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So DeSantis is to be blamed because he believed the ultra-rich when they said they were willing to to give housing & jobs to refugees from Communism?

And it’s….Ливерпул! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/entertainment-arts-63175494!

Not quite sure if this new sport deserves a new thread or indeed a whole forum... Anyway, this weekend sees the inaugural UCI Gravel World Championships from Italy. Quite a lot of the dual road/mountain-bike big names involved, including the Notorious vdP, Sagan, Stybar, Fernand-Prevot, but there's also a lot of discipline specialists from the Americas where Gravel Racing has a commercial circuit of its own. UCI Gravel World Championships 2022 - Preview | Cyclingnews

It cannot be real. There may be “water”, but only as ice.

It’s on ES streaming.

Yeah, but do they have membership of whatever governing body is what I mean?

British Team for the World Championships next week. Great Britain squad Men's endurance Dan Bigham, Rhys Britton, Ethan Hayter, Will Perrett, Ethan Vernon, Ollie Wood. Men's sprint Jack Carlin, Ali Fielding, Hamish Turnbull. Women's endurance Katie Archibald, Megan Barker, Neah Evans, Laura Kenny, Josie Knight, Sophie Lewis, Anna Morris, Jess Roberts. Women's sprint Lauren Bell, Sophie Capewell, Emma Finucane. Does feature Katie Archibald, after the tragedy she suffered this summer. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/63159134

Probably on the same basis that athletes from Aruba, Montserrat etc compete for us in the Olympics.

In a bid to seal their position as the world’s most farcically corrupt sport, the IBA expels Ukraine & allows Russia & Belarus back in. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/63150487

Guess the family needs someone to be the driver.

Missed this story a couple of days ago. will host the National Track Championship in November - important for getting national ranking points and ultimately Olympic Quals. Ukrainian Track Cycling Championships to be held at Geraint Thomas Velodrome of Wales - BBC Sport

And no chance of a COVID cancellation!

And also because of the pluperfect subjunctive.

They don't need many of them to work!

That's not right - dymovaya truba in English would be chimney, (ie smoke tube) not fireplace. Fireplace is камин or очаг (very old-fashioned kind)

Bah! Let them start off playing Luxembourg & Fiji!

British Taekwando Medallist Lutallo Muhammed. Bronze in London, Silver in Rio. Came within literally one second of gold in Rio, but conceded a buzzer-beating head shot when all he needed to do was take one step backwards out of the ring and give away the penalty point. Great Britain's double Olympic medallist Lutalo Muhammad retires - BBC Sport

A brilliant discovery for fans of classical history. This plant was the wonder drug of the ancient world, but it’s been lost for about 2000 years. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11250821/Miracle-plant-used-ancient-Greeks-rediscovered-thought-gone-extinct.html

French Under-18s effortlessly out-crazy Matthieu van der Poel. France's under-18 international against Poland had to be abandoned after the ill-disciplined French side was reduced to just seven men. The referee took the players off the pitch 13 minutes from time after Darnell Bile, 16, headbutted an opponent after scything him down with a brutal tackle to become the fourth French player to see red. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-11249675/France-18-game-ABANDONED-FOUR-players-sent-off.html

Van der Poel pleads guilty, gets a fine. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11249561/Elite-Dutch-cyclist-pleads-GUILTY-assaulting-two-teenage-girls-fined-1500.html

Missed this story a couple of days back. WA getting wise to the manipulated results for Olympic qualification scam. You’ll not be surprised at the countries named. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/63011572

Same thing happened to her as happens to all the British female riders. They get signed up to a big team & end up as domestiques for van Vleuten, Vos, Vollering (and that’s just the Vs) or other big names.

It's a strange thing: people always call the Khmer Rouge a "mad experiment", yet they were carrying out a perfectly orthodox Marxist programme - their agrarian policies taken word for word from the 1848 Communist Manifesto, written by Marx himself. For some reason, Marxists get angry whenever anyone points this out.

2 outs, 2 men on base…. Ground ball to first! Wow!

Tahiti do have a velodrome, albeit one of the old Roubaix-style ones. But looking at the names, a few Togolese canoeists in there. Well done - they were a strong team by any standards, would have been contenders.