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I'm surprised we went with "Kings" and not the usual Lion, but guess that was already taken by the Dutch.

Karlos seems in good form before the WCH. Even if he wasn't, i doubt anyone could be near him. World standard at 396 kg looks like child's play, given he set 417kg at the Europeans in April, when he weighted around 94 kg as well.

Most of the categories will be shown live on our channel RING. Here is a LINK to watch it. I believe the only ones they won't show live are women's 58 kg and 63 kg.

Milan & Inter have been given the green light to destroy San Siro. I, even though a fan of Juventus for 24 years now (though i like Inter as well) am very sad, as this has been my favourite football stadium in the World. There is just something very unique about it, the design, the feel, the inside look etc. Don't know what has been UEFA's and the clubs' problem with it and why they are lambasting it for some years now. They are always saying "big problems, doesn't meet the criteria", but never specifying what exactly is wrong with it. I doubt they will make some new futuristic stadium, that will blow our minds, but more so they will lose the historic atmosphere of San Siro.

I don't think the last few days can compare to anything sports related in recent times. At least not in the last 20 or so years. My memory of 2006 isn't that strong, but i'm fairly certain it was nowhere near as euphoric, as it has been now. The sudden rise of media and regular people's attention to the team has been sky high. The final on Sunday was broadcasted simultaneously by 4 networks, including our biggest 3 National broadcasters, which has never happened before for a sporting event. Yesterday it was basically talked in every show. Today they had an all-day special program for the homecoming, with coverage beginning in early morning, anticipating the return all the way from the Istanbul airport. We have had sporting successes recently of course, Olympic champions and such, but i can't remember so much attention and discussions being made before. When we were getting the Olympic medals last year, or other sporting big results, sure they are mentioned and covered by our National broadcasters, but it was like a 4-5 minute thing in the Evening news and some interviews in other shows afterwards. There were definitely no parades or multiple hour long panel discussions about the athletes, sports, society role models etc. Yet today, even though the TV's were showing live coverage with panels for hours, the Evening news emissions still had basically a 30 minute recap of everything around the volleyball team and something like 6-7 minutes for all other news of the day. It's very weird to me

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https://tv.bnt.bg/ If anyone wants to watch live the homecoming of our team. It is expected up to 20k people on the square. They crossed Sofia in an open bus and will arrive in the center any moment.

Given that LA 2028 is going to be mid-July, I think it would be good to slot the European Championships in mid/late August. This way many more top names would consider participating, especially if they have had a subpar Olympics. But their "genius" move like usual is to have it in June, where most people will skip it, as to not jeopardize their form/health before LA.

Italia just too strong today. Romano and Bottolo were phenomenal, couldn't find a way to neutralize them for practically the whole match. Like a mentioned yesterday, our team is already a winner, nothing changes with today's result. Also Aleks Nikolov deserved to be the MVP of these Championships, but we all know the procedure..

On contrary to popular belief and comments here, Italia makes another World's final. I thought they had their worst team ever And they are the favorites in the final as well, so we'll see what happens For us, today was probably our worst match at this tournament and it was so refreshing to see the team use mental strength to push for the win. Something you would expect from a way more experienced team. Whatever happens tomorrow, they are already champions for people here, but these boys deserve to call themselves World champions 🙏

Oh man, what a match, what a match I was at work today, when it started, so i wasn't fully focused. Some work, some game and if i have to be honest, when we lost convincingly the first 2 sets i was very disappointed and turned the game off. Everything was going as ever, we are good, but not good enough when it matters the most. And when i got home, to my utter surprise, the match was still going and the tiebreak was just beginning. It was like i was watching a completely different team from the first 2 sets. Of course afterwards i rewind and saw the full match again. Everyone knows that these players have talent and potential, but this summer they are showing a quality that has never been a strong suite for our athletes - believing in their abilities and not giving up, when things are not going their way. I hope they will add performing under pressure as another quality after this tournament. The whole team is playing as a unit, but Aleks Nikolov is just on another level. This year he has really grown and i really believe in another year or two he is going to be the next generations Kaziyski and Leon a.k.a the best player in the world! As for the game against Czechia, i hope they won't be emotionally spent after today and won't underestimate the Czechs, since we are going in as the favorites.

98 was scrapped for 94 kg a few months back, see page 1.

This would be a good chance as any for us to beat at a big Championship. One we are playing very well and the team looks very motivated and two, the US are missing some of their biggest names like Anderson, Russell and DeFalco.

The should just have the discus tomorrow. Say whoever has tickets for tonight can come tomorrow as well and vola. It's clear it can't be done tonight (not at least with their desired performances, because everyone can throw from standing position, without much rotation).

USA with their best WCH this century (maybe ever?). I'm expecting from them 20-22 golds in LA28.

US with near perfect exchanges, something very, very unusual for them. Jamaica fumbled between 2-nd and 3-rd, otherwise would have gotten the win.

Yes, the dreaded multiple medalist will strike again ( just like on every major Championships recently)

Polska on the board

Botswana gets the win

The rain comes to wreck some havoc

Even Keely couldn't save the tragic British athletics. Some might say karma is finally getting to them for the their and C o e's crusade against Russia in the last 10+ years.

Today is Keely's day. Let's hope this time it won't be second place.

I am actually very excited for this. Not that much for the races themselves, but more for the scenery and location we would get. Cycling has always been 99% Europe oriented, that the rare times we get big races outside is very interesting for me. The Olympics in Tokyo and Rio were very fun and unique.

Doubt it and frankly see no reason for it. FIS has the best calendar for Parallel in the World Cup and it has the most interest amongst European countries of all snowboard disciplines. They would rather get rid of one of the 3 redundant flip-flopity events before parallel. Plus the IOC is already taking huge swings at FIS with the potential exclusion of Nordic Combined, so them trying to remove more stuff is not logical. After all FIS is the backbone of WOG, so more or less they have leverage.

Norwegians abysmal here First Ingenritsen, now Warholm bombs.