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Bos Get back on the road. Quick.

Basically to decide who gets a free gold medal.

Host is fine, Locked Down is pretty insufferable. There are plenty of reasons. A film glorifying/romanticizing lockdown is just obnoxious right now. Jokes in the film got old by mid-March. Zoom calls as plot devices don't work as well (where are the production values?!). Don't get me wrong, the concept of a lockdown film is not bad by default. Just give it some more time and perspective.

Explains why they didn't call you for a question. @Sindo and Totallympics are blacklisted in Lausanne.

I guess the German protest failed? World Sailing finally (and officially) awarded the quota to American Samoa. https://www.sailing.org/tools/documents/Tokyo2020OlympicGamesQualificationasof30November2020-[26790].pdf

Oh, he apologized. Via press release, no less. All is forgiven ofc. https://www.fis-ski.com/en/cross-country/cross-country-news-multimedia/news/2020-21/coop-fis-cross-country-season-2020-21-will-conclude-in-norway

@Werloc How does it feel like to be famous? I can't help but notice that the song has received much interest on both Youtube and Spotify.

According to this, CAS decision on Mathilda Karlsson v FEI is postponed to April. The hearing was held in December. https://www.tidningenridsport.se/cas-skjuter-upp-beslut-om-mathilda-karlssons-os-plats/

Ireland revealed their longlist for eventing. Cathal Daniels & Rioghan Rua are the only members of the Tryon 2018 silver medal team listed. Ennis, McCarthy and Watson are listed with different horses. https://www.horsesportireland.ie/horse-sport-irelands-eventing-high-performance-director-names-tokyo-olympics-longlist-squad/

Are you registered under Totallympics News Service or...?

Right. Bach is comparing Handball WCh (which are mess at times themselves) to the Olympics.

5 misses for Crnković... However, 1+0+1 start gives me some hope for the sprint.

Keep in mind that, in order to broadcast sprints and individuals, TV directors have to actually follow the race. That must be terrible!

Apparently the new deliveries are incresingly coming behind the schedule.

Pfizer and Moderna have started cutting back on our weekly deliveries (as if they were big enough to begin with). At this point, all new deliveries are set to be the second doses for already vaccinated and nothing else. Astra-Zeneca, meanwhile, is still not approved by the EU, despite continuous assurances that it would happen before January is over. So yeah, this thing will not be blowing over any time soon. This puts extra strain on the Olympics as well, as I doubt it's any different in other countries.

I knew the had their snow and size. But since all the urban hubs there are not associated with snow, it's difficult to imagine a biathlete from California making a national team. California having only one biathlon club + Hammerness training in Norway gives some perspective though.

Biathlete from California?

If I am not mistaken, Poland will be given 5 tickets and the U.S. 2 tickets?

I haven't watched a single match in Egypt, thank you. Don't need to be a hater though to objectively conclude that the team could barely handle Angola and Japan here.

Okay, handballers most definitely will not qualify for Tokyo... This should be an easy task for even Portugal. I wonder if we will have any teams this time around? Sure, water polo is always a near lock, but they already missed enough chances to start a bad omen.

Now we need some 60 nations boycotting, and there you go, another Moscow 1980.

Having separate WRs for indoor and outdoor shot put is quite ridiculous to be honest.

IFs usually inform NOCs of their earned quota. NOCs then have two weeks to say 'Yes', otherwise the spots get reallocated by default.

Sometimes I like to keep track of what happens to Instagram accounts of the relatively unknown athletes who suddenly get into spotlight for whatever reason (like Joni Maeki today). Apparently getting bullied by Bolshunov is worth about 2k followers.

South Africa officially accepted this quota. Therefore, they can no longer reject it, but only withdraw. I don't believe South Africa ever withdrew one of their quota places.