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How come the Iranians are not dominating the cycling Tour of Iran this year?

Epic qualifying for Verstappen yesterday It's so awesome to have a driver who is 1. seriously talented and 2. in a seriously competitive car for the first time in history! And it's really awesome to "feel" the vibe here of everyone really looking forward for today's race, I've never ever felt that before. Normally he should finish 4th if there are no weird things happening, but who knows...a historic podium might be possible..(the only Dutch driver who ever got on the podium was his father Jos, twice...well, once he got on the podium and another time he got 3rd because someone was DQ'ed afterwards, although J Verstappen didn't physically get on the podium there).

Still shouldn't be a huge problem to qualify of course, but man, don't start losing games like this.

Also Serbian U19 Or Russian U16 girls handball: Or Hungarian U16 basketball:

Look, there's live betting possible on the Slovakian U20 volleyball championship Quite a big selection is possible, including who will win each point and stuff like how many points each team will get per set

I've already spent one hour watching Malaysian rain (World Supersport race is postponed because it was just too wet), followed by a few points in the volleyball OQT NED-KOR and now I'm ready for race 2 of the GP3 in Barcelona

At least one more will come today

Sure you liked their songs in the last two years But yeah, I agree about the whole "what the hell is Poland doing in 3rd place" thing. Well it's obvious, Poland will always score high in televote even if they send the worst singer ever, simply because Polish are in every country and will vote like crazy to get Poland up high. They had a mediocre singer this time, with quite a boring appearance and an even more boring song (I only remember "what color is your life" or something)...as shown by the jury.

And in the margins of the biathlon news: next Saturday we'll see the first ever serious straight-up fight between Bruna Moura and Jaqueline Mourão, the new generation against the old They'll both be present in the physical tests of the Brazilian federation. It's not entirely true that Bruna hadn't fought against Mourão yet, but that was back when she had barely started rollerskiing, so this will be the first time now that she's a "serious athlete". Mourão may be getting older, she had a great season (arguably one of her best, albeit solely in XC), so it'll be very interesting how this fight turns out. It will be a specific uphill rollerskiing test by the way, they always do this test in the exact same place (I forgot the name, but it's the highest 'mountain' in São Paulo). So far it's looking good, because only yesterday I received a "Wow, I'm feeling better than ever!" message

Gabriela Soukalova has married Petr Koukal and will change her name from Soukalova to Koukalova

Well I finished all songs As last year, I gave every song a note between 1-10 again: 8 songs got a 7 13 songs got a 6 9 songs got a 5 4 songs got a 4 That's 21 songs still in the running for points from the Dutch jury

A video focussing mostly on the ass of the singer...could've known which country that was

That first one, absolutely no way, but that's mostly because I think 99% of the rap songs sound like "ear AIDS", as we would say on Dutch forums. The second one is awesome and genuinely made me laugh

No seriously, this is a nicer joke than Ukraine winning or Poland getting the 3rd most televoting votes One + reputation, well-deserved.

It's past 1am, I still have a 3 hour IndyCar race to watch and I desperately wanna sleep because at 8am the day of sports kicks off again, but alright, hckosice is hosting the contest so I'll stay up and make a start with the playlist

To be honest I don't know a lot of Grönemeyer, mostly "Der Weg" which sounded amazing when I heard him sing it live at a major festival, the story behind it only makes it even more fantastic. One of my favourite songs of all time Apart from that, my favourite German artist is, without any form of doubt, Rammstein

(Just let me lighten up my mood, bitte)

It's like Germany had the same thing the Dutch had until a couple of years ago: "let's dress her up as 'strange' as possible, maybe it'll score", it doesn't. I have nothing against Germany clearly, but I really found this song to be boring. Then again, that's what I thought of 80% of the songs of tonight.

Well it's over and I'm really disappointed. Apart from that, I don't even have the courage to look at my bets yet because I think it's gone quite horrible

1. Ukraine --> Meh.....bad song, bad voice, bad show, lot of screaming 2. Australia --> Pretty good song, great voice 3. Russia --> Typical standard popsong, not bad (way better than Ukraine obviously), but absolutely nothing special 4. Bulgaria --> Don't really remember the song to be honest, but I remember thinking it was pretty ok 5. Sweden --> What the hell? Did they ever teach this boy to sing? He was singing "dance!" and all he did was slightly move to the right 6. France --> It was quite good I guess 7. Armenia --> Mostly male voters I suppose, easy song, but good looks 8. Poland --> After Ukraine winning, Poland ending 3rd in the televoting is the biggest joke of the night 9. Lithuania --> It didn't impress me enough to remember it 10. Belgium --> We were mostly wondering how they could end up so high 11. Netherlands --> Basically as expected, in fact, exactly what the bookmakers had expected Germany being in last is pretty much expected with that "interesting" performance, Czech Republic 25th as well although I quite liked the Czech song More drama for UK, but I guess that won't ever end anytime soon.

I don't know if it's coincidence, but my tv stopped when the Ukrainian started singing her song again Even the superstandard and extremely cheesy Russian song was better...damn, I wish Australia would have won.

Wtf, one of the worst songs in my opinion won.

Poland 3rd in televoting Long live the Polish workforce all over Europe.

At least Australia would be a way more deserved winner than pretty much everyone else in the top-10.