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Let me quote the roar of the crowd during an average IBU Cup for you:

Anna-Karin Heijdenberg, that sounds like a very Dutch family name

What kind of race is this? Just a regular pre-season race or national champs or something? I'd strongly be in favour of the winners receiving an automatic spot into the World Cup team

She could have been in place of Persson or Nilsson, yeah..

A quick Google shows that she did her school in Austria and she specifically says her mom is Austrian, which leads one to believe her dad is not (so, probably German) She has dual nationality, but decided to compete for Germany. The way she's going I doubt she'll compete in the IBU Cup anytime soon, which makes it harder to ask her, but just in case she does and it's one I'm not going to, a reminder for @brunamoura to ask her about it if she happens to see her

I get that, but it's a bit harsh to keep blaming everyone who bans Russia instead of blaming those who are actually to blame for all of this, the Russian authorities. I don't know how much further things should go before at some point one should say "Look, this sucks badly for innocent athletes as well, but this has got to be stopped and resolved." There's not really a 'good' way to go about all it, but just banning athletes who have actually been caught makes the whole Russian system get away with it.

Are people forgetting on purpose there's a huge difference between individuals choosing to cheat (or even teams playing dirty based on some company) and actual state governments having massive doping programs and doing everything it can to cover everything up as much as possible when caught and tamper with all the evidence?

Yes, which is pretty worrying. Hopefully that was the last major one of this whole 'system' of shocks.

A lot of stuff like photos of damage is coming from Durrës, a city with nearly 300.000 inhabitants which was around 15km from the center of the quake. Capital Tirana with nearly 900.000 people was only around 30km away from it.

Damn, that aftershock alone would be considered seriously strong for Europe..

Considering the amount of damage and big buildings that are still on the brink of collapse, I find it hard to imagine the death toll will stay inside single digits..

The world's leading idiot seems to seriously think he signed an act that has now given women the right to vote. What he signed is an act to bring out a coin that commemorates this happening.....100 years ago. "Why wasn't it done a long time ago?" Holy shit man.

Quick question related to transfers: your biathletes only earn points for you when you have them in your team, correct? I mean, switching someone who is performing badly for someone who is doing great will cost you points (the difference in what they've earned so far), so it's not like you buy the points your new athlete earned thus far? Just making sure

Yeah apparently there were some false rumours about his retirement, but just to clarify: they are not true Source on Sam Ward's non-retirement: Sam Ward.

He is definitely not retired though. In fact, he has said he's going to do everything he can to get to Tokyo.

That is one badass rifle.

In terms of creating something other than the standard + a twist, I think there only is one bet. Question is if people want that, since Totallympics is usually extremely tight on staying within the lines (hell, even rules for thread names and your posts get edited if you write something in the first post of a thread). Which is not to say anything bad about the 'standard + a twist' we usually have, since so far I've always liked them. Plus I have absolutely zero doubt in the hosting capabilities of the other candidates, let that be very clear. Just trying to say there's more to a certain candidate than only the eternal bitching (which I sometimes find funny for a little while, but usually goes on too long) we all know and don't love and I wouldn't be totally against seeing how it works out.

Really, the only thing? The guy has the creativity of (almost) all of us combined...

Wow, if someone had randomly shown me this, I would have guessed at least 20 Congratulations to her and her team, although I can't say I much enjoyed this song at all It's the first one I saw though, maybe there's something I like more.

Well, curious when we're going back to the previous format, because this was not exactly interesting enough to turn on the TV and watch (for me, at least) It felt pretty much like another regular tournament, nothing special.

Ah yeah, equal votes between two potential flag beares, so as per the pre-established rules (!), a coin was tossed. He didn't win and so got angry and started about skin color. Too bad that thing happened, but still it didn't and doesn't make me like him less

I even only very vaguely remember something was going on there

I'm going to have to Google that, I have absolutely no idea what's with Shani Davis and the 2002 Games

That closet door isn't closed...it's not even there