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Ffs, go Brazil.

https://www.casimages.com/i/180706071248266484.gif

Edit: this should be an animated image of Lloris, but I' m 88% drunk, so whatever.

il y a 25 minutes, toulousain a déclaré:

Must be the second proposition.

In the case of the French team, most of the players are French-born. Only Mandanda and Umtiti were born abroad.

Not even...  to reach 78% (18/23), you have to count the likes of Griezmann and Hernadez and also Lémar and Varane (whose famillies were allready french citizns living in a french territory at a time when most of the countries in this world cup didn't even exist, but still count as "migrants", presumably becaure they are not white...)

Funny how teams made up of virtualy 100% foreigner-born players like Tnisia or Morocco somehow don't count either...

Nevermind, really.

That statement... ffs... there is nothing in it. He's cleared... because... well, he's cleared. So now please fuck off and enjoy our races.

It's about cycling, it's about UCI, it's about a freakin kenyan boy that used to be tracted by car just to make the finish line who has became one of the greatest GT riders of all time. You need to make it crystal clear why he's cleaned. Do they think, this statement is even remotly enough ? Really ?

And now, I tend to beleive that ASO move was only PR knowing perfectly well he was going to be cleared.

Fuck that sport, really.

Fuck ! Fuck.

https://lequipe.fr/Cyclisme-sur-route/Actualites/Christopher-froome-blanchi-pour-son-controle-anormal/918042

Froome cleared.

Edit UCI's statement:

http://www.uci.ch/pressreleases/uci-statement-anti-doping-proceedings-involving-christopher-froome/

il y a 2 minutes, heywoodu a déclaré:

And luckily we have the addition of 'Men's Road Cycling' in the thread name  

It's not complete enough anyway. Is it just an UCI race ? What about ASO and other sponsors ? We agree it's a men's race, fine. But are they binary ? Cisgender ? And the date ? 2018 , ok . But is it BC or AD ? Very confusing.

Oh, look, a fantastic original first post  

Juste maintenant , heywoodu a déclaré:

There's nothing equal when Bernal takes to the start 

If Froome doesn't take part,  Sky will GTFO too IMO. If anything, by pure hubris.

Il y a 7 heures , Federer91 a déclaré:

There should have been a decision long ago on the Froome case. ASO are in their right and i'm also welcoming the decision (if it stands). With or without him, this looks on paper to be one of the most exciting Tours in many years.

If Froome is out, this could indeed turn to be an epic Tour. Leaders of relative equal strenght and no team do demolish the field 

In the meantime...

France

Sevens W: 100%

Handball M: 95%

Handball W: 95% 

Basketball W: 85%

Sevens M: 85%

Football W: 80%

Basketball M: 75%

Volleyball M: 75%

Football M: 50%

Field Hockey M. 15% (don't really know the percentage)

Water Polo M: 10%

Water Polo W: 10% (Perhaps, not sure really)

Field Hockey W: 0%

Volleyball W: 0%

Baseball: 0%

Softball: 0% 

We had 9 teams in Rio, according to this, we should have 7.75 teams  in Tokyo  

https://lemonde.fr/tour-de-france/article/2018/07/01/christopher-froome-ecarte-du-tour-de-france-par-les-organisateurs-l-equipe-sky-fait-appel_5323956_1616918.html

Apparently ASO has banned Froome to take part of the TDF... If you don't care about soccer, this will become your favorite TV show for the days to come.

Sky has allready appealed it, and the case will be reviewed by french NOC tuesday (the decision should be announced the day after). There shouldn't be enough time for the CAS to review it by the start of the Tour.

Sky : " We are confident that Chris will take part as we know he has done nothing wrong" . Yeah, right.

Parcours

Stages

Startlist

TBA

Totallympics Results Thread

TBA

Emotions enough for a world cup.

That's all I asked for, thank you guys

Sur 27/06/2018 at 19:47 , Fly_like_a_don a déclaré:

Why will choose hockey 5s. They want a gold as they are the defending champions in rugby sevens 

To show everyone how retarded this rule of chosing one team sport is ?

Sur 24/05/2018 at 18:29 , Fabinter a déclaré:

 it's almost unbelievable that a little town like LODI is so good to earn two Italian titles in a row !

Don't want to waste your party, but not really, a minor sport (and rink hockey is defintly minor in Italy) will tend to shine in minor towns. That goes for any sport, probably everywhere .

50K is a rather good standard for an european top rink hockey club .

Is it any wonder that these events still get some cities bidding for them. The financial loss might be substantial.

Juste maintenant , Pavlo a déclaré:

 "death" in our anthem is rahter symbolic - it`s like "Poland hasn`t ended yet" 

What an incredible positive song.

Il y a 3 heures , Vojthas a déclaré:

6:0 6:0 in tennis is "rowerek" in Polish, which is a diminutive for a "bicycle".

Also used in french (not very common).

Much more common, is the use of the word "fanny" when a team or someone is scoreless in a game or a tournament. The origins of the expression are rather nebulous, but it has been popularised through the world of pétanque of the early XXth century when the losing team had "to kiss fanny ass"  as some kind of a punishment.

Nowadays, It's used in sports as in everyday life.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrasser_Fanny

il y a 37 minutes, thiago_simoes a déclaré:

I was reading the list of topics and the national thread of Slovakia had the sentence "Cesta do Tokia" added to it. Then I remembered that in Portuguese we usually say "cesta" (literally: basket) when someone scores (one, two or three points, it doesn't matter) in basketball. This made me curious about other languages, since there might be different or unique terms related to sports and we have people from all over the world here, so I would like us to share what we might know.

As a side note, it's amusing that in Portuguese the name of the country Peru refers to both turkey (the animal, not the country) and a penis. Their slogan, "arriba Perú", is sometimes understood by Portuguese speakers as "rise up, cock". 

Same in french: 'panier' (litteral translation of basket) is used when someone scores. The term 'basket' is commonly used to name the sport when basketball connoisseurs tend to prefer to use the full term of 'basketball' (in a kind of 'I'm better than you' way )

Il y a 2 heures , hckosice a déclaré:

 

and yes, very expensive, but well if they agreed and have no problem to pay it, so where´s the problem

Apparently, it's all been paid by the hungarian government... 

Il y a 3 heures , hckosice a déclaré:

 

 

Both clubs payed 900 000 Euro to play in our league (In fact every opponent will receive some 90 000 EUR), The deal is official for 1 (next) season, but with option to eventually prolong it for at least 3 next seasons.

 

 

Both combined or each ? In any case (and no offense to the slovak league) that seems quite expensive...

il y a 3 minutes, Nate River a déclaré:

Sion had the best bid IMO, it’s a real shame to see them withdraw.

Yes, it had (except for the speed skating thing). I don't believe Switzerland could had a better bid tbh. It's more that possible that we will never see a swiss bid ever again...

il y a 17 minutes, Swewi a déclaré:

What do you think about the swedish chances? Should be good since we have never had a winter olympics and are one of the top winter nations, and we have many successfull organized wintersport championships in the past.

I'd say that if any (western) european city makes it to the final candidate stage, they will have it in the bag. The thing is, I don't believe anymore that a western european bid will survive so far (Sion was my best hope).

And now, Sion is gooooone too.

https://www.lematin.ch/suisse/Sion-2026-c-est-non-aux-JO/story/14427188

So no olympic speed skating in the Netherldands I guess