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That would be interesting, but it's obviously not something for which I'm in a hurry. If you could at some point post it, I'd be very grateful!

Do you have a list of 2016 Olympians who have died?

It makes me think of all kinds of obscure cultural things that get tons of government money just to stay alive....what's the goal if apparently they don't even nearly make enough money (meaning, just not enough people care) to be at least a bit self-sustainable?

Of course track cyclists couldn't train normally neither lately, nowadays they've been allowed to train on the track again but with one rider at a time. Jeffrey Hoogland, one of the world's top-2 sprinters, has made some dumb statements about the past few weeks and his training methods: "I went on the road with my track bike, had to do something right? There were almost a few crashes...sure, people in their cars didn't expect a cyclist coming at them with 60 km/h, haha." Detail: track bikes have no brakes. What a fucking idiot, who cares if he risks his own life, but he really had to risk everyone else's? How would the life have been of someone who'd have hit and killed him because he (logically) didn't expect some dude on a bike without a brake racing out of a street with 60 km/h? Go Harrie Lavreysen.

Honestly, one can wonder if federations where over 90% (!) of their money comes from the IOC really deserve to keep being held upright by their hands..

I do like the times when for example some thief or street thug attacks someone who turns out to be an MMA fighter...wrong choices man (mostly the cases in which said MMA fighter doesn't go all-out of course, but just grabs the thug and waits for police to arrive) Everyone has their own things they like though, one of the positive things for me about combat sports is that it does take a lot of kids off the streets (especially kids from poorer upbringings) and teaches them discipline. Doesn't work for all of course, but for a good number it does. Much more so than for example football, as one can see on the field with all those crybabies.

I don't really know much about MMA fighters other than what some do inside the cage, and since I'm still two years behind in watching those events, I stay far away from news about them (spoilers) The only ones I hear talk outside the cage are the few that are co-commentating in events where they're not fighting and those that do so generally seem perfectly fine. At least with kickboxing I'm not behind and especially someone like Hari gets plenty of attention here, so it's not too hard to follow. Same here with co-commentating: Remy Bonjasky (pre and post fights) and Yousri Belgaroui (during fights) often do that and they seem to be two excellent, friendly human beings. So, that's good.

Damn, did they simply list all of the Kubok Rossii participants or what?

Or people trying to figure out which athletes check their own Wikipedia pages

Those rumors were mostly spread to anger him I think, since most people expect him to be...let's say, not exactly positive towards homosexuality (I don't think he ever made any comments on that subject, but it's more or less what's expected). Apart from that, he's mostly known as a violent person, someone who'll almost literally punch you to death for giving him a wrong look or something. For all intents and purposes, he seems to be the kind of person the world is better without.

Kurt Angle won = I agree with it being a robbery #TeamStoneColdSteveAustin Right, now to read the rest.

Now I'm curious. I've thrown out a virtual fishing line, let's see if we catch ourselves an answer

Wait, how do Italy and France get tripartite quota?

/care

In a bit of other news, Germany has joined the list of countries who have designated Hezbollah (not only the military wing, but the entire organization) as a terrorist organization.

But where did it say Hartwig Gauder died of COVID-19? As far as I can see, it only says he died, unless I'm missing something.

Dagestani's going at it after their match, Mongolian coaches with an angry striptease, Olympic wrestling always has something doesn't it?

No they didn't, since it simply wasn't up to the league. They could want whatever they wanted, it wasn't up to them: events* are not allowed until 1 September. *meaning everything one needs an 'event license' for, including professional football

I probably did, but it's so long ago I have no idea anymore

I would have laughed without any doubt...

Sure, but a death penalty can't exactly be reversed once carried out, no matter how much evidence pops up that someone was actually innocent.

Murderers and rapists can get COVID-19 in their eyeballs for all I care, but releasing non-violent convicts (who are near the end of their sentence anyway) from an overcrowded prison to help keep the general population healthier should not be an issue at all. It's not great, but releasing those people a little earlier doesn't actually change anything for society (unlike releasing violent criminals, rapists, murderers etc of course).

The problem with death penalties is that you need to be absolutely, 1000000% sure someone actually did it, and there are quite a few people convicted who in the end didn't actually do it (or where the full story was different in some sort). Being that sure is basically only really possible if it's on camera or something..

But the virus does cause massive unemployment, more so in some countries than in others of course, and unemployment very much does cause all kinds of problems, like mentioned there. People who die due to this whole situation don't only die from COVID-19.