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Did you base that off of the official website? Because there seems to be a mistake there. This equals 56 points for the Netherlands, not 55 as shown on the website:

Not sure what the men's semis are now, the graphics in the stream showed different pool standings than the official website and therefore different semis. Graphics on stream: A Netherlands Austria Switzerland Hong Kong Leading to NED - NZL and LAT - AUT as semis. But the official website has it Austria, Netherlands, Switzerland, Hong Kong, leading to NED - LAT and AUT - NZL. I am inclined to say the graphics one is correct, since they had NED with 56 total points and the official website with 55, which is incorrect. That would mean NED - NZL and LAT - AUT in the semis.

Twins Eugene and Jamie Omalla have completed their switch from Uganda to The Netherlands and can compete in Paris if they're selected as part of the Dutch team. Especially Eugene can be a big addition for the relay, he broke the African indoor record earlier this year over 400m. No shenanigans here by the way: born in the Netherlands (country of their mom), lived here for 7 years and then moved to Uganda (country of their dad), now they compete for Kansas State in the US.

Damn There were already a surprising amount of potential challengers, but of course she was still the favourite even with the rise in level recently. Now the fight has the potential to be amazing, including a potential bit of history for Dominica.

Yes, but if the fields are that big, there's no way we'd ever have a place for that (no big enough indoor halls and outdoor won't work anymore because we fucked up the climate)

Aren't bandy fields massive in size?

That does sound a lot better (especially compared to the way too fast laser shooting), yes

OJ Simpson.

Is Ni Xialian playing for Luxembourg? If so, go Luxembourg

I'd say posting official streams of any event should be highly encouraged

To be fair, that's a little like saying the Netherlands should be great at ice hockey because it's the best country in the world both in skating and hockey

Thanks, let's see how it turns out. Actual shooting might be my own thing then, I'd find it cool if - like in biathlon - real shooting skills play a bigger role then the super quick laser clicks where a miss costs maybe 1 second (plus real shooting requires more skills in terms of wind reading and so on) Anyhow, still looking forward to watch it in Paris, it will be my first time watching it since Tokyo, expect more of my dumb questions about how it works by that time please

Out of curiousity: what are some of the potential changes pentathlon fans are hoping for with a different UIPM president? Like, any chance of going back to actual shooting for example?

Haniyeh is not leading resistance, he is doing the exact same thing as Netanyahu: leading criminals. He should end up with the same fate as Netanyahu, whatever it may be.

Oh I would have no doubt the same cowardly thing as Haniyeh does is going on with the likes of Netanyahu and his cronies: the leaders staying high and dry, enjoying the luxury life. One can only hope the likes of Haniyeh and Netanyahu and all their corrupt and criminal cronies somehow 'fall of the balcony', as the Russian authorities would say.

Daddy himself is the one living up the easy life in Qatar, that's not a secret or something

Meanwhile, the Seine is still measuring sewers-like levels of poop bacteria. https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240408-french-charity-sounds-alarm-about-seine-ahead-of-olympics-1 Somewhat safe or not, of course the athletes are going to be sent into the water anyway, but for their sake I hope it does indeed improve in the next few months..

Yeah, it breaks the record of 1964, although that match was certainly more fun: 9-4 Ajax is in total shambles anyway, organizationally speaking. First the drama around German Sven Mislintat, who threw away dozens of millions with awful and super shady signings (through his own company), Marc Overmars who was kicked out because somehow he couldn't keep himself from sending unwanted dick pics, a new CEO who started in March and is now basically done already because it turned out he bought thousands of Ajax stocks right before he was appointed, the whole team being filled with unknowns (and Bergwijn) due to the never-ending dramas. The headline on a satirical website last week says enough about the situation: Relegated to the third level, stadium exploded and Johan Cruijff turns out to have been a serial killer; calm Wednesday for Ajax And that was before yesterday's 6-0 humiliation (which easily could have been 7-0 or 8-0)

Well that's going to be unwatchable

I genuinely wonder how the clown from the Netherlands is cringe, but the clowns from Croatia aren't

Pogacar and Van der Poel will meet in LBL, although that's of course much more a race for the former. In this shape I doubt Van Aert would have been of much resistance today by the way, but yeah, we will never know.

12km to go until the Wallers-Arenberg forest!

Organizer car almost took out Politt.

Tarling Bike exchange and then was brought back to the peloton behind the team car, very clearly. Now he's taken out of the race, there you go. Another serious outsider gone.

Tiller, Hagenes, Haller and of course indeed Asgreen...that was a lead group of rare strength for races like this.