heywoodu

Right, I see it there now, last night the Eurosport page wasn't loading (so I thought it wasn't there) but now it does Thanks!

Any idea where one can watch? Again one of those federations that show all the regular season action, but then for the big event nothing is to be found on their channels...

The Van Gogh murder was nothing but a terrorist attack by some radical guy, that had nothing to do with 'the political left'. But go ahead and believe that if it does make you feel better Radical left, radical right, radical religious, as soon as someone is radical one way or another it's just not good.

Calling the Theo van Gogh murder a 'leftist murder' truly is a far, far reach

Nah, because that somehow suggests the 'left' has lots of lunatics and the 'right' doesn't, but let's be fair: both sides have lots of lunatics who are very much willing to pull bullshit like this. Anyhow, for now the more important thing is hoping that a democratically elected official survives the hit.

Who would guess that someone trying to assassinate someone is a lunatic...

I think he meant heads of state

Luckily so far the first indications seem to be that he is not in life danger.

Apparently Slovakia's prime minister Fico has been shot.

No Mathieu van der Poel in Paris, he has decided for the road race

Everyone's own opinion of course, but I do genuinely think Froome is one of the least liked riders outside of his home country in the past 20 years or so Although to be fair, it definitely isn't helped by the massive overall dislike of the entire Team Sky clan of those days..

Do let us know if he makes it some time this or next month, damn...

Meanwhile we're also still waiting on any kind of statement from EBU or anyone around the production about their side of the story that led to the first ever disqualification. One would assume serious punches were thrown and hit, which would make the DQ very much logical of course, but so far...nothing from them about what happened.

Don't forget that anyone who has any sort of criticism is immediately branded anti-Semitic. Ugh. Same here about right wing by the way, the likes of Geert Wilders van Caroline van der Plas have absolutely riled up their large base of support to explicitly vote for Israel (when otherwise they would absolutely not give a single fuck about Eurovision). They do definitely not vote based on 'the performance of the night', absolutely no way. Wouldn't be surprised if half of their votes had already been sent before Israel even performed.

Congratulations Do you also sleep under bridges, by any chance?

Here as well the calls by the right-win politicians had their effect.

It's mostly just fun to see the thing of people hating either the jury voting or the televoting Of course those things are going to be different. This year the Netherlands would have been a good example: probably very, very low in jury points (around 20th or so I assume), but super high in televotes (top-5 at least). And it shouldn't be fully jury or fully televotes, it doesn't matter if 'the peoples favourite' didn't win, because the whole contest is not explicitly about finding 'the peoples favourite'.

Wouldn't expect you of all people to say 'he' and 'him' about someone who is self-described as non-binary

"The real winner!" Ugh, puh-lease. Don't get me wrong, I voted for Croatia with a reason of course, but let's not pretend it would be the only 'real' winner With Croatia winning, people would complain that 'yet another clown show' won or something.

Odd, I don't remember seeing any interview at all

Did they interview anyone during the reveal?

Without any war situation it would probably finish somewhere around 10th-15th or so, so....

I honestly feel sorry for every single artist that gets 0 points

See you next year Was the rakiq good though? I've finished two of my almost empty bottles, so created some space

At least glad that Croatia's win was taken away by the ultimate neutral country and not a controversial entry at all