Vojthas

That's the first time I'm not able to translate anything from our athletes to you I can only say, that last month they weren't in such a good mood Now I'm keeping my fingrers crossed for them, so that this weekend we could say to everybody during next leg of the league, that we are the ones who beat the Deaflympics ___ medalists (the empty place to fill in with a color).

[hide] Nation Captains Dorothea Wierer Johannes Thingnes Boe Nation Women Hanna Öberg Denise Herrmann Marketa Davidova Yuliya Dzhyma Nation Men Martin Fourcade Johannes Kühn Sebastian Samuelsson Dominik Windisch Brorsson OUT Öberg IN Lesser OUT Kühn IN [/hide]

Ice master is the term in curling (I'm not sure if it isn't written as icemaster).

Doing text live coverage with the internet breaking all the evening - I was getting really nervous, but somehow managed to do it. My favorite part: HRH Princess Ingrid Alexandra walking in the steps of her father as the Olympic Torch lighter. My least favorite part: Marit Bjoergen's appearance

Watch your words! PS. Did you know, why the bulbs are for Christmas every year. It's the way @Sindo gets more money from the ads dispalying as we still refresh the page to break them Well, at least I do.

Congratulations for my namesake?!

Well, considering the first king of Norway after dissolving the personal union with Sweden was simply the younger brother of the Danish heir...

I just checked Sandra's discography - in year 1990 her "Paintings in Yellow" album appeared. Comparing "Hiroshima" or "JOhnny Wanna Live" to "Maria Magdalena", "Around My Heart" or "Innocent Love" and considering her as a symbol of 80s music - definetely, 1990 was NOT 80s anymore. Don't you dare to discuss with it.

Don't use that simple mathematics with 10-1. Use an even simplier method: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 - and you have a whole decade.

@Olympian1010 This time I agree with facts given by @Monzanator (while I don't like the fact he mentions most of Americans being stupid, no matter what I think about it myself). As there was no year 0, the first century was 1-100. The current century lasts from 1/1/2001 (thank God, it doesn't matter if you read it the logical or the American way of dd/mm ). However, talking about decades... well, I think these are not as commonly used by historians as centuries, thus these opinions might differ. For example, in most music channels you'll hear about the music of 60s, 70s, 80s.. that would be funny to call music from year 1990 the 80s.

So, as I'll probably lose because of my usual bad luck that seems to have shown up again today (and it's not only because of Friday the 13th) I can show my team, then you can try to guess, who will I transfer out and then you can choose that athlete to your team - he or she will surely get many points in the following race after being out of my team.

According to Sebastian Krystek, editor-in-chief of Biathlon.pl, working also for Polish Biathlon Federation - for the first time in history with NO POINTS in a Women's World Cup event.

You know why? Because of our Fantasy: Every f*cking time I do transfers such things happen.

Yes, in fact some kind of sign language is used by every team - to show which stone you should hit, where your stone should stop, with how big force you should throw... However, they need to use it also while sweeping, which is a little bit harder, because that's where most teams are shouting and the sweepers are looking at the stone, so that they don't touch it with the broom. They somehow manage to concentrate on both - the stone and the skip, who is showing with his hand whether to sweep or not. And while discussing the things on the ice they use a sign language too - that's as good for them as their non-deaf rivals don't understand a lot While it's good for us to speak as they don't hear what we are talking about But more a less we know each other's ideas because showing with the broom is natural for both - mute and non-mute curlers.

And I think that's how their pad cover looks like - I use it for league only, normally I have another one for trainings and minor bonspiels.

PS. That's our photo after the game:

Hey, I know the guys from curling team - last month we beat them 8:5 in the league Keeping fingers crossed they'll do well at the Deaflympics, they're really good.

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[hide] Knockout RoundDecember 13th - December 15th, 2019 4 Nations, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 December 13th 2019, h. 17:30 Norway 7 Spain December 13th 2019, h. 20:30 Russia 2 Netherlands [/hide]

Not banning won't stop it neither. EDIT: @Olympian1010 - did I just use the double negative wrong way?

Black Friday

I think you do not see a slight difference: USA, Kenya, probably some others - they have many athletes on doping, as well as Russia does. However, as far as I see, the Russian mass doping system was in fact backed by the government and the country's forces, not the sport administration itself. At least that's what I understand. I highly doubt that Mr Trump, in all his stupidity he shows everyday, says to the US NFs - you need to dope, we will protect you. While Putin...

Well, weightlifting is kind of a different doping category, isn't it? Like the "HC" mountain at TdF.