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Ski-nordique mentioned the same thing I see (although it could be based on that article), at least that's a well-known site generally. And yeah, I totally agree with you. If those 'details' are true, especially 'because of pressure from the Austrian federation', said federation needs to take a very, very hard look at themselves.. I'm seeing the very unhealthy amount of pressure a federation can put on athletes quite often, wouldn't be surprised if that was too much for someone who was just a teenager

Yeah, this is the thing we use (on 5 May the Germans surrendered to the Canadian forces, the documents were signed a day later because nobody could find a typewriter in the entire city). Well, 3 May, 5 May, 8 May....goodbye Nazis

That reminds me, the main remembrance days here are 4 and 5 May. On 4 May, mainly in the evening, is the 'death remembrance', which started in 1945 to commemorate the people who have died in WW2, but now includes all Dutch victims of wars and armed conflicts ever since. The main thing of that day is at 20:00, when everyone is silent for two minutes (trains stop driving, radio stations stop their broadcasts, and so on). Generally this is filled to the brink with people attending the national ceremony, where the king and some others lay down some wreaths. Now of course it was empty, apart from the king, his wife and some others conducting the ceremony (but obviously while keeping the distance from each other, as is necessary). Then on 5 May it's what could be translated to 'Liberation Day', a free day for many and generally a day with music festivals and such all over the country. That was of course cancelled now, so it wasn't much special apart from TV broadcasting specials and movies and stuff all day long. This is the first time I've heard of 8 May being a thing, so that's interesting.

Damn, barely 18 years old I wonder where this somewhat vague website found that info they wrote (why?) about those letters, it's not mentioned in Austrian media unless I'm missing something..that site they mention doesn't say it (or not anymore?).

Especially with Bionaz and Giacomel the Italian men's future does not look bad at all.

Valverde is going to do pretty much everything 1 aug: Strade Bianche 8 aug: Milan-San Remo 23 aug: Spanish championships 29 aug – 20 sep: Tour de France 27 sep: World championships in Martigny 30 sep: Fleche Wallone 4 oct: Liège-Bastogne-Liège 10 oct: Amstel Gold Race 11 oct: Gent-Wevelgem 14 oct: Dwars Door Vlaanderen 20 oct-8 nov: Vuelta a España Generally Valverde's peak is roughly from the end of January to halfway in October, so he should be fine.

Meiringen and Villars World Cups are cancelled (meaning, not postponed). https://www.ifsc-climbing.org/index.php/news/341-ifsc-world-cups-in-meiringen-and-villars-cancelled

At least for now nothing worse hit, after the main one (that's been downgraded to 4.6) there was one more of 4.0 an hour later and then nothing. Hopefully that's indeed it, instead of those being foreshocks. https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/world/M4/

Patrick Lefevere came across like someone who.....had rather enjoyed the drinks, on a live Belgian talk show https://streamable.com/u8so7h

No limits on the number of people who can for example be in a restaurant?

Main point of a briefing by the national health 'authorities' this morning, who brief the parliament once a week or so: out of twelve international studies, only three are showing a (very small) positive effect in terms of the wearing of face masks in the public space. This is coming from the (scientific) health 'authorities', but this is one thing where the political leaders have kneeled for outside, non-scientific pressure instead of basing their decisions on science and facts, so yeah Luckily shops will sell the specifically non-medical masks, no way I'm able to make anything myself (and using a scarve - which I don't have anyway - is not a viable alternative). Hairdressers meanwhile can't wait to get started next week, personally I can't wait for restaurants to reopen and hopefully see at least the nice 'local' ones still being alive

Even relatively speaking that's nothing compared to the latest Call of Duty where you need over 200 GB to have the full thing

Much as I like any recognition for the absolute legend and walking piece of ski jumping history that is Noriaki Kasai, it seems a bit useless to give him a certificate for a record he'll improve with every single competition he competes in (and has been improving for years with every single competition, since the closest 'rival' is at 438 competitions and that's Ammann, who has of course been adding to his number as well) Fun, useless fact I just came across: in Kasai's World Cup debut in 1988 (yeah), one of his Japanese teammates was Takuya Takeuchi, more than two decades later followed by Taku Takeuchi

Bitches be crazy (and the dude too) https://www.tmz.com/2020/05/06/earl-thomas-wife-arrested-gun-baltimore-ravens-star-cheating-allegations/

This is Android and iOS only? I had hoped for Windows/Steam or something, although at the prices I'm seeing I doubt I'd be interested

If storage was such a problem, one could easily put it on YouTube. Besides, if you can't pay for a couple of terabytes of storage, what on earth are you doing as federation? No, FIL scores major points in terms of the way they broadcast things during the season, but they lose half of those points with stuff like this.

Since there's barely any actual news, some gossipy nonsense Kirsten Flipkens has revealed she had 'a thing' with Rafael Nadal in their teen years, when she was 14. "But he didn't speak any English at the time, so it stayed with holding hands and a few kisses" https://www.hln.be/sport/tennis/kirsten-flipkens-ik-heb-ooit-iets-gehad-met-rafael-nadal~aac9d1e6/

Yu-Gi-Oh never really broke through here I think, at least not in my school Pokémon all the way, and I loved Digimon and Dragonball Z as well but we didn't really have cards or something for that (I think I have maybe 4-5 of DBZ but no idea how I got them).

Let's see if any of Tim Singer, Martin Haven, Bree Schaaf etc have an answer to that Probably not, but it's not like there's that much else to do.

Yeah, if you don't follow it at all I can imagine that's what you'd think But a couple of minutes of 'research' combined with a tiny bit of following it thrioughout the year and then it's pretty clear

Dozens of different circuits in international tennis? Basically there's three or four tiers, just like a ton of sports have more than one layer.

After an awesome virtual DTM race (first one was meh, second one was a thriller), now the first 'official' F2 virtual race

Instead of saying I forgot that, I'm gonna counter with "the Bible says they're the same"

I believe we have some day on the Thursday before it, but I'm not sure I get easily confused about on which days the dude was killed, went up, came back down, went up again etc.