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And in the early 2000's, people said the real F1 was with Senna and Mansell and Prost and so on. And in their days the real F1 was with Jim Clark and in his days the real F1 was with Fangio and Ascari....recency bias Most of Schumacher's wins were not much less boring than Hamilton's wins, I remember young me often just ended up going back to my room because nothing happened anyway And my point was: yeah, Latifi's accident was lucky for Verstappen. Which he could use because Red Bull had been smarter and used the moments that came up better than Mercedes. And mostly, it was a bit of luck for Verstappen....finally, after a year in which Hamilton lucked his way straight to even being tied in the first place, finally it fell a different way this time. Sucks for Hamilton that it happened in the last moment of the year, but tough luck, it was bound to finally go the other way for once.

@dcro You are good with rules, help us out please This quite clearly states that an athlete who does NOT have under 100 distance points and also does NOT have under 300 sprint points, can not complete in the individual sprint, correct?

Wow, the Dutch team choked that win - and with it, the title - away quite well.

An incredibly fortunate (for Hamilton) red flag right after he made a mistake which would have taken him out of any significant points contention. Due to the red flag, he got basically a free fresh start with an all fixed car and could cruise to 2nd. Not unlike Silverstone, where he sent Verstappen straight into the barriers with a way too enthousiastic move, damaged his front wing in the process...but could have the whole thing fixed due to the red flag. It truly has been a season where Hamilton got lucky every single time. Now, for once, it didn't fall his way, and (English) social media is full with stuff about how Hamilton was robbed....like all those people watched literally one race and nothing else this year

Or even better: abandon the pursuits, which are incredibly 'fake' races to begin with and shouldn't even really exist other than in show events. It already sucks that cross-country barely has any relay at all, biathlon definitely should stay above that and keep team events as an integral part of the sport.

And Bitterling is right. Having pursuit + relay and the opposite genders the next day is an excellent solution. The other would be to make the relays significantly shorter, but that would be worse.

With one stop more than Hamilton, but yeah, on pace Hamilton was better yesterday. Luckily the championship isn't about one day, because looking at the year as a whole, Verstappen has quite simply been better. The simple fact that they were tied in points before the last race even with things like Hamilton's unbelievable luck in Imola, Verstappen's exploding tyre in Baku, Hamilton's move in Silverstone and Bottas' torpedo in Hungary says enough about that already.

No other sportsman this year has had a result that comes even close to what he has done now in terms of overall impact and general historic value in the history of Dutch sports. Without meaning anything bad towards Lavreysen and Kimmann, because they are absolutely worthy contenders.

Rather unsurpsiringly, the nominations in the Netherlands were made only after the Formula 1 decider Man: Max Verstappen, Niek Kimmann, Harrie Lavreysen Woman: Sifan Hassan, Suzanne Schulting en Annemiek van Vleuten Paralympic athlete: Diede de Groot, Jetze Plat en rolstoelbasketballers Team: Track cyclists (sprint, I assume), hockey women, rowing fours Coach: Hugo Haak, Laurent Meuwly en Eelke vd Wal Man and woman should really be no-breaners in favour of obviously Verstappen and Hassan, probably the team and coach (Haak, the track sprinters coach) as well.

Protests dismissed, rightfully Quite clearly the best two drivers all year considering how far ahead of everyone else they are in terms of sheer racing quality, great that it wasn't decided in some office after all

I don't often stop watching sports I like Plus watching this together with my dad has been a tradition since I was 8 or 9

I live in a small town where Sunday is.....quiet (which I love!!), but even here I heard fireworks outside Must be way more in the cities though

Unreal man, unreal!! Where can I get myself a Perez and Latifi tshirt?!

YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! Oh god that was completely insane!!! And the year ending with justice, finally!!!! Let the champagne and everything pour Took me a half hour but finally managed to stop shaking a bit!

But even fewer for a pope

Googling Pope Francis in 3rd seems more odd than Lady Gaga in 1st Edit: Ah, the last words of the post make that clear suddenly

Apparently there has been a whole deal about the main sponsor of the event....EasyToys, one of the main shops for sex toys. Eventually their logo has even been removed, most likely due to pressure from the international federation. One can only assume prude Americans played a role in this Makes me think of this Edit: Apparently it was mentioned here already, hadn't noticed, sorry But yeah, the only problems are coming from people who aren't able to see that it's nothing more than a company selling perfectly legal products, surprisingly

It included the eating part, greasy hands don't get near my laptop

That surprises me! (I saw my answer was wrong earlier, but meanwhile was getting some snacks...if the answer was correct, I would have answered immediately, no worries ) Thank you for the questions, once again I truly wonder which hats you pulled them out of

I think A, B and C were observed way before that, so I'm going for D, even though by now it's not a planet anymore, making the wording tricky! D, it is!

The break was fine and I'm ready!

Hello!

I was doubting between that and the lunar phase, so the 50:50 worked out nicely As requested, I'm now in need of a short break, but I'll let you know the second I'm back. Shouldn't be much more than 15 minutes or so!

It's more of a feeling than really a bit of knowledge, but I'm going for C. Somehow I think it's related to the heart..

And also, if I survive this question, I'm requesting a roughly 15-20 minute personal break to quickly take care of something