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All this guy did was going to the train station

You either live across a skateboard park or Denmark forgot to leave the nineties?

Just saw someone on a skateboard and he wasn't older than 25, IOC is right, the youth is living for it

Israel brought life somewhere for a change. Too bad they brought it to the moon https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-49265125

And yeah I'm ranting about this a little because I'm getting a little tired of one group only calling one other group by name and the other side only calling the first side by name whenever someone from any group does anything. As far as one can even talk about groups. It's like saying a bear killed someone when a bear killed someone because aggressive, but when a dog killed someone you just say 'oh he probably got scared'.

Oh, here the critique is usually 'when a foreigner attacks people they say he's just mentally ill, deranged, etc, when a right-wing person does it they call it a terrorist'. It's just total and complete bullshit that all right-wing people are extremists, that all muslims are extremists, that everyone who doesn't hate Trump is an extremist and that everyone who is left is an extremist. Just call right-wing attackers terrorists (because they do it in the name of the right even though most right-wing people are just normal people living their normal life like you and me) and do the same for anyone else who performs a terrorist attack (no matter if they're right-wing, muslim, blue, yellow or Martian).

What I find a bit of a problem: it's fine to call this 'white terrorism', but when an Islamic terrorist attack is called an Islamic terrorist attack, there are people who'd call you racist for it.

Brabant, Friesland, Limburg, all a bunch of weirdos if you ask me At least people in Brabant speak actual Dutch (sort of )

Be sure I'll post it here when we find a way to get a crowdfunding campaign off the ground

Ah yeah, talk about 'national sports' Although again, it's not national, but mostly comes from that weird northern province and it's actually called fierljeppen Some footage of Dutch championships, although I've got no idea what their saying half the time. @Jinzha @CCB Any fierljeppenfans here?

Sure, it's kind of a dumb move. Enough for someone in FIVB or whatever to say "hey don't do that again, alright?" and that's it.

Sadly (probably) it'll mostly be cross-country skiing until the Olympics But yeah, it'd be awesome to get something off the ground for her (not really for the male ones, they pretty much get everything Which I don't blame them for, the ones I know are nice and friendly guys, but it's kinda frustrating to see the unfair treatment again and again and again)

This is something we've been looking at, but it's a little hard to get started (and there's a fear of not reaching enough people and ending up with like €50, which would be the opposite of motivating).

The first lost pair is considered lost and she's been waiting for a replacement pair for 8 months now. The second lost pair is something she just got to know a week or so ago when arriving in Argentina and so being 'reunited' with her snow equipment. Races start tomorrow, so there's not gonna be enough time for new skis to be sent (and even if there was, I've got a feeling any attempt to get that done is gonna result in 'Nah this is fine' and a whole ton of nonsense arguments as answer). To illustrate: she's been competing on old, broken boots for years now because she's simply refused now ones even though national federation contracts and documents simply state she has the right to get new ones. Same thing for other kinds of equipment. It is so badly time to get the hell out of there and try and train in another country. Maybe some national-level (so not World Cup-level of course) program in Germany or whatever. Overcoming years of frustration and unfair treatment and ending up at the 2022 Olympics would be worth a gold medal on it's own right.

I took a look and four teams in last season's top-5 play in places I've either vaguely or never heard of and I've have no idea where to place on the map (Papendrecht, Sassenheim, Koog aan de Zaan and Gorredijk whatever the fuck that is)

Yeah, still everything 95% of people outside that weird province know about it is 'there's a big event and it's called The PC but that's it'

Great, tomorrow the Brazilian championships start in Ushuaia. A certain athlete had three pairs of competition ski's eight months ago, which is not much, but fine. - One pair got lost somehow during the biathlon season, and was promised to be replaced, but hasn't been - Another pair mysteriously got lost from the place they're staying in Livigno (Italy) Meaning only one pair could be sent to South America for a month of competitions......and that one has not been waxed after the last race (in January), which someone was supposed to do and was paid to do...for those who don't know: leaving ski's like that unwaxed for half a year makes them utterly useless, meaning she's pretty much lost all of her competition ski's in a little over half a year and she'll have to compete on half-broken training ski's. Ugh, I thought not much more could go wrong and/or unfair...

Biathlon.

We'd be done faster if we make a list of countries where football isn't number one

Yes.

Well in that case speed skating would be the best choice.

Definitely. To be fair, I don't think any sport that has a bit of a global following should be counted as any nation's national sport.

Well yeah, in Belgium it's cycling all the way (again apart from, obviously, football). In terms of how much is shown on TV, how much news there is being posted (online and offline) about it and how many people watch and know of the main contenders, cycling is simply the clear number two behind football. A good hypothetical measure for me would be to ask every person to name as many athletes of every sport they can. I'm very sure only football and cycling would end up with several dozens mostly. Possibly speed skating, sure, but it's just not as popular as cycling.

I think hockey is played relatively much as a hobby (obviously nowhere near football), but it's not exactly a popular thing to watch or something. I mean, it's shown on TV (world championships, Pro League, Olympics), but it's not like it's got huge viewing numbers and there's definitely not as much attention for it as for cycling.

Someone standing there made a video right when it happened (so just to be clear: even though you don't see much details, this is a deadly crash and one can assume not everyone wants to see that). According to a rider who was right behind him, Lambrecht most likely lost control and then crashed.