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Milan Matos, 1972 and 1976, long jump. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milán_Matos

Aghasi Manukyan, 1996 Olympic wrestler and 1993 world champion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aghasi_Manukyan

Well then, happy new year

Sion 2026 isn't sure yet about where to have the speed skating, there are several options ranging from a temporary venue (they don't want to build anything that's not being used after the Olympics) to.......going to the Netherlands (which I guess should obviously be Thialf in Heerenveen) https://www.blick.ch/sport/olympia/wegen-fehlender-eisschnelllauf-arena-findet-sion-2026-auch-in-holland-statt-id8139831.html

22 September 2018, 08:30 CET

Irina Beglyakov, 1956 silver medal winner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina_Beglyakova

The case of Froome will most likely not be solved before the Giro d'Italia, meaning he will very likely start there. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/lappartient-chris-froomes-case-unlikely-to-be-resolved-before-giro-ditalia/ Terrible for cycling if he is actually allowed to start there..

It's rather unfortunate that a referee from country X gets a match in which his country will go to the World Cup with a certain result and right in that match he has a bad day and right in that bad day, that results in the specific result needed for his own country to qualify. Rugby Europe's president being Romanian as well is just another unfortunate situation in all of this. Imagine the group phase of the FIFA World Cup: Team A Team B Team C Team D In the last set of matches, team C plays against team D and the result of that has a direct influence on team B qualifying for the knock-out phase (as in, team C winning means team B qualifies). Not even FIFA would appoint a referee from the nation of team B for that match, that would have corruption smell out of every side and rightly so. No, this was awful. A huge scandal.

Some analysis of Spain getting royally screwed over by the Romanian ref doing anything he can (with success) to help Romania to the World Cup.

Perfect proof of why IBU's points system (where points can only be earned in serious international competitions with rarely less than 30-40 athletes) is a million times better than that of FIS

If I had any sort of video editing skills, I'd made a video with 15 seconds from part 1 and 15 seconds from part 2 as a video recap videos recap video

At the moment she is, sort of In Miami she'll lose early, then during the year she'll find her way to the top-10

+1 for the video recap videos

Osaka sort of surprisingly won Indian Wells, so like in so many sports, that's gonna be followed by a 1st round exit

If you think the likes of Al-Qaeda and Islamic State are 'good' and should have been left alone, sure. (because rather obviously those are the ones meant) Innocent victims are obviously just as bad anywhere in the world.

Also I've heard water is wet

That was entirely expected, as he already was planning to retire after 2015/16, but came back for one more Olympics (and then won that incredible world title in Hochfilzen).

Yep, he said he wanted to experience the world champs in a full Olympic stadium first and then retire. Sort of a cult hero

Herlings, King of Motocross After Argentina he also takes the win today, 2 out of 2

And on to MotoGP!

Alex Marquez was on his way to catch Bagnaia, but his brake disc got stuck..

One lap after the halfway point, surprise!

Nice race, with Jorge Martin taking the win ahead of Aron Canet and Lorenzo Dalla Porta taking a surprise first ever podium Now on to Moto2, with Bo Bendsneyder making his debut The grid: http://resources.motogp.com/files/results/2018/QAT/Moto2/WUP/Grid.pdf?v3_c4ffb779 The main question of the day: will Sam Lowes crash before or after 50% of the race?

Belgium beat Spain 18-10, which means Romania is going to the World Cup. Very odd and incredible situation: a Belgian win would mean Romania qualified for the World Cup, and what did Rugby Europe do? Appoint a Romanian referee The Romanian referee apparently did pretty much everything he could in the second half to help Belgium come back from behind and help them win in the end. I hope Rugby Europe/the Romanian ref at least took Spain to dinner before they fucked them.

Which led to free pizza on 2 April