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He is one of those who usually rewards positive, confident riding, which is good. Adding strides can easily get you in trouble on his courses, even if it may be a natural instinct that going slower means safer... Also he gets praised for building horse-friendly courses, where inexperienced horses can build a lot of confidence during just one run (again, if ridden positively).
 
Most of all, he seems to be very unpredictable. His Kentucky course from last week was very different than the one from 2018, so really nobody can tell what he is cooking up for next year.  He used a lot of terrain in Kentucky, but I wonder if there will be any terrain available at the Tokyo course, which is right by the sea (hopefully some hills will be artificially added if it's completely flat)...
 
Some quotes on his Kentucky course can be read here.

Couple of points.
1 Nobody is saying that Semenya is not a woman. What they're saying is that she benefits from having some aspects of male biology. We don't exactly how much this amounts to but the best bet is that she has internal testicles that are producing an amount of testosterone close to the normal male levels.
2 To call this a racist decision is nonsense. The IAAF regulations were drafted under the leadership of Papa Diack of the Ivory Coast and are a lot less tough than they were in the past. I can give you the names of British, American, Italian, Dutch, Indian, Romanian, Austrian, Russia, Spanish athletes whose careers were ended before they achieved anything near what Semenya has won. Anyway, if Semenya gets banned, it's highly likely  another African emerges to take over from her.

Qualification period for all the events starts today

I do.

Tom Dumoulin must be sad, for he is no longer the Dutch erection...

Even if Australia and New Zealand qualify before the continental qualifier the rule is that at least three NOCs must compete in the event for it to be valid so at the very least he would have to defeat other athletes to qualify (and while they aren't going to win a medal they at least don't capsize all the time during practice), so no free quota for him.

https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2019/04/29/tonga-flag-bearer-kayak-pita-taufatofua/

People don't care for their front lawns in Holland? 
 

So @heywoodu is your dad????  

Roasted.

Roasted.

This is what my dad does when my family gets in fights. We’ll all be arguing and he’ll say some shit like “Are clouds always that shape”, “Do sprinklers generally shoot that high”, “Has the sun always been that bright”

Well for TAISC, you must be older than the song you choose to enter with . If you are a time-traveller like @heywoodu then no such rule applies, since who knows what period of time he actually comes from.
There is no upper-age limit.
 

People are virtually killing each other and what makes me more angry is posts being deleted. I have no soul.

I am going to destroy your life until you die if you spoil the episode in this thread, by the way.

Quite an emotional lady response :P

There is more drama than it's going to be in today's GoT episode  

Which then leads us to rule 7. (f). Lucky for us, @mrv86 is a lawyer. 

I think threatening to destroy someone’s life until they die is treading on the edges of breaching rule 7 (e). Just perhaps.
 

Couple of briliant action shots.
 
 

Never been in Venice, but it is true that it is very very expensive, so consider this and CHECK the prices on the menu before you eat somewhere there: sometimes it is really difficult to realize how expensive can be that city. From Venice, if you wish to visit near cities and places, probably the easiest to be reached are Trieste, Padova (Padua) and Verona. Apart from San Marco and the cathedral, you should have a tour on a gondola, it is a must there

Drink a lot of water before leaving Croatia, half a liter bottle may cost around 5 euro in the centre...

You remembered? Had to push you into the pool for that...