Agger

Denmark is in!

Well. It can give them time to find some kind of solution. The actual candidacy phase is some 6 years away

Interestingly they will apparently host the Commonwealth Games the same years! https://imgur.com/a/GJelW

Election night in Norway. Looks like a win for the government consisting of the conservative Høyre and right-wing populists Fremskrittspartiet with the help of the Liberal Venstre and the Christian Democratic Party. But it's still not sure as both supporting parties are pretty close to the threshold with a little more than 10 % of the votes left. A fun, but slightly embarassing, fact: The votes in Bergen are delayed as the cars transporting them to where they are to be counted are queing due to asphalting before The Cycling World Championships

Man. Haven't noticed this countdown before now! Another great job by @OlympicIRL!

Meanwhile Søren Kragh who was a beast on 20th stage was 3rd. Sure it says a lot, but damn it's impressive riding the way he did in the mountains and finishing 3rd on a flat stage the day after! Meanwhile. You can say what you want about the way Froome won, but it's really a massive accomplishment to take the Tour-Vuelta double!

In some countries it's still pretty popular. It's also still on in Norway and Sweden.

I'm pretty sure that there are some limits to the rights.

For bigger countries, yeah. Not for smaller ones. In our (Denmark's) case, I don't see much more than a few sailing classes (49er FX, Laser Radial and possibly another one) as possibilities for extras. I could to some extent do with some more or less extreme situations (maybe something like the doubles in badminton), but it would need to only be a few.

That's better!

Oh come on!

So close to those 80 %

Do you have any idea why it seems to be going that way? I'm rather surprised to see Kirk do better than 3 dutch riders!

Östersund! What a fantastic story (played 4th tier football as late as 2011)

Today marked the start of European Tour tournament Made in Denmark. This is also the 500th European Tour tournament for Ryder Cup captain and Danish golfing legend, Thomas Bjørn. Some great scenes on the already wellknown 16th:

Jesper Hansen

New nations? Nah, we're back!

Pretty decent Worlds for us so far. A rather disappointing loss for Astrup and Skaarup, but the rest of our seeded entries have done what's needed. And some of our secondary singles have done much better than expected with Emil Holst taking a set against Lin Dan and even more Mia Blichfeldt winning against 10th seed Sayaka Sato. But now it gets tougher. 6 entries are seeded to win today, but some of those are still very challenging. Meanwhile it will be interesting to see how young guy, Anders Antonsen, will do against Srikanth! Sadly the TV matches are mainly Chinese again.

Apparently, yes. http://www.lavuelta.com/la-vuelta/2017/us/withdrawals.html

I'm usually using http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=4A6A351C-463C-4229-8233-F7459FAD92B5&d=20170823

According to Danish cycling site feltet.dk Trentin is the 100th rider to have won a stage in all 3 GT's. Impressive!

Leverdez!

And Sailing Worlds starting july 30th

Rather impressive, but apparently Wozzie just won for the first time agains a no. 1 ranked player!

I think it would be wrong to say that it's not working. It's not unlikely that the dopers are still a step ahead in the fight, but it does also seem likely that there is less doping in the sport in the past. At least it seems unlikely that some new superdrug has been discovered http://veloclinic.tumblr.com/post/163303577538/tour-de-france-gc-performance-trends