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Around 25% more, depends on your definition of "much more" And I might have meant "much more than the 26 that were in the final"

Unfortunately this Wikipedia-link doesn't give the exact judge + televoting results per year. I would love to see those numbers, but I'm guessing in the past years Poland would year after year get more points from televoting than from jury, because well, there's a lot of Polish people around Europe voting for Poland. It would be great to see those numbers over the years Apart from all that, I'm just saying countries that will get a lot of televoting points no matter what kind of song they send have a big advantage with the new voting/vote announcement system. This has nothing to do with xenophobia by the way, which is a fear of that what is foreign. I have no fear of Polish music.

But in total there were much more participants in Eurovision

In Eurovision there were quite a lot more

Has he even participated since around the 2014 Asian Games?

I absolutely would have voted "Yes" for the German solution, great to read that. Until indeed that last post where it's like "I don't really care about this contest anyway"...in that case, "No" is unfortunately the right decision.. Anyway, great to see that as always the last 24h (and an extra day) meant the number of participants greatly increased

Almost the same as Peru against Italy....and Kazakhstan is 30+ against South Korea

Well that's better

Bronze for Belgium

A medal should of course be possible, bronze would be realistic and good

Obviously it's hard to know whether or not the Aussie's will be in the same shape as during their national championships and there's quite a reasonable chance they won't be in that shape, but if they are, they have 4 swimmers who can compete with the times of Heemskerk and Kromowidjojo. The Dutch team only has a chance against that when the Aussie's are either disqualified or somehow screw up big time.

If by "ready to compete against" you mean "ready to qualify for the final and be in the same race", then yes

Well that wasn't too hard

Hosszu looked like she didn't care about that gold at all

"Man....I can't believe I'm experiencing this as a commentator! Bizarre...fucking bizarre! For years and years, you're watching this and hoping...and there he is...Max Verstappen in the last corner in Barcelona...Yoo hey! Yoo hoo! Yoo fucking hell how bizarre!! Un-be-lievable! Sports victories are so beautiful and this is by far the most beautiful I have ever seen in my life!" I loved his pirate imitation at the end, yoo hey, yoo hoo, yoo fucking hell By the way, he is the Dutch F1 commentator since the start of the 1990's already (not exactly sure when, but I know he was the commentator when Ayrton Senna died in 1994) so he has commentated through the entire career of Jos Verstappen. When his career started in 1994, the commentator once said that we'd see a victory from him one day. Now 22 years later it happened with his son. I was happy obviously, but almost more than anything, I was happy that this commentator's lifelong dream of commentating on a Dutch F1 victory came true yesterday after so many years

So with her and the NOC being completely sure apparently, we can be certain that a tripartite spot has been returned (or two then)? People were fighting for her to get a wildcard based on her actions in the match against Schnaase (Schnaase's shoes broke, she had no pair of shoes available and the only option would be to retire, until Sarosi gave her her own spair shoes so she could continue the match, resulting in Sarosi losing the match and her chance to qualify). There was some talk about her having received a wildcard because of that, but it's hard to think they'd take away someone else's wildcard.

Some Dutch examples too I think, but the NOC has already made their decisions about them.

Bhutan

According to Hungarian media, Laura Sarosi (HUN) has qualified. There was talk about her receiving a special wild card for helping Karin Schnaase (GER) continue the match against herself and in doing so, throwing away her last Olympic chance, but if Google Translate is right, she has now gotten a ticket via world rankings. How is that possible? http://www.mob.hu/-el-voltam-keseredve-most-viszont-megvan-a-kvota-sarosi-lauranak- She also announced the news herself:

As far as I could see the level of for example the Dutch guys here isn't that high.. Normally the Iranians (you know, the big 2 teams if I'm right) would absolutely destroy everyone in these kind of stages with quite though finishes (except for stage 1) I found it interesting that some unknown Dutch guys are taking the wins for now, but let's see how it develops

Yeah....Sky is a miracle, isn't it?

Oh come on, sports is the only reason why I know Slovakia is abbreviated "SVK", it makes no real sense otherwise But yeah, someone editing Wiki pages should have some familiarity with sports...dumb mistake

The rain gave Roglic the win, which is awesome because I was a little sad he missed out on the win in the 1st stage...a former professional ski jumper wins a GT stage, what a day

To show how much it means, these are scenes from a football play-off match to qualify for the European competitions, FC Utrecht vs PEC Zwolle:

Fucking unbelievable. The literal (English) words of our Dutch commentator I have no words