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So, they didn't follow Elizabeth's dying wish of not making Camilla an official queen. Somehow i expected something more grand. That footage from 1953 looked much better.

Looking at this year's startlist, i can't remember a recent Giro with so few, clear GC leaders. We have the big 2 Roglic and Evenepoel, then another 2-3 that are a few steps below them and then a bunch of question marks in what their role will be.

Is competing at the World Championship this year mandatory for the Olympic quota? Because Karlos Nasar had an emergency foot operation, after some bizarre home incident, and it's rumoured he will be out 7-8 months... As usual, weightlifters aren't the sharpest athletes out there, what can i say..

This has to be the weirdest big championship, from a participants stand point, from a long time. Like we have South Sudan, Lebanon, Cabo Verde, Jordan, heck throw in Venezuela in there as well.

I can't believe that a no name Chinese player is going to reach the final of the World Championship. Not even a middle of the road Chinese player, that you know, but always loses in Qs or first rounds. I frankly don't remember ever hearing of this guy before.

Not in her best form in the last year or so. Wouldn't fancy her to make the final.

Kamilla Konotop sets European records and destroys the competition at 59 kg. Still the lifts were a way from the lineal world record of Boyanka Kostova from 2015.

Let's go Vafaei

Georgia's tactics worked out greatly in bringing Shota Mishvelidze down a category. Hi did a much stronger result at 61, then what he did at 67 last year. Deserved gold, though this Italian kid Massidda pushed it very close. Looks like there is a surge in Italy for weightlifting, as new candidates for medals are coming to the big stage.

Two of the events i follow most closely, the wrestling and weightlifting Euros, are in the same week... And the evening sessions are overlapping, just to make it more fun. Brilliant scheduling for my taste, what can i say... The draw isn't that bad for us today. If we can manage one-two semifinalists for tonight i will take it.

Our team flew today to Armenia. After the fantastic performance last year, the federation has ambitions to win the medal table again. This time however we are missing 2 of our European Champions - David Fischerov and Hristo Hristov, which are injured, so there goes some medal chances.

I am shocked. You would think, that after 20 years in office they'd have learned how to properly laundry money.

Good taste in the social media world? 😂 You old dog you.

Watching live videos from the counting is very fun and frustrating at the same time. As a person who works with data and databases on a daily basis, it's so frustrating watching people struggle organizing so little of information.

This is in Bulgaria, who new? Certainly not the people in Bulgaria

Pogacar is going to do it Only the third rider in history to win the Tour de France and De Ronde.

The motorcycle pulling MvDP to the finish

Tadej goes Will he have the strength though with 50 km still to go.

Epic crashes today, more then in the last few years and some podium favourites are out of contention.

Early predictions- 40% turnout here, 80% in Finland

The fun begins early

Looks like i made the right joice and not wasting my morning watching this.

As the achieved standards start piling up, i think it would be nice to have an updated statistic for each discipline. I know @Topicmaster1010 started keeping track in the first page, but it's on a single post. Maybe we will need a separate thread as a database, and keep this one for commentary.

Two golds in the All-around today for us, so things seem back to normal. Though it's the home World Cup.

We are having yet another Elections this Sunday. They are becoming like a regular TV series here. (it's not a laughing mater but..) Now on season 5, we are going to switch things again. After having only machine voting the last 2 times, the paper ballots have battled their way back. It's going to be a combo system again with people choosing what to use. But the big cliffhanger is yet to come. For the first time (probably in the World, i am not sure ) after the Election day has finished, almost all of the individual voting sections are required to be broadcasting live the results tallying. There is a special website, where you can go and watch the counting. I'm sure, that site won't crash, or be hacked in the first 10 minutes. Also, the chairman of the Election committee has said, that 2-3 days after the Elections, videos will be posted on almost all of the thousands and thousands of sections and people can go and re-watch them anytime.