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Speed skating World Cup This weekend is the World Cup final in Minsk of all places. Nobody cares because all world titles and important stuff have already been decided, resulting in for example 7 women in the 500m, 8 men in the 'mass' start and 3 teams ( ) in both team pursuits and team sprints http://live.isuresults.eu/2017-2018/minsk/ Saddest World Cup Final ever

Not exactly the meaning of dictator, as I'm sure you're aware. Nothing fine about that. Or better yet: kicking Al-Qaeda's ass was just as good as Russia kicking terrorist asses in Syria. Nope. Both of the sides you mention are definitely responsible for war crimes. Sadly nothing is done about that. Obviously Srebrenica is (rather clearly) an act of genocide. Millions dead in Congo was one of the worst crimes in human history, but strictly speaking, not genocide: they didn't die simply for being Congolese, but they died because the Belgian rulers had absolutely horrific conditions for them to work in. Yes, it's all just as bad as genocide, but it simply is not the same thing, just like the millions of dead Chinese under Mao is a huge crime, but not genocide. No problem with a military presence in an 'allied nation', just like at least in the 'big bad West' there's basically never anyone serious who has any problem with Russian humanitarian centers in Serbia. Never heard anything bad about it and don't see any problem with it. Most people who would have a problem with something like that are the "oh my god everything is a big conspiracy" kind of people.

Why on earth was Nepryaeva disqualified? I've seen that stuff with Fähndrich a million times and can't for the life of me see anything she did wrong there.

That's like saying North Koreans working in China or something are not allowed to vote in the North Korean elections, like that's gonna make any difference in Kim Jong-Putin's win

I have no answer to your question, but I did make a thread for MotoGP so we don't have to have it in an auto racing thread anymore

The new MotoGP season started today in Qatar, so I thought I'd open a thread for it and it's support classes. Some interesting stuff this year, with five rookies moving up to MotoGP and all of them actually coming out of the support classes: 'old' Thomas Lüthi after a million years in Moto2, Moto2 world champion Franco Morbidelli, promising Japanese rider Takaaki Nakagami, Belgian Xavier Simeon and the first Malaysian MotoGP rider in history and well-known rain specialist Hafizh Syahrin. Nineteen weekends of racing in the next eight months, with Thailand as the new addition in the MotoGP world, after already hosting the World Superbikes in recent times.

Yes, for the athletes

To be fair, as long as he likes it, even if the results aren't there anymore, why retire? He didn't even keep anyone out of the Olympics, so no problem there.

Yeah, same number of world class athletes, just as much media attention and available live streams, basically it's just as big. And the most important thing I'm forgetting, it's a perfect rehearsal for the time schedule of Tokyo 2020 and it's time difference with where I live...

I could have spent 5 seconds on Google first, my bad I read the name Coria and thought of that immediately. Still one of the highlights in Dutch sports so it's on-topic anyway

Is that the one where eternal underdog Martin Verkerk reached the final? That was the last time 'all' of the Netherlands (relatively speaking, of course, there's always exceptions) was really up and about when it came to tennis, I sort of remember those were two amazing weeks for Verkerk. Odd guy, but awesome guy. And a legend in Dutch sports because of those weeks, in which he went to the exact same Japanese restaurant for two weeks and ordered the exact same every night: sushi, sashimi, fried shrimps and three beers

Nah, not really. Although Gerard van Velde's gold in 2002 definitely would be in my list, but none of the gold medals this or last Olympics really 'did' something for me, it was mostly like "oh" Probably because as a child I cared completely about simply wanting the athletes with the same flag to win Whereas now I'm mostly interested in the athletes I actually like. Tom Dumoulin winning the Giro d'Italia last year was absolutely huge, the Netherlands reaching the World Cup final in 2010 was the single biggest 'thing' in Dutch sports that I can at least remember from my lifetime. The Euro 1988 semi final against West Germany was arguably the biggest though: beating the (back then still very much 'hated') arch enemy, on their home soil....it was before I was born, but from what I heard our always quiet and calm neighbour was crying on his knees in front of the TV The final was nice, but the win in the semi's was the main thing.

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.