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Watched portions of the Opening ceremony live early today on Pilipinas Live but they don’t have the Games on their regular schedule. Fortunately, we have access to the Games thru the Age Of Sports page on YouTube. 

Watched portions of the Opening ceremony live early today on Pilipinas Live but they don’t have the Games on their regular schedule. Fortunately, we have access to the Games thru the Age Of Sports page on YouTube. 

Overall, I think the show was quite nice. Nothing really outstanding, besides Andrea Bocelli, but...nice. Just for the love of everything that is sports, let's never, ever do this "opening ceremony in multiple places" thing again, please. That absolutely didn't work, they were cutting away all the time so everyone got barely shown. Plus, you're taking us from inside the massive stadium with 80.000 people or so back and forth to 3 people walking in front of the local town hall of a small village with some locals attending while walking their dogs before going to sleep, so to say. Just don't do that again please.

I couldn’t resist giving him the dirty finger when I saw him on screen 

I couldn’t resist giving him the dirty finger when I saw him on screen 

I couldn’t resist giving him the dirty finger when I saw him on screen 

I couldn’t resist giving him the dirty finger when I saw him on screen 

I couldn’t resist giving him the dirty finger when I saw him on screen 

Milano-Cortina 2026 TM officially opened 

The Barber of Seville - Great music selection for Italy.

And it's even in the graphics for the curling scores...

Now I can't unsee that TM... it is really annoying, and makes the IOC seem really petty.

That´s relly bad and sad.
 
They speak about growning the Olympics and make them available to bigger audiences and blah blah... but it´s just pure crap as usual.
 
This is one of the things why I really hate the newer IOC policy agenda since Bach.
 
It was much better before, now they are just killing the OG for money, money and money

Two passings to mention.
 
Uljana Semjonova  age 73.  Twice a gold medalist in basketball for   in 1976 and 1980.  Her height was listed between 2.10 to 2.13 m.  She is the tallest woman ever to win an Olympic gold medal.
 
Jim Hartung   age 65.  He was a member of the US gymnastics team that won the gold medal in 1984.

Quah Ting Wen  won her 63rd medal at the SEA Games today, becoming the most decorated athlete in the history of the Games: https://www.olympics.com/en/news/sea-games-2025-quah-ting-wen-exclusive-most-decorated-athlete-southeast-asian-games-history

Malaysia pencak silat team attacks referee for favoring hosts Thailand at SEA Games
 
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/sports/other-sports/malaysia-pencak-silat-team-attacks-referee-for-favoring-hosts-thailand-at-sea-games-4994556.html
 
Thailand apologizes to Vietnam after SEA Games bowling replay controversy
 
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/sports/other-sports/thailand-apologizes-to-vietnam-after-sea-games-bowling-replay-controversy-4994580.html
 
Thai esports athlete expelled from SEA Games for cheating during Arena of Valor match
 
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sport/sea-games-thai-cheating-tokyogurl-naphat-warasin-expelled-arena-valor-video-game-esports-5614876
 
 
It’s the news items like these that really make the SEA Games so much more interesting. 

Malaysia pencak silat team attacks referee for favoring hosts Thailand at SEA Games
 
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/sports/other-sports/malaysia-pencak-silat-team-attacks-referee-for-favoring-hosts-thailand-at-sea-games-4994556.html
 
Thailand apologizes to Vietnam after SEA Games bowling replay controversy
 
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/sports/other-sports/thailand-apologizes-to-vietnam-after-sea-games-bowling-replay-controversy-4994580.html
 
Thai esports athlete expelled from SEA Games for cheating during Arena of Valor match
 
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sport/sea-games-thai-cheating-tokyogurl-naphat-warasin-expelled-arena-valor-video-game-esports-5614876
 
 
It’s the news items like these that really make the SEA Games so much more interesting. 

Puripol Boonson seizes home men's 100m sprint gold after going sub-10 seconds in heats
 
https://www.olympics.com/en/news/sea-games-athletics-mens-100m-final-results-puripol-boonson
 
First Southeast Asian to go under ten seconds in the 100 meters.

Puripol Boonson seizes home men's 100m sprint gold after going sub-10 seconds in heats
 
https://www.olympics.com/en/news/sea-games-athletics-mens-100m-final-results-puripol-boonson
 
First Southeast Asian to go under ten seconds in the 100 meters.

Cambodia quits SEA Games in Thailand amid deadly border clashes
 
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3335854/cambodia-pulls-entire-delegation-sea-games-thailand
 

Cambodia quits SEA Games in Thailand amid deadly border clashes
 
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3335854/cambodia-pulls-entire-delegation-sea-games-thailand
 

Well, other countries didn't reveal their price tag  

Cambodia pulls out of eight sports at Thai SEA Games over ‘safety’ as border row simmers
 
https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/cambodia-pulls-out-of-eight-sports-at-sea-games-over-safety

Olympedia update.
The IOC did pull out of the deal because of "budget reasons" but we compromised by accepting less money and just updating 2024 and not Milan-Cortina for the time being.
The result is that the contract was signed this week and we just need to transfer our private data to Olympedia and then it will be back up to date.
Unfortunately not all our members were happy with the IOC's behavior and some may leave us because of this.

Cambodia pulls out of eight sports at Thai SEA Games over ‘safety’ as border row simmers
 
https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/cambodia-pulls-out-of-eight-sports-at-sea-games-over-safety