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In a way I wish  was the host this year, it would have forced more of a reckoning.

Yes I will certainly be extending the deadline into next week. The Grand Final won’t be happening this side of New Year so there is room to extend the voting deadline. Expect an update on Friday but for sure if you need more time to listen then you have my blessing that the deadline will be extended  

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/26/valerenga-anti-doping-changes-artificial-pitch-causes-footballer-to-fail-drug-test
 
Footballers test positive for the pitch

If I am not mistaken, 30:57.2 was needed to get under 300 points today, Klaus Jungbluth-Rodriguez had 30:52.7 and so should have made it! 28:32 for Claveau-Laviolette, so he's certainly in.

Third place for / Mika Vermeulen, impressive start of the season!

Does it have every song?  
 
That would be amazing, I've always struggled to get a Spotify playlist complete, usually there's like 1-2 countries that pick a super obscure song that can't be found anywhere but a specific YouTube video...
 
Edit: I mean....I could have simply clicked on the link first before asking it, sorry  I see 34 songs and we have 34 nations, thank you  
 
 

Penny Oleksiak joins the "omg how on earth do you fill in your whereabouts wrongly three times in barely 8 months?!" club and is very lucky to have her 2 year suspension be over in time for LA 2028.

Those are three excellent reasons on why we just really, really do not - at all - need the mixed relay in long track speed skating. They tried, it never got interesting, none of the top skaters has really cared at any moment yet, let it go. A great leader is one who is willing to go back on earlier decisions  

I know this is never going to happen, but with the team sprint being there nowadays, I feel like they should make the team pursuit more of an endurance race. Longer, that is. Especially with it being a one-off race, instead of heats/semis/etc, 5k would be absolutely fine.

Well, I made a playlist on Deezer. I think you can import it to Spotify or YouTube Music if you don't have that app.
 
https://link.deezer.com/s/31Hl52u1zG5eK8r9gbKwX

Plus 21st place, not even 2,5 minutes behind, by 15 or 16 year old (depends on who you ask) Thelma Falk in her very first weekend of official FIS competitions, wow.
 
DNS for our Totallympian due to leg and ankle issues, unfortunately. 

Andersson and Ilar looked fantastic though. Destroyed the race for everyone who was there for good points
 

https://www.oasport.it/2025/11/litalia-perde-anche-flora-tabanelli-infortunio-al-ginocchio-addio-olimpiadi/
 
the queen of big air (and possibly slopestyle) injured herself in training and she's likely to miss the Home Olympics 
 
the Italian curse continues...

So we made it to 34 nations!  
I will update the table on the first page in the morning with all the entries and as the host, I will be submitting my votes some time before Monday.
 
I will make an announcement here when we will open up the voting to all juries.

@Roamingrover86 has submitted an entry for India by private message which I will reserve as the Indian entry for now until I hear otherwise before the deadline. Once the deadline passes and if we have not heard from @Fly_like_a_don then I will go ahead and post the entry that has been reserved.
 
It means all registered nations have now submitted a song . Still 24 hours left if any other nation wants to surprise us with a last minute appearance  
 
 

To be clear, it may indeed be quite bad, but unlike what those headlines suggest, luckily I don't think we need to fear for her life considering she posted on her own social media already.
 
What she is describing doesn't exactly seem like a healthy way to train, by the way, avoiding lunch breaks and with that avoiding important nutrition (and rest) and so on...
 
 

Thanks, YouTube seems to be the only option, although it is somewhat tragic that suddenly we need to depend on YouTube to have the actual schedule - they simply had that in their PDF for years, I have no idea why they took it away or what even would be the advantage of not giving fans the full schedule anymore.

Son Mieux - It's Only Love  
 

I have been significantly too busy to think of this, my bad and thanks for the reminder!

I think yes, since he did go to Eurovision and even competed in the semi  

Netherlands look like they badly need to improve goal difference and their coach just signaled that in the 58th minute.

I see where you're going with that one :D

-wrong thread- 

If he secretly meant it as a joke I like it, but...yeah  

Nigeria coach says Congo used black magic against them https://indeksonline.net/en/Nigeria-coach-says-they-were-cursed-by-black-magic-after-elimination-by-Congo/