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You might want to get some reading glasses, it's right in there

I can only watch the medal fights on-demand anyway (Eurosport), so for the rest I just go by the results. The medal fights with Dutch athletes I'll skip a bit less, depending on how it goes. If it's minute after minute of just standing around and trying to get a grip (which is the case in most judo medal fights sadly), I'll just skip bit by bit

Ah yeah, cross-country here as well, and I'll keep an eye on the judo Grand Slam in Antalya (mostly that will consist of skipping through the medal matches to see if anything interesting happens, I can't bring myself to watch 7 hours of judo in a weekend ).

Here it's going to be one of the quietest sports weekends of the year, since it's the switch from winter to summer sports basically (in November there's usually a weekend like that too, the other way around) All winter sports I can or want to watch have finishes, there's no F1, MotoGP, WSBK or IndyCar. Main things are problably Formula E in Tokyo (which is finished by the time Saturday gets underway) and of course Sunday is the number one sit on the sofa and shut up day of the year, the High Mass, Flander's Most Beautiful, Tour of Flanders Some small stuff around it, like a bit of darts and some junior racing, but that's about it. Oh, and of course rowing on Sunday, The Boat Race Perfect weekend to catch up with lots of stuff, with Saturday and Sunday being fairly quiet (or easy '1 at a time' days) and Monday being a free day because of someone dying 2000 years ago

Eurovision Sport, ugh. Why is everything on their broken platform

Such a bummer. Obviously no fan will be happy to see someone get injured anyway, but it really devalues the next few big races. Of course in 10 years nobody will be talking about who wasn't there, as always, but during the races people will.

With gold for a guy born in 2010. Fantastic, that's two years after I left school....now I am really starting to feel old as well.

Somewhat risky Austrian regional championships on the schedule, apparently. https://worldathletics.org/competition/calendar-results?disciplineId=2

Have fun!

That was the Martin Haven highlight of the year, much as we all wanted a real climax, he seemed to very much enjoy closing up the season with some random talking about stuff behind the scenes

New things? I don't want new things

Still ridiculous that the races in Austria and Switzerland are always so weirdly sold in terms of rights that even FIS themselves isn't allowed to put the tiny highlight videos of them on their own channel...

If any version of hell exists, ISIS rotting there is at least something we agree on

It would feel slightly odd: going to the number one traditional rest day, to avoid old-fashioned traditions (if they exist).... Kidding aside, no idea if it would work. I would personally not like spreading it over two days, since that'd simply take away the 'Grand Final day' feeling. I've also always been happy it is on a Saturday, because it's generally a long day and especially the second half of Sunday mostly feels like "ugh, have to work tomorrow"

Pretty good summary of the situation so far

Right, that can be your opinion of course. Just makes no sense to call her 'dumb pro-war amoeba' considering her consistent anti-war stance, but alright, if that's your wish, so be it

Is that the Sabalenka who consistently has said she doesn't support the war? Also, not weird she eventually ends up losing big, considering her tragedy earlier this week.

Sure, but I am baffled by this Wikipedia-only fight somehow finding it's way to Totallympics, instead of staying there. For people who aren't really into the minute details of editing Wiki pages, this thread is so incredibly....odd

One of the most 'interesting' entries for me was the Mexican one by the way. It started fantastically fun and after 20 seconds I was convinced it'd score high on my list, but then the singing started and was just a bit too 'flat' and repetitive for me (like it never really gets going, for my taste at least), whereas the fun first part never really came back later on If they have more songs where that first part features more heavily, I'd love to hear them

It also kind of felt like this might be the TISC with the largest number of votes being posted by the organizer instead of the actual voters. Too bad so many juries were apparently busy (too bad for them especially, because I think we here all had fun as always )

Right, time for bed, alarm for F1 in Australia goes in under 6 hours

Italy it is Congratulations, fantastically fun song!

I don't think I've ever seen it this close between three countries, all of whom I had in my top-5

Somehow more people voting should make it slightly more predictable though

Possibly, but I'm loving the tension anyway