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Is there any way to differentiate between discussion and results threads? This is incredibly confusing: "....topic in Non-Olympic Sports", but both Non-Olympic Sports are two different things. I'm simply trying to look for the F1 discussion thread but it's buried..

That was already long gone on day one or two when groups started rampaging through cities instead of protesting But yeah, it hasn't helped.

Dude jerked himself a broken dick and now wants 25 million dollars from Twitch. Right. https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/sex-addict-claims-hot-female-gamers-caused-him-to-injure-penis/

Here's a toast to ruthless dictators!

It's plural for a reason.

The Brazilian federation finally made their requirements to qualify for Beijing known. It's incredibly unfair and basically every single promising rule or requirement they had been talking about in the past year (to finally make it more fair) has been turned around into something incredibly unfair. Even the requirement of athletes having to compete against each other at least once, as had been promised more than once, has disappeared. It's a little sickening how obvious they are being in what they want. I guess even more and harder training is going to be needed to try and negate the injustice.

Pretty awesome how Dark managed to create a feeling where most viewers are like "wtf is going on, I thought I'd understand but after another episode I just understand it less!" yet still want to press "Next episode" immediately

Not denying that, but I always find it funny when people only look at the most prolific goalscorers when it's about who is the best player ever No, those are (more or less) the most famous players ever, not necessarily the best (defenders won't be nearly as famous as prolific goalscorers, with a few exceptions of course, yet there is no doubt you'd also have to include quite a lot of defenders when discussing the best players ever)

Not to be nitpicking, but F2 is not a world championship. There are only four FIA world championships (F1, rally, rallycross and endurance, with Formula E joining it as the 5th one next season). Also, does this mean there'll be a thread for every single F2 and F3 weekend (which is during F1 weekends)? https://totallympics.com/topic/3812-formula-2-fia-world-championship-2020-red-bull-ring/

Damn, I had completely missed the death of Piet van der Kruk The last Dutch Olympic weightlifter (no, I'm not counting Youth Olympics here) and until 2016 the Dutch weightlifting commentator for Eurosport. I always had mixed feelings about that: technically he was very good and absolutely knew what he was talking about, but he didn't know the athletes...at all. Like, basic facts about them. For a total non-weightlifting country though, he was good as a commentator.

The national team coach Jeroen Otter today said there has been not a single sign of recovery and Van Ruijven is very much fighting for her life. She is in an artificial coma and that's not expected to change (at least in a positive way) any time soon. Apparently she got struck by some sort of auto-immune disorder, leading to severe complications including internal bleedings. A second surgery has already been done but didn't lead to any positive change. It's pretty clear: this is very much going in the wrong direction.

I can't wait for people to go and say "Ok so these are the best footballers ever!" because they made the most goals

I believe they go back to combined time.

The Dutch federation has decided to go back to having two 500m 'heats' in national competitions, the only fair way to have a 500m competition.

Well if Evenepoel is going, the rest can just stay at home because there's nothing to ride for anymore

@MHSN The fuck is going on?!

Well duh. Of course 1500 firemen will keep your city safer than 1 police officer, but also 1500 police officers will keep your city safer than a single fireman.

The silver was awesome for the real Silberpfeilen of long, long, long ago (as in, pre-WW2), current cars just look too complicated with too many details and such for that to still be cool.

I know but I was balancing doing actual work with posting on a forum so there was a bit of a brainfart there

Lara van Ruijven, last year's 500m world champion, has been hospitalized in France during a training camp. She is apparently seriously ill and is reported to be in a stable but critical condition.

Black Liveries Matter. Not a big fan of changing the entire livery so radically to make a point, but besides that, I am very much digging the look So much better than that eternal boring grey

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I am definitely familiar with canaries in coal mines, but I had never actually heard it used as an expression. Already loving this event now

@Dragon? Apparently not the last, John Lysak is still alive for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lysak Too bad this awesome page is all messed up now for some reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Canadian_Paul/Olympics At least the first athlete on the list is still listed as alive and competed in 1936.

Fuck ALS, seriously.