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Awful, very tragic news. My thoughts and prayers to the family of @hukbrazil. I remember him as a valuable contributor the forum, especially during Rio. It is always a pleasure to hear from posters from the host country of an event, as it was great to see the contributions from Brazilians in 2016. He will be missed.

I may have missed the news on this, but what happened to the Totallympics Result Portal? I am trying to find the thread covering the medalists in Summer Sports World Championships in the lead up to Tokyo. Are we not doing that any more?

You and I have already hashed out my feelings about Italy getting the 2026 Winter Games. Please don't tell me you guys are now asking for another one six years later...

You have it confused with the Ryogoku Kokugikan, which will host boxing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryōgoku_Kokugikan

Yes, backsliding is inevitable unfortunately

I just did some quick research, and I have bad news - the leader in the polls was charged with money laundering in July, and he's been referred to as "Tunisia's Berlusconi" .

Holy shit, how many candidates are there for president????

The Lions didn't lose this week, they tied Arizona

It will probably end up being the teams that grease the palms of FIBA the most

Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment. They own the Toronto Raptors and have done lots of work with Canada Basketball. They're a bunch of cheap fuckheads though, so I doubt they do anything.

Who has qualified for the OQT. None of this is official, I am just basing it off current rankings, and so things could change. OQT: 3 of Serbia/Spain/France/Poland/Czech Republic Lithuania Italy Greece Russia Brazil Venezuela Puerto Rico Dominican Republic Germany New Zealand Tunisia Canada Turkey Wild Cards: Slovenia (Europe) Croatia (Europe) China (Asia) Philippines (Asia) Senegal (Africa) Angola (Africa) Mexico (Americas) Uruguay (Americas)

Giannis does not get the same calls in the international game as he would in the NBA - there is not the same "star treatment". For those reasons, combined with weaker coaching, I'm really not surprised that the Greek team only made it this far.

Sorry, I was referring to how you've characterized the crowd throughout the tournament in such a negative light. Sure there were some unruly moments over the last 2 weeks, but I thought the crowd today was simply rambunctious because they were cheering on a hometown hero, same as the crowd would be in Wimbledon for a Brit, etc. I don't agree with the "US Open crowd being US open crowd' take.

This is a really bad take.

Unbelievable! Top 5 moment in Canadian sports history today. Way to go Bianca!!!!

So when the US beats Brazil on Monday, it will confirm that the 2 Americas quotas go to the United States and Argentina

One of my favourites as well, it's always very exciting. And ok, I guess 30-40 is pretty reasonable for such an event

Is Cross Country a ticketed event? That seems rather stupid to me if it is

I'm sure he'll be good at skating in one direction

@Olympian1010 great post, glad you feel at home! If you ever feel down, my DMs are open. Looking forward to seeing many more posts come July/August 2020.

Might as well divide the German team in half as well...

They'll still choke in the playoffs no doubt

I think this is just an idea from Sportnet, rather than any sort of plans put forth by the NHL. In a perfect world, the NHL goes back to the Olympics and they scrap this World Cup all together.

This seems like a ridiculously long process to decide one quota spot