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Not even 10km in and after the restart we've already got two more significant crashes. Come on guys

Men's junior race is underway for barely 40 meters and we've got quite a large crash.

Super likely indeed !

Not like it's likely to change or be different though. They've been the huge favourite ever since it was clear that 2025 would go to Africa and only Rwanda and Morocco were candidates.

The 2025 world championships, as was expected (and hoped), have been awared to Kigali Sure, politically it's not exactly great that another (semi?)dictatorship gets it, but for the people in a cycling-crazy country it is absolutely fantastic and the atmosphere will no doubt be truly magical! Plus it could simply be a great race, which can be incredibly hard. Twelve times a 21km lap would be perfectly possible with over 5000 'altitude meters'.

Meanwhile, the French women nearly kicked out the South Koreans. Nearly.

Huh, the quote button for the post above links to the tweet instead of quoting the post, wtf Anyhow: what did CONCACAF expect from a cocaine smuggler and allround criminal, that he would not try to bribe anyone?

Interesting to realize his last individual podium is already from nearly 7 (!) years ago. Time seriously flies I kinda thought he had already retired, completely missed/forgot that he competed last season in a few World Cups (without success). Last week I saw super-one-day-fly Thomas Diethart is also still competing. Good that he is at least physically fine again after his horror crash.

You can add Brazil to that list as well. They're making short lists of athletes who could qualify and one requirement to be on the short list is to be fully vaccinated. Not on the short list = not going to the Olympics.

And only three years or so after the other medalist of both those Games, Litvinov.

Former hammer thrower and double Olympic medalist Jüri Tamm has passed away. With that, the entire 1980 and 1988 Olympic podium - all-Soviet - has passed away in barely three years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jüri_Tamm

Fun, the new episode of Novak got released

Alleged gang members, one might add. Carrying KFC takeout.....and roughly 100.000 dollars in cash, one might add as well.

Sorry, missed the vote, but those were the two I'd have chosen, so yay

Alena Ivanchenko with a fairly surprising gold for Russia in the women's junior time trial. Big favourite Zoe Bäckstedt finished in second, 10 seconds behind, with Antonia Niedermaier of Germany in third (+25 seconds). The rest was over a minute away from her.

Yep. I'm assuming an Indonesian gold medalist in, say, badminton, would easily be able to live his/her life comfortably with sponsor money?

Not sure about the details for Brazil, but I do know that being a participant in the Olympics will give you a 3000 reais monthly salary for four years, which at the moment is roughly 480 EUR, but that gets less and less every month. Of course being a medalist will greatly increase this, but I don't know to what extent. Plus of course prize money.

Wow, those are HUGE sums I know there are fewer medalists, but still, 380k USD for a gold medal, damn.

Belgium Individual gold medal = €50.000 Individual silver medal = €30.000 Individual bronze medal = €20.000 4th place = €10.000 5th-8th place = €5.000 Team gold medal = €12.500 per athlete Team silver medal = €7.500 per athlete Team bronze medal = €5.000 per athlete Team 4th place = €2.500 per athlete plus fake tournament travel costs Team 5th-8th place = €1.250 per athlete Coaches get a maximum of 25 percent of what their athletes get. When this was announced, it was '90 percent sure' the prize money would be tax free. Netherlands Individual gold medal = €30.000 Individual silver medal = €22.500 Individual bronze medal = €15.000 As for team medals, there is a formula to decide how much every athlete gets: basically the prize money for the equivalent individual result multiplied by the root of the number of participants in the team...the result of that calculation is then divided by the number of participants. An example is the men's fours in rowing, who won gold and will each receive €15.000 per athlete. In large teams, like field hockey, there is a minimum prize to avoid this formula leading to too small prizes. The minimum is €11.000 per athlete for gold, €8.000 for silver and €5.000 for bronze. And it's the Netherlands, so we gotta keep it as cheap as possible. Medals are not accumulated normally, a second medal leads to another formula: two thirds of the money it would be worth in case it was someone's first medal. A third medal is worth one third of the first medal's worth. For example three golds doesn't mean three times 30k, it means 30k plus 20k plus 10k = 60k. And, again, it's the Netherlands: it is specifically mentioned that the prize money is definitely not tax free. So probably around half of it goes out the window immediately. Which is so goddamn annoying, just pay out more and let whatever remains after tax be the official number, so nobody gets 'cheated'.

Impressive win by Kokoro Fuji, who topped every single boulder seemingly with ease. In the end Tomoa Narasaki got close on paper, with three tops, but after missing the first one and with Fuji looking so dominant, it was never really a true battle. Bronze for Manuel Cornu.

And also because you really, really can't compare general interest for the women's event with that for the men's event. Especially when the women's event is during a regular working day and the men's event is on primetime Sunday. It was a great time trial and awesome battle between Van Dijk and Reusser though, what a show! Time trials so far are being fantastic, curious what today will bring.

Started watching Archer a while back, season 6 now (meaning I'm halfway at the moment). I've liked a lot of comedies and found them funny and such, but not often does a show actually make me literally laugh (instead of laughing on the 'inside'), like Archer absolutely does

It's a week later and there's win number two for Pecco Little less sensational this time, but it was definitely tight for a moment at the end, this time with Quartararo. Incredible third place and first ever MotoGP podium for Enea Bastianini and the Avintia team And not because others crashed or something, it was truly on pace! On a two year old bike!

Once again some stuff going on about Patrick Lefevere's....behaviour. During yesterday's Belgian talk show, he was basically shitfaced drunk, not at all the first time during a public appearance. The host at the end, when raising the glass to a good day (with Lefevere's glass being the only basically empty one): "And well, I was going to say that what's still in the glass shows us who drank the most, but...." Dude must have easily taken one or two bottles before, during and probably after the broadcast. Rambling, barely making any sense, hard to even understand what he was saying. Lefevere being Lefevere. Assuming most people here don't understand Dutch, and I do: I can barely understand more of what he's saying than you do

Which is pretty cool. European Games with only Olympic sports don't really add anything, I mean, they've all already got European championships, so....why yet another 'big' event? It's a lot more fun with all kinds of sports one sees way less often As for teqball, I know it because of Eurosport's top-X videos all the time (although not as often anymore nowadays) during commercial timeouts, they had one of teqball as well I see kickboxing is added as well. Some amateur version I guess, instead of the top-of-the-line athletes