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They already did that a while ago, including checks. Or at least they prepared it and started with the checks. Which in at least one occassion led to a bottle of fluor being found in the Brazilian wax cabine at an IBU Cup

Isn't it time to be done with those cheap spots through the Nations League? I mean, come on: Estonia get one (1) single point in eight qualifying matches, and is still in the race because they're in the easy Nations League division, whereas quite a few clearly stronger nations are out because they're in a harder Nations League division...I know this was obvious since the beginning of this system, but this is just ridiculous

And apparently it wasn't even cancelled, so they (referee/authorities/whoever) just accepted it as 'oh this is slightly annoying'?

Well in that case, does he want to go back in time and collect their foreskins or what? It's just a weird and rather sick overall thing to say anyway

If true, this is pretty sick. Actively calling for purposefully maiming genitals - like in Bible stories - in a way that should incredibly obviously only ever be done to adults who make the decision for themselves (or in medical emergencies).

With times like this I would never say no to moving it forward an hour, but if not, the chance is still fairly good I'd post the Dutch votes anyway I mean, European users have had the 'good' (daytime) hours almost every single TISC anyway, so if this time that's not the case, so be it

I'm definitely planning to go, but it does somewhat depend on who qualifies

I like the system in general, although I would like something like a basic minimum limit in order to get into parliament, because it's just a massive mess with 15+ parties realistically getting seats (including a lot of small ones) and a lot of those parties disagreeing with each other on just one or two specific things. We'll see how it goes tomorrow, I think it's quite long ago that three or even four parties were this close together and all having a realistic shot at becoming the biggest. Last time it was clear well before the elections, and before that it was a two-way fight or something with three or four being clearly above the rest, but nothing like it is now: VVD, PVV, PvdA/GL and NSC all have a more or less serious chance at becoming the biggest. Things might be easier in terms of forming a government: majority of 76 is needed and any combination of three of these four would be quite likely to get there. PvdA/GL being the only left party in that short list means it seems pretty likely we'll get a VVD-PVV-NSC government (unless Wilders, like so often, just makes it impossible to form a government with him so he can keep shouting from the sidelines).

Referee tripled his money with his sweet San Marino +1.5 bet Also: first time ever San Marino scores in three consecutive matches, that's pretty cool

Latest polls for tomorrow's Dutch elections, probably the last ones before the actual elections (this one is a combination of the two main 'poll providers'). Geert Wilders (that blonde right-wing guy) getting dangerously close to the top. Meanwhile the FvD leader (conspiracy nut and right wing nationalist Thierry Baudet) got a whack on the head with a beer bottle yesterday, after being hit with an umbrella earlier this month. Attacks on any politician are bad, obviously, but hopefully this doesn't lead to extra sympathy votes or something Meanwhile I still haven't been able to make my choice. I wrote down the entire list of 27 parties and am now in the process of eliminating them one by one for various reasons (one wants to stop supporting Ukraine, so bye, another is the strictly religious party, so bye, another is Turkey's party, so bye, conspiracy nuts, bye, etc), hopefully I can get it down to 4-5 or so and make my choice a bit easier...

They can do that after Churandy Martina and Liemarvin Bonevacia retired please

Video challenges should be the way to go anyway...it is just super weird how VAR is being used now, by first taking ages...not to make a decision, but to decide 'ok, we are going to look', and then looking for ages, and then taking an actual decision. Give both teams 2-3 challenges, and maybe the referee as well, and let the VAR - who is an actual referee anyway - make the decision. That would save tons of time and make games a lot more fluent.

Come on, four goals in one match now and he couldn't make even one of his roughly 1800 chances in the deciding group match in the World Cup last year?

This just looks like a regular road. Greetings from autumn in the Netherlands

Damn, there's disagreeing about stuff (even strongly and so on)....and then there's posting language that could actually get one into some legal problems. Edit: huh, Slovak buddy closed the thread apparently while I was typing my post, and in that case apparently I could still post mine despite it being closed (which I hadn't seen yet) Forum bug

There was no Fledderus in the Dutch team, it was Antoinette Rijpma-De Jong who did the last lap Also no Martyna Baran for Poland, but Iga Wojtasik. As the Dutch commentator said today: in the team sprint, the start list is really more of a 'suggestion on the possible start order', because there's last-minute changes which often aren't communicated in any way, so the only way to know who was riding is by actually watching the races And yes, Dubreuil was 18th last week, so relegated to the B division. Just like Schouten will most likely have to ride the 5k in the B division next time.

Yeah, I can especially see Swiss, Italian, Austrian, German, Norwegian TV and so on be rather unhappy with it, so I don't actually see it happen, but it would be awesome Too bad there's maximum altitude rules in the World Cup, otherwise biathlon and/or cross-country could go to Portillo at nearly 3000m where South American championships have regularly been held....that'd be something I know alpine has had world champs there, but an endurance event...oof

Yeah, the whole Zermatt thing sounds great, but didn't work out so well...still curious if they can try it in a different time of year perhaps. Chile would be awesome though, it's the World Cup, it shouldn't be utterly impossible to have something like a back-to-back weekend in Chile + Argentina every few years (and one in Oceania on some other years). "But our training schedules!"...yeah, adapt. You're an athlete.

Nice job by the Italians And Swings once again losing in the final sprint because of closing too many gaps early on

Excellent race for the Han dynasty's best ever speed skater

Postponed to 12:30....

Super slow race for Schouten, wouldn't even be close to the podium in the B division (where, granted, Groenewoud was fast, but the rest was nothing special). NOS guy in Beijing says the ice is very soft, so they may have thrown way too much water on it or something. 4:10 for Schouten, 4:20 for Greta Myers, both are just awful times for them, there is no way this is not due to the ice.

Ugh, Nuis being Nuis. Doing an interview after the race, an official doing his work points to ending the interview because it's podium time, and despite just having had a fantastic race, Nuis can't just laugh it off and say "be there in a second, thanks!", but angrily goes all "Oh film that guy, film that guy! Unbelievable!". Reminds me of him angrily grabbing an official's accreditation in a threatening manner in Collalbo after a DQ He's a great skater when he's 'on', but man I won't miss him when he retires.

For those interested, we have the main elections coming up Wednesday. Weren't planned yet, but you know, political problems and then the government 'fell' and here we go again Of course there's several things making polls, this is one of the most well-known ones and it's from yesterday, so the most recent one I could find. The dates speak for themselves, TK2021 means how many seats (out of the total of 150) the party currently has, 'Verschil met vorige week' is the difference with last week and 'Verschil met TK2021' is the difference to the previous elections i.e. the current situation. Nieuw Sociaal Contract (NSC) is the latest addition, founded a few months ago by a guy who split from the once very big CDA and gaining tons of traction since. BBB is the 'farmers party' which absolutely destroyed the rest in the regional elections earlier in the year, but seems to be somewhat dying off already. Still, going from 1 to 7 seats is of course a success. VVD is the party of current and soon former prime minister Mark Rutte, PVV is the party of fairly far-right Geert Wilders', who has always been shouting as part of the opposition. PvdA/GroenLinks were two parties last time, they merged this year. FvD is our even further right party, with rather significant suspicions of ties to Russia. Scheduled for 5 seats, so going down from the current 8, but still 5 too many I'd say. D66 and CDA are somewhat in the middle, we've got PvdDieren, the animal rights party. SP is far-left, BIJ1 is the extreme version of far-left: where SP is very left and opponents don't really like it, BIJ1 is actually hated because it is basically as extreme as FvD, just on the other side. They are and will remain insignificant, but will keep shouting forever. DENK is the party that shouldn't exist, where the ties with Turkey are so strong it's mostly being referred to as 'the long arm of Erdogan'. SGP is the very strictly Christian party - you know, anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ stuff, anti-everything. Fun fact: SGP is also the oldest party in the Netherlands, over a century old (and kind of still living in that time). Also, SGP is the most steady party in Dutch politicals: you can basically always count on them having 2 seats, sometimes 3, sometimes 1, but it's always around that. Basically everyone who vote on them do so for religious reasons without even looking at their party program and that religious group is more or less always staying the same. Another fact: nationally they are a fringe party, but in the municipality where I live they are usually one of the three largest (in the smaller towns around me they are often actually the largest, by far). Oh well, the only advantage for me is that everything is closed on Sunday and I love the quiet that brings That's basically the main things, I think, for now. Still some days to decide my vote (although my list is shortened by quite a bit already because certain parties I simply refuse to vote for), we'll see on Wednesday