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Well they didn't select Marvin van Heek for Sochi after his 8th place finish at the Val Gardena downhill, where a top-8 finish in a World Cup was required...so you never know (he had some luck with the weather, as these things go in outdoor sports sometimes, and so the race was not counted as 'representative')

There was (talk of) snow today! I mean, the table in our garden got a little white. I think.

I barely understand the problem in Dutch, let alone in English I do know it all started with a massive fraud by tons and tons of Bulgarians, who basically came to the Netherlands to say "Yeah I live here" (meaning they got welfare money to pay rent for a whole year in advance) and "Yeah I have X children" (same thing), got the welfare money on a Dutch account, went back to Bulgaria, took all the money off and never set foot in the Netherlands again. Quite literally free money without anything to do for it, millions of euros disappeared that way. That got a whole ball rolling in tax problems and such: it made rules stricter, but they kinda went too far and made certain rules too strict, which led to people being accused of fraud incorrectly, but having to pay big fines without really have a chance to prove they did not commit fraud. As always, there's some angry people, there's some people who think it's bullshit to have the whole cabinet step down because of it, and so on. Anyway, it won't have much effect since elections are in two months (planned) anyway. Personally I think Rutte will end up being prime minister after the elections again (for a fourth time). Everything on the 'right' to that is just an absolute mess (Thierry Baudet's 'Forum voor Democratie' being the top mess and Geert Wilders' 'Partij voor de Vrijheid' being just your standard 'all Islam should be illegal' kind of moronic talk), a whole host of options more towards the left is either incompetent or just less aligned with my ideas than Rutte's VVD. In the end, VVD is the - in my opinion - best option of the relatively centrist parties, the others in that area are just not my 'thing' (like D66, which often just swings from one side to another depending on what's their mood, or so it seems).

Yeah, good chance the Mexicans came to pick up some 'easy' money for starting (being 20+ minutes behind on skiing speed alone, one would find it hard to imagine they are in some way or shape trying to go to the Olympics in cross-country skiing for example and using this as preparation) Brian is also a part of the larger team the Australians and Brazilians are part of, by the way.

That's what happens when there's no first trimester and no Junior Cup

It's been fixed now. Bosnian Lalovic probably had rocket skis, surely it's not another timing issue!

What madness is this, somewhere around bibs 38-44 something went wrong obviously, but what?

The downhills are still on though. Plural, with the Wengen downhill sadly being forced to move already.

Of course, he's part of the same 'team' Brazil is a part of, so we've been following him for a while He has always had impressive speed in the Junior Cup, so it was a matter of waiting for a really good shooting day...and that has arrived

That very much boggled my mind as well, I was quietly yelling at them to at the very least go check on him.. Just saw the replay by the way and yeah, that knee is gone. Jesus, it's that kind of accident where one's lower leg moves completely independent from the upper leg, that's horrible. I really hope the treatment took so long because of that, and not because of something more threatening to his overall health.

Damn, what a fall. Always gives this 'weak' feeling in the stomach when someone stays down without any movement for so long, then is treated for so long and then the helicopter flies in..

Because there was some sense that the account of the head of state had a certain kind of value. It's gone from very shitty and full of lies to outright dangerous rather quickly though.

Surely you can watch them later though? Just avoid social media and the relevant threads on Totallympics (hoping nobody decides to annoyingly post about other sports' results in the wrong threads) and then catch up with Eurosport Player or Eurovision or wherever you might record the races

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Eythora Thorsdottir might deliberately sit out the Olympics. Her coach, Patrick Kiens, is no longer welcome in any role at the national team and the federation is putting pressure on their club to let him go as well - he was put aside due to "disrespectful behaviour towards other coaches, not being a team player and communicating badly". Thorsdottir has been working with him since 2008 and for her it's clear: "I'm going to the Olympics with him or I'm not going to the Olympics at all." So yeah, bit of emotional drama stuff.

This is rather hilarious, zero retweets and likes for the egomaniac

Trump throwing more fuel on the fire with his 'calming them down speech'

By both Democrats and Republicans. "The shining example of democracy in the world." It never has been and never will be.

It was more about the photo, which says enough by itself.

It is funny how you manage to downplay even what is basically a terrorist attack by anarchists by some nearly century-old example.

Oh my.

It has reached the level where I'd keep watching until deep in the night despite having a 13-hour workday coming up tomorrow.

Reports of 'an armed standoff at the House front door'. Jeez, House of Cards writers would see the scenario be thrown in the trash and deemed too unrealistic.