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Thanks to my virtual table prior to the games, I've learnt that the world cup in speed skating means mostly shit (the Netherlands with 8 medals, yea, right) Why is that ? What are speed skaters supposed to do if not racing world cups ? And while I'm at it what's the point of these commercial professionnal teams ? It's not road cycling, it's track cycling, I don't get what the sponsors have to gain there ? Basically, I'm looking for an ABC of Speed Skating that would explain how the sport is running. (the off the field part I mean, the on the field, I get it: people put skates; they're running in circles; the dutch are winning; rinse repeat; it's boring, fine.)

5. 1995 Handball world championsip The first title, the first world championship of many for the french handball NT, which was also the first world title for any team sport in our history. From Group C to world tittle in a decade. Quite the uprise . A bunch of complety over the top guys too. Long live Les Barjots 4. CSP Limoges' 1993 Euroleague Just like the Handball's title, this one was also an historic win: The first french club to ever win the biggest european cup (just a few weeks before Marseille's one). And like pretty much everything else in our sport history, no one expected it. Fred Forte (1970-2017) 3. 1991 Davis Cup victory 59 years after the last Davis Cup, France finally claimed back the title thanks to our wild card Henri Lecomte who decided to show up on the right day and a shacking Guy Forget scoring the last point against a young Sampras. Yannick Noah even managed in making us believe for a moment that Saga Africa was actually not a terrible mistake Chapeau. 2. France - New Zealand, Rugby World Cup 1999 To the kids around here, France as a rugby world beaters might sound like something from an uchronian steampunk novel. Yet, there was a time,.. Beeing beaten by the mighty All Black by 14 points and with 30 minutes to play or so. We said fuck it and decided to score 3 tries to win the game 43-31. According to some people, the game was called a "semi final". I've no idea what they're talking about 1. France 98 Winning the World Cup on home soil for the first time ever ? Nothing can beat that. Millions upon milions took up the streets in celebration. Long live the 90's

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I guess, I'll need to thank you for taking the time to explain to me your reasoning. But boy, you really like to make your life a living hell, thinking about everything that could go wrong. If you let the users chose, I'll garantee you that almost every time everything will go smooth. For the 5% remaining, there will allways be you and/or the mods, and I'm pretty much certain it will take you less time to fix it than the time you've taken to post this message. I don't accuse you to be a 'dictator' (quite the contrary actually*), I'm disapointed in the way you're running your forum trying to prevent problems before they appeared as: a) It doesn't prevent problems ultimately b) It puts you forum under anaesthetic Every succesful forum works the other way around. They are letting users with a great amount of liberty, but rule with an iron hand in cases of stepping over. It's exactly the same discussions we had about letting people making their own threads, making this forum their own, etc. You refuse to do so, because apparently you believe that we would start killing each others whereas there are thousands of exemple which proves that it is not necessarily the case. * I, personnaly, shoud have been warned a couple of times for instance

I could bet right there that no country qualified to the 2018 WC will do the same thing Apparently, there is no time frame in the ukrainian decision. I'm not eaxactly sure what they're epecting . As far, I can tell, they only hurt themselves in the process.

Something about that I immagine: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1062683/ukrainian-government-bans-athletes-from-competing-at-events-in-russia Something, that - btw - in an international sports forum should really be thread worthy, but god forbides: how could it fit in our perfect Khlokoz of forum ?

Clearly, they 'd be blood. Hoppefully, you're here helping us standardizing EVERYTHING, so we don't start ripping each others. Thank you.

I'm older than you, So you really should be the one to be worried about that

Or you know, let people figure out what they 'd like to add.

Major surprise as the swiss parliament is asking to switch the Sion 2026 referendum from Valais canton to national level. https://gamesbids.com/eng/winter-olympic-bids/2026-olympic-bid-news/sion-2026-olympic-bid-in-danger-as-referendum-could-be-switched-to-national-vote/ Most people believe that the referendum won't stand a chance in a national vote...

Pour le water polo, c'était un peu le couronnement d'une génération, la fin d'une aventure, et leur coach est parti (chez les filles). La, ils sont reparti sur un nouveau cycle et pensent plus à 2024 AMHA. Et puis, leur qualif' tenait quand même - un peu - du miracle . C'est d'ailleurs pas loin d'être mon souvenir préféré de l'Olympiade.

Sinon, pour ceux qui veulent se replonger/découvrir la période 1992-2004. Je ne peux que conseiller cette fantastique chaîne, qui mérite beaucoup, BEAUCOUP, plus de vues. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYTIkyAl2uwxaR9XVmOB4rA/videos

Sports co: Handball H/F Rugby à VII H/F Football H/F (à un moment donné, les mecs vont bien finir par se qualifier) Basketball F (Oui, malheureusement) Volley H (en espérant que ce soit réglé le plus vite possible) Hockey H (on ne peut pas échouer à un match de la qualif à CHAQUE fois, right ?) Ni baseball/softball, ni water polo (et si une des équipes doit se qualifier, je mettrais une pièce sur les filles)

If anyone wondered, Brice Roger is the higest bib to reach the podium since Hannes Trinkl who won a Super G race in 1993 with bib 51

Something like "hey, we won the euro championship for the 256th time" would be complety ignored by the general sport fan (to give an exemple) ?

NHL, fine, but the MLB also ?! You're supposed to be the baseball darling of the continent. You'll make the two internationall baseball fans from North America very disapointed.

Rugby League as a fringe sport in Spain and Kenya ? Ok, that's complety BS. In Spain, the sport is about 5 teams around Valencia that plays like 3 or 4 games a year. And is currently not existing in Kenya. I really like the methodology he offers, I'd like to know how he collected the datas though. Some (but not all) are really off.

A medium sport in the US is something like a billion dollar industry, that's not the case for T&F in the US

That's not surpising at all.

It's probably the least BS list you'll ever find on the subject. The guy actually put some thoughts and efforts on it . Crazy ! Edit; there are still some stuff that makes my eyes rolling for exemple: Except for the first two countries and maybe Brazil. I don' see how you could consider AF as a minor in sport in any of this country. Not even a fringe one tbh. I guess, it has a lot to do with Superbowl repports, even if a lot of them threat it like a social event and not a sport's one.

17,440 spectators watched the victory of the french girls iagainst England in Grenoble last night which is an all-time record for a women's game

There was a time when this didn't recquire so many explanation point . Argh...

18.1 seconds for Guigonnat's last shooting