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Right, cancelling that Isle of Wight stage makes sense then. And thinking better, cancelling it just because of the death seems like something one might doubt about, but obviously it's especially because of logistical reasons: think police personell and such which will have understandably different tasks from now on for a while.

Ugh. I get they'd start with a minute of silence or something, but cancelling the entire thing? Anyway I'd be surprised if Brits all over the world in all kinds of sports would suddenly withdraw. What are they gonna do instead, make a photo so they can show on Instagram how affected they are?

And no matter one's opinion about monarchies, this queen specifically or the UK in general: anyone who has not been living under a stone will recognize this will go down as one of the most significant news events of the entire 21st century when the world looks back in the year 2100.

I don't have the kind of money that would make me interested in watching or reading items about that, sadly

And he's out, DNS today.

Recognized inside the small part of the sports community that is so into these things as we are here, but Zambia winning a medal in boxing or something is definitely not going to make any headlines around the world in non-specialized media - with luck it'll be mentioned somewhere in the final lines of some small article I do get that though, and for small nations it can be quite literally the only time they're ever even mentioned outside of their own country. I mean, if it weren't for Kirani James, I don't think I would ever have heard Grenada be mentioned in any way on TV or in a newspaper.

I tried watching it recently and nearly got bored to death, but I guess I'm either not informed enough or picked the wrong few matches No idea about padel in the Netherlands by the way, I think and hope it mostly stays with tennis here.

This does not at all seem controversial, but incredibly well focused on the main things: the sports and the athletes. Too bad the 'general public' will be against this, because they don't usually watch for the sports and the athletes, but to cheer for athletes they have never heard of or who might even be known as people who do shitty stuff (cheating, agression, etc), but who happen to have the same nationality in their passport as them. The fans of sports and athletes - who would likely be in favour of more focus on sports and athletes, and smaller focus on the numbers behind a flag - are a large minority, sadly

Is that the one where Spain and Argentina fills up roughly 95% of the top-60 in the world rankings? Since this year Dutch Ziggo Sport is, for reasons nobody understands, showing the Padel World Tour, and I remember taking a look at the ranking: three Brazilian men, one Chilean man, a French woman and a few Portuguese women and the rest of the 120 top-60 players (men/women) were either Spanish or Argentinian. Has that been significantly changing this year? Serious question/remark, since I really don't follow it, and maybe I'm talking about the wrong racket sport entirely

Natives live somewhere, Europeans come fuck them up for ages, things are potentially being done to somewhat right that century-long wrong, and it's 'woke' lol Ok bye

What were the bad parts, so besides the obvious good things in it like certain basic human rights (improvements in terms of abortion rights, education, native people's rights, etc)?

After two episodes: so far, so good Fun to see all kinds of well-known names appearing, even if so far they only have minimum roles and are basically just mentioned in passing.

"False flag from her own side!"

Miracles happen

Agree to disagree, I suppose

Did Sebastian Coe or Gianni Infantino change their passport?

Thanks but no, indeed It's a shame they took down the dunes and put up a large grandstand at the Tarzanbocht (first corner), I can't count the amount of races I've seen from those dunes (DTM, F3, epic A1GP races, WTCC, tons of local races, all kinds of demonstrations and so on). The thing is the grandstand is temporary, so outside of the Formula 1 weekend, you can't see shit from there anymore. The dunes between the main grandstand and the Tarzanbocht used to be filled to the brim on the big days, mostly the DTM in 2003-2004 (I believe, the Christijan Albers fighting for the title days) and the A1GP a little later.

Today: Tomorrow: Which means today most likely nothing will happen...nobody is going for an early attack with that long climb tomorrow. And with tomorrow's profile, I assume the organizers wanted to have 148km of nothing, followed by everything again happening in the last 2km? Where the Vuelta has often been the best of the three GT's, this year's it is by far the most awful in terms of the course and stage profiles. Terrible.

5th in the GC, Ayuso goes on despite being positive.

The Russian super-accidentally-falling-out-of-windows-epidemic struck again: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/chairman-russian-oil-producer-lukoil-dies-after-falling-hospital-window-source-2022-09-01/

Does anyone have a clue why a ton of matches aren't mentioned in the schedule? https://www.usopen.org/en_US/scores/schedule/schedule9.html For example I looked up Botic van de Zandschulp there, but he isn't there, even though he most certainly played yesterday. There's a whole bunch of other matches missing as well, maybe even dozens.

Another fall...I really hope he'll be alright. I think this Vuelta for him was entirely meant to help Evenepoel and/or get back in shape towards Wollongong, judging by his results, but this won't help at all. Any news on injuries yet?

Probably because you're not really going to visit a country, but a city, in their case If your only goal is to visit Prague, it'd be good to prepare some knowledge about Prague, but why bother with Brno or Nove Mesto or something?

This makes me sad (100m freestyle heats).

Simon Yates, 5th in the GC, didn't start today: positive COVID-19 test and he was getting sick. Pavel Sivakov, 9th in the GC, didn't start today neither: positive COVID-19 test, no word on whether or not he's actually getting sick. Three riders from Kern-Pharma didn't start today due to positive tests. Again, no word on whether or not they're actually sick. Ugh.