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Perhaps because Belarus is creepily weird. European Turkmenistan, if you will.

Decent skate for P/S-K (all things considered). Great twist throw, but popped double axel and sloppy step sequence. They are safely through to the free skate, but outside of very reachable top 10.

I gotta admit. Winnerhofer is one of the most annoying nicknames out there.

Looks like the emotional US boys completely dominated Russians... But only in penalty minutes. Kind of expected after watching the earlier games.

Or maybe he just stopped for a chat with coach or collegue.

I believe Australia mainly switched to Asia to make their WC qualification path easier. Olympics were very much an afterthought, which is unfortunate for their women...

This could be Zika of 2020.

2 - 0 (both late goals) FIrst Tokyo 2020 athletes for Saudi Arabia.

[hide] Women's Tournament - Knockout Round January 21th - January 25th, 2020 8 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 21th 2020, h. 17:30 Hungary 3 Spain January 21th 2020, h. 19:00 Russia 2 Netherlands [/hide]

That's funny, I thought the question was about slowest women vs fastest men (hence I predicted 1 minute).

Apparently the International Jumping Riders Club has asked FEI to look into qualifying events held in Damascus and Villeneuve-Loubet. They are the ones where Syria and Jordan (in particular), but also Sri Lanka gained most of their points. https://www.worldofshowjumping.com/en/News/Statement-from-the-International-Jumping-Riders-Club-on-the-Olympic-qualification-system.html https://www.worldofshowjumping.com/en/Exclusives/WoSJ-Focus/Deja-vu-Baku-From-Damascus-and-Villeneuve-Loubet-to-the-Tokyo-Olympics.html It's just the usual silly business. People get angry because other people outsmart them.

It's not really about whether or not they can speak English, it's about how they usually speak English with strong accents.

Dania* Mostly it was nice to hear some of the Slavic names pronounced correctly (for once). And, yes, we don't sound like Russians when speaking English (it's not just Dania).

It's all available on the Olympic yt channel.

So an official managed to knock out a Canadian player.

[hide] Men's Tournament - Knockout Round January 20th - January 26th, 2020 12 Nations, Play-Offs, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 22th 2020, h. 16:00 Italy 3 Montenegro January 22th 2020, h. 17:30 Serbia 2 Spain January 22th 2020, h. 19:00 Hungary 6 Russia January 22th 2020, h. 20:30 Croatia 3 Greece [/hide]

I guess this was the only fitting ending for this competition... Australian and American Samoan boats ended up tied both on net points and overall points. American Samoa is provisionally ranked 1st, but I'm not sure that's correct. http://sailingresults.net/sa/results/overall.aspx?ID=80319.2

Fellini 'turned' 100 yesterday.

What? It has the same 30-40 nations at every World championships.

Terrible, absolutely unwatchable snowboard slopestyle final. There were only 5 (!) clean runs out of 33 in total. This discipline should change ASAP. There should be just one run in the final. That would require athletes to do the tricks they can actually do, rather than pack up their rides with impossible tricks in a hope they get lucky.

And here is the list of eventing MER events for 2020. India and South Africa need qualifying score at one CCI4*-L event in order to keep their spots. Since both their riders are based in Western Europe, essentially they are left with 8 possible events in Barroca d'Alva, Montelibretti, Ballindenisk, Montelibretti (2), Sopot, Baborowko, Saumur and Tattersalls...

[hide] Women's Tournament - Knockout Round January 21th - January 25th, 2020 8 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 21th 2020, h. 14:30 Slovakia 25 Netherlands January 21th 2020, h. 16:00 Russia 2 Italy January 21th 2020, h. 17:30 Greece 3 Spain January 21th 2020, h. 19:00 Hungary 15 France [/hide]

Unfortunately we can't know for sure, but apparently the Technical Committee protested in favor of their disqualifications. http://sailingresults.net/sa/protest/default.aspx?ID=80319

If internet forums were only like this...

Dafuq? Both boats got disqualified in races 1, 2, 3 *AND* 4. http://sailingresults.net/sa/results/overall.aspx?ID=80319.2 No worries, American Samoa is still safe (and they still dominate).