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Absolutely, it was all old and/or artificial but the past two days have brought a whole bunch of actual snow Forecasts for next week in Gällivare are quite something btw, slowly creeping in on -20 degrees which is when races are canceled.

Right, tomorrow morning it is, 10:00 local time, 09:00 CET. First race of the all-important Olympic season for Bruna, classic sprint in Olos/Muonio . Hard to give an exact goal, but if she scores under 309.78 points, she at least improves her points standings in the Brazilian ranking, so let's take that as a starting point. She does have some ambitious goals, let's see Bruna's start time is 10:10/09:10, live timing should become available here: https://live.fis-ski.com/cc-2872/results-pda.htm Although they might also appear here: https://www.enlund.fi/live/olos2025/index.html

Yep, Dennis Mitchell, Bobby Kersee and Alberto Salazar (if still active) are probably some of the main athletics coaches - at least on the US-side of things - you just should not want to have as a coach (and if you do, then you do make the conscious choice for people to suspect you).

I mean, football players refuse to take doping tests and that's never a big deal, refusing tests is in their blood (along with other stuff).

Were you the one who thinks every Olympics will be cancelled all the time, or am I confused with someone else?

A BMX World Cup also takes 1,5 hours or so of viewing and racing I'd be happier if the big classics were in November, but they won't be, so my subscription will likely only be for Olos/Muonio

Looks like it will only be shown on SC Play, the streaming service for the Ski Classics which one needs to subscribe to. Personally of course I'll go for that, 14 euro is a bit much for one weekend but it's important for me, but too bad for others who'd like to follow along Olos/Muonio Ski Race Weekend 2025 - SC Play

And now another one, between Nitra and Bratislava, damn

I mean, I know Pakistan is sometimes controversial, but as far as I know, basically every country in the world does recognize it as a country.

To be fair, I think most people expected that number to be at least the way it is, if not higher

Not at all a fan of mostly electronic music, but yes, there's certainly a difference

Wasn't the Rio gold the one where we were treated with one of the most ridiculous pieces of commentary ever by Ayolt Kloosterboer? "Marit, help us!!" when he was begging for her to win the gold. It was sailing, but maybe I'm wrong on who exactly it was

As leader of the biggest party, he certainly is the one to lead the formation and take initiative in trying to come up with a government, of which he will very likely become the prime minister. Would definitely be a first in the Netherlands, a non-straight prime minister

Every year again it amazes me how in a semi-civilized country, redrawing maps to favor one party or another is so normal

Awesome news! is obviously in Now let's see if produced anything the past year.

First registrations are officially done, so now we really can say that @brunamoura's first races of the Olympic season will be in Muonio! Two weeks earlier than we had planned a few months ago, originally the idea was to start in Italy at the end of November, but the Italy/Germany/Austria route this year (at least pre-Christmas) just doesn't have the right races, surprisingly and unlike previous season. Scandinavia it is then, starting with Muonio next week https://www.skimuonio.fi/ilmoittautuneet2?lang=en If anyone has information on where to watch that (I don't see it in YLE's program), that is obviously very welcome.

Verona van de Leur, yes

Linking it to GB canoeing was kind of dumb if true. Other than that, starting an adult content career on the side (especially on a platform made for that) should very obviously not lead to any kind of trouble for his sports career whatsoever. Same kind of nonsense as American teachers being fired because of having an Onlyfans page.

To be clear, when I posted that, it was not even 3 minutes after watching it live on TV, give them a moment

Jenning de Boo just posted a sub-34 (33.98) on sea level in Heerenveen

Got a nice present last night from a colleague after a recent trip he made @hckošice

We had Pim Fortuyn as massive new star in the beginning of the century. Until he was shot dead.

First and main exit polls show D66 is likely to be the biggest. PVV second, but with that also one of the main losers.

Absolutely Polling stations close in around an hour, so until then of course there will be no exit polls and such, but after last night it mostly seems to be between two parties: Geert Wilders' PVV (far-right) and Rob Jetten's D66 (centrist). It is very unlikely the PVV will have a massive win as they did two years ago, since even when he was part of the government, Wilders kept torpedoeing the government and even go against his own ministers. Right now, it is getting more and more clear for people (finally) that a vote for Wilders is a vote for an unbelievably unstable government, if one can even be formed. A lot of parties have already said they will not form a coalition with the PVV, both because of their far-right stances and because forming a coalition with him simply means you are going to have another political crisis - most likely instigated by Wilders being in opposition to his own coalition. D66 seems to have the momentum in the last few days. Then there's the rather far-left GL-PvdA team-up, two left parties that joined forces last time and are lead by the rather unpopular Frans Timmermans. They do have an outside shot at being the biggest today though, definitely the main option for those on the left. More on the right side is the VVD, which has been in every coalition since the dawn of time. Everyone always complains about them, yet apparently always enough people vote on them. Then there's the more central CDA, the Christian Democrats, the party of Mark Rutte's predecessor Jan-Peter Balkenende. Totally collapsed last time around due to one guy (Pieter Omtzigt) leaving and starting his own party, gaining a ton of seats. Omtzigt has since already left politics and his party (NSC) has now collapsed, they might get 1 seat today, who knows, most of it goes back to CDA and they too have an outside shot at winning. Personally I expect something like this: D66 PVV shortly behind it or maybe even equal GL-PvdA a few seats behind them VVD/CDA fighting for 4th JA21 (far-right party of a guy who switches party on a near-weekly basis) being an almost certain 6th place. Then there's some stuff like the populist farmer's party (BBB) which was super big for a short moment and was part of the 4-party coalition drama that led to us having elections now. The super strict Christians of SGP (oldest party in the country I believe, always good for 3 seats, or sometimes 2 or 4, since their fanbase is never-changing - fun fact, their leader comes from a tiny town that's part of my also fairly small municipality). The less strict Christians of the Christen-Unie, Volt and a few others. To give a sense of the sheer number of options: yesterday were the final debates. First there was a debate with the small parties, 6 in total. Then came the debate with the big parties, 9 of them. That's 15 parties who are all in some way likely to get at least 1 seat. Not even counting the 10+ who participate without a real chance for that

There is no chance they'll be part of a coalition (which by itself is already going to be a massive nightmare to form), but my vote did indeed go to Volt @Gianlu33 Not to their number one though, he has the charisma of a wet piece of cardboard, but at least to the party.