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Cuper is more known globally than Renard? How do you mean that? I mean, I've never heard of this Cuper in my life yet I definitely know Renard (granted, that's mostly because there's always a lot of discussion about the Dutch players in the Moroccan team and Hervard selecting them or not)

Especially the women's competition. I saw Anne Gasser do something cool and the rest was just slowly doing a turn or two.

I really, really hope so

For the 500m I might agree, not for the 1000m. Although I'd still just prefer the 500m to still be a two race event, where both count. At least the 'one race counts' suggestion is still fair, unlike the one we'll have in Pyeongchang now.

I think Ivory Coast's goalkeeper read the warnings for black people in Russia and thought "fuck this shit, I ain't going to Russia!" judging by his performance at the two goals Morocco made https://streamable.com/2hv5j https://streamable.com/2bmwo

You, Sir, are a wise man

Colombia doesn't need the mass start, Causil will qualify in the 500m GBR qualified provisionally without making the final? That's odd. Still, in the end an event needs to be good too and this is just way too short. It might be fun if it's 50+ laps and those crappy points are taken away.

Dutch NOS has a new segment called 'Masters of mass start', where they're introducing the main mass start riders throughout the season. Today was the first one, Francesca Lollobrigida, and she agrees: 16 laps is way too short

Well in that case, we do agree after all The list is rather long indeed, from the Weinstein's to Sepp Blatter and Mariah Carey, there hardly are famous people left who aren't accused..

Because it's not an easy thing to go and take action against, mentally. Or because they didn't believe anything would be done against some powerful person. Or because said powerful person had certain 'friends' that made sure you wouldn't say anything. And so on. And duuuuuuude, what's with the 10-15 Enters every time? It puts so much empty space in your posts

Exactly. Don't get me wrong, I do believe that a lot/most of them are true (simply because it's easy to imagine that there's so many powerful people who think they can do whatever they want), but one can argue that it's getting out of hand when accusations (unproven) within days lead to people being cut out of already finished movies and kicked out of TV/radio stations.

I don't think vinipereira has a politically correct position, I do 100% agree with him that victims shouldn't be blamed or something (I mean, think of that idiotic guy on TV in Egypt a while back, who said "it is our duty to rape a woman if she is dressed inappropriatly!", that's just disgusting).

Takagi

Not that random, mostly a matter of 'Dubreuil shouldn't have been in the B division based on pure quality' But yeah, apart from that, this is yet another reason why it's absolutely insane that they changed the Olympic 500m to one heat. Apart from things being so close, that's nothing less than 'falsifying' the competition, since there's always one skater that has an advantage by having the last outside turn. That was eliminated by the normal system of two 500m races, but apparently a fair competition is not what the IOC/ISU wants.

Vlhovaaaa

Very nice 1st run for Vlhova

Dude, again with your 10-15 Enters after your post and the phrase 'edited by' looking like one retarded who forgot and correct himself

Hold on, there are a lot of different cases. I'm not talking about the ones like Weinstein that have been accused by half the world, but here (I don't know how that's going in other countries) people like actors, directors, TV hosts etc are actually getting fired and seeing their careers destroyed after one single accusation. Not blaming anyone there, but it's a really dangerous situation that people are ruined for life as soon as someone says "He/she did this", even when it's impossible to back that up. It's good when more people dare to take legal action, but it's not good when people have the power to destroy someone with one sometimes impossible to prove accusation - because just like there are a ton of rich and powerful assholes and bitches who think they can do whatever they want to anyone (e.g. the suspected Weinsteins of this world, possibly most of the accused people), there are also without a doubt assholes and bitches who hold a bad grudge and use something like this to ruin someone's life. All in all it's not a simple black and white situation.

1. Not surprising that there's a lot of assholes in the world of famous people who think it's ok to do whatever they want (not only in the world of famous people, but I can imagine there's a bit more in the world of the super rich) 2. It's really hard to judge and I don't think it's good that as soon as someone's name is mentioned, this person is kicked out of everything without any sort of evidence, trial or whatever Anyone can say any random thing about any famous person now and this person is kicked out without any sort of evidence, that is a very dangerous development. The other hand is that these 'powerful' people are probably protected (since they're rich) and that is not good neither. It's all just really complicated.

Senators vs Avalanche in Stockholm is starting in a few minutes and the anthems are being sung by Janice...and her rather visible nipples, which makes me wonder when half of the American population will explode because 'OMG A NIPPLE!'

Same for bobsled, but if you've got a top sprinter (Ryan Bailey for example) behind you, you can make up a whole lot of that

Martins Dukurs won the first race, not surprisingly it was a three way battle with Yun Sung-bin and Alexander Tretiakov; Superman vs Iron Man vs The Russian Rocket Geng Wenqian became the first Chinese ever in the skeleton World Cup and boy, did he deliver...9th after the first run, finished 7th eventually! Jeff Pain is doing an awesome job with that guy.

2nd one day, 18th the other day, Poutala is never in good or bad shape, he is just Poutala and anything can happen on any given day Although it's not as inconsisent as Pekka Koskela used to be, down the rankings one day, 1000m WR the next

By the way, 35.37 for Colombian Pedro Causil in the B-division, arguably his best ever result and very, very promising in terms of a 34-second race for when we're going to Calgary and Salt Lake