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Curious who will be the first to post a song in this post-bestmen reality we live in.

Meanwhile, the Four Continents Championships got cancelled again. It was supposed to be held in Japan lol I think this could be the final nail in the coffin of this event which took place only once in Wisconsin of all places.

That sounds delightful. Just try my approach which takes place, to some extent, for months and ends up with several "this is the one" moments along the way. Still I am as clueless as ever.

Croatia will participate.

Damn, all those Belgians got drunk for nothing. Good to see spectators out there, though.

For someone whose career basically started after covid (?), Wout van Aert appears to have a royalty status in Flanders. EDIT: Oh, right, the cyclo-cross.

Still not a fan of the team event even with Georgia on board. The outcome is too predictable and the competition system is nuts. Basically game over after the short program.

Pleased for Finland. They missed out narrowly in the ice dance for previous few Olympics. This is their first couple since Rahkamo/Kokko. Also very happy for the Armenian couple.

Sadly no joy for Cyprus. It's easy to blame them for entering Zingas instead of Kitromilis, but then again, Zingas finished ahead of Kitromilis in literally every competition last season I believe. Kitromilis' recent result in America came ouf of nowhere.

Following her victory of the ages, Anna Kiesenhofer is sadly becoming somewhat annoying. Now she suddenly races only time trials and looks for an excuse when she ends up placing far away from the podium (at least according to her social media). She was a surprise and very much an unexpected gold medal winner period. Can't she just own that? And what's up with skipping all the road races? Stage fright?

Wow, most likely no Olympics for Germany in the men's singles.

Standings after dressage at the European Championships... Individual - https://live.rechenstelle.de/2021/avenches_09/leaderboard01.html Team - https://live.rechenstelle.de/2021/avenches_09/nationcup01.html Absolutely hilarious scores. It's almost as if these athletes peaked for the scrapped-up European Championships instead of the Olympics. Eventing dressage is nuts. Hopefully the cross-country will be at least somewhat challenging, but I am not exactly holding my hopes up given some recent championships...

This is waived in case of debut Olympics. They will send a rookie.

One can assume Lithuanian withdrawal at this point so KOR could get in.

That would be crazy... More likely it's some covid bureaucracy.

A timely PB for Kessler, but other skaters will still have to have meltdowns for him to qualify. Should be on track for ECh/WCh though. Isadora Williams' run of luck ends here.

Yay. Can't wait for a road race to be abandoned due to a race doctor missing.

Seems to be a very common theme with Soviet athletes... Much more than the GDR ones for example. God knows what kind of juices they got subjected to. Or maybe it's just a picture of the Russian health care system.

Extremely unusual result sheets this year from Argentina and Chile, with only the home skiers taking part. In the Olympic season, it's usually a melting pot for all those seeking to become pop-up Olympians for their exotic nations, but I guess this kind of participation will be at record low this time round.

Via the WCC, yes, but still listed as Syrian in the start list. As he was for the 2020 ITT Worlds, among other events. https://www.tissottiming.com/File/0003130216030101FFFFFFFFFFFFFF01

Tokyo 2020 Refugee, Ahmad Wais, reverted back to representing Syria.

More than a week ago, a woman was found drifting around the island of Krk with a bloody face. She suffered amnesia and was speaking English when someone found her. And today it was found out that she is a tourist from Slovakia. @hckošice It would be interesting to find more info on this. It would be pretty awkward if she was not travelling alone.

Meanwhile... the NZ police is bragging about stopping the nasty KFC lockdown-smugglers of Auckland. Sickening.

Here is the complete Paris 2024 overview. https://inside.fei.org/fei/games/olympic/paris-2024 Apparently this is only the first proposal. The feedback period from the federations starts now.