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So, aparently, this BIG MESS is a new athletics event. This is footage from a European Games Test held in Portugal last week, where some spanish teams were invited to take part and test the new event.
 
 
Apparently its called "Athlon", and it's so stupid I can't really believe this is going to happend. 
 
It's a relay-style race where each runner does some weitght-draggin while runing, then some throwing, then obtacules and finally they carry a big ball (?)
I am sorry but I can't understand a thing.
 
European Athletics is going to make official this discipline next year.

I've send them links to the FIS page, the oficial qualification pdf translated to spanish and I talked to journalist to talk to them (cause maybe they'll believe more if a serious journalist explain them this rather than me, a random boy); and nothing worked. 
Even in the last new they uploaded to their official webpage they are saying that Alex Puente (another boy) has his last chance next week to fullfith internal national criteria and being added to the team in Supergigant..........
 
Worst part of all is that both Juan and Quim are super nice and likeable boys and it kills me seing both so happy in twitter or instagram posts saying how they are going to the Olympics when I'm 99% sure one of them isn't going...

Yeah, that's why I said it. In our country's case (Spain), we had a guy in mono-bob in YOG's but now he has nothing to do as there's no more Spaniards in this sport to compete with....

Figure Skating is number 1 for me, I'm such a basic gay dude 
Biathlon second place and 3rd one Snowboarding.
Cross Country (specially sprint races) is a close 4.

Water Skiing is in Mediterranean Games too

In a fact it was, YES won.
 
But actually if you look more deep, it wasn't. Not even half of the census of Catalonia voted, and the referendum was a big mess. People voted like three times. And when the police close some of the schools were the votes were planned, they took the booths out so people could vote. They are videos of it in youtube were you see multiple people in a crowd voting without any checks. Then, the results are totally hideous. There are cities with more votes for the yes than people living there....

So, this is a sad day for me. Today seems to be the last day of my country as I have know it all my life.
 
The parlament of Catalonia will declare today the independence of the so called Republic of Catalonya. Seems like the parliment is going to vote about it today, and they had absolute mayority. They have some broken strings in their parties and maybe a few wild votes from the independence team, but they have a mayority of four, so I don't think they would miss so many votes. Also, seems like two parlamentaries from an spanish sided party may go wild and vote a yes.
It's really sad all it's happening.
 
The don't have the peoples votes, neither an international recognition and their economy is going down as more and more business are leaving the cities and the tourism is going down in Barcelona.

I think this was the qualification event from Oceania in sport climbing, no?
 
http://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/component/ifsc/?view=event&WetId=7044
 
If that's the case:
 
Girls: 
Boys:
 

SPANISH ENTRY.
Well, I hope you like it. It's mi go-to karaoke song, I really enjoy the rhythm.
 

That's the thing. This voting was a joke since the beggining and literally no one was going to take the results seriously, but the stupid president decided to use police and now all the world is talking about palice brutality against democracy in Spain instead of talking of the Catalonians politiancs going against the law to pursue their personal agenda.

I'm in.
 
Not so hard on spanish music but I'll try to find something cool.

No, 80% of the Catalonians want the independence referendum to happend. But that doesn't mean that they all support independence.
 
To be honest I really think that if the referendum was made, NO will win. It's a feeling we all got here in Spain (even pro independece catalonians, that's why they are making the referendum today, cause it's looking bad for them next elections and they are in danger of losing the power, they had a slight mayority in the catalonia parlament now), but the spanish goverment is just plain stupid and they are using police brutality to stop something it was been seeing as a joke to the rest of the country and raging all spanish people.
 
Like, I'm not from Catalonia, I'm basque (another part of Spain that has battle a lot for independence, sadly know by terrorist group ETA) and I'm pro-Spain but all this bullshit the president and the ministers are doing is really taking my nerves and I'm siding with pro-referendum now.

And the worst part of all is that the goverment is sending extra police to deal with the independence people and it's doing nothing with the people who gathered together a few days ago in Madrid doing the nazi salute and wearing flags and singing the anthem of the former spanish dictator Francisco Franco.
 
 

I'm in.
 
Not so hard on spanish music but I'll try to find something cool.

I'm in.
 
Not so hard on spanish music but I'll try to find something cool.

shady DJ playing True Colors by Cyndi Lauper after the north korean couples routine.

Olympics is a global competition, and the fun in the thing is watching athletes for all over the world compiting. For me, it adds more to the event having a girl from Cambodia over 3 hours in marathon than the chance of having the worlds 50 fastest kenyans racing.
 
 
Giving rich countrys the chance of upraising their chances takes the spirits of the games away.

Not triying to brag about anything, but in Spain we have the women's team selected since April, and about 8 women with the 20km standard that weren't chosen. If just they new there was another chance they probably would had try it.
 
Like the 1500 race that has her own mark for mille races, IAAF could have done the same and say "If you have under 1,30 in 20km you can get listed for 50km", for example.

Katie Burnett is also named in the US team http://www.usatf.org/News/Team-USATF-ready-for-repeat-success-in-return-to-L.aspx

TEAM ESP
 
MEN
 
400m > Lucas Bua, Oscar Husillos, Samuel García
800m > Daniel Andujar, Kevin López, Álvaro de Arriba
1500m > Adel Mechaal, Marc Alcalá, David Bustos
5000m > Ilias Fifa
110m hurdles > Yidiel Contreras, Orlando Ortega
400m hurdles > Sergio Fernández
3000m steep. > Fernando Carro, Jonathan Romeo, Sebas Martos
Marathon > Ayad Lamdassem, Javi Guerra, IvánFernandez
20k walk > Miguel Ángel López, Álvaro Martín, Diego García, Luis Alberto Amezcua
50k walk > Iván Pajuelo, Francisco Arcilla, José Ignacio Díaz
Relay > 4x400 (3 from 400, Darwin Echeverry, Alberto Gavaldá)
Pole vault > Adrian Valles, Igor Bychkov
Long jump > Eusebio Cáceres
Triple jump > Pablo Torrijos
Shot put > Carlos Tobalina
Decathlon > Pau Tonnesen, Jorge Ureña
 
WOMEN
 
200m > Estela García
800m > Esther Guerrero
1500m > Solange Pereira, Marta Pérez
5000m > Ana Lozano
3000m steep. > María José Pérez, Irene Sánchez-Escribanp, Teresa Urbina
Marathon > Paula Gonzalez, Marisa Casanueva, Marta Esteban
20k walk > Laura García-Caro, Ainhoa Pinedo, María Pérez
High jump > Ruth Beitia
Triple Jump > Ana Peleteiro, Fatima Diame
Shot put > Úrsula Ruiz, Belen Toimil
Hammer throw > Berta Castells
Discus Throw > Sabina Asenjo
 
In red, the ones who entered via redistribution.

You're not giving us the credit we deserve for getting 0 points, it's actually harder than getting at least one.

Damn, I miss Andorra so much, those where 12 already secured points.

I really think everyone should be voting to Spain rigth now. That would help the chance of your country winning.
 
Come on, still in time to do it!

Team Moldova all the way.

Jon Ander, the last one, yep, that's me