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Agreed, using dead material as fertilizer is/should be absolutely normal, without this there probably wouldn't be any life on earth today. Reusing material should be the standard, sadly it isn't in most areas. As long as it is cheaper to just buy something new it probably won't change (and the earth will turn even more into a giant dumpster). Without the need to "preserve" human bodies we also don't need cemeteries anymore -> More space for important things. Maybe churches could make some money by turning their cemeteries into fields to grow vegetables ... Not allowing things like this or assisted suicide makes only sense from a religious point of view, but not from an ethical point of view. Hopefully this will be another step towards "normalizing" humans (just one kind of animal that considers itself above nature/evoluion). Hopefully we will have things like free assisted suicide for everyone, widespread genetic engineering to optimize humans (for example getting rid of genetic disease) or all new kinds of stem-cell therapy very soon. Another interesting topic could be using human feces as a resource.

Good decision. I think some options for Next year could be: 1) Only one category for all Teams (including Pairs)) 2) Two categories: Best team (men/women/mixed) + best pair (men/women/mixed) 2) Three categories: Best men‘s Team (including pairs) + best women‘s Team (including pairs) + best Mixed team‘s (including pairs) I understand the reasoning for having an own category for every kind of team/pair, but in my opinion this makes the awards less competitive/interesting. I am also not sure what category relays belong in? Where does the swimming mixed medley relay belong for example?

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Speak for yourself please. Also only part of the last world cup season was part of 2022 and that all of the current season so far (far more wins for Boe than for Fillon Maillet) has been part of 2022.

Maybe people rate 4 olympic golds higher than 2 Olympic golds and also remember that Boe didn‘t compete After the olympics (which might be the Main Reason why fillet mignon won the overall World Cup).

Hopefully she will be safe. Russia has shown that they can get to their "enemies" anywhere, so hopefully Belarus doesn't have the same capabilities.

Interesting, might be an indication that they aren't very happy with Nunez so far. Not sure how Gakpo will fit in though.

Russia? I don't see how they will dominate Japan or South Korea, especially if their players can't play in european competitions with their clubs.

Did you see the official film on the 1972 olympics?

- German government also just signed a deal to buy LNG from Qatar (starting in 2026) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/29/germany-agrees-15-year-liquid-gas-supply-deal-with-qatar - Noone (person or government) can be morally infallible in this world (or to use the words of a famous german philosopher "There is no right life in the wrong one."). Also don't you think that being good 10 % of the time is better than being good 0 % of the time? I would like to end my comment with an other quote of the same german philosopher you might be interested in: “Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”

Sorry if it has been posted before ...

Someone i didn't mention (since she won her gold in a non-olympic weight category): Amit Elor (born 2004) This year she won the world U20, world U23 and senior world championships, becoming the youngest world champion in american wrestling history. I am no wrestling expert, but her results suggest that she might be the next big thing in women's wrestling.

https://www.zdf.de/sport/zdf-sportreportage/olympia-1972-muenchen-terror-doku-100.html

Sadly i was right, he now competes for the US, after winning world U20 gold (as a 16 year old) in men's sabre for Germany earlier this year. He has a very "interesting" biography. Until recently he lived and trained in Germany, but now he trains in Orleans (France) and competes for the US. Huge blow for Germany obviously, maybe he can be a darkhorse for a medal in Paris. In the same article where i found this information, it also said that (according to german officials) one reason why Germany is becoming less and less competitive is that apparently there is a new kind of fencing "school" in multiple places across the world where rich parents send their kids to maximize their talent. In the article it said that those schools cost up to 30 000 € a year ... Not sure what to make of that. Maybe rich parents send their kids to those schools because they hope that it will earn them a scholarship from one of the top US universities?

Personally i am more excited to see the development of certain young athletes than to watch certain big competitions. I am looking forward to see how athletes like Muriel Mohr (freestyle skiing slopestyle/big air), Selina Freitag (ski jumping), Emma Aicher (alpine skiing), Luis Vogt (alpine skiing), Selina Grotian (biathlon), Friedrich Moch (cross-country skiing), Joland Kallabis (athletics), Annett Kaufmann (table tennis) or Julia Stusek* (tennis) will develop. * Youngest player in the top 1000 (ranked 841) of the women's world ranking (she was born in 2008), just won the german U18 championships (winning 6:2 6:2 in the final) and reached the semifinal of the german senior championships (where she lost in 3 sets against Ella Seidel, who is ranked 383 currently). She is trained by Melanie Molitor (mother and former coach of Martina Hingis) in Switzerland. Edit: Apparently there also is an other 14 year old girl (Sonja Zhenikhova) who even made the final at the german senior championships this year.

German television made a documentary about the same topic this year (but of course also in german), maybe you are interested?

I tried to make a list with eligible junior athletes (born in 2004 or later) who won an individual medal at the winter olympics or at 2022 summer world championships: - Su Yiming (snowboard) - Kokomo Murase (snowboard) - Rikuto Tamai (diving) - Chen Yuxi (diving) - Quan Hongchan (diving) - Claire Curzan (swimming) - Katie Grimes (swimming) - Leah Hayes (swimming) - Benedetta Pilato (swimming) - David Popovici (swimming) - Summer McIntosh (swimming) - Mollie O'Callaghan (swimming) - Erriyon Knighton (athletics) - Wei Xiaoyuan (artistic gymnastics) - Hazuki Watanabe (artistic gymnastics) - Shoko Miyata (artistic gymnastics) - Jessica Gadirova (artistic gymnastics) - Sarah Chaari (taekwondo)

So if i want to nominate someone like Kliment Kolesnikov, i should do it in the non-olympic category?

I found this (maybe it helps some people with their picks): https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/34335761/best-sports-moments-2022-year-review Some highlights: - Roger Federer retiring - Serena Williams retiring - Ashleigh Barty retiring - Rafael Nadal winning his 21st slam - Andrey Rublev writing "no war please" on the camera - Christian Eriksen's comeback in the national team - Erin Jackson winning gold - Lindsey Jacobellis winning gold - The iranian national team not singing the national anthem - Argentina winning the football world cup

Or by changing nationality to Norway/Denmark.

Obviously you are wrong. If everyone would have understood his intention, then noone could have justified being outraged.

Personally i think that this rule is stupid. It might be ok for people form smaller nations (for example i won't have a problem only nominating 1 finnish athlete), but if american people follow this rule, they are pretty much by definition forced to not vote for the best candidates in some categories.

BEST FEMALE ATHLETE for sportswomen in Olympic sports #1: Marte Olsbu Roiseland #2: Therese Johaug #3: Eileen Gu #4: Irene Schouten #5: Katie Ledecky #6: Iga Swiatek BEST MALE ATHLETE for sportsmen in Olympic sports #1: Marco Odermatt #2: Johannes Thingnes Boe #3: Nils van der Poel #4: Jacob Ingebrigtsen #5: Kristof Milak #6: Gregorio Paltrinieri BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR for the most improved athlete or team (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports) #1: Su Yiming #2: David Popovici #3: Leon Marchand #4: Summer McIntosh #5: Carlos Alcaraz #6: Jonas Vingegaard Mykolas Alekna Johannes Strolz Elvira Öberg Francesca Lollobrigida Mollie O'Callaghan Sarah Chaari Tobi Amusan Eleanor Patterson Quentin Fillon Maillet Simon Ehammer Victor Wembanyama Shai Gilgeous-Alexander BEST MEN'S NATIONAL TEAM for men's teams, pairs or groups (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports) #1: Argentina football #2: #3: #4: #5: #6: BEST WOMEN'S NATIONAL TEAM for women's teams, pairs or groups (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports) #1: Serbia volleyball #2: #3: #4: #5: #6: SPORT MOMENT OF THE YEAR for any sport moment from 2022 (including Olympic, Paralympic and Non-Olympic sports) #1: Germany winning gold in cross-country skiing women's team sprint at the 2022 olympics #2: #3: #4: #5: #6:

In Germany multiple former national players basically said that in the past (for example at the 2006 world cup) they experienced argentinian players both as bad losers and (even worse) as bad winners, so this seems to be an argentinian tradition. I also think that i get what Mbappe wanted to say: Before 2022 south american teams hadn't won a title since 2002 and only made 1 of the past 3 finals (Argentina in 2014), but more importantly the argentinian/brazilian league are lightyears behind the top european leagues and less and less players from there make it at the best european clubs. In general football in south america didn't keep up with the developments in europe and at past tournaments you could often see that they weren't at the same level as european teams tactically. When you take all this into consideration, you have to give huge credit to Scaloni and his team. In the past south american teams often had more individual talent than european teams, but were behind when it came to tactics. This time Argentina had clearly less individual talent than France, but they were at least on the same level tactically and also seemed like more of a team (i think this is also the reason why teams like Morocco or Croatia also made it that far, despite their lack of individual quality). If i remember correctly, at the 1978 world cup only one player of the argentinian squad played outside of Argentina. I think today it would be unthinkable for Argentina to win a world cup with this approach.