Vojthas

Anteeksi, en puhua suomea.

I can help you with Hungarian and Polish. Russian is also on my "to learn" list, in second place, after Italian, before "something Scandinavian", French (which I'm a little bit afraid of), Spanish and Dutch. I even started Italian, but I'm terribly bad at learning languages alone (while I am really good at learning languages as a rule, which seems strange to me). Finnish is far beyond my interest and after a year of learning it I just know I don't want to

Heretics used to be burnt, you know that? The correct word for that group is "Finno-Ugric", which is part of the Uralic family, while "Nordic" languages (officially "North-Germanic") are part of Indo-European family. Finnish is close to Estonian and is said to be the closest for the Hungarians, which just shows, how far from other languages Hungarian is The thing is emigrants from Ural who came to what's now called Finland didn't meet too many other tribes and this language seems to be closer to the pre-Uralic, while Hungarians met different nations, mostly Turks and it has influences of those. BTW - the closest languages to Hungarian are... Khanty and Mansi - do you guess, in what sport city you can meet these two?

[hide] Knockout Round October 19th - November 2nd, 2019 8 Nations, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Third Place Match and Final Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 October 19th 2019, h. 16:15 England 11 Australia October 19th 2019, h. 19:15 New Zealand 8 Ireland October 20th 2019, h. 16:15 Wales 13 France October 20th 2019, h. 19:15 Japan 5 South Africa [/hide]

I'm back from a "walk" of my nearest commissions (in fact I only went to see mine, but they were still counting, so I made a little tour). It seems that our Olympic champion Szymon Ziółkowski will remain in the parlament as he gets third score on the KO's list in these six commissions (and they should get 5-7 seats). Of course, it's just six commissions in a city being almost a suburb (a big one in fact, but still) of a third biggest town in Poland, but I don't think our way of thinking is far from the Poznanian one. Maybe the thing that might work in favour of Ziółkowski in Swarzędz is the fact he lives here for three years (what I got to know just during the campaign) and he had quite a few posters in the city (including really big ones). To add something to VolleyRuller96's summary: PiS is national-socialistic party, though it is controversial to call any party this way. The exit poll says 239 seats - with so many social programs they set during last four years, spending public money on, as it is said, "buying votes" they have just 4 seats more than in 2015. That's really poor and Kaczyński seems to have understood that finally, that it's not half of country with him, but half of country against him. At least that's what he said, for the first time I think. And he looked a little bit sick/drugged, but maybe that's just my impression - he is quite an old man. KO needs a change - with combining PO, .N, Greens and some other liberals they lose 8 seats comparing to the result of PO alone last time (adding to that 28 seats on .N - that's a lot). The leader Schetyna is not a leader, he's an anchor. And he seems to understand it - he even didn't want to be a prime minister (which was a great surprise, knowing his ego). Their only program is being anti-PiS, which would be enough in a more democraticly advanced country. And they seem to have no candidate for the presidential election next spring. Left - an alliance of three parties - post-comune SLD, Wiosna, whose leader is a gay, and Razem, which seems to be most far left of this trio. Wise, clever people, indeed, but we're not very leftist nation. Still was hoping for them to have about 15%. PSL-Kukiz - if Kukiz loses his rebel, punk ideas, becomes more diplomatic, he might create with them a new centre party. PSL's reputation is simply a whore - they'd go with everyone. 10% is their best result since... I remember probably (excluding local elections, when they usually have good result). Konfederacja - far-right, but with such a little result, they won't have a lot to say - rather a trivia in the parlament. Their presence has two good sides - firstly, they will take some seats from the other parties, mostly PiS, secondly, they're more right than PiS and the only economically right party, so they might take some voters from PiS in the next four years (which then becomes a little bit dangerous). Exit polls/late polls (surprisingly very little change) might be a little bit overestimated for PiS, if not with percentage, then with the seats. Except of PSL-Kukiz they have no one to go to alliance with and alliance with PiS might be something what even this green whore wouldn't do. What's more - opposition has no way to became an alliance as Left and Konfederacja are on the other poles of the Earth. But they might block something together.

Apart or "a part"? ;)

What about the men-men or women-women ? Just another proof that there is no difference between Catholic and Islamic. Neither in such stupidities, nor in the good ways (which are usually ignored by the heads of the local/regional/national/international communities of those religions, breaking the basic rules of those religions - love and peace).

So what's the point of them playing in this tournament? Is it only about women or men too?

I know, where is the HQ The IOC also does.

Roman Kulesza was in London.

Yes it is - I predicted gold.

I propose also :XML :XLS :DOC :PDF and :HTML :D

"Well surprise surprise, a few more lies, or do we simply call them alibis This life we lead aint fooling either one of us And while we're having so much fun let's not forget the lonely ones"

It was a Pre-qualifier to this qualifier

Madrid is one of the places I need to visit some day. What do you think about El Clasico as the Olympic venue test event for Estadio Santiago Bernabeu? :P

I'm 90% sure you can pay in USD there too on such an occasion as Olympic Games.

This year on the occasion of 100th anniversary of Polish Olympic Movement the World Olympic Collectors Fair was held in Warsaw. I've got some good stuff (yeah, I spent a lot of money there, but it was all worth it), including Tokyo, Paris and LA pins

Inspired by @Jan Linha I create this topic. What are your souvenirs from Olympics you have? What are your experiences with collecting and trading? Are you looking for something special to your collections?

I like the guy. I mean I have nothing against Russians as people (although in Poland it seems quite common, unfortunately), but the national doping system instead of anti-doping is something that should be fought with very "cruel" (but justified) way. We will have a new WADA President soon - he is now a Ministry of Sport in Poland. I know he is very strict about anti-doping but I also know he says many things from which the conclusion is "it's not the way you think it is, in fact I can't do anything". I hope that as WADA President he will have possibilities to do what's right. Not only in Russia's case.

I was once trying to build some big sport centre in Google SketchUp. It was fun, until I got irritated I can't draw a real circle, but some polygon.

Lane 1 is 10 cm broader because of the 5 cm high inside edge, so it is fair that eight athletes run in lanes 2-8, which are all equal (while it doesn't matter in the events when everybody can use this lane).

[hide] Event Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Women's Team Day 1 October 8th, 2019 Canada China X France Great Britain Italy Russia X United States X Any Other Nation Men's Team Day 2 October 9th, 2019 China X Great Britain X Japan X Russia United States Any Other Nation Women's Individual All-Around Day 3 October 10th, 2019 Ellie Black X Liu Tingting Tang Xijing Mélanie dos Santos Giorgia Villa Angelina Melnikova Grace McCallum X Kara Eaker Riley McCusker Simone Biles X Sunisa Lee Any Other Athlete Men's Individual All-Around Day 4 October 11th, 2019 Deng Shudi Sun Wei X Kazuma Kaya Wataru Tanigawa Artur Dalaloyan X Nikita Nagornyy Sam Mikulak X Yul Moldauer Petro Pakhnyuk Lee Chih-Kai Any Other Athlete Men's Floor Day 5 October 12th, 2019 Tomas Gonzalez Xiao Ruoteng Emil Soravuo Giarnni Regini-Moran Artem Dolgopyat X Carlos Yulo X Artur Dalaloyan Nikita Nagornyy Sam Mikulak Any Other Athlete X Men's Pommel Horse Day 5 October 12th, 2019 Zou Jingyuan Saso Bertoncelj Cyril Tommasone Max Whitlock Saeedreza Keikha Rhys McClenaghan Ahmad Abu-Al-Soud David Belyavskiy Lee Chih-kai X Oleg Verniaiev Any Other Athlete X X Men's Rings Day 5 October 12th, 2019 Vahagn Davtyan Arthur Zanetti :CHN You Hao Ali Zahran Samir Ait Said X Courtney Tulloch X Eleftherios Petrounias Marco Lodadio Denis Abliazin Ibrahim Colak Igor Radivilov Any Other Athlete X Women's Vault Day 5 October 12th, 2019 Marina Nekrasova Shallon Olsen Yeo Seo-jeong Maria Paseka Teja Belak Giulia Steingruber :USA Jade Carey X :USA MyKayla Skinner :USA Simone Biles X :UZB Oksana Chusovitina X :WHT Any Other Athlete Women's Uneven bars Day 5 October 12th, 2019 :BEL Nina Derwael X :FRA Mélanie dos Santos :GBR Becky Downie :GBR Elissa Downie :GBR Georgia-Mae Fenton :RUS Anastasiia Agafonova :RUS Angelina Melnikova :RUS Daria Spiridonova :USA Riley McCusker :USA Simone Biles X :USA Sunisa Lee :WHT Any Other Athlete X Men's Vault Day 6 October 13th, 2019 :ARM Artur Davtyan :DOM Audrys Nin Reyes :HKG Shek Wai Hung :ISR Andrey Medvedev :JPN Wataru Tanigawa :KOR Kim Han-sol :KOR Yang Hak-seon X :PRK Se Gwang Ri :RUS Artur Dalaloyan :RUS Denis Abliazin :RUS Nikita Nagornyy :UKR Igor Radivilov X :WHT Any Other Athlete X Men's Parallel Bars Day 6 October 13th, 2019 :CHN You Hao X :CHN Zou Jinyuan :CYP Marios Georgiou :JPN Kakeru Tanigawa :JPN Yuya Kamoto :RUS David Belyavskiy X :RUS Nikita Nagornyy :TUR Ferhat Arican :UKR Oleg Verniaiev X :UKR Petro Pakhniuk :USA Sam Mikulak :WHT Any Other Athlete Men's Horizontal Bar Day 6 October 13th, 2019 :BRA Artur Mariano :BRA Francisco Barretto :CHN Lin Chaopan :CRO Tin Srbic X :LTU Robert Tvorogal :NED Bart Deurloo :NED Epke Zonderland X :RUS Artur Dalaloyan :TPE Tang Chia-Hung :USA Sam Mikulak X :WHT Any Other Athlete Women's Balance Beam Day 6 October 13th, 2019 :BEL Nina Derwael X :CAN Ana Padurariu :CHN Chen Yile :CHN Li Shijia :CHN Liu TingTing :CHN Qi Qi :CHN Tang Xijing :FRA Mélanie dos Santos :NED Sanne Wevers :USA Kara Eaker :USA Riley McCusker :USA Simone Biles X :USA Sunisa Lee :WHT Any Other Athlete X Women's Floor Day 6 October 13th, 2019 :BRA Flávia Saraiva :CAN Brooklyn Moors :CAN Ellie Black :FRA Mélanie dos Santos :NED Eythora Thorsdottir :ROU Denisa Golgota :RUS Angelina Melnikova :RUS Angelina Melnikova :RUS Lilia Akhaimov :USA Jade Carey X :USA Simone Biles X :USA Sunisa Lee :WHT Any Other Athlete X [/hide]

I wouldn't say the FIVB World Cup is anything so serious that you can predict other competition's results based on it (maybe except African Championships after the game between the two representatives of this continent). But yes, I agree that Poland will be the favorite (though I hope we won't have to play against host, Turkey outside of its home is much less dangerous than Netherlands at home).