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I don't watch medal ceremonies at Olympics though, let alone at Youth Olympics, so I certainly didn't hear it there. I am 100% certain I've heard it before, since I could basically whistle along with the tune and I simply know it. Maybe I've simply heard it on the IBSF broadcasts before the races start before, although generally I turn off the sound until the event actually starts (and often I don't even watch live but later and then I skip the whole music thing anyway). It's odd

I believe @Wumo already created a Totallympics league before the season started a few weeks ago

Does anybody else recognize the intro music from something else? I'm not sure whether I recognize it from earlier IBSF live streams or from another sports-related event, possibly a multi-sports event In case there is no music anymore and they're already live, of course just rewind to the beginning to listen.

To be fair, Bendsneyder only started to get some sense of pace as soon as the decision to let him go was made (because him not being retained is news from a while ago). It's too bad he got a more than excellent result now, but he really did have plenty of chances to show this before and he really can't put everything on 'the other tracks didn't suit the NTS'. Besides, it's not like NTS has a huge pool to fish from, everyone who's been fighting for podium positions will either want to stay in Moto3 or get a chance at anything better in Moto2. Baltus has shown 'some' things in Red Bull Rookies last year, but pretty much everyone who performs better there is out of their league. I really can't see the likes of Holgado, Muñoz or Muñoz, Salvador or for example top riders Guevara or Artigas make a move to NTS of all places. Basically: NTS has to gamble in terms of which riders are possible for them, and with Baltus, they do have someone who has shown excellent things in the one or two years before his full-time GP debut and who very much has the age where significant growth is possible. Not saying he will go for wins at all, but given the very limited group of riders they can choose from, Baltus is not a bad choice. I don't think he'll perform much worse than Bendsneyder did (until the pressure was off due to him being let go) and am quite certain he'll do way better than Biesiekierski.

Exit-polls won't help much when there's such an insane amount of mail-in ballots, which both candidates actively pushed towards one side. Plus one can wonder anyway how many surprises there really were. A lot of the turnarounds really were not that surprising given the combination of where votes still had to come from and what kind of votes they were.

Not really I think, since Ohio started with the mail-in ballots and then, as was roughly to be expected, Trump gained ground when the Election Day votes were being counted and reported, which happened at more of a steady pace than the mail-in 'dumps'.

Yes, it happened. However, it was not a 'Biden votes dump', as Trump suggests it was: it was the massive dump of results from mail-in ballots coming out of Milwaukee, where Biden was expected to win by a huge margin (roughly 40 percent points I believe, which is closing in on 200k votes). That, plus the fact that Biden was very heavily winning mail-in ballots* made for a double 'bonus' one could expect from 170k Milwaukee mail-in ballots coming in. Trump obviously got a whole bunch of votes in that dump as well, it was just nothing - as expected for perfectly valid reasons - compared to Biden's numbers. *Trump asked why this was possible later....it was because he himself was casting doubt on mail-in voting all the time and so Republicans barely did that!

I wonder, is this another one of those screenshots from an independent website that's nothing official at all and is most likely a correction of an earlier mistake? Just like Michigan's (?) 138k-0 for Biden at some point, which Trumpists said proved fraud, but was actually quickly debunked to simply be the correction of a mistake?

I was planning to have that in the opening ceremony, but completely forgot it in the last week full with preparations My apologies!

https://www.ibsf.org/images/api/download/competitions/c8676bf7-e954-4331-8278-7364831b9622_start_list_bobsleigh_10.00.pdf https://www.ibsf.org/images/api/download/competitions/57d1d39c-187b-4ac7-90f6-c9c0199bbd1c_start_list.pdf Sure, they are for tomorrow's training, but the skeleton training start lists of today ended up having the same 18 names per gender as the race start lists To add to my previous post (or correct it): I thought he meant the skeleton start lists I saw this morning, which were for today's training. But apparently they're there for Friday's races now, so they are of course complete, one can assume.

Someone's lining up for an epic Olympic comeback

100 days until the world championships. I so badly hope that will come true

I think people are a bit too much expecting a vaccine (which isn't entirely ready to be rolled out yet) to make everything all fine within 2-3 months Most likely it will take quite a lot longer than that..

I wonder how complete those start lists are. Russians aren't shown in the bobsled ones, but they were on the start lists for trainings earlier this week (although they DNF'd, but their skeleton athletes are there and sliding). Rocha had a World Cup outing in bobsled already, where they finished ahead of two very much podium candidate sleds (sure, those two crashed, but who cares) https://www.ibsf.org/en/component/events/event/169458 In skeleton she seems to have been doing trainings only for a few seasons now, I wonder why she didn't start a single race.

Awet Gebremehdin (went from to ), who finished Lombardy and the Giro d'Italia last year, is stuck in Ethiopia. He went to visit his family which had fleed there, and now they are in hiding in the Tigray region, where a civil war is brewing Pretty much all talented Ethopians who were up-and-coming are from Tigray, basically the only Ethiopian region where cycling is a thing (thanks to it's connection with Eritrea), but that's all going down the drain rapidly now. Hopefully things calm down there, but considering things like history it's hard to imagine it will actually calm down

Oh boy

Glad for you there isn't, I'm still enjoying it. So yeah, that's an opinion

Oh that was so bad it was hilarious. He was basically saying he and his administration (but mostly he) made the vaccine

I'm usually already glad if I manage to find one song, I really don't have much of a second choice But yeah, for some this could possibly be a reason, sadly.

Trump still does, and it's going to remain fun to see him flailing about like a dying fish until he actually concedes

Now I'm curious as to which other reasons there would be. And to clarify: yes, it was my reason. Although I must add that I don't really feel strongly about either option, A was more a 'gun to the head' choice. I'm perfectly happy with both A and B.

1) A 2) B

To be fair, Nikolaos Tsourekas and especially Apostolos Angelis have been around at IBU level for quite a while now The Russian Moldovans were there as well, and Australian Darcie Morton saw a chance to race and so went there.