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It's a coin toss between Israel and Malta for me, but yeah, gun to the head I'm going for Israel in last as well.

What's with those little hand thingies of Malta, with that semi uninterested look?

The Night of the Silver Dresses. That's number three in six acts.

At least Russia was smart...in between this weird rapping, they somehow wrote 20 seconds of actual music and exactly those 20 seconds are used for the recap which most people will probably (at least partially) base their votes on

SORRY WHAT DID YOU SAY? MY EARS POPPED A FEW MINUTES AGO

Not great, but sure, not terrible song for Israel...but then why throw it all away with that ear-popping scream in the final seconds?

Which app exactly is that? Because I know there's an 'official' app, voting through which is not actually official at all..

Mariah Carey has been spotted backstage.

Oh, I thought I read it would be decided here and due to Pilato finishing 3rd, she's most likely out Good news!

World record 29.30 for Pilato What a phenom, it's really too bad she just wasn't strong enough yet in a bit longer distance than a sprint At least, I am assuming she won't go to the Olympics because of that?

Bernal is on a different level so far. Cool for Fortunato, kind of a shame to have a relative unknown win on a monster like the Zoncolan.

The Belgian sports papers on Monday will have black lines around them.

RIP Child of God

Ugh, another drugged up idiot going batshit crazy, nearly brought Fortunato down. Fuckers.

Nice for Fortunato, annoying to see EOLO-Kometa taking the win: branded as a great development team by Contador and Basso, with the main aim to give young riders good chances, but in the end they're not bringing any rider out of their own development to these races and just go with a random group of have-been's and 'eternal talents'..

This group is an excellent chance for Mollema, although let's see where the surprise attack of Tratnik goes.

Lovely day on the Zoncolan.

That's what I was most interested in anyway, thanks

Then again, does it really have that much of a significant impact? Too bad one can't give up their own vaccine for someone else. I'd gladly give up mine (if that means I'll have to wait a bit longer) in order for an Olympic athlete to be vaccinated in time for Tokyo. Meanwhile, I'm simply happy the Brazilian NOC seems to be starting with vaccines and a certain Totallympian will most likely receive one next week. No crisis of conscience at all..

Does anyone know where to find a list of broadcasters? Apparently the company which used to show it in the Netherlands doesn't have it anymore, there's nothing in tomorrow's schedule at least..

Having a fairly boring run-up to the Zoncolan like this was pretty unnecessary, but apart from that, there is definitely potential for interesting stuff today (also, snow on the always feared Zoncolan). With arguably one of the best fan moments ever, where one of the usually annoying people on climbs for once made for an awesome memory Yes, that is a steak being dangled in front of zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero cinco Contador.

Anyone have the full result for the original 100m backstroke final? Dutch NOS only has a live stream one can't 'rewatch', so you either watch live or not at all (meaning I had to watch everything without commentary later last night and only now heard about this 100m backstroke drama).

For what it's worth, my same list for SF 2 Definitely will qualify: EST GRE POR FIN Maybe: AUT POL ISL ALB BUL DEN Definitely won't qualify: SMR CZE MDA SRB GEO LAT SUI Where I must say I added San Marino not because of it's performance, but because I didn't expect them to get enough votes. Mixed feelings about that one personally: it starts nice, but I found to go downhill to the depths of earth when that dude appeared and started...I don't know what he was doing, but not singing At least I had 6 of the 10 right in terms of who I thought could qualify And much to my surprise I noticed Ukraine is actually one of the favourites...how?!

Meanwhile, Dutch commentator summed it up nicely when I turned in: "For those of you just tuning in and having missed the first 180 kilometers....wait, I should say that differently, because you missed nothing." Yeah, boring as shit as I'm sure the organization expected, but at least the final kilometer was fun. Nice try by Affini and great to see Nizzolo finally take a win

That is quite good news actually, it was absolute bullshit to have riders be DQ'ed (!) for throwing away a bottle. This doesn't save the sport or something, but DQ's for nonsense like that does slowly kill it.