Vojthas

So, the Polsat TV, the broadcaster having biathlon rights for Poland (Eurosport also has it) has just sent their recent schedule, until 4th December, which means the biathlon is there, so now officially:

Giuliana Minuzzo - first female Winter Olympics medalist, first woman to take the Olympic Oath - Corina 1956, 50 years later she was holding the flag for Giorgio Rocca on the same occasion in Turin. Died at 88.

What is wrong with this conveyor belt? Speedy was losing there all the time - since Q2 through the entire race until his accident. Is it only in Minty Mania or will we see it in the next Marbula One races?

I think the last thing I saw not geo-blocked in Swedish TV was... the wedding of TRH Prince Carl Philip and Princess Sofia?

For me digital piano or a midi 4 octave keyboard (lately I bought one for just 5€ at my favorite flea market), not to mention my beloved electric guitar (let's be honest, electric violin is SOOOOOOO much nicer than the classic one) - these are all instruments. I do also agree that samplers are needed. I don't mean "don't use electronic devices", just the instruments (including electric instruments) should be in the frontground. What I don't like are all those remixes and remix-alike "hits". I bet that very few people at my age and younger would combine "this is the world we live in" with the rest of "Land of Confusion" and Genesis themselves.

This time I "refuse to joke about such a serious thing".

Volleyball Serie A1 Femminile, the comeback of Igor Gorgonzola Novara after COVID of Smarzek-Godek, Washington and Zanette. Today the game against Il Bisonte Firenze. As both opposite are negative, probably Smarzek will play, but Washington might get a little bit more of a rest with "La Principessa" Chirichella coming back to the starting roster (I hope).

I wish I could share your fear, but you know - Beijing is to small for both of our teams. :P

Trap music from @dcro? It means... Josip Glasnović will sing?

But it wouldn't change anything in comparison to simply adding - all the proportions would be held. The round system gives 250 points to different results in every round, which makes it more... yes, youth and urban. I just wonder, if the 1 point in the final, handicap round is enough to make it exciting for the public. Maybe it should be two or three, so that the final round could really be a game changer?

S W E D E N You say music, I say Eurovision, You say Eurovision, I say Sweden, You say Sweden, I say... ABBA? Obviously, even too much. Loreen? Just an imitation of Kate Bush. Måns? Not my style. So, here they are:

So... as we have seven teams of five then I propose compating scores after each series of voting: Rounds 1-4 - The winner gets 250 pentathlon points, every next gets 5 pentathlon points less for every 1 voting point less Round 5 - Handicap start - we add 1 pentathlon point for every 1 voting point to the total score. Then we add the points of team members and... here we know the result.

As we open the Festival of Music entries, I pick

You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave. <MOST EPIC GUITAR SOLO EVER>

Grease is the word! (It's the word that you heard, it's got groove, it's got meaning - PAH-PA-PA-PA-RAH)

As the draw is over I can excuse my absence with a boycott caused by no field hockey among the Dutch symbols.

Do you have a red button always with you in case of the recent printout being threatened? You should.

Come to the Politics Thread and see, how catholic fundamentalism led people to the streets in the middle of pandemic. It's not islam or cathloicism, which is a threat. It's not even religion itself. It's fundamentalism. Any fundamentalism - either religious, or political, or national or any other.

Oh, surely, he is so engaged in fighting for equality, not only for him, but also for other people, yet always does it in a reasonable way, considering different opinions, especially those of his fellow F1 drivers - that's why he's always given the support of his team - Mercedes, a brand very well-known in the world for its resistance to "discriminating policy" of Hitler during WWII.

Beheading in France? Never heard of it. Have you, Marianne?

HRH Princess Ingrid Alexandra, who lit the Olympic Cauldorn at YOG Lillehammer 2016, became the Norwegian Junior Champion, following the sea sports tradition of her ascendants - her great-grandfather HM King Olaf V, three-time Olympic Champion, and her grandfather, HM King Harald V, three-time Olympian - both in sailing. As we can see on that example, sailing is quite an old-fashioned sport, while surfing is very youth and... well, maybe not so urban.

Should be: And the answer is - no.

6 lanes, 25 m pool is not that huge, parcour will be smaller (9 obstacles, 12 jumps - one double, one triple), the piste is on the same stage as podium and the running course will be shorter (600 m) and the range will have 12 stands only (+reserve - probably two). The one in Budapest did not seem bigger than a football pitch. The other thing is what do athletes say: "the end", "they killed the modern pentathlon", "the heart might stop", "did athletes have any vote on this ever?"... the decision is not final and luckily the IOC will gather in December, while the UIPM Congress to approve it will be next year, when the Paris 2024 spot will be sure. Some are however worried about LA 2028 - if we change the sport every four years, it's not spectator-friendly. Athletes (mostly Irish ones) insist on changing in marketing and TV coverage instead of such drastic changes in the format and accepting it (by EB, not finally yet, but...) after just two tests - one in Hungary, one in Egypt. Most of the world didn't have any chance to try it.