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What a dreadful week for equestrian this has been... After Mike Tucker, two prominent international horses passed away suddenly too... Kathryn Robinson's Rio 2016 ride Let It Bee passed away suddenly after collapsing during competition. So gutted for them, one of my favourite combinations. Also pretty sure this is the first equine Rio Olympian to pass away.... Wendi Williamson's ride Dejavu (WC finalist from Omaha last year) also passed away suddenly... Big blow for the Kiwi team going into WEG, as they actually had a decent chance of stealing team dressage quota from Australia, but now it's gone... Also in shadow of all that, Bettina Hoy announced she won't be chasing team selection anymore.

I still don't get how Andorra has such high rankings in 3x3 basketball, but that has been the case for ages. In women's senior league they are in fact ranked 3rd. I hope the qualification for Tokyo is based on that.

So after winning first two games, Giants went on to lose next two with 9:0 and 5:0... Something tells me this season is not going to be much better than last one.

It's only Europeans, but damn... Who would have thought that will all be getting multiple medals a couple of years ago?

And the wheels are turning. 24 hours later and we're at 17/42.

Does race walking have same situation as marathon? Erent could be good enough by Tokyo. I imagine couple of other T&F athletes like Horvat, Marković, Mihaljević, Ivančević should definitely have a chance.

According to Eurosport commentator, the winner is Niki Pedersen.

Niki

I like the colours. Guess we'll have to wait for entries to be confirmed however, as some teams may end with 3 members or something. Then their score could be multiplied by 1.33 or we could alternatevely have a system with best 2 or 3 scores counting. Not 2 or 3 final scores, but rather 2 or 3 scores from every jury. So for example if A jury gives Team Natal 9+4+3+1 pts then 9+4 goes to Team Natal total. If B jury then gives them 6+0+0+0 pts then they get 6+0 and so on. Btw, now it's actually possible that Antarctica will win a TISC competition.

Wow, that's right. top 3... Only missing

Some disqualifications are in order.

Wow, that's a great idea! I believe the TISC Team Challenge has just been born. We should have this at every edition.

Go go Niki

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Heywoodu's favorite is being active.

Always good idea to have barbed wire by the road.

Meanwhile, here's a controversial question... What do you prefer, Tour des Flanders OR Paris-Roubaix?

Yeah, that.

Well, at least for Tokyo they didn't force men's and women's road cycling to be completely 50-50...

Oh my, right before the crash someone literally flew into a ditch, what the hell?

Ouro Preto is indeed pretty. I'd like that one.

Some comparison to voting tempo at the last couple editions (according to posts from those threads). 2017 Annual - 19/35 nations voted with 7 days to go 2017 Open - 14/35 nations voted with 5 days to go Now we're at 13/42 with 6 days to go

Record 30 Nations and Territories to Contest the Final WINTERFEST Donegal and Košice to compete??!

Good start for the Giants.

Apparently Matt Olson is the 4th player in history who hit a home run on his birthday + opening day. Useful stat.