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However, I guess this is her first ever podium in GS.

I watched only XC and at the start I thought he was one of those who can only jump. But as it turns out he can also ski.

Johannes Rydzek wins the opener. Eero Hirvonen finished just outside of the podium, very positive result for Finnish nordic combined. Btw, I see that Kuusamo is as beautiful as ever.

Germany makes clean sweep in doubles too, now that is surprising (and no, not a sarcasm, they never make clean sweep in doubles ).

Luge season about to start.

will host the European Games lol

Turkey actually qualified for the women's top division.

^Exactly the kind of political campaigns we would have in case of voting (why someone should/others shouldn't be the host...). Thankfully we don't have it so users can be users, and not politicians.

Looks like that drama brought her one follower.

@heywoodu How on earth did you contact a Georgian biathlete?

Yay, our women's volley team will be in the same group as Georgia next year.

Oh come on, this is horrible, they are cutting great individual events in order to put some random mixed gender BS. 2020 agenda is officially the worst thing that ever happened to the Olympic movement!!

I don't know if it's entirely correct to OlympicIRL that a few former hosts are bidding. Considering that he withdrew from his hosting rights in order to give an opportunity to someone else. Although, saying that, I didn't participate at those editions so I wouldn't know how TISC looked and if it changed a lot since. However, if OlympicIRL is fine with that I will be too. In any case, it's encouraging for TISC future to see many interested sides.

It's better to have everyone interested entering the game of chance. If your chance to win the hosting rights is impacted by popular vote, people preferring or not preferring your country/continent or something that can bring strong feelings going into the contest.

Lol, no, that wasn't a sarcasm.

Nah, playing a game of chance is the fair way.

Now I kinda regret for not bidding when only Slovakia was interested and won it by default.

Croatia waited for the official announcement. We are submitting our bid as of now.

Ilyin: "I am shocked, I am shaken" http://www.inform.kz/en/ilyin-i-am-shocked-i-am-shaken_a2972662

I suppose that all analysis have been made. At least I read some time ago that none of the equestrian tests went positive so I suppose it's finished for other sports too. However, IOC/WADA apparently need 8 years to test them properly so you never know.

Ireland or Mexico? Red nations preferred Ireland over Mexico, while blue ones preferred Mexico over Ireland. Green nations (Moldova and Greece) didn't award any points to IRL or MEX.

Looks like we have a very interesting, and promising, pair in figure skating coming up. Lana Petranović and her foreign Russian-Portuguese partner Antonio Souza Kordeyru. They made their international debut in Warsaw this weekend and scored some 138 points in total. Such result puts them very much into Olympic qualification zone, and this was only their first ever competition! Back in 2014 for example, a score of 125 was enough to qualify. More about them...http://www.croskate.hr/hr/aktualno/predstavljanje-sportskog-para/ And let's not forget Nick Vrdoljak in men's singles, who has been scoring PBs lately... We suddenly have very nice team and it would be so cool if at least one of them can make it to Korea!

Wow, my graph is on heywoodu's laptop.

Map will get published at some point.