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We lost by 6 in Eindhoven 
 
We lost our way in the second part of the first period, where we led 5-6 and then went down 10-6. Then we were down 26-16 and 29-20 and launched a mini-comeback, with the final score being 31-25.
 
Congratulations @heywoodu@CCB@Dennis

Bitados went down so much 

I don't want to defend Österdahl but what Else than the decision to not ban Israel (which in that case means we need to remove most sport federation leaders too) or for the Netherlands incident where we don't know what happend? Of course if Netherösmds explaination is true it is a scandal but we should wait until we have the evidente and the policy report. If it is nothing serious the policy should drop this case very soon.
The last I heard was that the photographer that was "attacked" got her camera broken in the incident. At least that indicates some kind of physical behaviour and not only a gesture 

Yes , I forgot 

AAT already announced they're taking all the singles quotas.  
 
It's probably payback for him skipping Davis Cup the last 2 years.

Rebecca Sramkova comes from qualifying to the 4th round of the main draw in WTA 1000 Rome, and now she is up to 87 in the live WTA rankings  @hckošice

We lost by 6 in Eindhoven 
 
We lost our way in the second part of the first period, where we led 5-6 and then went down 10-6. Then we were down 26-16 and 29-20 and launched a mini-comeback, with the final score being 31-25.
 
Congratulations @heywoodu@CCB@Dennis

We lost by 6 in Eindhoven 
 
We lost our way in the second part of the first period, where we led 5-6 and then went down 10-6. Then we were down 26-16 and 29-20 and launched a mini-comeback, with the final score being 31-25.
 
Congratulations @heywoodu@CCB@Dennis

Rebecca Sramkova comes from qualifying to the 4th round of the main draw in WTA 1000 Rome, and now she is up to 87 in the live WTA rankings  @hckošice

took their "spot" it seems, they got 3 here, and they have Gega in athletics, so 4 quotas total so far and only 1 is actually Albanian 

"We had 2 in Tokyo, I think both will make it again"
 
Neither of them ended up making it , and our final number for Paris is 2 and not 3-4 as I predicted 

Final Olympic Quota 
 
Men’s Freestyle 
 
57 Kg : 
65 Kg : 
74 Kg : 
86 Kg:  
97 Kg : 
125 Kg: 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

0 QUOTAS

No freestyle quotas for  Zero. For the first time ever. And if we obvoously miseed 2 WW quotas, our freestyle is in deep crisis for a long time. Last Olympic medal was gotten in London 2012.
 
We finished with 2 WW and 2 GR quotas - the worst result in history. But the next cycle will be even more difficult for the men`s side as a result of the war.

She placed better in TOISC than in ESC 

After sleeping it over, i think i'm ready to change my opinion on yesterday.
 
 
 
 
The protesters should have stormed the building, fought with the police, caused riots, that would have cancelled the contest and disgraced the EFU. It would have been a much better outcome.

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It was that horrendous diaper skirt she wore, hahaha, sorry, just a joke, but the outfit was not good. I enjoyed the song since I first heard it, I placed it in my top 9.

If anyone was thinking the soap opera of Bulgarian weightlifting has ended, oh my sweet summer child 😄 The Federation is owing 36 k Euro to IWF for the organisation of the European Championship in February. 
 
We have until 20th May to pay up, otherwise our 3 lifters, including Karlos Nasar will be barred from the Olympics. The Federation has been in debt for 8 months now. They don't have any money and the Sports Ministry are refusing to give them the new budget, because of said previous debts. 
 
And the deadline for this payment was actually the end of April. IWF made an exception and extended to May 20th, just so they don't DQ our guys. Weightlifting isn't amongst the brightest sports at all, but i am fully convinced, that the people involved with it have a lower IQ, than monkeys in a zoo.

They were looking for withdraw , its slways like that 
Tomorrow i'll try withdrawing to play LOTO then i do it at the last moment 

Polychroniou got 2nd with 74.58, really I think the 3rd Olympic spot will be between Mantzouranis and Zaltos at this point, ironically they are both teammates at the University of Minnesota.
 
And Pavlidis won the discus at the Big 12 Championships with 61.52. He is making a big push for the Olympics via rankings, so winning the Greek National Championships with a throw around 63m would be huge for him, as well as a good result at the NCAA Championships. I don't know if he will go to the Balkan Championships as they are so early this year and before the NCAA, but really he should as there are a lot of points there for the ranking for a good placing, but I don't know if he will go to Europe, then back to the US, then back to Europe again...

Yes I agree, this is definitely having a negative impact on Greece too!

Yes, I just always hated when other countries did it so for us to do it is kind of sad for me.
 
But also we have Kougioumtsidis who wanted to do 86 kg (from 79 kg, so he was in the middle of the two weights) but then our wrestling federation naturalised Kurugliev last year so Kougioumtsidis went down to 74 kg, and he still got the quota there anyways which I am happy about of course.
 
It's just strange that Pilidis who was a very good freestyle wrestler, was only 21 when he competed in Tokyo (65 kg), left the sport shortly after that and the federation did not care, yet they support Kurugliev and then will paint this picture that everything is perfect when he wins medals for Greece, meanwhile they drove one of our best talents ever to switch sports to MMA because they did not support him  (Pilidis also made mistakes with some statements he made on Greek reality shows about the federation)

Fitting numbers judging the performance  

Never said juries didn't have flaws. There is a lot of cultural, political voting there too, but the juries definitely balance out the craziness and total randomness of the public vote. I think that second place for Croatia is amazing and that they highly overachieved with this, probably due to there not being many memorable songs this year that people could gravitate towards. 
 
Probably even because Finland's "No Rules" didn't get the audience appeal vote and NL's disqualification really helped out Croatia as well, I think, it definitely would've stolen their points more, rather than the Swiss.
 
As for the UK, well, I can only say that the juries judged what was performed yesterday. Perhaps there were some fans of Troye Sivan's "Rush" in the jury. Having been in the music industry for over a decade, I can somewhat predict which performances the juries tend to gravitate towards, because they are my people and I think similarly to them in most of the cases. Although, the UK wouldn't have been in my top 10 if I was selected to be a jury member.
 
I really respect my peers that they weren't scared off by the bold choice of Ireland and actually awarded them more points than the televote. Really really glad they recognised Armenia too. Although, I thought that Serbia and Lithuania might've ended up a bit higher in the jury vote, I believe that Croatia's jury score was somewhat inflated, because jurors might've been worried from last year about the public opinion and felt somewhat hassled to vote for Croatia simply because of their 52% odds. 
 
Good time to remind everyone that Kaarija got 60 less points from the jury than Croatia.