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I think you understood it wrong (or I wrote it wrong), a lot of the knowledge is not mine (but coming from people I've been asking for help while making my Olympic medal table), hence my question I mean, I know nothing about (for example) wrestling or slalom canoeing, but I get very excellent help in those. That knowledge is not mine and is also not at all meant for any contest, so it'd be a bit unfair to pretend it is. That's all I meant with it, nothing smug at all (if anything, all the previous contests have shown I'm not exactly the favourite to win any of these contests anyway ). If it came across wrong, sorry and never mind then, I didn't mean anything wrong or smug or something with it.

Police is finding this year's Bahrain Bonus a tad suspicious, it seems. Police raid at their hotel. https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/police-raid-bahrain-victorious-hotel-at-tour-de-france/

Team and duet are that similar in terms of results? Thanks, I know who to look for then (you know, limited time during the Olympic days, so I'll mostly just watch these few countries then)

I'm in need of a bit of ethical help: as several users definitely know, like five years ago I've beek asking for quite a lot of help in making an Olympic medal table. Lists of who has which chances in which events, and so on, since we've got quite a lot of specialists on here. That help, like five years ago, is immensely appreciated. It might however give me an unfair advantage in the prediction contests, something I'm not a fan of (the advantage, that is) and in no way do I want anyone to think I'm trying to cheat the contests. On the other hand, Wumo is putting in a ton of also much appreciated work for all those contests, and it feels a bit unfair to him if I were to ignore the contests. I don't want to be unfair to him, and I don't want to be unfair to the other participants in the contests. Any suggestions as to what to do? For now I'm mostly leaning towards not participating in the contests (at least not those in which sports I received help for are involved, something like athletics I do by myself and so that's perfectly fine).

I keep the sound on because then I know when I have to get back from taking something to drink, some snacks and such

These things are going to be so heartbreaking For everyone of course, but especially athletes whose main goal is not so much to win a medal, but to participate and show what they can do...

Oaths are usually things that go in on one side and leave on the other side immediately anyway, mute or not Often it's all kinds of musical and cultural stuff and then all of a sudden apparently the oaths are done and 'oh, that was it'. #TeamParadeOfNations

Am I correct in assuming Russia is the overwhelming favourite in the team and duet events, with China as sort of remote team challenger and Spain, Ukraine and Japan as potential outsiders/main teams for bronze (basically in both team and duet)? Judging by previous results, it doesn't seem like behind them there is any other nation with a somewhat possible gold medal chance, and only a low number with a (small) medal chance.

Oh, that's why the guy who always writes huge daily previews for every GC stage on a Dutch forum today posted these in his preview: 'Ergens' is Dutch for 'somewhere', but I thought it was the name of some French town or something until I saw here that it starts in godawful Pau Excellent Paint job

So yesterday they finished in Saint-Gaudens...then they moved 75km north for today's start....which starts with going back all the way to Saint-Gaudens resulting in a roughly 100km 'flat' part before the climbing starts Oh ASO, why this nonsense?

I was thinking about my personal hero Dagur Sigurdsson (who led Füchse Berlin to an absolutely epic Champions League win over Ademar Leon, arguably the best sports moment I've ever witnessed live, as in at the location/stadium , incredible comeback with insanely attacking tactics), but apparently he's coaching the Japanese men for a few years already, including at the upcoming Olympics, cool! Well then...I'm afraid I have a job already, sorry

Last news about the team size is from two weeks ago, when articles were talking about (including reserves) 292 athletes.

No idea

This is not official/final (yet).

Jack Haig is also out, probably not very surprising. Still a shame though, he could have had a decent chance considering this year's Bahrain performances.

Young Lukas Kubis will replace him, at least cool for a rider from a small team to get a chance like this And always sad to see any athlete having to miss the Olympics due to injury, especially someone of Sagan's stature. Even though he wouldn't really be one of the favourites on what is basically a hard mountain stage, he'd probably at least try some fun in the early breakaways or something, seeing how attacking he often is.

The sport's quota have been cut because of a single doping test? Try that at the Olympics and you'll end up with a grand total of four events in two sports or something..

I'd change the shooting format to take away laser shooting and replace it with actual shooting, to make actual shooting skills more important (since stuff like taking wind into account is important as well, but basically eliminated with laser shooting). Not that I'd care a whole lot, since I usually end up watching five minutes of pentathlon every few years

A little late, but welcome @maestro And also a welcome to @El Greco 21! Other than that, I'd like to welcome absolutely @Nobody, good day! And @Frenchy16, bienvenue to you!

Perfect breakfast matches

I'd love for Henk Grol to do it, although I know it's not very realistic..

There's also plenty of good and fun stuff on social media of course

But what does a 2014 or 2015 result matter when predicting 2021? It doesn't... I think if there's one user here who is absolutely not a 'hater' and definitely able to look at all athletes from a neutral point of view (instead of giving higher chances to one's own favourites), it's our Brazilian friend.

Always the same, Denmark, Switzerland and such.

Yeah this being against huge companies makes sense, but the IOC wouldn't be the IOC if they didn't make a huge deal about the local car repair shop posting something I wonder what punishment the athlete could get. I mean, surely they can't take away the results, so if an athlete is retiring anyway after the Olympics, what's to stop them?