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Booo

Darts just finished, but I'm mostly watching the first round of March Madness basketball. It's quite fun, with a lot of close games already

Kerber beats Garcia 6-1, 6-1, Kasaktina beats Kerber 6-0, 6-2 WTA

Whitlock and Gurney didn't want to win.

Schedule in local time: And as always, (live) results, draws and so on can be found seconds after the races on the official website: http://shorttrack.sportresult.com/

In 8+ years of betting, I've seen a lot, but live bets for the (basketball) Syrian women's cup and Syrian U21 competition....those are new

No medal events today neither..just curling and sledge hockey semi's.

That really is very simple: because there can only be one option that's actually used. Set one standard in case of a tie, and in case people have no problem with it, easy. Really, this is just being overcomplicated. Just add it to threads where the people are fine with it, don't add it where people state they don't want it. If people in the thread (again, those who actually use the thread) can't come to an agreement, you add the Road to stuff yourself. If the only other active Dutch user here would want this Road to stuff in the thread title, perfectly fine, then it's 1-1 and the tiebreaker decides so the title changes. If he's fine with how the title is now, like I am, we keep it like it is now because there's no need to change it. And yes, I do find it annoying that every thread title has this obligated habit of using capital letters where it's 100% unnecessary, but I've put that in the back of my mind and am ignoring it rather than complaining about it Main point (at least for me): "Netherlands National Thread" is perfectly fine, keep it. If the other active Dutch user agrees with your standard and wants that, change it. If not, keep it. Easy.

Yeah, bye Bjoerndalen.

Suggestion: use this 'Road to etc' as standard (so also in case of a 'tie'), but don't use it when a majority of the users who actually use the thread don't want it. Don't make it 'forced'. Btw: anything about 'the user who opened is is not active anymore' is not important at all. The user who opened it is merely that, 'the user who opened it', not the grand ruler of the thread, especially not when inactive.

Yeremin with only 2 misses OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING

But serious, this is rather big. Not specifically because it's Ukraine, only one country, but if other countries were to join, this might have an annoyingly bad impact on sports. If two European nations who qualified for the FIFA World Cup were to do the same for example, we'd get all the orange craziness after all, after easily escaping that in qualifying

It's not specifically Olympic, but also definitely not focussed on one sport, hence it deserves a thread but there's no other section where it fits (because it's also not 'non-Olympic' per se) Full article on insidethegames. Personally I think it's a bit odd to use the political stuff as a reason for boycotting events (in any case, not only this one). The systematic state-sponsored doping would be a much more clear reason, but it's already sort of late for that kind of things. Should have done that earlier, or not at all.

Well, but the biathlon World Cup is in Norway at the moment...come on

I'll try, hopefully with some help from @Dennis Don't expect too much, mostly some Dutch news and stuff like that for starters (at least from me)

Now I'm kinda laughing at Choi falling down in the final in front of his home crowd, that'll teach him (or not, since the World Cup in Japan was after the Olympics, but you get the point)

I will do my best to make the Dutch national thread get a bit bigger though, mostly by posting some news articles I think (since I just really don't have the time (or will) to copy, paste and adjust a million results in all kinds of formats and templates). So that's good

We discuss, fight to the death and come up with one choice or another. (minus the fight to the death part) But since that's not the case yet, this is not something to worry about and it's perfectly fine as it is now

Which I understand, but shouldn't be 'forced'. "Netherlands National Thread | Road to Tokyo 2020" (no idea why it's all with capital letters, but alright ) makes 0 sense when me or @Dennis only use the thread for some more 'national' news now and then. It makes perfect sense when it's almost exclusively used for Olympic qualification, but it's not. So. Yeah. Hence my remark: this should be the choice of the user (or when there's multiple users, the users) who actually use the thread.

I sometimes feel like the French secretly cloned me and the result is you

If a user wants to keep track of Olympic qualification in their thread (like for example @hckosice often seems to do), adding this 'Road to' thing makes sense, because then it's a thread that's specifically about the road to the Olympics. But a user/group of users from one nation who use their national thread only for general stuff (and not qualification) should of course have the choice to not have something added. Like my post above, the title of the Netherlands thread is fine as it is, no addition needed

Also, in Dutch there's not really an expression used for 'road to Tokyo/Beijing/London' or anything similar. That + the Dutch thread being mostly empty and, when used, not really used to keep track of Olympic qualifying means I'll politely decline the addition of 'Tokyo 2020' in the thread and keep the thread title how it is

Former world allround and double Olympic champion Jochem Uytdehaage has said we might be at the end of the 'era' of Sven Kramer and Ireen Wüst, who dominated speed skating for 12 years (with 9 + 6 world allround titles and a shitload of world and Olympic medals). The article is in Dutch, but surely Google translate works

So if you have a national thread in which you don't really post about Olympic qualification, but more about national stuff, you are still obligated to have 'Road to Tokyo' in the thread title? Even when it makes no sense? This is not a choice for the people who actually use the thread?