Dunadan

In none of these sports 11 yo children are training like seniors. Gymnasts might be training hard for their age but they are still 5 years away from being eligible to compete and the difficulties that they train are much lower than any elite senior gymnast. The minimum age requirements work well, it would not make sense to teach children dangerous skills years in advance. I don't even get why the IOC did not push for an age limit to have at least only teenagers and adults competing- from a public relation point of view if an accident like this happened at the Olympics they'd be accused to be child exploiters and murderers.

11 year old elite athlete in a quite dangerous sport almost dies in horrific accident. The first thing she says is that she's going to push even harder for next year's Olympics. Adults keep encouraging her in her quest for glory

Nice study: https://www.wada-ama.org/en/media/news/2020-05/wada-study-reveals-no-meaningful-link-between-tues-and-the-likelihood-of-winning https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2020/05/06/bjsports-2020-102028 No problem in that, you can be on (insert drug) for years, just stop on the opening day of the Games and we won't count you among the TUE users.

See this post with the 1 March ranking by MHSN: Rabat PL and 2021 Euro Championships points will be added to that ranking

First, making only the 2021 European Championships as part of the qualification process does not make sense - either the ranking period is extended for all continents (in that case also previous results in other continental championships, 2019 or 2020, would be removed) or it's not extended at all. The purpose of including 2019 Euro/African/PanAm Championships in the ranking since the beginning was to be sure to include a continental result in the case the 2020 editions were not held in time. This is exactly what happened but now they changed their mind. Secondly, when an IF officially communicates to the public and the member federations the list of qualified athletes and there's no calculation or procedure mistake, they shouldn't change the process anymore - no one forced them to decide but they did.

"All athletes who qualified for the Olympics in 2020 will remain qualified for 2021" , the IOC had said... One month later: "Sorry that was a joke haha".

No, sadly you are an idiot.

Poles do not count. We already know that they are genetically superior and are all vaccinated against measles, which is proven to be 100% effective in preventing a Covid infection.

Wtf Permanent ban and fustigation for dcro please.

Most people who die from this virus are indeed those who, if infected by it, would die for complications related to influenza...in the next 15-20 years. Of course "only this year" it makes much more noise in the media, all of these people are getting killed at once where the virus spreads.

How was the decision taken too late, one month ago it was still mainly a Chinese thing, two weeks ago there were plenty of people still mocking Italians since it was only "mass hysteria" and there were public events with 100k people going on as usual even in Europe...I'd rather say the decision was taken too early, they could have waited one month to evaluate the situation.

It's going to be catastrophic if health workers of all people don't wear masks, one of them could infect hundreds. Just read yesterday of the second nurse in a few days that killed herself after testing positive. On another matter, I feel like living in a sci-fi dystopic movie...if you turn on the tv every few minutes in addition to or instead of commercials you'll see a blue screen with a creepy voice repeating "Stay home. Plan your day around cleaning your house, doing physical exercise. Stay home. Wash your hands,etc. " - voice over actors are really good.

Well known kind of virus, some cases every year, high letality, transmissIon mainly through contact with rodent feces, urine, saliva. So stop eating rat's shit and everything will be ok. Worry about the other one.

Not contagious between humans apparently. Thanks for the panic-inducing thread though.

Probably no one...I am afraid the pandemic will slow down in the coming months and then restart forcing the IOC to cancel the Olympics. Also, we have to see how the qualification will work in many sports first.

What if the situation gets better in summer/autumn but then worsen again next winter in some part of the world...it's better to postpone the Olympics for a couple of months and then maybe to 2021 rather than missing the only opportunity to hold them.

Thanks to an honest Czech researcher it has been revealed that a big cargo of ventilators and masks coming from China to Italy didn't simply disappear...the Czech government stole everything during the transit, despite it was clearly marked even with Italian flags, and distributed it all between their hospital without telling anyone: https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2020/03/21/news/coronavirus_cosi_la_repubblica_ceca_ha_sequestrato_680_mila_mascherine_inviate_dalla_cina_all_italia-251883320/ Poland also stole masks bought by the Lazio region: https://www.romatoday.it/politica/mascherine-lazio-rubate-polonia.html Now Italian government will directly send military planes to transport many supplies to avoid being robbed by other countries, including EU members.

sorry I had no will to finish listening, you can cancel me

[hide] IN : T. Giacomel OUT: Loginov Nation Captains ITA D. Wierer NOR J. T. Boe Nation Women GER Denise Herrmann SWE Hanna Oeberg CZE M. Davidova FRA J. Simon Nation Men FRA M. Fourcade GER Benedikt Doll SWE Sebastian Samuelsson ITA T. Giacomel [/hide]

Now provide a link to a study providing evidence that vaccination for measles or rubella would help in preventing an infection by this coronavirus (otherwise it's just another "fact" pulled out of your ass). And also explain why South Tyrol, the only area with a disastrously low vaccination rate, is not the most affected.

Idiot of the day award goes to: https://nypost.com/2020/03/10/pope-tells-priests-in-livestreamed-mass-to-meet-coronavirus-patients/

Everyone else voted against the Italian Federation which is the only one that proposed to held the races with no spectators but the Italians used coronavirus to protect Brignone's lead. IQ=0.

[hide] IN : J. Simon, Hanna Oeberg OUT: A. Bescond, T. Eckhoff Nation Captains ITA D. Wierer NOR J. T. Boe Nation Women GER Denise Herrmann SWE Hanna Oeberg CZE M. Davidova FRA J. Simon Nation Men FRA M. Fourcade GER Benedikt Doll SWE Sebastian Samuelsson RUS A. Loginov [/hide]

No ranking points will be awarded at the world cup in New Delhi after India suspended visas for Chinese, Italian, Iranian, Korean and Japanese citizens. https://www.issf-sports.org/news.ashx?newsid=3428 So I guess the only events left for the rankings still in the calendar are, at the moment, the shotgun WC in Nicosia and (probably) the Olympic Test Event

It means we have to wait for the government decision - if they are giving in to panic and really implementing those restrictions nothing would take place for a month, not even a school lesson or something like that, let alone a cycling race.