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Because nobody close to me got married - Parents: married before I was born - Aunts/uncles: same thing - Cousins: not married yet mostly, although one did but I was too young to go there - Friends: Either not married, or in the case of former school friends who did get married, lost contact long ago Who knows, the very first wedding I attend in my life could realistically be my own

Ask random questions and you get random questions shot right back at you

Oh boy, we can destroy Greece and Croatia not once, but twice

Birthdays here are usually not really celebrated with songs, but if someone hosts sort of a 'party', I can imagine there is some music in the background. Nothing specific though, generally speaking (of course there's always people doing it differently) About a wedding, I don't really know, never been to a wedding But I'm guessing it's mostly happy music, or some love songs. About the mother of all sad events, a funeral, I think it depends on the situation. At my grandma's funeral a little over a year ago, there was no special service inside a church or something, it was all around the grave, and there wasn't really music there. On the other hand, when a cousin of mine got cremated early this year (found out he had cancer at the end of November, died on 1 January, leaving a 10-year old daughter, the world is cruel), I wasn't there (not so close to him) but I heard they played some 'nice' music, like Hotel California. Which brings me to another question (for everyone): have you guys and girls ever thought about the music you would like to have played at your funeral/cremation/farewell service? I know some people here are like "oh my god I don't even wanna talk about that", which I never understand, because why not simply make sure that your wishes for your farewell service (even if that's 50+ years from now) are written down? You never know what can happen. I once said jokingly that I would like Lordi's "The Devil is a Loser" played at my funeral, although I don't think everyone in my family would appreciate that

Actually it's really rather easy Personally I'd find Ignjatovic's name harder to pronounce, because of the 'gnj' (and I don't have troubles with that neither)

You mean Sara Dellantonio? Since that's the longest surname here in terms of syllables...

Then I found an English article talking about a 'suspended ban', so now it's a suspended suspensive suspension, yeah I'm out

Right, I got confused by the word 'suspensive'

And for those who used the same page as I did during the Olympics, it works exactly the same for the Paralympics now https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/game-time/results/PWG2018/en/general/competition-schedule.htm

What do you mean? If one has three no shows, shouldn't one simply be suspended and, as long as an investigation is going on, definitely not be allowed to compete?

Three no shows in one year if I read it correctly? He turned pro after the Olympics, but I don't think we should call any athlete who has 3 no shows professional....

Nope, you're too late.

Great idea! I wouldn't even doubt, just pull out, done. As for the now vacant spot:

Yep, and my heart hurts every time I think about stuff like awesome shooting events being removed in favour of nonsense mixed events that's only being added for political reasons instead of having nice sports.

From a BBC interview with Wiggins. How nice, getting TUE's for stuff that didn't happen yet All to 'compete on a same level' (the most-heard doping excuse basically) Big coincidence by the way, all of his three cases of allergies, which he got TUE's and medications for, came up right before the three major races he wanted to win! Who could imagine such a coincidence! I truly wonder how long they're going to be able to keep all this up. Sky, Wiggins, Froome, the whole circus looks like it's about to collapse and once it does, it's probably best never to speak about all this again, and pretend they never existed in the world of sports. It's of course a shock to nobody, but honestly I find it a lot more annoying than the Russian state-sponsored doping scandal. Team Sky and their super high horses about how super duper clean they are. Ugh.

That's exactly the reason I thought of (maybe because I watched basically everything on BBC and they talked a lot about it)

Luckily we don't have that in figure skating yet...

I really want to see women's Nordic combined at the Olympics by the way, having a sport where only men or only women compete is quite odd, but for the love of everything, not yet. This season was supposed to be the grand start of women's Nordic combined, with so far a grand total of one Continental Cup weekend (the other one was cancelled), with a breathtaking amount of, hold on to your hats, 12 athletes! The children's competitions (mostly 2003/2004-born athletes) do have a significantly higher number of athletes, so for 2026 it looks quite promising to have a somewhat serious field of women in the Nordic combined. Not for 2022 though, that's too early. FIS, for the love of Nordic combined, take the time to build it up into something serious first.

Women's doubles luge is not even a thing yet. They were trying out sleds (!) a few months ago and want to add it to the Olympics in less than 4 years? That's even worse than the speed skating mass start.

Oh I absolutely do. But always when I thinj about it, basically what @phelps said is what comes to mind. Why would I care about a random German person skiing 0,10 seconds faster than a random French person, or a random Australian person swimming 0,02 seconds faster than a random Canadian person? But always phelps' answer is what comes to mind Just in this case it's so cringeworthy that Sky has always been putting themselves on the front as the clean team, hiding behind their marginal gains (fluffier hotel pillows, wetter water in the showers, that kind of stuff), yet it has been stinking like holy hell for years and now all this comes along. I truly hope that farce of a team is gone by 2019.

The net around Team Sky, Wiggins, Froome and all that stuff seems to be closing more and more. https://www.eurosport.com/cycling/tour-de-france/2018/sir-bradley-wiggins-and-team-sky-crossed-ethical-line-uk-parliamentary-report_sto6664165/story.shtml So, Vincenzo Nibali (of Astana ) as the last Tour de France winner if this keeps going the US Postal/Armstrong-road? I sometimes wonder why I still keep following this sport, but alright.

Is it possible to watch the final somewhere without knowing the results yet? Like on YouTube or something? I'm afraid that if I search for it, I'll see a video that immediately shows the result in the title (I didn't read the posts above here so I actually don't know the result yet )

At least she won by actually being the fastest, unlike Maslak

This 1500m final I would keep up with those first few laps, the first one even walking..