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A bit of news from F1 CEO Chase Carey:
https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.statement-from-f1-ceo-chase-carey-target-is-to-begin-season-in-austria.5zn2chyMjrqC8n0BkEt9e.html
 
"We’re targeting a start to racing in Europe through July, August and beginning of September, with the first race taking place in Austria on 3-5 July weekend. September, October and November, would see us race in Eurasia, Asia and the Americas, finishing the season in the Gulf in December with Bahrain before the traditional finale in Abu Dhabi, having completed between 15-18 races.
We will publish our finalised calendar as soon as we possibly can.
We expect the early races to be without fans but hope fans will be part of our events as we move further into the schedule. We still have to work out many issues like the procedures for the teams and our other partners to enter and operate in each country", says Carey. 
 
 

Hope Solo gave birth to twins.

Happy birthday to the loveliest winter athlete in the world @brunamoura  

European qualifiers are cancelled, these teams qualified based on the final ranking of Euro 2020:
 
             +  as defending champion
 
France almost missed the WCh, they are the last team to qualify from Euro. 

Did u know that Egypt won Euro Basket before?  Yeah that happened back in 1949 in a tournament that was held in Egypt itself and that was the Egyptian team back then 

Thank u and Ramadan Mubarak to all Muslim members here 

Did you know that Thomas Bach was an olympic gold medalist in Montreal  ? Well, he was also a very fine footballer.
 
 
 

it's the start of the Ramadan so Ramadan Mubarak !

That is, unfortunately, the correct decision.

In law you also usually have a little thing called "force majeure". In such scenario normal rules should not apply in some instances.
 
But alright, I guess all those cheaters will have a new arrow in their quiver for Paris 2024 and onwards - release a deadly virus and hope the blasted thing gets rescheduled.

That’s different because of the way their qualification system is worded. The IWF is legally within their right to suspend a country that way, while other federations are not.

Lukman Niode (swimming) passed away today due to illness.
 
He was the flag bearer for 1984 Olympics.

there is nothing to watch these days ,so let's see some old matches
 
so many wrestling fans (including myself) consider Buvaisar Saitiev as the best freestyle wrestler of all time. he is 3 time Olympic Champion, 6 times World Champion and 6 times European Champion. if we count World and Olympic titles, only Aleksander Karelin has more gold medals than him (10 comparing to 9) but then Karelin was a SHW and it's always easier to dominate in heavier weights.
 
if you look at him, and his muscles he doesn't look like a great great wrestler, but he was the most technical wrestler ever without doubt,  his hand work was the best ever. always forcing his opponents to collapse.
 
Saitiev lost couple times in Russian nationals, but as far as I know in his senior career he lost only twice in international competitions, 2000 Olympics group stage to Brandon Slay (USA) and quarterfinals of 2006 World Championships to Mihail Ganev (BUL) , interestingly these 2 guys were not such big big names, Slay only represented USA once and won silver in Sydney Olympics (after beating Saitiev) but then his silver turned to gold after the gold medalist Leipold (GER) tested positive for doping, Mihail Ganev won a world title 4 years later but he didn't even medal in that tournament he beat Saitiev., Saitiev lost that match mostly because he gassed.
 
kind of interesting to watch these matches, rules were completely different back then. even from 2000 to 2007 we had big big changes.
 
 
 
 
 
 
I'm not sure how many times Saitiev lost in Russia but I'm aware of two matches (I assume he didn't lost any more matches) once in 2002 Russian Nationals to Magomed Isagadzhiev and once at 2007 Nationals to Makhach Murtazaliev.
from 1995 to 2008 Saitiev was always Russian repersentative except those 2 years he lost their trials and also 1999 when he gave the spot to his brother Adam Saitiev.
 
 
 
 

Thank you, such a shame we will not have competition this summer

She's not wrong. Most tennis players engage in sexual intercourse between each other.
 
It's not like only women are accused of low standards here. Stepanek & Kyrgios are hardly Mr. Nice Guys. Everyone should remember the Kyrgios/Wawrinka beef over Kokkinakis banging Donna Vekic whom Wawrinka left his wife for. Jurgen Melzer had many WTA "girlfriends" too.
 
Last time I checked Kyrgios was dating Anna Kalinskaya.
 
Robson herself had a falling out with ex-BFF Eugenie Bouchard over the attentions of their coach. It was after Robson's career went sideways and Bouchard was trending up and wanted the coach only for herself. Of course she flamed out in ultra-quick fashion and Robson never recovered from the original wrist injury either.
 
It's been all kinds of mess otherwise. Flavia Pennetta & Gisela Dulko's doubles pair split over Carlos Moya IIRC, Dulko has dated other Spanish ATP players too. Pennetta eventually married Fabio Fognini ofc.
 
Andrea Hlavackova split with Lucie Hradecka because she was apparently involved with Lucie Safarova's coach and wanted to play doubles with Safarova for this very reason. I lost track of all these changes and splits based on pure sexual background and I don't even know how many lesbian doubles pairs split (Lisa Raymond & Rennae Stubbs was deffo one).

Well, she wasn't dating Radek Stepanek which prevented the doom

It's been almost 10 years since Laura Robson dismissed WTA as "sluts". Andreescu would surely fit the take!
 
Let's celebrate the moment!
 
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/7786192/Rising-British-tennis-star-Laura-Robson-describes-some-players-as-sluts.html

Bianca Andreescu is simply on fire in quarantine ??

Tennis is back in full swing! Belarus Cup and the Armenian Amateur League!
 

Medal tables are one of the most interesting parts of the Olympics for me. Yeah probably boring if you are from America because you win hundreds of medals and you practically know where in the table you are gonna finish each time. But for the rest of the smaller nations it really means something when an athlete wins a medal. It’s a great feeling of achievement and the medal table is another aspect of this. And another reason why tables should only be sorted by number of golds won and not total medals because that way smaller nations can climb a bit higher. Fiji with their 1 gold medal beats another medium nation who only wins 3 silvers and 3 bronze. I love that  
 
However, all-time medal tables are indeed boring  

Yugoslavia is different, because the now nations inside it were much more even. While in the SU 80-90% of the medals were from athletes from modern Russia. 
 
The only right thing is to have historians break down the athletes from the now defunct nations and add the medals to the current ones. 
 
This is something that i have wanted to see for many years and as a statistics buff really annoys me..
 
You can't have an accurate all time medal table, when Russian athletes (medals) are counted in one, two, three, four teams, while China for example has all in one. The same goes for other nations. 
 
The table should be adjusted to maximum value each present country with it's historical merit.

They change the articles almost every day, but still here is today's one. UEFA and the clubs organizations have presumably reached an agreement to restart the domestic leagues in late june / early july and then the Champions League and Europe League in august with a potential one match knockout until the end. Then the new football season should start in september. 

I disagree. So, Yugoslavia should be counted together with Serbia, too? Different nations must be listed separately.

Hey all,

I really like the olympic games and unfortunetaly the games were postponed to next year,
so I decided to make a racing bar chart for the top 10 countries with the most medals in the history of the Olympic games,

please see attached the movie:
 


I need your thoughts on the graph and ideas for improvement and maybe more ideas for statistics like that regarding the Olympic games.

Thanks in advance,
Yom

For me the top 5 world cup finals were.......
 
1) 1986: for 99% of argentinians will be like that for the meaning of that World Cup, the last title, with Maradona in his best moment and with the goal of Burruchaga in the last moments of the match.
 
2) 1974: Two impresives teams like Germany and Netherlands makes an expectacular final, is that kind of situation to you want to "win both", Gerd Muller has his deserved title.
 
3) 1950: Uruguay defeating Brazil in that World Cup was one of the better examples "David vs Goliat" of all the world cups for me.
 
4) 1930: The first final, a terrible hard one when the uruguayans start to have the fame to be "hard" with rivals.
 
5) 1970: the best national team ever destroy all their rivals and Italy wasnt the exception, for that reason they are here.