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7 nations who were in Arber last week, are apparently not in Lenzerheide now. Arber had 88 (individual) and 84 (sprint) athletes, it'd be just perfect if today the start list shows less than 80 athletes

Huh, now that you mention it, last time he was active was in August. No idea he had gone missing Yay people who get their feelings hurt that much in a fight on a forum.

The goal: not get lapped. Result: didn't get lapped (although winner Slivko was really close in the last lap, but because Jill skied her 4th lap as if it were her last, she managed to stay ahead and finish ) This week it's Lenzerheide, starting tomorrow. Most important race of the season by far for Bruna, it's a little complicated but basically one can say an immense amount of pressure (and financial trouble) would be gone if she gets a top-80, so let's go. It's cold and - as always - utterly beautiful in Switzerland.

Surely this must be one of the most boring courses ever? If I didn't count wrong, there's literally only two turns, one of which barely even counts.

That's only because Serena W. hasn't announced her plans yet.

The only movies I saw in 2018 were First Man and Aquaman Edit: Aquaman was this year

That was really, really nice

I have heard of exactly two of the nominated movies and seen none of them. I feel left behind

Right, who again are the female users on here? We need some expertise in this matter.

[hide] Knockout Round January 20th - February 1st, 2019 16 Nations, Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Final Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT+4) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 January 24th 2019, h. 17:00 Vietnam 1 3 Japan January 24th 2019, h. 20:00 China 2 1 Iran January 25th 2019, h. 17:00 South Korea 3 1 Qatar January 25th 2019, h. 20:00 United Arab Emirates 0 2 Australia [/hide]

Just came here to say YEAH! for the first World Cup win for Preuss, that was so freaking awesome and she deserved so much to finally have a win

Apparently this was taken pretty much out of context and earlier in the conversation they referred to chocolate as 'dope', meaning that basically it was a joke saying "All we need to perform well is chocolate".

"Belgians use plenty of cocaine, they just go to the bathroom, come back and feel like they are the kings of the world, not missing anything anymore." About a competition in France against players from Madagascar: "We were playing alright and were leading by a big margin, then they went to the bathroom for 10 minutes, came back with these large eyes and suddenly hit everything they could."

I either don't see the joke or don't understand the 'cheating' part

To be fair, the short format of things like Q-School makes chances of surprises a lot bigger, so it might have been a bit of bad luck (possibly combined with indeed some overconfidence). He made it though, just like 1960's figure Scott Baker, who made a hugely impressive effort against Durrant at Lakeside. There's also a Tour Card for 2008 PDC world champs runner up Kirk Shepherd and for Conan Whitehead, who played some brilliant darts on occassion this month at Lakeside. In the European Q-School among others Darius Labanauskas (beat Van Barneveld at PDC worlds) and José de Sousa (nearly a nine darter at PDC worlds) made it.

So, Manny Pacquiao beat Adrian Broner last weekend. Broner was absolutely furious at the judges, even though to be fair Pacquiao kinda dominated him and nearly had him down more than once. Badou Jack was destroyed by Browne, it's a miracle he stayed on his feet until the end.

Typo in 25, where 2018 should be 2019?

Let's see for the Netherlands. NOS (public broadcaster) Standard stuff like highlights of the Dutch football competition, live speed skating when it's world/European championships or a World Cup in Heerenveen sometimes, plus national championships usually. Quite a lot of cycling live, like the main classics and the Tour de France (not the Giro d'Italia, that's exclusively for Eurosport, or Vuelta, because they don't care). World and European championships of sports like field hockey, volleyball or water polo are usually shown (at least the Dutch matches), just like all matches in the World Cup and European championships in football. They're also showing more and more on their website when it's not on TV, like all speed skating World Cups. RTL7 (commercial) Generally speaking it's a regular commercial TV channel, as for sports their main things are darts (PDC, not BDO), which they show a lot, and Europa League football. Also in weekends they have some programs about local car racing sometimes. Every now and then they show live boxing, usually when it's between 20.00 and midnight, stuff like the Joshua fights, but not the fights in the USA. Veronica (commercial) Another regular commercial TV channel, as for sports they show Champions League football and since a while they have the rights for Glory kickboxing, which sucks since they only show the events live when it's at a 'good' time (and only the main fights, the rest they quickly show in around 20 seconds per fight), whereas the previous right-holders showed everything live no matter the time of day. I believe they got UFC rights as well, which is fine for me since I watch that much later and online. Ziggo Sport (paid sports channel) Shows quite a lot on their 7-8 channels. They have dedicated tennis, golf and racing channels, with most PGA and European Tour events and a boatload of motorsports (F1, NASCAR, IndyCar, DTM, Euro F3, GP2, GP3, WRX and sometimes even German F4, all live), plus they've got rights for Champions League football, all the women's (national team) handball, a few NBA matches per week, ski- and snowboard cross, cyclocross Superprestige and I'm sure I'm forgetting a lot. Also football, but I'm not sure which competition is here and which is at their rival (like Bundesliga, Serie A, Premier League etc). They've also got a few cycling races, like the recent Tour Down Under. Fox Sports (paid sports channel divided into Dutch competition football and an international subscription) A LOT of live football, from the Dutch competition to Europa League and the main European competitions, but also South American football, African CL, a ton of national team football. Weekly live NFL games (all Thursday + Monday night games, three Sunday night games and all postseason games), all UFC live (although I'm not sure they still have it now that Veronica bought the rights), a few live NHL games, live MLB and basically all postseason live. Some live amateur football on weekends and probably some more stuff. Eurosport The main channel for sports, promoting itself as 'The home of cycling' and 'The home of the Olympics', since they've got exclusive rights for a lot of it. This is where most winter sports are shown (especially if you combine it with the Eurosport Player you can watch basically anything, live and on-demand, except the IBSF sports), HUGE amounts of cycling are shown there, still too much football as well. They also have all exclusive rights for MotoGP/2/3 (all trainings, qualifyings and races) plus WTCR and things like Le Mans. Sometimes you can catch some minor sports on here, so if that's all you're looking for, Eurosport is your best guess. Still, since they got more and more big rights, they are showing less and less of the minor sports (except for winter sports, that stays).

I'm surprised at that. No matter what, I always prefer watching something (live) on TV compared to a computer or something, because at least for me it's just way more comfortable to sit back on the sofa and relax while watching TV (plus it leaves my laptop and phone free to write on forums, read up on other stuff etc). The only time I prefer watching on a computer is when I'm watching on-demand, so I can skip through parts where not much happens more easily than on TV.

Yeah but the Sprint'thlon doesn't count for anything other than official stats

Bit late, but this was awesome 37 years old (?) and then getting your best ever result after 15 years or so in the World Cup True showing of 'Never give up'

One Duncan Laurence will represent the Netherlands this year. Apparently he was in The Voice of Holland a few years ago, just graduated from music school (or something) and one of the The Voice coaches put his name in the discussion. Never heard of the guy, but let's see

Awesome result for Manex Silva today in the men's junior 10k freestyle. He finished 80th out of 102 competitors, destroyed the fellow Brazilians who were beating him left and right last year and especially the way he progressed through the field in the second half was impressive. Fun fact: he trains in Spain/with his own Spanish coach instead of within the Brazilian structure. Basically every Brazilian who improved in cross-country skiing over the past year or so (across the entire wintersports board) has been training either in another country or mostly making their own program.