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Just out of curiousity: no top-5 in the rankings per vote this time? That makes it easier for me, I'll just skip the 'gap to 1st/2nd/etc' stat this time

So many contests started with half of the countries getting a medal early on

I'm gonna be severely disappointed if Tunisia doesn't give any points.

Yep, beautiful as always. The only thing I'd prefer is if it's actually in order so you can see which position which country is in without having to count all countries with more/less points But that's a shitload of extra work I guess, so I can understand not having that

Of course all those Eastern European nations giving 12 points to Russia as always, they're always winning it's not fair

Boooooo. Well, expected, since only for the match against Japan (when they finally won something) they actually had most of their best players available. Before that they were still busy with play-offs in Germany.

14:00 come on this is taking too long, cancel everything this is not working /bestmen

Seems like the connection is all up and running?

Medal table at the ready

I quite often just don't watch the news, so I easily miss things and might have missed this, but I have seen absolutely nothing about this in media here The only reason I know this happened is because of your posts here

I hope so for here, last year we had 8 months of summer or something, like it would never end. It can start way later now.

I'm starting to slowly be filled with hope and excitement

Cool! My home area is more in the northwest of the Veluwe (Nunspeet, and surrounding places like Ermelo, Putten, Epe, Elspeet, Vierhouten), which is not exactly the Arnhem area, but you're still welcome to come cycle

No, you're my favourite!

€997.984,07 on Algeria wins €2.015,93 on Algeria loses If you'll excuse me, I'm now gonna book my trip across cross-country skiing events for the entire winter in good hotels because I'm sure of a nearly €8000 profit

Last month in our local newspaper I saw a classmate/friend of Anne Frank apparently hid from the Germans in my part of the country, including in my 'gemeente' (surely you know the word and you know it's not exactly synonymous with 'town' or something ). Among other places, she stayed in the 'Hidden Village' in the woods here, where quite some Jews were hiding. https://excitinghistory.com/liberation-route/vierhouten-verscholen-dorp Sadly it was eventually discovered by the Germans when a boy crossed an opening in the woods to get some water and German soldiers followed him. The original huts aren't there anymore, but there are a few they rebuild to give a bit of a sense of how it was. There's not really much of a monument or info or anything except for one sign, but it's relatively deep in the woods and so pretty quiet and an interesting place to visit (and easy to do for me by bike). If you're ever on the Veluwe, let me know

1:54.99, meh.

I'm mostly surprised Saudi Arabia even allows it

I'm trying to wait with getting hyped until it's actually starting this time, but it's not working very well

Nope, Henry_Leon's post was correct..

I hope you're done because time is almost over

I haven't been feeling good (mentally speaking) this week, something going on that eats at me and bothers me all day long, yet I managed to run my fastest 5km ever this morning PB went from 24:25 to 24:17 Which makes me very confident I can go sub-24 when I'm feeling better.