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  1. heywoodu
    Major financial troubles for the Thialf stadium, basically the home of top-level speed skating. https://www.nu.nl/schaatsen/6164249/sluiting-dreigt-voor-noodlijdend-thialf-schaatsers-vragen-kamer-om-steun.html They've already been having financial troubles for years, but the prices of gas - and so, electricity - which have absolutely skyrocketed in the past few months (it's 5+ times more expensive than half a year ago), have made it a critical situation.
  2. heywoodu
    How do I find the Bulgarian song on Spotify? Same for China I guess..and Kazakhstan. Probably gonna download the YouTube audio for those that I can't find, but it's a shame, since having a separate method to listen certain songs creates a slightly uneven playing field
  3. heywoodu
    For those interested, try and get yesterday's trilogy battle for the Glory heavyweight world title between Rico Verhoeven and Jamal Ben Saddik. The King of Kickboxing against The Goliath. Absolutely epic. Truly one of the best kickboxing fights I've ever seen.
  4. heywoodu
    On the other hand, if this (the semi-corruption) was such a big thing, surely they'd have been able to 'find' 0.1 extra point for Hashimoto somewhere in the allround final so they'd win the biggest prize as well instead of losing it by the tiniest of margins?
  5. heywoodu
    And of course my least favourite routine so far gets the best score
  6. heywoodu
    Meh, bit of a boring routine for Hashimoto. With 'boring' on the horizontal bar being absolutely relative, of course.
  7. heywoodu
    Well that doesn't seem to be helping him to a medal
  8. heywoodu
    Uchimura sticks his potentially last ever competitive landing after a great routine God, do I love the horizontal bar.
  9. heywoodu
    Ugh, Karimi losing it against Macchini That's a disappointing score for an awesome routine..
  10. heywoodu
    Karimi, wow!
  11. heywoodu
    And Wong closing this final off with a routine which was unstable the whole way. That was all rather underwhelming, but cool to see Ashikawa get the gold after her incredible save in qualifying and Schaeffer getting silver
  12. heywoodu
    Right, this is even way worse than the pommel horse final by now
  13. heywoodu
    And that's it for Andrade's balance beam hopes after roughly 0,6 seconds (raw estimate).
  14. heywoodu
    Balance beam final has a bit of the pommel horse final feeling so far: a festival of errors...
  15. heywoodu
    1:02.50 dear lord
  16. heywoodu
    If the graphics are somewhat correct, Gidey is a full minute (!) under WR pace
  17. heywoodu
    The men are a few seconds behind WR pace after 15km, the leading women are well under WR schedule. Hard to say exactly how much, since the live timing is utterly awful, but they're going fast.
  18. heywoodu
    The only news about Shiffrin here is that she won today, which is marginal news by itself By the way, the British Eurosport commentator (another of those generic ones, "This is great skiing by the Swiss athlete!") mentioned Shiffrin dating Kjetil Andre Aamodt. Sort of a variation on the Slovenia/Slovakia thing (which he did as well in run one).
  19. heywoodu
    For the safety of the sprint tournament it's probably better than Paul is out, but other than that, damn. He was so close.
  20. heywoodu
    Sadly the old Dutch trick of using a half-broken 30 year old bike as your 'stationsfiets' ('train station bike') won't work well for high-performance, I'm afraid But yeah, that's awful. I'm sure the data to recreate them is all there, so that's no problem, but other than emotional value those things are monstrously expensive..twenty bikes, hundreds of thousands of euros in total costs. Makes you wonder, considering the amount of times these things happen, maybe they should bring at least their 'main' bike to the hotel room or something..
  21. heywoodu
    Front row for Luca Marini
  22. heywoodu
    It's going to be a breath of fresh air to not have Rossi in MotoGP anymore next year...I mean, if he's still enjoying racing, sure, but by this point it's just humiliating. He's not even 1% of a shadow of what he once was anymore.
  23. heywoodu
    Yeah, I watched it there, but when writing a small item about a sport with not much interest, it's too empty to not have a video, especially in a sport where it's really just about actually seeing it At least FIS put something on their Twitter account, which is better than nothing.
  24. heywoodu
    Ugh, events in Switzerland and so even FIS can't put highlight videos online...or they simply refused to do so, which would be bad too.
  25. heywoodu
    And two Italian medals on the rings, what a year.
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