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Suddenly these Russians don't enjoy the whole "military force entering one's city and start running things" concept now that it's in their own country

Who knows, although so far there are zero signs of it turning into a failure yet I suppose we'll have to wait and see, surely there is going to be plenty of more news today. Russian army would be smart to not fight back, or else it's just an escalation. They'd better negotiate and accept losing everything in order to keep the peace.

There are a lot of reports of Russian army units either standing by while Wagner passes or joining Wagner...

So far Rostov is in his hands, so there's a start. Not like that is necessarily good....I mean, megalomaniac Putin or drugged up war criminal Prigozhin, it's not like one really is better than the other. Might even be better to have the total mess that is the Russian army keep trying their stuff in Ukraine than have the way more organized Wagner take over. Anyhow, the more they kill each other, the better of course.

It's all great, we're enjoying it massively.

Not so much welcome to the current century, since lots and lots of events and federations have their streams perfectly fine in order It's just stuff like these Games which want to be 'special' and so create their own things, which never works out well.

So far the results system doesn't seem to be terrible? Although I've only used it to see results of Tuesday so far, since I'm still trying to watch things Now I thought "Alright, they spoiled the beach handball pool results for me, but let's check out the two finals!" and was welcomed by this: Jesus christ, damn idiots Never mind. I spent hours making my program for these Games the past weeks, only to end up being able to watch basically nothing with any sort of tension due to the incompetence of these organizations

Yeah I noticed, but they are offered like so... How can it be so difficult to simply have the full replays available straight from the schedule section and, most importantly, without spoilers?! This way there's not even any sense in watching the replays anymore since the thumbnails already spoil the result anyway half the time...(not to mention how awful that player is, it doesn't even seem to have basic hotkey support to move forward or backward) Sorry for all the negativity, I'm just super disappointed because I was actually looking forward to watching these Games

Yep. Whatever the case, tonight's developments seem to be significantly more serious than Prigozhin's previous red-headed nonsense ("We will leave Bakhmut for real now!" for a couple of months, for example). Which is great of course, the more Russian fighters - be it army or Wagner - kill each other, the better.

Good news, it looks like things are going batshit crazy in Russia in the past hours, with Wagner mercenary group leader Prigozhin basically declaring war on the Russian ministry of defence after one of Wagner's camps was allegedly bombed by Russia. That would be fantastic, like two gangs of criminals killing off each other. If the 'official' Russian army and the semi-official Russian army (Wagner) fight each other....best-case scenario, more or less. Fewer of those terrorists to fight against Ukraine.

Thanks, that seems to be a start. One wonders where all the many others sports can be viewed on-demand though...I'm sure I'm missing something, because no way an event that is supposed to be big like this has no on-demand options, bu no idea where.

Lol, the 'Replays' section of the TV website is just one big-ass spoiler (literally even including scores in the title, as if the thumbnails spoiling the results weren't enough) https://europeangames.tv/videos Unbelievable, these organizations never learn, do they? Apparently from the 'Program' section one can't even go straight to a replay of the stream...now it's time to find out how to start rewatching stuff (non-spoilered)... Ah, there's 'Highlights' of the athletics sections...consisting of seeing a lady jump up and down in slow motion and slowly seeing a discus fly through the air. Sigh. I was kind of looking forward to this, but I guess this entire event can go in the trash can in terms of my 'Things to watch' list...

Awful start to the weekend in Arnhem/Papendal, where a young rider crashed hard in training today. Emergency helicopter went there and the rider was eventually transported to the Nijmegen hospital. No word about condition, gender or nationality, although the language suggests it is an U23 rider. https://www.ad.nl/video/productie/jonge-bmx-er-ernstig-gewond-op-papendal-traumaheli-geland-384120 Edit: local news in our province mentions a collapsed lung, a bruised lung and a severe concussionc, condition is mentioned as 'stable'.

Visits to two doctors in Italy to hopefully close the 'legal' part of Bruna's accident of last year One doctor of 'our' side in Bolzano and the next day a doctor of the insurance company of the driver of the van (the one who died, and on who officially the 'blame' for the tragic situation was put) in Trento, to see the extent of the injuries and such that are still present nowadays. At least the one in Bolzano spoke excellent English, the one in Trento spoke just a bit English and just a bit German, and we both don't speak Italian...so that was a short visit. All in all we spent 32 hours in the car, driving around 2200km, for a 40 minute visit and a 15 minute visit....but yeah, sort of a formality that had to be checked off At least we saw the famous speed skating rink of Collalbo, and had an excellent pizza there. It was burning hot everywhere, especially in the cities in the valley (it was sort of doable in the towns higher up), so it was a sort of hell for me But at least the views in Süd-Tirol are amazing as always....kind of interesting when going from Bolzano to Trento, and so leaving Süd-Tirol, you immediately notice things get....different, seemingly more messy and unorganized or something (I didn't like Bolzano much, neither Trento, but the small Süd-Tirol villages in the hills and mountains are ) Tl;dr: No, no honeymoon yet

Welcome! Cool to have, as far as I know, a new nationality on the forum!

Right, back after a few days in Italy/Austria/Germany, and starting to catch up with some stuff. I was going to ask for the official results system/page, but on the EuropeanGames.TV site there was already a link to this, so that seems easy https://results.european-games.org/EG2023/ENG/competitionschedule

Wow, that seems like the most awful kind of combat sport to have as actual competition in a big event Great for sparring, but since when is 'training' a medal event

By the way, I hope Magnus Sheffield gets serious professional help as well. He fell more or less together with Mäder and although the exact circumstances aren't known, there are photos showing Sheffield climbing back up while in the background they're trying to help Mäder....

Fellow Swiss riders Küng, Dillier, Bissegger and some others at the start of today's 6th stage of the Tour de Suisse, after hearing the tragic news of Gino Mäder's death Stage has been more or less cancelled. They'll get on their bikes 30km before the original finish and from there ride in a neutralized manner towards the finish line.

Fuck.

Yeah that's fine, all those prelims rounds for me mostly consist of checking the results anyway

I see now that there are apparently three categories of kickboxing....pointfighting, full contact and.....light contact Light contact kickboxing, is that where you can carefully touch someone and say "Hit you!"? Honestly every form of kickboxing that's not simply full contact sounds slightly silly without ever having seen it, but who knows.

We're not there yet, but this might very carefully be somewhat promising... I wonder which sports are not going to be shown.

Do you happen to have a link? Because so far, I can only find the ones that have a schedule like this: But surely by now the actual matches are scheduled? This is a little like there's a FIFA World Cup schedule looking like this: Day 1 12.00 Group match 15.00 Also a group match 18.00 Another group match 21.00 Last group match of the day

With the difference being that it doesn't give much of an advantage within the competition, and the athletes don't need anything to use them. I mean, the rich top athletes can use them just as much as the poorer athletes (who in other sports might not be able to afford top equipment). It only gives an advantage against older times, but then again....shoes have been getting better for decades, training programs have been getting better due to science for decades, and so on...