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Fun fact: I first learned of the ongoing atrocities in Yemen from... US media.

People outside the US literally can’t say worst things about the US than Americans themselves say, frankly the most unfairly harsh critics of America come from within. We air our dirty laundry. Which is, incidentally, what I appreciate the most about living in the US. If the PRC didn’t have anything to hide they wouldn’t crack down on free speech.

The (alleged) genocide in Xinjiang and the Hong Kong national security law.

There is an actual ranking that exists. Third and fifth place are always shared, so if 1 and 2 both are DQed it makes sense to bump everybody up by one. If 2 people in the top four of a racket sport event were DQed I would advocate four bronze medals be re-alocated, by the same logic (since on the initial results there was a four way tie for fifth).

This seems like the only reasonable solution.

Don’t let me get on my anti-YOG soap box because if I do I won’t stop complaining for days.

It was already extremely unfair that this event was only every four years. The only way to make an event for 14-18 year olds “fair” is to hold it anualy or every two years at least.

Not surprising to see Maria Sotskova retire, her results haven't been good since Pyeongchang and the Russian team in women's figure skating is incredibly deep. Was she even selected for a GP assignment next season? It's already a huge achievement for her to just have made an Olympic team.

The odds of that being true are probably higher than the odds of his name appearing on any ballots in 2020...

It's probably an attempt to drum up publicity for some future release.

Given that the IOC has pledged full gender equality by Paris 2024 I wouldn’t be surprised if Artistic Swimming was in some real jeopardy.

So basically we can already give the title to Mercedes and cancel the season?

He hung out at coco câline beach?

Just referencing that when you cross the Ambassador bridge you go North to enter the US and South to enter Canada.

Isn't Detroit to the North of Canada?

Combined time or best time?

/ will host the 2023 women’s World Cup.

...please no. It reminds me of a Survivor challenge. Like, sure, it's fun, but it doesn't follow logically from anything. I'd much rather see a road race rally, a race walk rally, something for field athletes... but not that random nonsense. The UWW should be more focused on saving Greco Roman wrestling and less focussed on that little vanity project... That's basically what a relay is, just in a more TV friendly version :P

...there is already a 100m team event. It’s one of the better events on the Athletics program.

...I actually do prefer watching the team archery event to the individual archery event xD

But those are the best events

I sure hope they never introduced a mixed gender / mixed sword team event in fencing. It suffers from the same issue the ridiculous format issues the mixed judo team event suffers from - there is no way to make it fair. Edit: back when I did fencing we did a mixed gendered / mixed sword team event once a year. For our Halloween tournament. Costumes were mandatory. Just to give you an idea of how seriously we took that format. I would actually really like to see Golf propose foursome matchplay events, whether same gendered or mixed (or both). I think it would draw a lot more attention than the strokeplay tournament does.

Sky Brown has suffered major injuries during training (including a broken skull) but is now expected to make a full recovery - https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/52888263

The Wengen world cup will remain on the calendar until at least the 2022/23 season.

Biden's team is likely vetting at least a dozen people, Klobuchar being on that list is close to meaningless.