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Ah yeah, that was last week or so but I forgot to mention it, I was only focused on cross-country Curious if here we'll also see which nations rejects which quota.

Oh wait, statement 5 was about couples as in, in a relationship? I thought just two athletes in general

1, 3, 5 and 6 Not sure which two athletes will both win a medal in the same two events, but considering we've got swimming on the program I'd be highly surprised if the diversity in medal winners is so big, this doesn't happen And that's without even looking at other sports where it's possible. With swimming and it's many highly related events alone this should be done and dusted, probably more than once

Good thing for Mourão the decision was largely based on the time before this year, because this year Goulão has been quite a lot better Hopefully she can improve her shape, although I do have good hope for that: the transition from cross-country skiing to the MTB World Cups was rather short, one can understand that's not very easy and things should get better now. And good to see the second Brazilian men's ticket does indeed go to Cocuzzi...there was a tiny bit of doubt for a moment, but even though he probably won't end up far in the front, he has had that one moment of brilliance last year where he was suddenly leading the field (before a flat tyre...)

I'm (positively) surprised people are so strongly against this. From what I'm hearing out of Brazil, most people are just doing the exact same things as always (partying, visiting everyone left and right, getting drunkc, going to the beach with half of São Paulo at the same day), with the main difference being that - while doing all their usual things - they're complaining about how everything is different and they can't do anything. I'm just hearing about a small subset of Brazil of course (coastal city 2 hours south of São Paulo), it might be entirely different in other places. Be that as it may, it's still good to hear a majority is against hosting an event like this at this moment..

If I hadn't put them in my calendar when the group stage ended, I would've missed it completely as well...this split in two parts makes it feel entirely like some random matches instead of a tournament

It went down during the Games? Oh boy, going down during the 2012 Games, going down (and being entirely, 100% lost) shortly before the 2016 Games....are Olympic years cursed and also does 2021 or 2020 count as the Olympic year?

I was all the time wondering what that annoying tiny thing appearing in any random place was

Well yeah, but ranked 13th one might assume he's not suddenly that bad.

Excellent and clear statement. Too bad social media is then filled with pathetic people bashing her, probably out of a sort of frustration that she actually has a talent for something, while they don't have the ability to do anything else but doing nothing and sitting on their ass bitching about everything. I guess that's a quality too.

What's with Goffin

That's excellent, browsing the forum on a phone (where I don't have an Adblocker) is (or was, now) absolute browsing horror Hopefully we can get some more users or something

What the hell, Netherlands went 0-1 down to France in the QF, got back to 1-1 early in the second half and then got pummeled by the French....who missed every single chance, after which Boadu scored 2-1 with barely 10 seconds of injury time left

This is rare...some sort of phone line disruption has caused almost literally the entire major rail system in the Netherlands to be halted at the moment

Dutch NOC makes it difficult, as per usual. For 'layer 1' of the international qualifying pathway, there are no additional requirements. For layer 2, there is an additional requirement of having to lift at least equal the total weight of the 8th placed competitor at the 2019 world championships (424kg in this case). The question is, what exactly is layer 1, what is layer 2, and in which layer would he qualify?

Wow When will we know? And now I hope there's not some internal limit which would restrict him..

CONMEBOL is apparently still looking for a new host and has several options, they say? Let's hope so

On the other hand, it's always sort of sad when athletes mention mental health (separate from this specific case, I mean in general) and are almost all the time ridiculed for it by people with the empathy of a brick

Huh, I thought Van de Zandschup's win was a real stunt, but apparently Hurkacz was only a semi-slight favourite to begin with already

Wait, the tournament threatened to default her? What kind of nonsense is that (from the tournament organisers, of course)?

Why wouldn't I know the second best Dutch male tennis player at the moment? He's not exactly a star, but one of the many, many players who sometimes appears left or right for a match or two. I wouldn't recognize him face to face, but that goes for probably at least 180 of the other 199 top-200 players. Is Hurkacz ranked that much higher? His name sounds sort of familiar, but that's about it

Excellent 8th place for Van Kalmthout meanwhile. Too bad on one hand, since he was in the fight for the win for 150 laps or so, but unfortunately things got messed up thanks to Hunter-Reay at the last stop.

Meanwhile Palou takes over the lead in the championship, in the shadow of this

Awesome to see every single person there is happy for Helio

Helio!!!