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Yep. I don't care much that he retired, I'm already very glad to read he can walk more and more and things like that. It's gonna be a very long way (recovery is much harder than being an elite athlete, his words), but as long as he keeps making progress like that, it's good.

Jelle van Gorkom (BMX, Olympic silver 2016)

More than nine months later and Van Gorkom today has announced he has officially retired from the sport. https://nos.nl/artikel/2256735-van-gorkom-zegt-wedstrijdfiets-vaarwel-maar-blijft-lachen.html He had been in a coma for two weeks after his accident, which was caused by a chain still being on the bottom of the starting ramp that nobody had removed yet. When he woke up, he couldn't walk, couldn't talk and only had a confused look in his eyes. Nowadays he can walk without any help if it's not too far and he can do some light work on an indoor bike, so he is definitely on the long, long road to recovery and a 'normal life'. Considering the circumstances, it's mostly good news.

I had not heard it yet, but here it is: the commentator going with the classic "my sport is the sport that is known to be for everyone and where everyone has a place!"

National champion jersey, European champion jersey, world champion jersey, national team jersey, all from one country

Until today! Oh wait.

Wow what a surrpise

Apu will apparently be silently kicked out of The Simpsons, because political correctness and stuff. Which means the end of The Simpsons one might assume, since if one stereotypical character has to leave, basically all of them will have to leave surely?

Correct https://data.fis-ski.com/dynamic/results.html?sector=AL&competitorid=149658&raceid=86830

Oh well, doesn't really matter. It's the top level

Hello Davis Cup World Group doesn't exist anymore from next year

There is no hurry at all

2017 Universiade women's cross-country please

Oh I thought you meant add one hour to the time during the night (like going from 02:00 to 03:00 immediately)

Zan Kranjec kicks it off tomorrow. https://data.fis-ski.com/dynamic/results.html?sector=AL&raceid=95457

The library

Stupid Wikipedia

Isn't that a HUGE world record

Which is always annoying, because the Australian GP (MotoGP/2/3) starts at 03:00 CET, but I'm always confused if that's summer or winter time, considering at 03:00 the clock goes back one hour, so to be safe I generally either just don't go to sleep or wake up 2 hours in advance

No, go back one hour

That protest against protest and everybody cheering and believing they won and then finding out they didn't and did and didn't in the women's 65kg final

I see a Totallympics prediction contest for fun coming up: predict which of the standard WR's will be gone after the 2018 world champs and by how much kg. Most correct WR's wins and the kg's can be used in case of a tie or something

That 109+ snatch WR is gone after Talakadze's first attempt in Ashgabat

This new weight classes thing, does IWF actually say it's because of the old ones being too tainted by doping? Or are the reasons ignored?