title in Athletics for Hungary!  Wohoooo! 

Nice to see the Irish flag on the winners rostrum in the women's 60m.... two Irish flags no less

Ester Ledecka the star of the Games !
 
We all knew what a talent she is, but this was just another level of fantasy. This wasn´t definitely the last thing we will hear from this girl

Time to write history 

Yep. Actually, Norway winning the team event (which would be the most expected result at the moment) would be a perfect way to end the men's ski jumping, with all three major nations at the moment winning a gold medal, as one might have hoped.

Hungary

Dont know if it was posted earlier: Hungarian team: 16, according to Hungary"s M4 Sport. Most of it is in short track speed skating (in which they have a real medal chance for the first time in 30+ years, all WOG sports considered...)

According to the Hungarian article:
 
Short track:
Bácskai Sára Luca, Heidum Bernadett, Jászapáti Petra, Keszler Andrea, Kónya Zsófia, Burján Csaba, Knoch Viktor, Liu Shaoang, Liu Shaolin Sándor, Oláh Bence (10)
Speed skating:
Nagy Konrád
Figure skating:
Tóth Ivett
Alpine skiing:
Hozmann Szonja + 1 from the men, to be determined by the Ski federation this week (either Samsal Dalibor, Kékesi Márton or Nagy Bence)
Cross country:
Kónya Ádám, Szőcs Emőke
 

Hope they will do more races in Lillehammer in the future. More variance in the top3 nationalities is more than welcome ::D
 
Hopefully one day Formula 1 will also look like this race. Otherwise it is like a normal luge race: Germany-Germany-Germany-Germany (errr, Mercedes-Mercedes-Mercedes-Mercedes :D)

I recommend we could start put together the team rosters for major Luge nations. What I have for the moment:
 
Italy was already mentioned here
 
USA
Singles: West, Mazdzer, Morris (M)  // Britcher, Hamlin, Sweeney (W)
Doubles: Mortensen/Terdiman, Krewson/Sherk
 
Canada
S: Edney, Malik, Watts (M) // Gough, Apshkrum, McRae (W)
D: Walker / Snith
 
Austria
S: Egger, W. Kindl, X (M, last to be decided after Lillehammer) // Prock, Platzer, Egle (W)
D: Penz/Fischler, Steu/Koller
 
Germany
S: Loch, Langenhan, Ludwig (M) // Geisenberger, Eitberger, Huefner (W)
D: Eggert/Benecken, Wendl/Arlt
 
Could anyone put here some info on Latvia? Did not find anything recent on their federation site, even in Latvian
 
Any info on the composition of the Russia / OAR team? One can know for sure that T. Ivanova will not be included due to her Olympic ban, but nothing else