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That was last week I think, here they don't waste time with that cultural crap

I have just completely forgotten the whole thing I'll try to listen as much as possible though, but it'll be hard with around 15 hours of sports in the next 24 hours...

Oh crap, so little time, I totally forgot Is there a full YouTube playlist?

Seeing as Serbia finishing 5th or higher would give me several hundreds of euro's, I'm hoping with you

You know what I meant

My bets are locked and loaded, because Eurovision without bets is no Eurovision (first number is the stake, second number is the odd - €10 at odds of 2.35 means a win would return 10 x 2.35 - and "tb" means "to beat" - as in "Georgia to beat Azerbaijan") The strange number at Georgia tb Czech Republic is because they only accepted €1,26

Apparently what the Dutch guy Hermans has to do isn't necessarily finish in the top-12 of a World Cup twice, but finish in the top-12 of the "cleaned" result twice: meaning only one competitor per nation. As an extreme example, this would count as a 5th place for Hermans: 1. SVK 2. SVK 3. SVK 4. FRA 5. FRA 6. FRA 7. GER 8. GER 9. GER 10. ITA 11. ITA 12. ITA 13. Hermans (NED)

Diamondleague.com More precisely: http://shanghai.diamondleague.com/programme-results/programme-results-shanghai/#baseFrame#/live/outputs/results/iaaf/atResults/js/mappings/schedule#ScheduleInit#CURRENTEVENT_JSON

Peter Koning of the Netherlands leaves the Iranians minutes behind in stage 2 of the Tour of Iran

Watched an awesome F1 qualifying Now it's time for the Giro d'Italia Diamond League athletes was before F1 and just finished watching the things I missed during F1

I have no idea I'm pretty sure he has already made the decision quite a while ago that he simply isn't good enough as a full 800m runner anymore, but he definitely is good enough to be a well-paid pacemaker. If I was him, I'd very much prefer being a well-paid pacemaker than being an athlete who mostly appears in small meets and heats of European championships

The organizers in Shanghai totally fucked up the start of the 800m, resulting in Bram Som not being able to set the pace and therefore screwing Thijmen Kuper's by far best chance ever to qualify for the Olympics..

One of the officials of the team on Facebook: That's the most realistic thing I have seen so far. Yes, he has the quota (for now), but he'll only get to use it if he actually reaches those Dutch criteria. I don't know how much chances he'll have left in World Cups?

He seems to be pretty sure I still have very strong doubts though..

The thing is they don't want to just send everyone who is able to get a quota (and then finish 20th or something). Athletes have to show a certain level of real competitiveness and when you set those standards, there has to be a limit somewhere...in this case they choose for the ones I posted. It's sad indeed, but Hermans himself probably knew that a 14th place wouldn't be enough. About it being fair, I don't know...in winter sports I think it's unfair because certain "extra standards" are just totally unrealistic, but on the other hand, athletes already know 1-2 years before what they'll have to do.

Thanks, no Olympics for him then. I think it's this: 1 result that fits in "top-8 in a World Cup or top-8 at the Europeans" OR 2 results that fit in "top-12 in a World Cup and top-12 at Europeans" So for example a 12th place finish at a World Cup and an 11th place in Europeans would have been enough.

Also, what actually happened? I mean, where did he finish and stuff like that? I can't find any results And, ashamed to ask, but...who is it?

For Dutch athletes it was either "Top 15 World Championships 2015" or "Top 1 European Continental Championships 2016". In case a quota was earned in the 2nd of those ways, there were some additional standards: - One top-8 finish in a World Cup in 2015-2016 - Top-8 at the 2016 European Championship - Two top-12 finishes at World Cups 2015-2016 - Top-12 at the 2016 European Championship The 2nd and 4th are quite weirdly described in the Dutch documents

Wait what? I'll have to go and check if the Dutch standards are reached as well

Time to change to the Formula 3 in a rainy Pau

World Superbike on tv and volleyball OQT on the live scoring

Well, come on girls and qualify for the first time in 20 years...if it doesn't happen again....forget it

I think it's clear that this whole ice hockey thing isn't "my thing", I can't even name one single player and that shows in my score

Exactly, which is why I don't think Dumoulin will finish in the top-10 Nibali is still the favourite.

I haven't read anything, but if she's not making the standards I guess she won't go to Rio..