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Ah no, that is highly unfortunate I thought in the case of one or two missing songs, everyone would do the same: just look those up separately. I'll see when I have time to make one for myself and start listening then, YouTube is awful for listening on the way (since you have to have the app opened and the screen on). Edit: as so often I kind of overreacted, sorry I'll post mine here in case anyone wants it anyway (and list which songs I couldn't find)!

I believe we have a thread for that as well, but I'm too lazy to find it right now

But why would France add cricket? Remember, this is about countries specifically choosing some addition, like the US choosing flag football (which probably 99% of people outside of the US have never even heard of)

Right, if we can also add disciplines/events instead of whole sports, marathon speed skating and cyclocross would be good choices indeed. Even better: kick out the mass start and replace it with the marathon

Nobody cares about korfball though I don't mean internationally, I mean here in the Netherlands. I believe there is like one derby between two small towns that's a big deal....in those two small towns, but that's about it. You'll find more people who can name 10+ current MotoGP riders and 10+ current biathletes (to pick a random example of relatively small sports here) than people who can name a single current national team korfball player, no doubt. Sure, without korfball I wouldn't exist, but still

Nothing, really We don't have any sports that are children's versions of real sports (flag football) or that are real sports but immensely popular in a very specific area yet entirely unknown outside of it (cricket), so....yeah. I wonder how @Dennis, @Jinzha or @Noorderling29 would see this, but I very much doubt we'd add something 'Dutch' like kaatsen or fierljeppen which are Frisian things specifically and basically entirely unknown outside of it (personally I only know of their existence and that's it)

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That would be fantastic! I always end up forgetting to listen everything in time because I'm waiting for a 'good moment' to sit down and listen, but with a Spotify playlist I can simply listen basically the whole list in one cycling training without needing to take specific time for it

Now that's some glimmer of hope, let's go Kuzmina

Damn, Belgium was so close to their first ever Olympics

And the only non-pacer who followed him, Mateiko, taking the lead for a grand total of....2 seconds, maybe? And I am assuming he's also running on those one-race megasupershoes

Kelvin Kiptum is running an amazing race in Chicago and very much attacking Kipchoge's world record.

I truly doubt Palestine having it's own state (or not) is going to have actual influence on whether or not that entire area will ever be peaceful for - let's start 'easily' - half a century. Sadly. Much like the whole Armenia/Azerbaijan thing, that's never going to be a calm part of the world for more than a couple of years...

I'm definitely not an avid gymnastics follower, but at least at Olympics and world championships I've been watching it for quite a few years now. Today I came to the realization that the low bar in the uneven bars is not standing straight, but at an outwards angle Well damn.

Yuri van Gelder has some nightmares about it as well, like needing to become world champion simply to qualify for the Olympics Although his never-ending drug use was a bigger issue, admittedly

Hopefully she lost it....nothing against her at all, but it wouldn't be a good sign if someone gets a medal with 50% of her final having gone wrong

Finally I'm caught up on everything and can watch live and first thing I see is Biles messing up her final....oops

One of those questions with an answer probably everyone knows in the back of their minds.

Things having gone to shit in the eternal Israel/Palestina wasp's nest again Palestinian and Israeli leaders have so much blood on their hands by now (not today, but throughout the decades) they can fill several Olympic-sized swimming pools with it... If you've got a weak stomach, better not open social media today and search for anything related to this, there's quite some gruesome stuff from the terrorists on it.

Whoever they arrested already makes it quite clear this has nothing to do with some 'anti-Poland' thing. It is really easy: said players, whatever their nationality may be, would not have been arrested if they had behaved themselves somewhat normally. But yeah, narratives must be set, and of course 'it is the fault of the police' is always a lot easier to sell to the masses than football players and hooligans acting like....well, hooligans. Maybe the players took a page out of the book of their 'fans' (hooligans, one should say), who violently stormed the gates already before the match. Good thing there was a lot of police present, these problems were....expected, to say the least. Dutch media isn't going to spin much though. It's a day ago and already almost nobody cares anymore, this will be forgotten before the weekend is over now that the aggressively acting players have been released.

Of course as always I know I had a song in mind last year, but forgot which one Now there's a song I really, really like that is from March 2019, tiny bit too 'young' for this contest, but I wrote it down in my agenda for next year

Miss Montreal - Just a Flirt

That too, although for countries like Brazil that's probably less of a 'thing'. They mainly go for the free money every starting athlete gets and the tons of free equipment they get per season

Funny, because other countries go to events like that because it gives them lots of free IBU money