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It would be embarrassing to include any sport, which doesn't have a winter element to it. Playing sport "X" indoors makes it in no way a candidate for the Winter Olympics, so to just "puff" the program.

Title speaks for itself We were talking about this with a friend and i thought it would be a nice topic here as well. With the variety of users from around the world, it could lead to some interesting takes. It could be anything related to sports. I will open with some of my preferences - Making Summer Olympics 3 full weeks; - Return of the open final set at tennis Grand Slams; - Vuelta a Espana to be held permanently in September (8-10th to the end of the month). Respectively, the UCI World Championships to be moved to late August. - Basketball, hockey and baseball in the USA to have fewer (dead) regular season games. You can trim 1/4 of the current schedules. With 30 teams in the leagues, you could play 60-62 matches in basket & hockey and 120 games in baseball; - No Ice Hockey should be played in June. (in the Northern Hemisphere); - Athletics to try and make a rankings system like tennis. It has become extremely hard for regular people to tell, who are the best athletes in athletics. Recognizable faces and true stars have faded big time from 10-20-30 years ago.

Legendary Pogacar Brilliant performance in all 3 weeks. Now go for the double champ!

Let's not pretend this is the first time it's happening Varfolomeev Simakova Vedeneeva Berezina All of them Russian. Even we have included a Russian born-gymnast, even though she has spent most of her life in BG.

It's stupid to have one country host 2 weeks, when there are so many participating nations. This week when Turkey isn't playing it has been abysmal. Last week with the women it was better and they should have left only that and have someone else host the men this week.

I am not very enthusiastic after the draws. You would think the final qualifier will have easier paths, as the best boxers have already qualified, but i don't see easy paths. If we get 1 man and 1 woman quotas from the final tournament, i would be happy.

You would think no one can dominate like Pogacar, but Vollering could actually be doing it easier. Will there be a Stage race she won't win? I'm surprised she lost so many Classics this spring, given her past month in Spain.

Why are France not getting a men's host quota? Did they have to choose 1 between the men and women?

WOW, that was a fantastic finish Big drama in both 1/2 with the women, let's hope the men bring the same

The humiliation was averted, as the Sports Minister said, that everything is payed and our lifters have no issues for Paris. This means, that nothing can stop Karlos Nasar from fulfilling his destiny.

Well this was show. 5 days after this news, a new one came, where Gross wouldn't be our coach anymore, because both sides didn't reach a mutual understanding of the working relationship. Now Gross has been unveiled as a coach for the Swiss team, and he has responded, that he never had any deal with the Bulgarian Federation and it's all fake news.

A person of the European Olympic Committee has mentioned, that the plan is for the 2027 European Games to play a big role for LA 28 quotas. It will most likely be held again in June and they are working on bringing back lots of sports.

The extremist left have no boundaries.

If anyone was thinking the soap opera of Bulgarian weightlifting has ended, oh my sweet summer child 😄 The Federation is owing 36 k Euro to IWF for the organisation of the European Championship in February. We have until 20th May to pay up, otherwise our 3 lifters, including Karlos Nasar will be barred from the Olympics. The Federation has been in debt for 8 months now. They don't have any money and the Sports Ministry are refusing to give them the new budget, because of said previous debts. And the deadline for this payment was actually the end of April. IWF made an exception and extended to May 20th, just so they don't DQ our guys. Weightlifting isn't amongst the brightest sports at all, but i am fully convinced, that the people involved with it have a lower IQ, than monkeys in a zoo.

Maybe it's not playing a factor like before, but it's interesting, if people are taking into consideration, that non-European countries do usually better in non-European Olympics. Vice-versa Europe is doing better, when it's in Europe and worse, when it's not. Of course in today's global sport, location, conditions, culture etc. don't have the same weight, but i still think there were comments 3 years ago how European athletes didn't acclimate good enough in Tokyo.

After sleeping it over, i think i'm ready to change my opinion on yesterday. The protesters should have stormed the building, fought with the police, caused riots, that would have cancelled the contest and disgraced the EFU. It would have been a much better outcome.

Switzerland being just 4th in the 1/2 and Netherlands almost winning it. That DQ played a big factor. You would wonder how many points they would have stolen from Switzerland, especially with the juries.

Someone show me, when the other acts have all embraced a competitor like this.

Cancel the circus and save everyone's time in May.

I haven't followed since Maneskin won, since 2022 was a known winner in February. And i'm pretty sure i complained about that then as well. Before that i didn't watch after the ridiculous chicken song. It's completely my fault for being tricked after a couple of years, that things could be different and an actual cool song & artist can actually win.

They interview the Swiss guy like 3 times, also Ireland and France. Didn't even move past Croatia..

No, i wanted 25 juries not to give 12 points to a mediocre, facade song..

Poor Marko, was deflated already after 10 juries, when it was evident how the train was going. Not once did they went to interview him during the reveal. Just another reminder that your country is not good enough, it's not rich enough to host, it's not valued enough to be a winner..

Fucking disgrace... I told myself not to ever bother with this circus 2 years ago and this is a lesson to never doubt myself again... Screw obedient juries, screw EFU, screw Bjorkman for stealing yet another people's win, just like so many other since 2011. Hope to never see you again.

The math?