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Only one decent option to get that in order: lose the mass start

Six sessions one can reasonably expect to be shown, Eurosport showed exactly one and so the whole thing was geo-blocked. Fuck UCI.

That was incredible I had it 98-92 Kovalev after ten rounds and the commentators mostly seemed to agree at least about Kovalev being well on his way to the win.....and then that, holy shit

Don't worry, you're not

1:07.48 for Kai Verbij, holy crap Huge track record

Sadly, according to the rules, if the host (in this case, me) decides to drop it, there is some process that's going to happen. If it was up to me, I'd already have my choice

Haha. Yeah, no.

And a really terrible 'threat'. Like, oh my gosh oh no, don't boycott it please we'll give you all our money.

But almost all of them just hang out in their national thread and only every now and then put a careful step or two outside it And the most active Indian in this thread in the past few days was only bitching about how shitty this whole thing is, so...

"We're going to the men's 1000m, the last distance of the weekend." Even Dutch public TV doesn't acknowledge the joke that is the mass start.

Yes.

There is no start list yet, so I wouldn't dare say it for sure. So far in most distances though there were 1 or 2 international pairs, something to do with ISU rules saying qualifying for international races can only happen in international races (so they added some international athletes). No idea why that wouldn't count for the 10k (M) or 5k (W), since there were no internationals there as you can see on the start lists: https://www.schaatsen.nl/kalender/2019/11/world-cup-kwalificatie-toernooi/#!#startlijstenuitslagen

Those countries are way too hot for Summer Olympics. Oh wait.

Yeah, I'm wondering that more every hour

Also: despite his constant, never-ending, blood-boiling bitching all the fucking time, I hope Algeria hosts if I would drop one.

So if you're not one of the 3-4 people who can design and create some nice stuff, you shouldn't host? Right, wonderful.

About hosting both contests next year: I'm sort of toying the idea of giving op Annual hosting rights and keeping the Open one, which The Netherlands actually earned by winning. Not sure yet, but if I drop one, it's probably the Annual..

Not everyone is able to create things like logos and cool templates and pictures and stuff. I sure can't. I can write things, no problem, but creating and designing? No, I just can't.

To the surprise of nobody, Lelisa Desisa, the world champion, is out.

12:42.97 for Patrick Roest, 7th fastest time ever and a new Heerenveen track record after an epic race Finished with a couple 29's and a 28.75 lap And it's only November

At least Eurosport Player finally has a session The last one, but alright, better than nothing

A Dutch qualifying championships where there's a rider with a 10k PB of well over 15 minutes....don't see that every day https://www.schaatsen.nl/media/41525/12-heren-10000-meter-loting.pdf (He'll destroy that though, yet another top marathon rider who is making the move - at least partially - to the 10k)

Yeah, IOC is the problem, not the event Too bad, I've given up hope for most sports in seeing them change in a good way.

The kilometer isn't and neither is the flying lap.

Thanks, but meh, why do major marathons always find it so difficult to simply have a big button that says 'Start list (elite)' or something right on their home page?