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And because it's athletics:

Abadi Hadis of Ethiopia, only 22 years old. Placed 15th in the Olympic 10k in 2016 and won bronze at the 2017 cross-country worlds. https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/other-sports/athletics/abadi-hadis-dead-ethiopian-long-21435004 Apparently he had been sick for several months already

That is so weird Even weirder is one of those videos mentioned it's a 'tradition' from 1970, it sure sounds like they made a typo there and it should be 1790

To win, you've got to pull a teenage girl to your side of the room, apparently. Which sounds like an awfully bad idea that could get you in some trouble.

Two days ago the Hubei province reported around 2100 new confirmed cases (which was a pretty big rise after 1700 or so the day before), yesterday they announced around 2300 new cases.....a few minutes ago they reported more than 3100 NEW cases

Well that's a start of an explanation and it seems freaking weird It doesn't mention anything about even how a result is determined or something though "This is the scene and this is happening in xxxx rooms all over Iowa!" Yeah, but then what? Are these all separate things? Or more logically, are the votes of everyone in Iowa put together and counted to determine which one person is the winner?

What's the whole point of this caucus thingy anyway? Is it part of the process to decide who will be each party's candidate in the elections?

Those in the Netherlands (17 people I believe) were not tested at all The national health authorities said "there was no reason to do so" after talks with them. Are these people (authorities) dumb or simply holding something behind? It's really one or the other

Those in the Netherlands, who were on a plane with a Belgian who has now tested positive, were welcomed by health people dressed in completely normal clothing and everything and were sent home after a quick check to stay in quarantaine at home

The by far biggest issue is indeed the doctors: any doctor can prescribe it or take care of it, if I'm not mistaken.

One of the evacuated people to Belgium tested positive, now we're surrounded and he was in the plane with a Dutch group too

Yes, but there are plenty of situations where you actually do have some sort of actual condition, and a TUE can function to level the playing field. I'm not saying it's not misused, sadly it is and very often at that, but abolishing it entirely is the other (also wrong) extreme.

Did anyone else get Arturs Darznieks singing "It's raining man, hallelujah" during Stakhiv/Lysetskiy's run in the relay? He is such an awesome guest commentator, I wish he did every race in which he isn't racing himself. Last week he dropped a bombshell about Sics and Sics: "Did you know they are brothers?"

But thinking everyone with a TUE fakes an illness is plain stupid, I hope you don't mean that.

Banning TUE's entirely would be just as terrible for sports.

Jesus you really never read any thread before you post something do you? Did you hear the Norwegians had a couple of thousands of doses of asthma medicine?

Meaning instead of an idiotically long travel (after two 11+ hour rides to and from Nove Mesto in the past few days) the Brazilian/Irish/Australian team only has a one and a half hour drive now, excellent

Yep I forgot to post that, last night's Dutch broadcast had 34k viewers. Obviously that's not the total amount of viewers in the Netherlands, since not everyone has this channel and it was also shown on the BBC, which pretty much everyone with a normal TV subscription does have. And then there's the more regular NFL fans, a large portion of whom watched on FOX Sports (the one where the main 'free' channel had 34k viewers), but the international channel (with US commentary) which isn't counted in the stats + those that watched online streams

Good timing, because wonderboys Fuglsang and Lutsenko, together with several other Astana-Kawasaki's, are on the Teide right now

I meant a 'decent' number if countries, whatever 'decent' may be. I think for the Super Bowl a huge amount of countries have viewers as well of course, but in most of those countries it's probably only a rather low number of diehards compared to the Champions League final.

Right, I forgot about the CL final Way more viewers and decent numbers in way, way more countries I presume. In terms of spectators it can't get close to the Indy 500 (and many other races) but that's not entirely a fair comparison given the fact a race track generally can hold more people than a normal stadium

Now I'm rather curious which annual sport event(s) is/are that much bigger

I'm only saying what boatloads of travellers who've been there say after seeing stuff, it's not without reason a lot of people mention certain parts of the world when asked about the least clean places they've been. Not blaming the people at all, I know it's harder to have good hygienic conditions in poorer regions for example. Instead of blaming them, I'm worried for them. I'm much less worried about some cases here and there in more developed countries, simply because it'll be harder to spread around and because medical care is (generally speaking) most likely better.

By Vince McMahon. Well if that doesn't sound like something I'm going to ignore hard, I don't know what does.