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What a very standard speech by Thomas Bach and not very correct if you ask me.

Oops, sorry LDOG, I thought it was meant as something like "Brazil will buy a group" or something else corruption-related

No. There is no decision yet.

That's a Dutch journalist saying FINA-president Cornel Marculescu told "he had never seen anything like it", talking about France's 'performance' at the OQT.

Or they won't actually choose a group

Good time for a new generation to step up (yeah I know Fratus isn't that new, but still )

In her case being a bitch is good, as in bad-ass

If I remember correctly, he tested positive on a diuretic and the Brazilian federation basically only warned him, whereas normally athletes would have an actual doping ban. Correct me if I'm wrong of course, but since then I didn't like him - apart from his whole "look at me being a victim of everything"-look When I was at the swimming world championships in Barcelona, I was there all week and at each and every victory ceremoney, but only for Cielo I could and did not applaude when he won or stand up for his anthem.

Ouch, karma is a bitch

No, I am not sure, but I think the chance is very small

No I didn't. I just read everywhere that France was playing absolutely disgusting (like missing shots by meters), but that Canada was playing horribly bad as well. After some days I basically agree with what DeGambiasse (?) wrote in this thread earlier

Yes, this survey is open against France. But no, it's not likely that something will happen

Well our women should very easily cruise to the semi's with these draws, whereas our men will probably go home after the group stage (or the match between the 5th-placed teams) By the way, I noticed I was sitting in the train next to one of the Dutch men's players yesterday

Valverde takes the win, meaning Alaphilippe doesn't because he finished 2nd

So far it's more like a boring sprint stage than a classic

No

By the way, the above is also one of the reasons why I write updates here. Personally I would like to get updates about, I don't know, Chilean biathletes if someone had "inside information" on them, simply because you never hear anything about that and it's already easy to find information about biathletes of big nations. The other reason is that I show her every supporting post people write here (already quite a few), because every bit of support helps in motivating ("Wow, some random person online is cheering for me...awesome!") and she'll need every tiny bit of help to get to Pyeongchang 2018

Wanderful (Sorry, that was just horrible)

World Cup is the big goal apart from the Olympics eventually It's not very realistic that she'll reach the World Cup next season though, because for that you need to have at least one result of 125 IBU points or less and that's normally just too much for next season. We're both expecting the Brazilian federation to set a result of 180-200 points as goal (last season it was a result below 280 points and she got 244 in Obertilliach), but given the fact that she's more than doubling her training input this summer and she should be in possession of a laser rifle to train shooting at home within a month or so, I think one result below 150 points is very hard, but possible So far only Jacqueline Mourão made it to the World Cup for Brazil (male/female), but when she started in biathlon she was already a very experienced cross-country skier. We can't forget Bruna's first time ever on ski's in the snow was only in August 2014 if I'm not mistaken, so there's still a huge room for improvement. Besides that, she's already shooting at pretty much the same level as Mourão's best days and with only a bit of improvement, she can already be the best shooter ever in Brazilian biathlon.

Short version: Bruna is basically my best friend Longer version: To elaborate a little: having a Brazilian girlfriend a couple of years ago made me support them at the 2010 Winter Olympics. In 2014 I didn't have a Brazilian girlfriend anymore, but I still supported them at the Winter Olympics. In the beginning of 2015 I wrote a big article and "e-mail interview" with Leandro Ribela about his project to help poor children get involved in social activities through sports/roller skiing. Bruna somehow noticed this article on Facebook, starting talking to me there during the biathlon Youth/Junior World Championships in Raubichi where she was participating (her first international competition) and since then we basically became the best of friends and talk every day on Whatsapp/phone/Skype (that's why I travelled all the way to Austria in December to cheer for them during an IBU Cup with only 6 or 7 spectactors watching )

Anyone here into cyber security? I'm trying to make my first steps with Kali Linux these days

Bruna Moura's ( ) unofficial but personal goal for next season: score less than 150 IBU points in at least one competition and so qualifiying for the World Championships in Hochfilzen If she manages to do that, which will be very hard but not impossible, she is very much on track for Olympic qualification I believe

Especially the blue ones look like what they'll be wearing right after they get up and are making ready for breakfast Although personally I think actually wanting to die because of that is a bit harsh

With the finish on the Mur de Huy, I'm already looking forward to it