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Virtual general standings at this stage: Dunadan 8938 Henry_Leon 7276 Pablita 7268 dcro 7227 chrischi08 6928 Wanderer 6548 ady48 6533 juliosilva 6349 Aaand, I'm about to lose a podium position in the very last stages...

Taubitz won.

Eitberger is sliding like an amateur.

Yes, Collins should still be able to qualify. This is mostly nice news for Latin America, as now they will probably have 3 spots instead of 2. I think the spots will be decided between , with nobody except Dominican Republic being very safe...

FEI I don't know how it's possible, but again they made a late change to qualification system (this time in dressage). And this time they can't even write it properly. They say that Groups D & E will be combined, BUT whoever corrected the document crossed Group C instead of E. https://inside.fei.org/system/files/Tokyo 2020 - Qualification System - DRESSAGE - 30 November 2018.pdf

Horrific fall for Ashley Cain. It looked like she lost consciousness for a couple of seconds. Somehow she got up and completed.

All my remarks have been about how things are done, and not actual participants. If you have read the thread, you would have seen that I congratulated Mexico.

Just a clarification that I was not pitchforking because things didn't end up as I hoped.. If you read this thread you'd see that I never spoke against Algeria as host. I'm all for new users hosting, whoever it is, because: A) someone new will get a chance, B) other interested first timers will have a bigger chance next time. So everyone would be on a happy, level-playing field in much shorter time. Pitchfork out.

But I will refrain from further comments on the subject. Apparently it's always easy to criticize those who speak their mind, even if in this case I was just bringing up the actual facts. So you can store your pitchforks.

Why? Mexico will host twice without winning. Barely. And there is also a little fact that Olympics are forced to be exclusive because money talks. This is a community musical contest, for crying out loud.

Congratulations Mexico. So, while less than 20% of all time participants have actually hosted a contest so far, somehow both of 2019 editions are scheduled to be hosted by repeated hosts. That is just too exclusive.

So after ice hockey last week, today I'm attending Golden Spin in Zagreb. And unlike in hockey, this is a chance to see Olympians in live, which is quite special. Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier won the rhytm dance.

For that I'll have to access the Sardinian black market though... Not sure it's feasible.

But how dissgusting can casu marzu actually be? Maybe it tastes just fine.

So I guess you are attempting to switch from Team Geng to Team Yan with nobody noticing?

Then I'll just point out the absence of Russians and Italians.

I think thrice. But never on the new forum.

Lithuanian women's team isn't as disastrous as @Werloc made me believe.

Not to mention how "monobob" is blatantly inconsistent name, which probably says a lot about the federation and its staff. It should either be one-man (woman), two-man (woman) and four-man (woman), or monobob, duobob and tetrabob.

[hide] Main Round December 6th - December 12th, 2018 12 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from each Group will qualify for the Semifinals Group I Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 6th 2018, h. 18:00 Denmark too late France December 6th 2018, h. 21:00 Sweden 5 Montenegro December 8th 2018, h. 15:00 Sweden 3 France December 8th 2018, h. 18:00 Serbia 3 Russia December 10th 2018, h. 18:00 Denmark 3 Russia December 10th 2018, h. 21:00 Serbia 4 Montenegro December 12th 2018, h. 15:45 Denmark 3 Montenegro December 12th 2018, h. 18:00 Sweden 4 Russia December 12th 2018, h. 21:00 Serbia 3 France Group II Date & Time (GMT +1) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 7th 2018, h. 18:00 Spain 4 Germany December 7th 2018, h. 21:00 Hungary 7 Norway December 9th 2018, h. 15:00 Hungary 1 Germany December 9th 2018, h. 18:00 Netherlands 3 Romania December 11th 2018, h. 18:00 Spain 1 Romania December 11th 2018, h. 21:00 Netherlands 2 Norway December 12th 2018, h. 15:45 Spain 4 Norway December 12th 2018, h. 18:00 Hungary 2 Romania December 12th 2018, h. 21:00 Netherlands 4 Germany [/hide]

Which shouldn't be surprising because monobob hasn't even been properly designed yet...

This reminds me.

Grand total of 10 women's crews are taking part in the trainings.

But the trick is to sweettalk the general audience into believing that budget cuts were a criminal act.