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Not voted! But I had a first listen for all the songs which were on Spotify. Now those that aren't are up

And apologies for pulling it off-topic, so here is something more related to football There's a whole thing going on here after the recent derby between N.E.C. Nijmegen and Vitesse (of Arnhem), which was won by Vitesse, whose fans celebrated a tad too much though. Luckily everyone got away basically fine and with nothing more than a good scare, but that could have gone horribly wrong. Good thing there was a large trash container underneath it, which prevented further collapse. No fans in Nijmegen's stadium for a while, they'd play in other stadiums but couldn't agree with any other club on where they could play a few games for the time being.

If I am not mistaken, @brunamoura is actually already going there in December (Strbske Pleso) for competitions

I'm assuming everyone who doesn't qualify will be removed from this list? Although probably not, since Fourcade is on there and definitely won't qualify Slightly surprised to see Mourão going for it. She is part of the athletes' commission in both the Brazilian snow sports federation and the Brazilian cycling federation (president even, I believe), so at least she is familiar with these kind of things. I do hope the IOC athletes' commission does more than the Brazilian snow sports federation's one though, which I think met once or twice (online) in the past two or three years, one of which was simply to confirm the new members.

I'm still planning to visit the Tatras one day, I'd rather not have a couple hundred empty-brained bodies* laying around to navigate through *assuming there was never a significant brain in the first place in the heads of these morons

Considering she too has been a mainstay for a good number of seasons now, quite well. Especially when taking in account the fact she finished 8th in her debut worlds in 2016, 8th in the Olympics and 3rd in the World Cup overall standings last season (despite missing a race). Missed out on the podium only twice last season, only Flock had more podium finishes. Edit: I just notice now you mentioned bobsleigh instead of skeleton, I got confused since we're in the skeleton thread I assume you meant skeleton though.

Plus even when looking at the athlete herself, there's nothing new: she was already a well-known name on the circuit well before Pyeongchang 2018 Good result from the Brazilian in Yanqing though. It's early days, of course, but it's a promising start of the winter.

The number one favorite for 'Least surprising news of 2021' is.....

Yeah, but getting that out of the ground has been drastically cut down last year or the year before, due to small but damaging earthquakes happening all the time because of it.

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.

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

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.

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?

And of course my least favourite routine so far gets the best score

Meh, bit of a boring routine for Hashimoto. With 'boring' on the horizontal bar being absolutely relative, of course.

Well that doesn't seem to be helping him to a medal

Uchimura sticks his potentially last ever competitive landing after a great routine God, do I love the horizontal bar.

Ugh, Karimi losing it against Macchini That's a disappointing score for an awesome routine..

Karimi, wow!

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

Right, this is even way worse than the pommel horse final by now

And that's it for Andrade's balance beam hopes after roughly 0,6 seconds (raw estimate).

Balance beam final has a bit of the pommel horse final feeling so far: a festival of errors...

1:02.50 dear lord