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Because there is no ice hockey in the Summer Olympics.

Because the Russian authorities didn't screw their own athletes hard enough yet?

And, on top of that, an attempted cover-up of said fraud with more proven fraud.

I am relieved to find my memory hasn't left me https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1023655/south-africa-s-gauteng-province-set-to-make-2024-olympic-bid-if-ioc-change-rules Although it didn't really get far and was still far from being an official bid.

Not many doubts about that.

I had the Gauteng region in mind.

Didn't South Africa try it for a while (for 2016 or 2020?)....and then just threw the thing overboard?

I get Slovakian women's biathlon sadly is in a really, really problematic situation and I very much hope there will be light at the end of the tunnel...but damn.

Yep, but when fraudsters start covering up their fraud with more fraud, punishment has to get harder. Surely there will again be a host of athletes competing, don't forget there were still 168 (!) Russians who could perfectly fine compete in Pyeongchang. It's all nice and dandy for them to kick around crying like a child who doesn't get their preferred candy in the supermarket, but the blame really is 100% on the Russian authorities and their state-sponsored doping. DDR and Soviet-Union all over again without any shame. Sure, one can discuss how WADA handles it, but that just takes away from the main point: Russian authorities fucked their own athletes.

Do they get points if they're lapped or something? At least put her in 4th position, maybe she won't have to actually compete and force her injury into something worse then...and if she does, I hope she takes it very slow. I want to see more great things of Fialkova, this isn't helping that

Oh shit, that's not good at all. Potentially even worse for Slovakian biathlon than her sitting out the season, because this is exactly what makes injuries (much!) worse..

I think he tried for a few meters and then saw (and felt!) JTB was just going too fast. Sometimes you have to take the loss

I believe I learned that on Totallympics when a certain user explained how popular Russian weightlifter Ruslan Albegov is in online gay communities Just to clarify: with "never been a fan of it" I of course meant the whole Miss World thing I couldn't care less who likes men and who likes women and who likes both or none, as long as we're all happy

Ok.

He says in a reaction to a post of probably our most prominent openly gay member Never really been a fan of it myself by the way, they all look a bit too 'fake' for my liking

How about Euro 2020 for which Russia qualified?

So, 4 year ban for Russia from all major events. And again, neutral athletes stay possible. Posting it here because it's not just IOC news and not just Tokyo 2020 news. https://www.bbc.com/sport/olympics/50710598 Committing fraude in a fraude investigation. Yeah, they were just asking for it. Good riddance, sad as it is for many actually clean athletes. Again, they have one thing and one thing only to thank: Russian authorities.

Meaning IOC won't choose them

I hope more follow.

If Qatar joins, Qatar magically becomes the hot favorite.

Well he did his "Look at me, I am fucking awesome" thing mostly after the finish

Wow Ford, I did not see that coming a few hours ago

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That last part of Zubcic, Croat-style apparently

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