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Jesse Eisenberg has just aquired Polish citizenship.

Was very surprised to see gold medals for and until I remembered there are a few para sport events included this year. So I guess technically this counts as the first ever gold medal for South America in a winter sport world championship?

I could have gone with one or two less Oscars for Anora, but in a season without a clear front runner I'm more than okay with it winning best picture.

Pretty good night for Anora

I am so, so relieved that I'm Still Here, one of the best film of the year, has beaten Emilia Pérez, a movie that has already won two Oscars more than it desereved.

Jacques Audiard winning an Oscar for Emilia Pérez (even though it's "just" in best song) is very hard to stomach. He did not deserve to be rewarded for a movie that was offensive and, even worse than that, boring.

I was already expecting Anora to win best picture going in, but at this point giving the editing win it's hard to see how anyone else wins.

Worth mentioning that Flow is the first ever Oscar win for a Latvian film!

My ranking of best picture nominees: I’m Still Here Dune Part 2 Anora Wicked The Substance The Brutalist Conclave A Complete Unknown Nickel Boys Emilia Pérez Of those I loved 1 through 5, I liked 6 through 8, I respected (but didn't like) 9 and I have nothing good to say about 10.

Well ya. It’s just very common that some countries have their best athlete in a sport other than alpine skiing or cross country skiing, but they aren’t ranked very high while still being at the level to compete at the World Cup or World Championship level.

The IOC should relly should implement a pool of tripartite places to hand out to otherwise unqualified countries (in sports other than alpine and cross country skiing)

The IOC is provisionally recognizing World Boxing: https://apnews.com/article/ioc-world-boxing-iba-2028-olympics-2c492c3388b77cabaf8d38dcefc1a6b0

Definitively the best possible outcome from a sporting standpoint. No disrespect to Spain or South Africa but neither are baseball nations, unlike Taiwan and especially Nicaragua.

Don't give Bach any ideas, only top 10 athletes in every events! Just imagine how great the Marathon, the road race and mass start cross countr races will be.

I can understand having stricter standards where the universal quotas are very easy to achieve relatively speaking, but the Dutch NOC really takes it to a whole other level. The Olympics would be pretty terrible if every country had those policies.