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The organizers said that they will do their best to lobby various stakeholders to keep the tournament in Indonesia from yesterday's press conference. The journalists present at the location asked the feasibility of some proposed crazy solutions such as holding Israeli matches in Papua or Singapore And now we're getting reports that Argentina is ready to step in. This is getting interesting

Hypothetically it is still possible to let the Israeli team in Jakarta, the GBK stadium complex has a hotel in it (although it is located at the easternmost point of the complex). Seal the complex gates and play behind closed doors... Not going to be a pretty solution but if situation is getting worse I think both FIFA and the Indonesian government can consider this.

Unexpected turn of events for the FIFA U-20 World Cup as Governor of Bali, the expected group location for Israeli team, published a letter rejecting the presence of the team in the island...

That is unexpected, thank you

Thank you @Cobifor posting the votes on behalf of me. The repairmen came to fix the air conditioning around half an hour before this starts and I completely forgot about the vote timings!

Just voted! This year my top 5 easily distinguished themselves from the rest, ranking the remaining points is a big task

Just went to Jakarta Velodrome for the first time, a really nice experience I have to say. Spectators around me mostly have no idea about the events, luckily the announcements in the venue are very helpful for the first-time goers. The excitement was the highest during elimination race of women's omnium and the close races of the men's sprint.

Well another bronze in the sprint (and I was there to witness it)

with dramatic win over in the African Mixed Team C'ship. Now we know 6 countries for the Sudirman Cup.

After Day 2 of EMTC, these 4 teams also confirmed their places in the Sudirman Cup

I see it as "peeping is prohibited" sign

I was rooting for Calja for the sake of history, but his coaches decided to decline the offer Anyway it will be tougher for him in 2024, considering he's competing against younger competitors

Well a few of them are really more helpful and intuitive than the traditional ones (cycling road/track, rowing, canoeing). 50% of them contains unnecessary confusion while the reminder are "excuse me wtf is that". Badminton looks 500% cooler here, hopefully can help the reduce the backyard sport stigma

INDONESIA Tulus - "Hati Hati di Jalan" (Take Care On The Way) [If you need distraction free version: link]

is in despite the jury not knowing any new local songs in 2022 lol

Yeah when I saw he was initially registered, I was arranging to watch him with some friends lol But in the end, the organizers just sticks with the gov stance of allowing Israelis to compete without any trace of country identifiers (no room for negotiation especially when shooting federation is controlled by the Army). ICYMI, Yuval Shemla participated at the Jakarta leg of IFSC World Cup 2022 with a plain black sleeveless shirt

He cited the 1981 World Games as example but forgot how athlete parades is done in subsequent World Games...

Coming from a country where badminton got €‎ 1 million each year, this is truly shocking

Hopefully Naraoka won’t get thrashed.. But he basically have 4 lungs so I believe in him

Only 2 of them are not ethnic Balinese/Bali-born athlete according to reports. In preparation to the U19 World Cup they had a 2 week training camp in a sports school in Bangalore. I hope they continue to grow.

In Indonesia, the World Cup got around 74% of audience share. The company who got the rights here are bastards who thinks people don't watch terrestrial TV anymore and their agenda is to force everyone to watch from their shitty streaming site. During the last match day of group stage, only one match is shown on TV despite the group owns multiple TV channels in this country. They even monitored and enforced the rule for big cafes, bars, or any other places that had a public viewing to show the broadcast from their site. As I had said above, their site is shit and looks like the bandwidth was unable to handle the number of viewers during the final. So people were angry and posting their own experience watching from the site (sudden timeout, stuttering images, sudden logout from the app, crashing app, etc) If you read my post during the finals, you can see I was having issues too

I would like to watch more matches if it is more timezone friendly Japan 2019 opened my eyes on how rugby is more fun that what I think

Congrats How I wish Maradona is still alive (I believe he will make a meme worthy reaction)

ALLEZ

Even my streaming service is stuttering, maybe I just have to comply