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Yep. Leading the snatch with 147kg against 146kg for second place, after which he tried 154 (WR)....followed by three misses on CJ

Just to clarify, because the Dutch commentators are more than once saying some things that just make no sense at all: is Daniyar Ismayilov indeed 100% certain to miss the Olympics because of his failure?

So basically they are like 3rd division champions now?

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Thanks What did they win?

Well yeah, that's what happens when literally more than a billion people live in one country where there's also predators like leopards

It's usually Brazil vs Argentina vs Chile I've never heard biathletes from 'bigger' nations being there, and I'm sure if they were there, I would be told because that'd be cool

Both side boosters landed beautifully on land, the center booster landed on the drone ship....That. Was. Awesome!

Second launch ever (first commercial one ever after last year's test flight) of the Falcon Heavy rocket is happening in a few minutes

I would be so much in favor of some sort of swimming kabaddi

That's too early It's always in August or September, usually in Bariloche (ARG) or Portillo (CHI). For this year if I'm looking at the schedule right, 8-13 August it's in Portillo and 19-23 August it's in Bariloche (it's held in two separate stages).

Yes, and it has around 8 billion events already, so if events are going to be added, surely some others should be taken out.

Yeah and Al-Bashir's vice-president is now holding the cards. I'm sure the people seem generally pleased for now, but I'd say it is extremely unlikely all of this will result in even a 1% stable country. It's been a huge mess with coups, dictators, more coups and counter-coups ever since it's independence and today is pretty much proof that's exactly still the case. Just a matter of waiting for the next coup and/or civil war against the 'new' regime (which is basically just the old stuff but with a different name). I'd very much love to be wrong, but it's gonna stay terrible. Al-Bashir or no Al-Bashir.

One week = 168 hours A regular job is not. There you go

Meh, the Netherlands controlled the first match against Slovenia (double semi-finalist at the last two world champs...), but in literally the last minute the Slovenians got their first advantage and managed to hold on to it 26-27

That beard

Julian Assange has been arrested in the Ecuadorian embassy. That's the end of that

Coup in Sudan, etc. Marching music has been played on the radio all day long so far and it is freaking awful. https://raddio.net/2593-sudan-national-radio-corporation/ Worst. Marching. Music. Ever.

Not sure what it is but it looks potentially really good

I'm feeling dumb now but I don't understand what you mean An emotional war? You mean in/around Israel?

Probably knowing that especially about this specific situation, literally everyone consists of extremely emotional ladies (© @bestmen) and so doing anything there is going to result in the most predictable huge war ever

Apparently there's a military coup going on in Sudan at this very moment. Rumours have it Al-Bashir is (finally) gone, at least from power, and an 'important statement' is coming up.

Sad as it is, I guess there are parts of the world where breaking human rights and oppressing people who don't agree with you or have different beliefs and preferences is actually necessary to keep the whole thing from descending into mad chaos and never-ending civil war. Take Libya: I might be entirely wrong, but at least when they had a dictator stuff like infrastructure, healthcare and education was really quite good, relatively speaking. Sure, there was a ruler who imposed bullshit religious rules on people (you know, the 'you should go to jail for years because you like the wrong person' kind of rules), but at least there was no situation where major military battles were so commonplace they're not even news anymore... The Libya-thing is based on reading things people said who look like they are somewhat educated on the matter, so it might be wrong

Wait, there is a good democracy in the Middle East? Usually at least to the outside world it seems to be one eternally raging fire to which every single 'group' just keeps adding more and more and more and more fuel to make sure the fire never settles down into something calm and peaceful..

So far Juventus manages to hold their own in Amsterdam, but hardly