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Apparently the format was changed to reduce the number of games each team has to play.

I mean it was the second time in a row the world championship in alpine combined was won by the skier who was 30th after the first run, so not that special.

Almaty will host the Moguls and Aerials world championships from March 8th to 11th. Only park and pipe still need a host for the world championships. Random: I think it would actually make a lot of sense to separate the world championships for cross, moguls & aerials and park & pipe from each other permanently. Those three set of events really don't have a lot in common.

I agree, it would be completely impractical.

I agree, it would be completely impractical.

It's good, too! No bouldering in ice climbing, sadly.

Oh neat, Denmark - Egypt is one of the two quarterfinals that will be on ESPN+ in the US. It would he really exciting if Egypt was able to continue its run.

Qatar was basically a European team both times it qualified.

I’m barely old enough to remember when cross country relays were *the* event. I kiss those Italian - Norwegian wars.

That’s a 40 to 60 year rotation..

Why did they hold the Norwegian nationals in Finland?

Either Canada was downplaying expectations or their preparation wasn't actually that much worse than the other teams'.

That was terrifying in real time. Glad she's okay.

I don’t see where you are disagreeing with me?

I watched the fourth quarter, TBH Italy looked checked out.

Most people on the left would argue that the issue with how capitalism currently works in the US is precisely that there is a big disconnect between who does the work and who gets the benefit from said work, so I'm not sure banal platitudes are super helpful here.

American Jews are not in lockstep with Israel, at all. Traditionally Evangelical Christians are the most pro-Israel religious group in the US. And that's a religious group that is fairly marginalized among the Democratic party. Democrats also generally really hate Bibi. Some religious groups in America tend to not be super, well, religious. Many Americans consider themselves Jewish or Catholic despite not practising their religion in any meaningful way (as a random example, this American considers himself Catholic despite being an atheist).

It would have to be contingent on Japan agreeing (and potentially guaranteeing them 2032).

At this point I think the IOC should seriously consider holding every discipline in a different region of the world for 2021 (or 2022) and make these "virtual" Olympics. They get their money from the TV contracts anyway, as long as they can put a product on TV it doesn't particularly matter where it's from.

Scandinavia isn’t a good example of socialism working because none of the Scandinavian countries are socialist...

There are a lot of centrist Democrats in the senate. And I’m not just talking about Manchin and Sinema. Sanders would not be able to get 50, let alone 60, votes for the more extreme aspects if his agenda. Trump signed well over 2T in COVID-19 relief into law. Does that make him a Communist? Is Germany a communist country because they don’t have college tuition? Communism and Socialism isn’t just synonymous for any political position you don’t like.

You clearly don’t understand how the American government works if you think that. A Sanders presidency, even if Dems held both houses of Congress by much larger margins than they do now, would not have moved the US to nearly that extend. Even if Sanders got to be dictator for a few years he wouldn’t turn the US into a Communist country, but it also happens that the president is not an elected dictator, they face a lot of constraints.

Communist Poland was, of course, famously on the vanguard of LGBT rights.

All Calgary world cups are canceled, and Calgary won’t host the non-Cross world championship for freestyle skiing and snowboarding.

Hopefully we will have more competent executive leadership than we did over the last four years. The last year has been extremely rough in America, much tougher than it had to he even with the pandemic.