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I've sent in my preliminary votes, but one remark: it'd be nice if the nominees for specifically the Olympic Spirit Award have a bit of extra info...like, specifically what makes them be special in regards to the Olympic Spirit? Example: I like Iivo Niskanen, but I don't really remember what special thing he did other than competing that would make me vote for him

"It's too much work to do within a few years, so let's not look into it at all."

Cameroon's 'under 17' team has a bit of a problem....21 of the 30 players turned out to be too old https://fecafoot-officiel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/PRESS-RELEASE-U17-OK.pdf Not really a surprise that they're not all actually under 17, I assume, but 21 out of 30 is quite a high number

Got that feeling of her season being done the second the fell, to be honest...that knee twisted weird

Difference is, here we have quite a lot more resources to take our time in doing all kinds of extensive research and see if there is any good way to use it. Human feces won't run out, after all. It won't save the planet, but no single thing will, and if you've got the resources to study potential benefits in it's use, why not? Even if it doesn't lead to anything useful, it is definitely worth the research. Plenty of examples here of ways in which it can be used in a useful (and safe) way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuse_of_human_excreta

Makes perfect sense though. People should absolutely be free to have this as a choice, it quite literally doesn't harm anyone or anything and has basically no disadvantages (unlike cremation, burial and so on).

To be fair, a women's Four Hills Tournament has been in the works for years, of course with the same hills. Definitely sucks for Ljubno, but I find it hard to be against it: outside of diehard fans, barely a soul will watch women's ski jumping in Villach and Ljubno, non-diehard fans barely even know of the existence of these places, whereas Oberstdorf but of course especially Garmisch-Partenkirchen is very well-known among people who don't even know a single ski jumper, and so can attract much more attention overall for the women's sport.

Michael Smith somehow fought himself past Stephen Bunting this afternoon. Now a very mediocre Gerwyn Price was kicked out by Gabriel Clemens, first ever German quarterfinalist becomes the first ever German semifinalist as well And Price didn't get the memo yet that suggests to leave your social media alone in the half hour after a big loss, he's dramaqueening already (understandably disappointed of course, but come on)

Oh well, I'm sure for 2026 a solution will be found, and other than that Italy isn't doing that bad without an oval recently in terms of results. There's no Fabris of course, but he was as next-level as next-level can get, but generally they seem to be doing pretty well. Inzell isn't that far away, in the end I know the rules say they can't, so they won't and therefore it's not a realistic suggestion, but still the best would have been to do the Olympic races in Baselga or Collalbo....without a roof

Well that is some fantastic news I had missed Seeing Inzell be turned into another default indoor hall was enough

Thank you Slovakia!

Another multi-event where schedules aren't easy to find... https://www.eyof2023.it/competition-training/ There is a schedule there, but it's only on a daily basis, and doesn't show any times whatsoever. Anyone knows whether a better one is available anywhere? Surely by now, three weeks before the event, the times are known?

Near the German capital of Berlin

The quarter finals have started today, and in the first one, Dimitri van den Bergh beat Jonny Clayton to become the first Belgian semifinalist in history.

Wow, does that mean that Baselga might not get a roof after all?

Bwoh, heavy-headed morning Anyhow, a little over half an hour ago Baker Island joined us in 2023, so now 2022 is behind us on every corner of the planet. Thank god, see you never again

He's a darts player, so also the normal looking Belgian is getting fatter every year

I would absolutely like that as well, because sports atmosphere in Africa is usually insanely awesome (especially when it's in the middle, so not in the far north or south of the continent). However, 2036 might be too early, considering every single time there's a big event in Africa, there's still all kinds of organization problems, hosts suddenly deciding to not host after all and all kinds of other hosting-related problems... Let's first see a more or less flawless Africa Games and such

Kiribas

Diggins out, 40th. Urevc 44th, Carl 57th, very disappointing. Weng 53rd, which is less surprising, but still painful. Karlsson with a very impressive 5th place, she's ready for the classification. Fähndrich impressive again, and a strong 3rd place for young Märta Rosenberg. And yeah, impressive debut for Sanfilippo

In the US you can get your hunting gear as well at the Kiri Bass Pro Shop

And Happy New Year New Zealand, @Wanderer

Do that Mike Dixon and the other guy on Eurosport's English commentary ever do cross-country skiing outside of the Tour de Ski? They really sound like those stereotypical English Eurosport commentators, with 90% of the commentary being those super generic fact-sheet things like almost all of those English Eurosport commentators during the Olympics "It's all about the power and about keeping the speed now!" Yeah, duh.

Former pope Benedict XVI has died this morning. It's not like I've followed those things a lot, but a quick read suggests he didn't exactly help in making the world a better place...Francis seems to be doing a better job at that. Anyhow, rest in peace.

Even as an avid athletics follower, I have to kind of force myself to watch the marathon at the world championships, whereas Berlin, London etc are simply the much bigger events and easier to follow. I honestly think you are underestimating how big the large city marathons are Marathon = city marathons, basically. The rest is a nice aside, even the Olympics aren't that much bigger (if they even are bigger).