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about shooting you're wrong...try to shoot 60/100 shots in 60/75 mins without a proper physical training (at least a partial one, including the shooting arm muscles, everything related to breathing and, for those who shoot from a standing position, also the back muscles)... after 5 mins you're going to start hitting the roof instead of the target in front of you because your arm just won't keep straight anymore... however, I understand why most people who never tried to spend an hour or so at the shooting range have that deceptive opinion about the skills required by competitive shooting... Karate is about Kumite...Kata (the "forms") is just a small part of it... and in any case, also Kata is judged not because of personal taste, but according a strict code of execution (like artistic gymnastics)...the various routines do even have a proper name to make them recognizable in advance (so the judges already know what they're looking at and what they are looking for in any exercise)... p.s. meanwhile Kumite perfectly fits one of the 3 main points of Olympic Sports (Citius = Faster), as points are awarded when you execute a proper technique faster than your opponent (not only, there are a lot of versions where the contact between fighters is full, not even semi- or controlled like in the WKF kind of Kumite)...

Karate (and all Martial Arts) and Shooting? yes, definitely... and also Artistic Gymnastics, Eventing (even if that dressage part should be removed and replaced with something else closer to a sport discipline) and Diving (in AG and Diving the real problems are only the biased and/or corrupted judges)... most of the other disciplines you've just mentioned, no...some of them might have something really close to sport events (Surfing and Skateboarding, for instance), but others surely don't have anything to share with sport competitions (among those no-no: all forms of dancing, artistic swimming, dressage, bmx freestyle, rhythmic gymnastics and all the pure "mind games")... that's just my opinion, of course...and I respect all those who have a different one, even if and when I don't agree...

or maybe they will just cancel Khadjiev's name from the list of qualified wrestlers through the world champs and then add an available spot at the world qualification tournament in Sofia...

in an ideal world... but we have to be realistic...with this ioc members, that's not an option...

wow! you just rejuvenated me of about 25 years! now I'm ready to jump on the table and start dancing...

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I'd rather take pencak silat rather than breakdance... once that door has been opened, to me there's no limit anymore...

that was painful... by the way, this year's Spengler was definitely below par in terms of exciting matches... last night's semifinal clash between Ambrì and the Czech Champions was by far the best of the tournament so far... Canada's domination is stronger than ever (this is the 26th final reached by them since they first appeared in Davos 35 years ago )...

and here we have the full results of the Rapid & Blitz World Champs... Rapid Worlds Men's Event Gold: Magnus Carlsen Silver: Alireza Firouzja Bronze: Hikaru Nakamura Full Ranking: http://chess-results.com/tnr499127.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=15&flag=30&zeilen=99999 Women's Event Gold: Humpy Koneru Silver: Lei Tongjie Bronze: Ekaterina Atalik Full Ranking: http://chess-results.com/tnr499128.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=12&flag=30 Blitz Worlds Men's Event Gold: Magnus Carlsen Silver: Hikaru Nakamura Bronze: Vladimir Kramnik Full Ranking: http://chess-results.com/tnr499129.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=21&flag=30&zeilen=99999 Women's Event Gold: Kateryna Lagno Silver: Anna Muzychuk Bronze: Tan Zhongyi Full Ranking: http://chess-results.com/tnr499130.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=17&flag=30

I noticed that yesterday night all the matches were geo-blocked (on day #1 they weren't)... but now in the archive they are free again (but there's no GER vs USA from last night)... they're making quite a mess, I fear...

no, definitely no... I don't know Ladin, but I'm pretty sure that they don't say "ladino" to name their language...

yeah, I called it in Italian and it was my mistake, I should have written its name in English...

oh, you're right... we were really m,aking a mess with the other version...

ok, the race for the second place is on... the top of the podium has already been booked, instead...

it looks that Shiffrin is back in top shape...

fixed by the following posts... we were just going the wrong direction because of my mistake, writing the name of Ladin in the wrong language.... actually, Bun di sounds very much like Buondì, which is a regular way to say "Good day" here in the northern part of Italy (and it's easily understandable everywhere through the Country, even if it's not generally used in the south)...

Ski (both Alpine & Cross-Country), Hockey and College Football will cover my day...

it depends on how long the appeal takes...sometimes they are pretty quick, sometimes they may take years (like in the Egyptian case)...

Romance is a true Romance language, one of the 2/3 still strongly connected to the old original Romance language (the others are "Ladino", spoken in part of the Trento province and lower part of South Tyrol, and "Friulano", which is wrongly considered only a dialect spoken in the extreme north-east of Italy, meanwhile it's actually a true original language of the Romance family)... It derives (as all the Romance languages) from the spoken Latin language of the late years of the Roman Empire (which it was quite different from the official language you can normally study at school and it's still the official language of the Vatican State) and it's spoken basically only in part of the Grisuns and it's been also strongly influenced by the ancient German and the Celtic languages, which were normally spoken in that area before the Romans came there... if you want a lot more details, I guess you need to spend a few minutes reading Wikipedia or some other encyclopedia...

personally, I can only distinguish true Spanish from Latin American Spanish spoken above the Equatorial line and those things spoken in Chile on one side and Argentina on the other (can't really understand all they say in Rioplatense, but I can definitely recognize it among the other versions of the Spanish language, as the accent is completely different...or, at least, to me, as an Italian, it sounds completely different)...

it means "Snow"...