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Irene Schouten and the rest of her teammates have decided to skip the first World Cup in Japan, because it doesn't fit in their schedule. As always, speed skating is the winter sport where the World Cup is by far the least valuable of all, I've been watching it since before I could walk and watch all the World Cups and important championships and still have no clue who actually wins the overall World Cups or something during the season

To be fair, I don't think anyone would really look at results from 1952 to roughly 2015 or so when predicting medals for 2020 I remember actually having 4-5 athletics medals in the prediction for 2020, when looking at all events, so from a personal perspective I was definitely happy with some (of course especially the relay and the marathon), but definitely not surprised by the total number Edit: sorry, of course the prediction was not made at the start of 2020, but in the 1-2 months before the 2021 Olympics, my bad and quite a significant difference

This week Bruce Springsteen announced a new European tour for next year, just managed to get tickets for his show in Nijmegen in June Normally it's a bit of a hassle and a long wait, this time I got in the virtual line with only 1400 people or so ahead of me (out of many tens of thousands) and barely 5 minutes after the sale officially started, I had my tickets Gonna be the 5th time my dad and I go to see The Boss, already looking forward to it again as ever I'm still hoping he goes to Sao Paulo or Rio de Janeiro one day so I can send my mother in law there, but that seems less likely since his tours are basically just Europe and the US..

Yeah, nobody in the world is going to be anywhere close to Hoogland when it's about 1km, but powerful as he may be, the pure top speed isn't his strongest part (obviously he's up there in the top of the world though ). He got closer to the 9.100 than I thought actually, and of course those three attempts in a few hours are of insane quality. The one I'm confident about in terms of beating that is Harrie Lavreysen, the king of top speed and raw power. I would honestly not even be surprised to see Lavreysen go sub-9 if he'd focus fully on this attempt for a good while.

It's alright, some people never really left the Middle Ages (except for taking advantage of the good things of course)

That would be quite funny. Can't imagine it would have cost that much to buy a website even most diehard sports fans have never heard of?

Surprise surprise, apparently FIFA confirmed Saudi Arabia has 2034 hosts. Obviously entirely expected, but the most hilarious thing is Infantino apparently actually said the following bit of nonsense "Football unites the world more than any other sport. The World Cup is the perfect stage for a message of unity and diversity." Lovely statement about going to a country where 7th century stuff is still the 'law' and local police can kill you for being, well, you. Infantino showing again that FIFA was actually a nice federation under Blatter's rule

55,433 seconds

Within now and a few minutes, Jeffrey Hoogland is going to attack Francois Pervis' 1km world record in Aguascalientes. The goal is to break Pervis' 56.303 seconds. There's a live stream here, not sure it's available outside the Netherlands. https://www.ad.nl/wielrennen/live-bekijk-de-wereldrecordpoging-van-jeffrey-hoogland-vanaf-20-45-uur-exclusief-via-onze-site~acfaf934/ Personally I find it super cool to have a record attempt for this, besides the hour records we're sort of used to, but also it's a bit sad to see this being done in some 'atmosphereless' hall with 5 people present or so By the way, Pervis himself said he thinks Hoogland can break his record by 3 seconds, which would of course be insane. Then again, it's definitely not impossible. When Pervis said his 56.3 seconds, he was usually riding times of around 1 minute on sea level. Hoogland has been consistently going far under that, even going to low 58's...on sea level. Wouldn't be shocked to see a 54.x seconds.

Awesome how this works as a tourism ad for both countries

Australia has withdrawn for the 2034 World Cup and now Saudi Arabia is the only one left, just like FIFA wanted....surprise It's getting so pathetic it's just almost funny

Yep. Depending on who competes of course the list is....long. Roglic, Evenepoel, Pogacar, Van der Poel, Van Aert, Pedersen, Hirschi, Laporte, Madouas, Benoot, Skjelmose, Pidcock, Powless, Healy, Costa, Aranburu, Küng, G Martin, Mohoric, Lutsenko, Sivakov, Ganna, Woods, Skujins, Kron, Matthews, Alaphilippe, Lafay, Yates, Yates all would have at the very least an outside chance (some more than others, obviously, but none of these would really be surprise medalists), and that's just with taking a one minute look at the current rankings and such.

To be fair to Mohoric, he is exactly the kind of rider who barely needs support at all Most of his big wins have come without real support, but by some impressive attack or something like that. If Roglic and Pogacar ride, Slovenia definitely has three medal chances, but like I said before, there's at least 20-30 riders who definitely have a medal chance, so yeah.

Ah yeah, that was fun, timing had shown USA being behind a lap for half the race, and then she and the Korean went like mad in the final lap despite everyone seeing (at least based on the timing) they were really not fighting for anything But who knows, maybe they were in the end

Hard to say. Ben Healy definitely has a serious medal chance given his incredible year and his riding style and such. But it's the road race on hilly terrain, there's always going to be at least 20-30 riders with a somewhat serious medal chance.... (and so individually, every single rider has a rather low percentage by himself, even the top favourites like Van der Poel don't have anywhere near 40% medal chance or something)

A best case scenario? That's going to be fun, if we add all the numbers in this thread together we'll end up with double as many gold medals as actual events, I think But right, I'll take a bit of time as well tomorrow or so because I'm curious how the Netherlands is looking. As far as I can really say anything about most sports other than athletics and the various cycling disciplines

Absolutely, and to the Dagestan part of Russia even more so. But nevertheless, it says quite something about 'people' (as far as these turds can be called anything else than rabid animals) to storm an airport with hundreds and open late 1930's/early 1940's style Jew hunt.

One would say those 10 minutes they took yesterday should be enough to rewatch the entire race on slowmotion and easily count the laps, that should have been step 1...

That means I won the draw?

True, although 5 points in 8 matches is still incredibly pathetic (and incredibly funny considering how a lot of Ajax fans often act and talk ). Ajax relegating would honestly be one of the funniest things I have ever seen in Dutch sports. It's not happening, but boy it'd be hilarious.

Meanwhile in Dagestan, a large group of the local lowlife is showing the emptiness of their lives by acting as if they still live in caves and need to hunt a prey.

Oh, so qualified

PostNL (or PostSK, I don't know) may be having delays!

PSV beat Ajax 5-2 and now, I kid you not, Ajax is in 18th and last place in the competition They were absolutely destroyed by German Sven Mislintat, who for whatever reason was appointed technical director last summer, used his shady contacts to come up with a lot of very shady deals for unknown players through one of his own companies (20 million for Josip Sutalo of GNK Dinamo, 16 million for Georges Mikautadze of FC Metz, 12.5 million for Gaston Avila of Antwerp, 8 million for Borna Sosa of Stutgart etc...he spent a whopping 92 million for a bunch of players, almost all of whom actually said they never expected to end up at Ajax (duh, nobody did)). When the shady dealings through his company came to light, it didn't take long for Mislintat to be kicked out, but that really was too late and now they've gotten a grand total of 5 points in 8 matches

As long as my top-12 did....